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Yo-yo Factory is up to more hijinks. Ben McPhee broke the world record for spinning the most yo-yos at one time.
Read about it and see a video here.
The word out on the street is that yo-yos are coming back! Get it?
It’s true though.
Jokes aside, we’ve got the beginnings of a global craze on our hands. YAY!
Five new videos of classic and not-so-classic tricks are now up. Check ‘em out:
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5A:
We have updated the descriptions and tips on how to do a bunch of tricks, and have removed tricks that were listed on this site, but had no video or text descriptions. Some new videos are in the pipeline, and we’ll keep you posted on when they go up.
Keep practicing!
Mark and Harper
Technical problems have been fixed. Enjoy!
We’re working on it. Hang in there.
There hasn’t been much activity here on the main page of howtoyoyo.com in a while, but don’t worry we’re still here. The last four months have been pretty busy in the non-yo-yo part of our lives, but with luck there will be some new trick videos, a new contest, and maybe even some new features in the semi-near future.
Keep practicing!
Mark Hayward
WE HAVE THE WINNERS!!!!!!
After a lot of difficulty the howtoyoyo.com Pros made their choices….
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If you would like to submit an entry (or several) to the One-Minute Video contest you’ve got a couple of choices.
Email the information to us at oneminute@markhayward.net. After we screen them, we will put all the entries up so that everyone can enjoy them.
Thanks for playing!
Find out more about the One-Minute Video Contest here.
Hosted by Drew Tetz, this is Takeshi’s take on what to do with one minute of video time. Even though we all know that Takeshi is AWESOME, don’t go and copy his vid thinking that you are guaranteed to win. 
http://www.planetdrew.com/oneminute.mp4
Find out more about the One-Minute Video Contest here.
This is just footage from the big show since Takeshi couldn’t make it to the festival this year. We’ve got our fingers crossed that next year he’ll be able to show off the full experience. (more…)
It’s time for another contest! Here’s what we’re looking for:
Judging Criteria (in order of importance):
Prizes:
Keep your eyes peeled, we’re working on a fun new contest that we will announce in the next few days. It will be open to anyone, in any country, and should be really cool. Massive first prize too.
The brand new National Yo-yo Contest video from Takeshi. Check it out. Exclusive.
The Flying Squizzel, and his less famous brother the Earthbound Squizzel, went on a killing spree in Tokyo today. Apparently outraged by the misspelling of his name on the new Duncan yo-yo called “The Flying Squirrel”, the Squizzel brothers saw no option other than violence. It is unclear why they decided to trash Tokyo, although there is a long history of giant monsters destroying the city, so they may have just thought it was the cool thing to do.
No one knows the origin of the Squizzel brothers, but all agree that they are unstoppable when angry. “This kind of misspelling has been plaguing me ever since I was a larva!” said an exasperated Squizzel as he smashed an apartment complex. “RRRAAAUUUGGGG!” said his brother, also while smashing.
Duncan Toys could not be reached for comment.
Mark and Harper had decided to redo HowToYoyo.com about a year ago and had all these grand ideas… but nothing ever materialized. Finally we decided to focus on what we are really good at: talking. (…and we are REALLY good at talking.)
The new and improved Howtoyoyo.com has all the same features it had before – but now it has an easier to read, and easier to use format so you can spend less time navigating the site, and more time on important things like yo-yoing. Of course things will need tweaking for a while, so please have some patience, and tell us if things aren’t working the way they should. As always, we welcome your comments.
Mark and Harper
The date has been changed for the Midwest Regional Yo-yo Contest! Mark your calendars for June 10th 2006 at the Mall of America… and don’t forget to bring Dazzling Dave a Dr Pepper.
The Wheel of Penalty made its first-ever appearance at the World Yo-yo contest this year. The invitational contest, hosted by howtoyoyo.com, drew in some of the best talent from around the world with contestants from countires like Brazil, the UK, Japan, Denmark, the United States, and Texas.
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We will be at the World YoYo contest hosting a competition on friday night. It will be our Wheel Of Penalty competition – but this time with all the kinks worked out. We also have some GREAT prizes from various organizations including threadless to give out. So stay tuned for the results.
The winners of the HowToYoYo.com Wheel of Penalty contest at Midwest Regional were:
1st place: Nate Shurilla- Nate endured 60 seconds of doing his freestyle both blindfolded AND while stuff was being thrown at him (his idea btw).
2nd place: John Narum- Somehow, the scribe didn’t write down what John had to do, but it was funny.
3rd palce: Dave Poyzer- Dave had to dress like a pirate. Plunger peg-leg and all. He said “arrrr” about 10 times.
Each of the three winners received two Duncan yo-yos. One from howtoyoyo.com, and 1st and 2nd places got a modded Mosquito from Takeshi.
Our logo contest was a success and we have finally gathered the results.
Logo Contest WE HAVE A WINNER!
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I know you are all waiting for them. Mark is typing them up as we speak
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Logo contest voting is now up
The below post was the beginning of a grand project that ultimately failed. Our hope was to catalog every yo-yo trick we could find on video, but we knew from the beginning that it was something that we couldn’t do alone. It turned out that virtually no one was interested in the project, and certainly no one wanted to help make it happen, so it was abandoned.
-HowToYoYo.com admins
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Since May of 2004 the HowToYoYo.com staff and Yo-yo Pros have been working on a running list of all of the yo-yo tricks that exist. We have now begun the process of gathering videos of all of the tricks so that anyone with computer access can see and learn any yo-yo trick.In addition to being a good learning tool we also hope that this yo-yo trick catalog will be a valuable resource for people who have been yo-yoing for years and know so many tricks that they can?t remember them all.
The ultimate goal is to catalog every single yo-yo trick, but at first we will have to be limited to tricks that have names. Later on, we hope to be able to catalog tricks with no names as well.
We invite all yo-yo players to look at the list and submit any tricks that aren?t there, suggest alternate names for tricks, and any other corrections or additions that may be needed.
Guidelines:
- For now, only tricks with names will be accepted, and they should be tricks and names that are known by more than a handful of players.
- Combos may be submitted, but for now, only combos that have been on contest trick lists, or are widely known and are recognizable by most players.
- Please look at the list before you submit any trick names to be sure that what you are submitting is not already there.
We thank you for your time and contributions, and hope that this will be a valuable tool for everyone.
HowToYoYo.com Staff and Yo-yo Pros