tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35014167784613312002024-03-13T06:55:26.658-07:00Simple Delights of Yo-YoingJustin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-84988594673262589822010-05-27T16:00:00.000-07:002010-05-27T17:33:04.302-07:00Yo-Yo Friends<div style="text-align: left;">One of my absolute favorite things about yo-yoing is the community. There are such solid people here that are always so forthcoming with their time and their advice and yo-yos. I’ve never heard of a story where someone wasn’t allowed to try someone’s throws at a contest. It’s as though we have a sort of unspoken agreement with each other that everything I have is yours, from my tricks to my advice to my throws, and you need only to ask to receive.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I know that I wouldn’t be nearly as content without the knowledge that we have such kind folks in our midst.</div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to tell you about some of the specific people I’ve met in my relatively short time as a yo-yoer that have really influenced me. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Robert Kyte was the first person I ever bought from. It was pretty early in my yo-yoing career, and I knew right around nothing about anything, most of all the trading system. I happily sent him money (15 dollars here, 20 there) in the mail for various yo-yos, never once considering that he might be a scammer. If it wasn’t for his solid dealings, I would have been turned off the B/S/T entirely. And it wasn’t just a seller/buyer relationship. Mr. Kyte was free every day for me to IM and ask my little yo-yo questions to. He never, ever, asked me to just search for something. He taught me many things about general yo-yo stuff and maintenance. I must say that having someone to always come to for whatever petty little question I needed to ask was pivotal in my development as a yo-yoer. Since then, I have always tried to act as he did toward newer yo-yos, in the hopes that they might be as helped as I was. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cg3E5vtf73w/S7FAxYwqnDI/AAAAAAAAADs/U1bvyVG8VMk/s1600/100_6869.JPG"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cg3E5vtf73w/S7FAxYwqnDI/AAAAAAAAADs/U1bvyVG8VMk/s320/100_6869.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454211840926719026" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">I've </span>known Andrew Moser since middle school. I got him into yo-yoing perhaps 6 months after I did. He comes over and we have “yo-yoing occasions,” a term he coined. We trade tricks and stories, try each other’s yo-yos and so forth. He’s taught me loads of tricks, such as kwijibo and <a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/satisfying-tricks.html">Brent Stole</a>. Really, he is the sole reason I’ve done some of the most fun yo-yo related things. He drove us to <st1:city><st1:place>Nashville</st1:place></st1:city> for the <a href="http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,60743.0.html">Tennessee State Yo-Yo Contest</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He came out to the first meet I ever attended when Brandon Jackson came to Toy’s ‘R Us. Recently he came out to out local park with me to meet a new player who moved to town. If it weren’t for Moser, I would probably just sit around the house while a ton of<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>awesome events pass me by. His goal is for us to attend at least two contests this summer that AREN’T TN States. </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I met T.J. Van Baalen through a trade as well. Since then we’ve just sort of been online buds. We talk time to time about yo-yo’s, movies, talent shows, just whatever’s on our minds. He’ll IM me to tell me one thing or another, and it’ll always make me cool to be on his list of people to tell. He’s a cool guy that I’m glad to know. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Chris Allen runs another super-awesome yo-yo blog, <a href="http://www.yoyoskills.com/">YoYoSkills.com</a>, where one can find all the yo-yo news ever. It's amazing. In addition, he runs a club for young yo-yoers where they can learn tricks, buy yo-yos, and so forth. Recently he organized the wildly successful California State Yo-Yo Contest. Chris isn't the most innovative player out there - instead, he's more of a performer, doing shows under the persona of "Dr. Yo-Yo." Basically, the guy is everything I strive to become as yo-yoer. He always has time to advise my decisions on videos, moderating, and even this blog. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Frank Bradley is one of the only reasons that I am a yo-yoer. It started in 10<sup>th</sup> grade, when I got my Duncan Mosquito and brought it to school. Frank was quick to tell me about his younger days spent winning contests at a local Zainy Brainy. He told me about his 100 dollar yo-yo, the Eldridge. The price tag blew my mind at the time. He drew me a picture of it, and described how you could change out the halves for different shapes. I immediately went home and Google'd like mad for this mythical yo-yo. Through this research I found YoYoNation, and this community, and and really got started on this hobby. Later on, it turned out Frank had made the entire thing up, for reasons that were never quite clear to me. He recently got himself a Wedgie, and we throw together often. </p><p class="MsoNormal">I believe I started talking to Ed Haponik around the time the <a href="http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,28406.0.html">wood thread</a><b> </b>came about over at YYN. <span></span>The first <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1009634">No-Jive video</a> blew my mind, and that was before I even knew who Ed was. I really dug the fact that he has intensely developed beliefs on most all aspects of life. Also a sword. We talked sporadically over IM for a while, him sharing his philosophies and tips on wooden yo-yos, and me trying to somehow keep up. <a href="http://kinopah.blogspot.com/">His blog</a> came about, and that is one of the best things for yo-yoers to read. I finally met him at TN States ’09, and yes, he’s just as cool in person. He performed a trick that involved smacking himself in the head (accidently?), and put me in his little compilation video. I think he has a natural ability to make anyone feel welcome and awesome. Ed always has time for me to IM to ask about whatever, and for that I’m incredibly grateful.