News

Five new videos of classic and not-so-classic tricks are now up.  Check ‘em out:

1A:

Drop In The Bucket

Hop In The Bucket

Changing Lanes

5A:

Alternating Trapeze

Morpheus

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.

• Put the video on your own server (or your friend’s server or whatever) and give us the URL.
• Upload it to one of the online video hosting folks like www.youtube.com or http://video.google.com/ and give us the “Embed HTML” and the URL.

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:

• 60 seconds of yo-yo related video
• yo-yos must be present, but technical yo-yo tricks are neither required nor prohibited

Judging Criteria (in order of importance):

• Awesomeness
• Creativity
• Presence of yo-yo(s)
• Hilariousness (in other words, it doesn’t have to be funny)

Prizes:

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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