About Allon Chen
Allon Chen is an Australian competitive yoyo player and a core member of the OFFSET YoYo team. He began yoyoing in 2016 after watching World YoYo Contest footage and tutorials online, and entered his first Australian National Yoyo Championships (ANYC) the following year, finishing 9th in 1A. Over the next several years he steadily climbed the domestic rankings before breaking through internationally.
At the 2024 World YoYo Contest in Cleveland, Ohio, Chen finished 5th in the 1A division—the highest placement ever recorded by an Australian competitor at Worlds. That same year he claimed his first Australian national title. He defended it in 2025, becoming a two-time Australian champion, then added the 2026 Asia Pacific 1A title to his record. At WYYC 2025 he placed 10th in the final after reaching 5th in the semi-finals.
Chen describes his competitive style as a logical approach modeled on music-cued choreography and continuous trick optimization, drawing influence from Dentist Stein’s stage presence, Aoshi Tabuchi’s scoring efficiency, and Mir Kim’s competition strategy. His signature throws—the Logic and Logic 2 (both inner-ring bi-metals by OFFSET)—were designed to serve his emphasis on horizontal tricks, stability, and speed in long technical combos.
Beyond competing, Chen handles logistics for OFFSET—customer inquiries, order fulfillment, and quality control—and is an experienced yoyo tuner. He joined the OFFSET team in late 2023 after making direct contact with founder Brandon Vu.
In Their Own Words
From OFFSET YoYo’s “OFFSETyoyo Welcomes Allon Chen” (Dec 1, 2023)
Q: How did you get into yoyoing?
I started in 2016, watched some World YoYo Contest videos and also the Zach Gley video if you know that one. But yeah, it just slowly got hooked on and watched some tutorials and here I am.
Q: Who do you draw inspiration from?
I don’t really have one player that ticks all the boxes—I don’t think there is. So I kind of draw inspiration from different sources. For choreography, Dentist Stein always makes the engaging performance, because some people just yo-yo to music and it’s not cool. Aoshi Tabuchi makes easy tricks score high, so we’re stealing some of his tricks as well. And Mir Kim—because it’s a cracked approach to competitions.
Q: What is your competitive philosophy?
Kind of just make—present the tricks really easily by doing it to cool music cues, and yeah basically it’s kind of just like a video game—try and optimize everything slowly. And kind of just a logical approach.