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cg3E5vtf73w/S7FDY0advKI/AAAAAAAAAD0/HEtXcIQGnk4/s320/100_6839.JPG" /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-31529675448500911262010-04-14T14:38:00.000-07:002010-04-14T16:22:20.424-07:00"It Looks Cool"<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> When I first started this blog, I drew up a list of 30-40 ideas to be sure that I had enough material to get going. Naturally, I took the list to my <a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/starting-club.html">yo-yo club</a> to see what they thought and get some of their own suggestions on why yo-yoing is awesome to them. Someone, and I wish I could remember who, simply said, "It looks cool." Immediately enthusiastic agreements came from all sides. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">"Yeah, it just looks cool!" </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">"Yeah, totally!" </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">And it floored me, because that's it. At its most base level, yo-yoing just looks cool. It doesn't matter if its a simple gravity pull or a tech routine so rapid that you need a slow-mo replay to score it. This hobby/sport is, by nature, dazzling. None of us would be doing this if it were some ugly mass of strings. We wouldn't have huge stages to perform on if it wasn't fun to watch. We wouldn't strive as hard to learn boingy-boing or a thumb grind if the final effect wasn't captivating.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> I’m not saying that we only yo-yo for other people to watch, no no. I’m just saying that when the string catches the wind just so in a trapeze-and-his-bro slack, it looks really, really cool. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8656.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 386px; " /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-7489899275531636632010-04-12T13:45:00.000-07:002010-04-12T14:12:57.147-07:00Wounds<div style="text-align: left;">"That's how tricks have meaning - when you have to pay a price for them." </div><div><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;"> </span>– Ed Haponik <o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When you injure yourself yo-yoing, you know you’re doing it right. You’ve lost all inhibitions, and you’re just out there rocking things as hard as you possibly can. And, hey, yo-yos are pretty hard – you’re bound to hurt yourself eventually. This are some of my...more memorable marks.</p><a href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8643.jpg"><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8643.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></div><div><a href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8643.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Finger string mark</b> – We’ve all got one of these. It’s like you’re married to the hobby, but you’re too much of a dork to realize that the ring doesn’t go on your middle finger. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Calluses</b> – You may not realize it, but yo-yoing gets you calluses on your fingers. It all sort of depends on what your style is, and what tricks you do over and over. Like everything else, they’re personal. And hey, even though you didn’t get your calluses from chopping down trees or saving a whole bunch of children from a lot of fires, it doesn’t make them any less manly. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">White stuff from throwing cotton string</b> – I don’t know what the deal with this stuff is. The skin is kinda rough, pretty dry, and all white. Is the cotton drying out your hands? Is looping causing some sort of callusing thing to happen? Who knows! All that matters is that it’s a sure sign you’re doing something right.</p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8598.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><br /></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Perfect circle mark from the yo-yo hitting your arm – </b>I’ve always liked this thing. It doesn’t take much force, and I figure it helps that I’m super-white, but the perfect circle mark is always delightful. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Busted Anything</b> – Lip, teeth, nose, head. It’s all the same. At TN States Ed gave himself the nice wound below (as well as the origin of that opening quote). I find it funny that these super heavy, hard metal yo-yos that we sling around all crazy never cause any real harm – but one light, relatively soft-wood No-Jive just destroys the head of a newbie looper. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Funny bone</b> – String catches a third of the way down the string and it swings in that perfect arc to ARGH-ANGRY-PAINSVILLE!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Racking yourself</b> – When it happens, the only thing we can do is stop throwing long enough to manage a sympathetic, "Dude." Pfft, but after that you're on your own. Man up! </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_6840.