In this month’s PopCast I hang out with my by buddy Kyle Nations and discuss the fundamentals of responsive play with a freehand yo-yo. Since we recorded this video, I feel like I’ve come a long way in my responsive-freehand play.
Year: 2019
An interview with Markmont
In this episode of PopCast, I chat with one of my oldest friends in the yo-yoing, Mark Montgomery. We’ve known each other for nearly 20 years and I always love hanging out with him and chatting about anything.
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What bacteria grows on yo-yos?
Just for shiggles, Christine and I decided to swab some yo-yos onto LBA plates to see what bacteria grows. You can see the results in the beginning of this PopCast episode:
You can read more about what we found on Christine’s site.
A chat with Coco Sun, the Women’s National Yo-Yo Champion
In this episode of PopCast, I chat with Coco Sun about our favorite binds and our thoughts on some of TopYos newest releases.
Be sure to leave a comment on a the Patreon page for a chance to win one of the TopYo yo-yos we featured in this video.
Kyle Nations: Modern Responsive Yo-Yoing
A few months ago I flew out to St. Louis to check out the United Yo-Yo Contest. While I was in town I got to hang out with Kyle Nations, one of my favorite modern responsive yo-yoers, and shoot a clip video of some of his rad tricks.
This is the first non-Doc Pop clip video I’ve made in a loooong time and I really love how it turned out. Kyle is using a Weekender Yo-Yo, which I sell on my site and is great for responsive yo-yoing.
If you’d like more goodies, check out this long interview I shot with Kyle too.
YoYo Review: Weekender
G2Nate just shared a great review of The Weekender Yo-Yo. Nate was one of the Kickstarter backers and I’m really glad to hear his thoughts on how the yo-yo turned out.
The History Of Branding
Branding is one of my oldest tricks that’s still alive and kicking with modern players. In this month’s video I thought it would be fun to talk about the origins of the trick and share some of my favorite variations.
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The Weekender Yo-Yo, now on Kickstarter!
After months of hype, The Weekender is finally available on Kickstarter… but only for 4 more days!
If you follow this blog, you may recognize this yo-yo from my 48 Hour Yo-Yo project last year. If not, be sure to watch the two part documentary about this experiment and my trip to the One Drop machine shop in Eugene, OR.
Patreon Exclusive: Steve Brown talks about manufacturing
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Unlock with PatreonThe Yo-Yo Emoji is nigh!
The Unicode Consortium has just released Unicode 12, which features several new emojis, including the yo-yo emoji. Now that Unicode 12 is released it’s only a matter of time before Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al add support for the new characters. For those who don’t know, I helped propose the yo-yo emoji last year (thanks to help from my friends at Emojination).
I can’t wait to see how each major platform designs their version of the yo-yo emoji. For example, here are 6 variations of the ghost emoji.
