About Guy Wright
Guy Wright discovered yoyoing in August 2005 at age 21, when a coworker at a children’s store showed him the Duncan Viking Tour promotional DVD. After watching Steve Brown demonstrate 5A Freehand on the disc, he bought a pair of FH2s from Target and taught himself using the included tricks. He spent about five months on Freehand before switching exclusively to 1A, drawn to the possibilities of slack and grind techniques.
Wright was recruited to the SPYY team by the company’s founder, who reached out after noticing his online presence. The relationship produced two signature yoyos: the Punchline (2010), a bubbly, rounded 66-gram throw designed around his hand and arm grind techniques, and the slightly heavier Punchline Repeater (2011). He specified the design brief as wanting something “bubbly, friendly, and floaty — something that wouldn’t fight me and wasn’t aggressive.” The yoyo’s name comes from a tattoo on his arm.
His clip videos — particularly The Letter Blue, Amplifire, and More and Oh — became touchstone works in the early 2010s yoyo community, celebrated for their fluid aesthetic and economy of movement. The Guy Wright Bind, a technique he developed, became a standard tutorial topic widely taught online. He competed occasionally at California regional events, placing 8th at the 2011 California State Championships and 4th in 2014.
Around 2013 Wright expanded into Pill and Kendama play, joining Terra Kendama and releasing a signature Pill in 2016. By the mid-2010s he had largely stepped back from the yoyo scene, though his tricks and video work continued to influence players years after his active period ended.
In Their Own Words
From a YoYoNews interview, February 2014.
On what matters most in yoyo:
“Make it look good. That’s the only real important thing. If it doesn’t look good, why would you do it?”
On the Punchline design brief:
“Something that wouldn’t fight me and wasn’t aggressive.”
On discovering yoyo:
“I bet I would be really good at that!”