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></o:p></p><div>This is Ed's head after a "failed" attempt his trick "Flinch." This also happened to be what spurred the opening quote. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></o:p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></o:p></div></div></div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-32816176153334034132010-04-09T03:52:00.000-07:002010-04-10T13:35:15.123-07:00Smoothness<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><u><br /></u></span></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;">This is one of the hot-button issues among yoyoers. Is vibe okay? Should it be okay? Are you defamed for discriminating against this characteristic? When does vibe become too much? How fun it is that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> this </b>is a topic of our heated arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">I don't know when I started to love smoothness as much as I do. It might have begun around the time of receiving of my </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> from Ben. This vibe-free world was new and incredible, and suddenly my standards went through the roof. See, I love <a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/satisfying-tricks.html">grinds</a> and if my your yo-yo has ANY vibe, I’myou're going to feel it. And to me, grinds, like any yo-yo trick, are about the FEEL. If it doesn't offer visceral satisfaction, I don't do the trick. To this end, a grind on dead smooth yo-yo is as good at it gets. I get such satisfaction from that silky smooth feeling as I get from landing any slack/tech/[insert hard trick here]. That is how I yo-yo, and that is what's fun. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8591.jpg" /></span></span></span></p>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-62550417287760431442010-04-07T12:00:00.000-07:002010-04-07T13:13:53.419-07:00Taking Picture of Your Yo-Yos<div style="text-align: left;">It doesn’t matter if you own an umpteen-million dollar camera. It doesn’t matter if know anything about shot composition or F-stops or exposure or depth of field (For the record, I don’t, those are just my “camera buzzwords”). It's about getting out in nature; showing off your favorite throws, walking around trying to find nifty places to shoot from/at; and just goofin’ around and having fun with a camera. Even if, at the end of the day, you’ve only got either blurry or poorly lit photos to show, at least you’ll have the memory of making them.</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_5869-1.jpg?t=1270671163" border="0" alt="" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 550px; height: 413px; " /></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></span></div><div>Note: This is of <a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/well-loved-yo-yos.html">this No-Jive</a>, from around 10 months ago.</div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-76727767231959012672010-04-04T07:50:00.000-07:002010-04-14T16:28:20.816-07:00Giveaways<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">I really like giveaways. Winning them (of course), and running them. I like the idea of people making something specifically for "me." Is it narceisistic? Well, how about a different question: do you like free yo-yos? That's what I thought. </span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"></span> </div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"></span></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">I did a little giveaway on YoYoNation back a year or so ago, and it was a total blast. Here is the entry that won:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><p><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3253/2669168841_e2e482b342.jpg" /> </span><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Pretty awesome, right? The guy MADE that. Anyway, I've been needing to do another contest for a while, so I figured, why not tie it in with this blog? Here are the rules:</span><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">- You MUST be following this blog to win.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">- You get a MAXIMUM of three entries per person.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">- Entries MUST be created AFTER this contest was announced. Add something like a piece of paper with the date or some such identifying mark for photos and videos. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">- Entries must be emailed to jchatham@gmail.com. You can post them publicly if like, but I must have an emailed copy.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">- Anything counts as an entry.</span><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">What am I even talking about with that last one? Well, here's a quote from the original giveaway. </span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:130%;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">To win, you may simply do whatever you wish. I will choose the best entry. Examples of entries are things like short stories or amazing yo-yo trick videos, examples of your accomplishments, or pictures of you yo-yoing and giving a thumbs up or something. Anything is game. Keep in mind what you're doing, though. The best poem will lose to the best story, because I don't care much for poems. I judge on effort and overall quality.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> Laughing is always the best</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">, but awesomeness is a close second. You could also include a description of why you think you should win, but I do not place much importance on this because I have no way of verifying this sort of thing.