Hey y’all, I’m putting together another SF Yo-Yo Club at 826 Valencia on Saturday, October 11th from 2-5pm. If you are in the Bay Area, I hope you can swing by. We had a great time last month and I want to keep that energy going.
This is a few blocks away from a couple of BART stations, but there are also a few big parking garages close to the venue. This is being held at a non-profit creative writing space that also happens to be pirate themed. Any donations go directly to the space.
Our next San Francisco Yo-Yo Club will be on September 13th, 2025, at 826 Valencia from 2-5pm. This is open to anyone, but donations are appreciated (these go to the venue, not me). Bring your own yo-yo.
There are a bunch of other meetups in the area this month, so here’s a list:
9/7: Bay Area Yo-Yo Meetup (Alameda) https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bay-area-yoyo-meetup-2-washington-park-september-7/432212
9/13: SF YoYo Club (San Francisco) https://doctorpopular.com/san-francisco-yo-yo-club-sep-13th-2025/
9/21: East Bay Yo-Yo Club (Berkeley) https://www.instagram.com/p/DOJkrNFgVZs/
Spindoctors will probably meetup in Alameda near the end of the month, but no date listed yet. https://www.instagram.com/spindoxyoyo/
By popular request, here’s my tutorial for an original yo-yo trick called “The Robot”. I even wrote a new song for it too!
This trick first appeared in The Glasslab’s Experiment 004 video and has been highly requested ever since.
PopCast is a crowdsponsored yo-yo show. Huge thanks to John Anderson, Taka From Spingear, Doc Lucky, and the rest of my sponsors on https://www.patreon.com/docpop In this episode, I get to talk about two of my favorite topics: yo-yos and comic books. I talk about some comics I made, show some of my favorite yo-yo-themed comics, and interview Carl Angel about the artwork he did for “Pedro’s Yo-Yos”.
Music by Doc Pop
Editing by Clifton B.
Dale Tubat is a member of Unparalleled and a yo-yo designer here in the Bay Area. Lately, Dale has been making some really unique 3D printed yo-yos like the Capsule and Superwide. I chatted with Dale about his new yo-yos, the state of 3D printed yo-yos, and more. Watch it here:
These two new yo-yos will be available exclusively on Dale’s site this Saturday, November 16th at 11am pst/2pm est https://www.daletubat.com/
If you are a member of my Patreon, check out this post for an exclusive update about Dale’s upcoming drop.
Over on Patreon.com/docpop, I asked my followers to share their favorite responsive yo-yo videos. There were lots of gems in there, so I decided to put them all in an easy-to-find list. Here are the suggested videos (in no particular order):
I was so sad to miss the Faye Webster Yo-Yo Invitational last weekend, especially because I knew so many rad yo-yoers were in town for it. Luckily, I happened to bump into Spencer Berry while he was in town and we shot this short interview about Spencer’s history in SF, his tricks “Rancid Milk” and “Breath”, and his love of copper yo-yos.
And here’s a great video by Josh Yee about Faye Webster’s Yo-Yo Invitational:
The next SF Yo-Yo Meetup is on Saturday, October 5th, at 3pm in Yerba Buena Garden in San Francisco. It’s free and open to yo-yoers of all skill levels. I’ll probably be there from 3-5:30pm and can bring some yo-yos for sale if anyone is interested in picking up a DIY or PLTPS.
We’ll be meeting at the Yerba Buena Garden park, near the Metreon. If the weather is rainy or way too windy, we’ll move inside the Metreon’s food court area. There will be live music in the park earlier that day, so feel free to get there early and enjoy it.
Faye Webster is hosting a yo-yo contest in Berkeley?! https://www.ticketmaster.com/faye-webster-yoyo-invitational-berkeley-california-09-28-2024/event/1C006123F08D67C6
“Longtime yo-yo lover Faye Webster has announced the Faye Webster Yo-Yo Invitational, a one-day extravaganza featuring 12 of North America’s top yo-yo pros. The yo-yo masters will show off their most dazzling tricks in a no-rules exhibition, on September 28, at the Zellerbach Auditorium in Berkeley, California.”.
The event takes place on September 28th in Berkeley, CA. Here is a link. Sadly, I won’t be able to make it.
Here’s some footage of Faye doing yo-yo tricks back in 2020. She even does one of my tricks, The Gondola, in this video.
In this episode of PopCast Yo-Yo Vlog, I share a new mount called Nitpicking. It’s a mount that mostly takes place in your non-throwhand, similar to the Chopsticks mount. Another move of mine called Scrunchies also served as inspiration for it.
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