Steve Brown

The best way to describe Steve Brown is “unlikely”.

Born in Jacksonville, FL to a pair whose current occupations include karaoke DJ and day-care worker, Steve barely made it out of high school alive. He has a profound fear of mathematics, never made it any closer to college than living near one, and once spent 8 months homeless because he was considered “unemployable” due to his gaunt appearance caused by lack of food.

Steve Brown is now one of the small handful of people who control the entire yo-yo industry.

He is not pleased about this, but as the task has fallen to him, he maintains that he will uphold it until his nerves give out or he gets hit by a bus. He holds the patent for counterweight style play, which now has it’s own division at the World Yo-Yo Contest, he has designed over a dozen yo-yos without the benefit of formal engineering training, and he is arguably one of the best looking men in the industry.

Steve Brown walks on mountains and casts no shadow.

• Website:www.stevebrownismyhero.com/
• Favorite yo-yo(s): Freehand, FH Zero, Throwmonkey.
• Favorite Trick: I don’t have a favorite trick. I simply play.
• Favorite Joke: My paycheck.
• Favorite Bands: Gunmoll, Hot Water Music, Envy, Nemo, Alkaline Trio, Get Up Kids, Refused
• Favorite Movies: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Quote: “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” -Friedrich Neitzsche)