</span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Basically, I want everyone to have a chance to win, regardless of where you strong suit in yo-yo-related activities lies. Do what you love to do, and your passion will show through in your entry. </span></span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">I will taking entries until Sunday, April 25th. Please email me with any questions or comments. Oh, the prize! Sorry, nearly forgot. I don't have a lot of yo-yos to offer. The prize is simply a </span><a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/well-loved-yo-yos.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">well-loved</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"> black/yellow Lyn Fury, set up unresponsive. Also, I will be throwing in a mystery metal! Also well-loved, but this time a secret! </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p></span>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-85318490437671551022010-04-02T16:46:00.000-07:002010-04-02T15:41:26.433-07:00Surprise Tricks<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>With modern, unresponsive, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;">epically long spinning yo-yos, the dynamic between player and yo-yo has changed. It is no longer all about pushing the yo-yo to the very limits in terms of its performance - it's about pushing yourself. You no longer have to make and mount your own canvas before you can work - a modern yo-yo is a perfectly machined canvas just waiting for you to paint it with who you are.</span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For this reason, a yo-yo throw is able to have a lot less forethought or intended direction (both literally and figuratively). You can just sort of, well, sling it around however you want, do random junk with the string, and just have fun with it. It is out of this that so many awesome things can be formed. You all know what it's like, you're tossing the yo-yo around when suddenly it falls into some crazy mount. Maybe you can figure out what you did, and maybe you can't. But whatever the case, for that brief moment you are full of surprise and elation, and you're reminding why yo-yoing is so fantastic.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cg3E5vtf73w/S7E-m29-idI/AAAAAAAAADk/sRdIUH__DjQ/s400/100_8419.JPG" /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"><br /></span></p>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-59722327302263747712010-03-31T16:30:00.000-07:002010-04-02T15:42:35.708-07:00Maintenance<div style="text-align: left;">There is something zen (as Ed would say) about sitting about and tuning a No-Jive 3-in-1, one station at time, and then finally hitting that sweet spot where it spins so smooth, and knowing that yeah, that was you that got it like that. I really love doing maintenance on my yo-yos. It makes it feel like a "real" hobby. Guitarists have replacing string, we have deshielding bearings. Ping-pong players (-ers? -ists?) have new rubbers, we have new pads. Doing little things to your throws makes it more "you." You get to see how invested you are in this, and how much you know in order to be able to do these basic things. And, frankly, it's just another facet that gives you something else to do while you try to think of another way to get into the cross-arm GT mount.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cg3E5vtf73w/S7KMqG3C_xI/AAAAAAAAAD8/VlMoZszFoiQ/s320/100_8407.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454576753722982162" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div></div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-84681652262295858962010-03-29T09:03:00.000-07:002010-03-29T11:01:55.183-07:00Well-Loved Yo-YosThese are the troopers. The guys that take a beating, ask for nothing, and keep on rocking it, day after day. Their home is a pocket full of dagger-like keys, and they vacation on pure asphalt. When they get a burr, they don’t ask for anesthesia – they just grit their teeth as you file it on it down and then go up for another aerial over concrete with a smile.<span style=""> </span>It’s a fantastic feeling to get a ding and think nothing of it – then you have become free to yo-yo in the most fun way possible – worry-free, light-hearted fun. As it should be.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8397.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 465px; height: 345px;" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8397.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-49522552408075638152010-03-24T14:28:00.000-07:002010-03-29T11:04:48.467-07:00Starting a Club<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/awesomeness248-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 296px;" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/awesomeness248-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;" ><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color:black;">Since I started yo-yoing, I’ve always wanted to start a yo-yo club. However, it always seemed to me as though people’s interest in my throwing was as more ofm a novelty than something they’d really like to do themselves. In addition, you have to have a sponsor for a club – a teacher that doesn’t mind giving up their time and their room for meetings. It would be a lot of work, for what I imagined to be no profit. However, this past school year, my yo-yo friend told me that he’d found a sponsor for the club, our forever awesome German teacher. That finally solidified things, and the first meeting of the White Station High School Yo-Yo Club had a full house. Standing up in front of all of those people, showing off, explaining the various types of yo-yoing, discussing modern tricks – it was a rush that I won’t soon forget. