About Ryuichi Nakamura
Ryuichi Nakamura (中村隆一) is a Japanese 1A yo-yo player born in 2002 in Aichi Prefecture. He began competing with C3yoyodesign as a young teenager, appearing in the company’s promotional content as early as 2014 and receiving his first co-signature model — the Krown.st 7075, shared with world champion Shinya Kido — in 2016. By 2018 he had established himself within Japan’s competitive field, placing third in the 1A division at both the 2018 and 2019 Japan National Yo-Yo Contests while on the C3 roster.
Nakamura transitioned to Yoyorecreation, where his results accelerated sharply. He placed 4th in the 1A division at the 2022 Online World Yo-Yo Contest, then finished 2nd at the 2023 World Yo-Yo Contest — the highest world-level placement of his career, achieved in a final headlined by Mir Kim’s record-breaking 99.7/100 score. He followed with a 10th-place finish at WYYC 2024, 7th at WYYC 2025, and won the 2025 Japan National Championship. In 2026 he took first place in 1A at the Pacific Northwest Regional in Portland, Oregon.
His playing style centers on technical density and speed: rails and horizontals form the structural backbone of his freestyles, supplemented by slack and influential-style sequences executed at competitive difficulty and precision. A noted characteristic is his willingness to shift tonal register across performances — the same player can deliver a comedic routine in one venue and a tightly wound technical showcase in another. His yo-yo designs across both C3 (Edolass, 2019) and Yoyorecreation (Skyfish, Upheaval, Upheaval Expansion) consistently prioritize speed and quick directional response over mass or power.
In Their Own Words
From his Yoyorecreation team page:
“好きなことを、好きなだけ” — “Do what you love, as much as you love.”