I first came across the Yo-Spin while updating the Yoyo Archive Instagram page. Intrigued, I reached out to Blue Orange Toys, and they sent me a box with six: an original, a glow-in-the-dark, and four of their metallic colors. The Yo-Spin isn’t really a yo-yo. It’s a plastic disc with a rubber bumper. The center…
I first came across the Yo-Spin while updating the Yoyo Archive Instagram page. Intrigued, I reached out to Blue Orange Toys, and they sent me a box with six: an original, a glow-in-the-dark, and four of their metallic colors. The Yo-Spin isn’t really a yo-yo. It’s a plastic disc with a rubber bumper. The center…
Small yoyo that feels rounder than it feels tubular, despite nearly being a 1:1 spec ratio (if the yoyo was a full-sized 56mm dia, it’d have a ~53mm width) Edition tends to make good yoyos. This is one of them. Didn’t expect to like it because undersized yoyos are always “omg it’s so good it…
Aroundsquare is well know for a lot of skill toys: begleri, deadeyes, knucklebones, chetki, and more. They’ve never done a yo-yo, until now. The Not Machine is their first of hopefully many throw offerings. It’s a wooden fixed-axle yoyo made from either maple or purpleheart. Both have a birch axle, and a copper “Aroundsquare” plaquette…
I heard this thing was coming and was very excited. I liked the OG Adrenaline and sorta always wished I hadn’t skipped on it. Same goes for the NorAdrenaline. It just sorta always worked out that I didn’t have one in my hands. I saw the white-on-white protos and instantly wanted one. Then the colorways…
This is a review of the PC version of the obscura, not the Pom version. Dude, this yoyo rips. Genuinely. I watched Dis pretty distantly through their first two releases; didn’t love the Sibyl or the Anima, neither were my thing. I liked how both felt, but I felt like they made compromises for that playfeel. Other…
I wrote an entire video for this yoyo. The script is fully done; I could’ve just posted it to the YYE forums as a review and gone next. The only reason I didn’t is that editing and recording are a miserable process for me right now and will probably only get more stressful going into…
Hideo Ishida Hideo Ishida (石田 英雄), also known as ヒデヲ or “hero”, is a Japanese 5A (counterweight) competitor. Local reporting places his hometown in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and the JYYF results list him under Tokyo. He placed at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 5A from 2010, finishing fifth in 2010, fourth in 2012, 2013 and…
Takuma Yamamoto Takuma Yamamoto is a Japanese 2A (looping) competitor. He won the 2A division at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2019, making him a four-time World Champion. He placed fourth in 2011, second in 2012 and 2018, and third in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Retailer copy credits him as a…
Shu Takada Shu Takada (高田 柊) is a Japanese 2A (looping) competitor and performer, born on 7 October 1996 and from Shizuoka Prefecture according to his own profile. He won the 2A division at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2012, finished second in 2013 and 2015, and then won three straight world titles in 2016,…
Takuma Inoue Takuma Inoue is a Japanese 5A (counterweight) competitor. He placed third in 5A at the 2008 World Yo-Yo Contest, won the division in 2009, and was second in 2011 and 2012. He won 5A at the Japan National Yo-Yo Contest in 2014 and 2017. At the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest he won 5A…
Before every wide-gap, silicone-padded, center-tracking throw came a simpler proposition: a player could make the yo-yo in hand do something its maker had not planned. Yo-yo modding is the long history of that proposition—part repair bench, part laboratory, part folk engineering. The Player as Tuner Players have always adjusted yo-yos. Fixed-axle throwers changed string, worked…
OhYesYo was created and is owned by Coffin Nachtmahr. THROW – Emmy award winning Coffin Nachtmahr documentary Design Sketches Coffin is known to draw all of his designs on graph paper first. He sent us some of his sketches to be archived, thanks Coffin! OhYesYo Artist Edition YoYo’s Coffin has collaborated with a number of…
Boise Woodworks is a Boise, Idaho workshop producing handmade wood yo-yos alongside games, ring boxes, and other small wood goods. Its yo-yos use U.S.-sourced hardwoods, sustainable exotic hardwoods, and locally sourced recycled or repurposed wood. Models include fixed-axle designs as well as ball-bearing designs with stainless-steel axles.
Mike Monty Yoyos is the personal yo-yo brand of Emmett, Idaho player, designer, maker, and teacher Michael “MikeMonty” Montgomery. Montgomery began designing and manufacturing yo-yos through Double-Take Industries around 2010, followed by Montgomery Yo-Yo Company and the 2012 Tinder release, then Burgeon Yo-Yos and its handmade Roots fixed-axle model in 2017. The MikeMonty name became…
ForYoSa is a Taiwanese yo-yo brand founded in 2023 by Stephen Hung and based in Taichung. The name blends “Formosa,” the historical name for Taiwan, with “yo-yo.” Its first release was the Stinky Tofu, a 7075 aluminum butterfly-shaped unresponsive yo-yo, in September 2023, followed by the CNC polycarbonate Crystal Dumpling in 2024. The brand also…
Augment Design (Augment Yoyos) is a niche sub-label launched by Thesis Yoyos in February 2022 for smaller, experimental, direct-sale-only projects. Its first and, to date, only release was the CALYX, a Grade 5 titanium competition throw sold directly through Thesis’s own site in a limited run. The brand’s Instagram has been dormant since mid-2022 with…
BigBoi Yoyo’s is a small independent yo-yo accessories brand based in Florida, run by Nicholas Privett. The brand sells strings and counterweights directly through its Square storefront. In August 2026, BigBoi announced a collaboration with longtime manufacturer Spintastics Yoyos on its first full yo-yo release, the V-tour, an aggressive V-shaped competition throw roughly 18 months…
This is a project that I’ve been working on for a few years now, but with protos now in the wild and getting shared around at a few clubs, I figured it was time to actually talk about it. The Cerasus started as a simple vision, simply wanting a large diameter yoyo that actually had…
As memtioned above, I purchased the ‘Merica Edition. I also opted for the “Delivery In Person”. “The author will take a paperback copy of the book to the gun range, shoot a hole in, then take it to a burger joint where he will eat the largest burger on the menu with fries and get…
Later in the thread he references this article, which is an excellent read, followed up by this amazing video. Overall, some amazing yo-yo history here!
Popular online yo-yo reviewer, Gingie, has released a video documentary about the CLYW Chief. “Super proud to finally be able to say this The Chief Documentary is done, at long last! After nearly two years of work, it’s my magnum opus and the single longest video on my channel. This video explores the lead up…