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=""> </span></span></span><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=""> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;">Of course, membership dropped off a bit once people were told that they would need to purchase a decent yo-yo, most of the time it was the 16 dollar YoYoJam that I would buy them (I REALLY wish</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black;"> </span></span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://simpledelightsofyoyoing.blogspot.com/2010/03/cheap-yo-yos-review-of-luminator.html"><span class="apple-style-span">Luminators</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><span class="apple-style-span">were around at the time). And membership dropped again after people simply lost interest. Nowadays we get 5-6 people who come each week - a group of freshman I am infinitely greatful for. Teaching them maintance, the types of yo-yos, how to wind it up and all of those basic things has been so much fun. I really think this club has contributed to my desire to perhaps pursue a career in education.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=""> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span style=""> </span>If you don't have a club at your school, I HIGHLY encourage you to start one. Now that you can get solid, cheap yo-yos at Walgreens, it will be much easier to get yo-yos cheaply and, thus, get more members. The more people we can get into the yo-yo community, the better it will be for all of us. And hey, things like this always look good on college applications. Starting a club is not difficult at all, and it will be infinitely rewarding.</span></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div></span><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-1555858720360532592010-03-24T14:13:00.000-07:002010-03-29T11:09:35.480-07:00Cheap Yo-Yos / A Review of the Luminator<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;" ><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My first yo-yo was a Duncan Beginner, found</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> at my grandparents house. I know it was cheap, or else it wouldn't have been in their house. Yo-Yos became popular during the Great Depression because of the simple fact that they were cheap and they were fun. My first "real yo-yo" was a Duncan Mosquito, from Walmart, purchased for the kingly sum of 7 dollars. No one buys an expensive yo-yo on the outset. These are, after all, toys. We buy them on a lark, just to see what all the fuss is about. More often than not we get what we paid for, but at least they are still some simblance of a yo-yo. Two of my most charished throws are dollar-store light up jobs (Batman and <leo_highlight style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="leoHighlights_Underline_0" onclick="leoHighlightsHandleClick('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseover="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOver('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" onmouseout="leoHighlightsHandleMouseOut('leoHighlights_Underline_0')" leohighlights_keywords="cinderella" leohighlights_url="http%3A//8080.kondra.com%3A8080/leonardo/highlights/keywords?keywords%3Dcinderella">Cinderella</leo_highlight>). Yes, they play terribly, but they were gifts, and anyone that has ever received a yo-yo as a present knows how I feel. What is phenomenal is when somehow dirt cheap doesn't play like dirt. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8394.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 221px;" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/100_8394.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Enter the Peterfish Luminator, available at Walgreens stores for 4 dollars. 4 dollars, a fifth of the cost of the basic YoYoJams we recommend to beginners. The Luminator is easily the best beginner yo-yo there is. Most importantly because it is cheap and because it is easily available. As much as I like telling people "Okay, go to YoYoNation.com, look for cheap YoYoJams, I recommend the Lyn Fury" I know that a fraction, if any, of the people I actually tell will actually do it. Finding a website and then placing an expensive online order is a hard pill for parents to swallow to buy something they figure a kid is going to give up in a few days.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span>A few weeks ago, I was doing a little throwing at the Orthodontist's office for a young girl</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. When I was finished the mother asked where she could get one. I paused, pulled out the Luminator, and told her "Well, you can get this at Walgreens for around 4 dollars." And as I walked off, doing some more tricks to show that the cheap yo-yos can do most anything the expensive ones can, I heard the woman remark to her daughter "well okay, let's go pick you up some of those for babysitting." It was a good feeling.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span>As far as quality, the Luminator fairs extremely well. It is somehow, and this must account for the pigs currently gazing at me from outside my second-story window, more smooth than many YoYoJams I've had over the years. It is light, which creates both an interesting throwing experience, and a tool to teach beginners a harder throw. It comes with a short string attached, which fixes the problem that right around every person has the first time they throw a yo-yo, which is the strong inclination to simply give the ground a black eye with the thing. But it includes a long string for when they're ready. Still, it is reasonably durable, surviving many kamakazi dives into the ground by an overzealous ladyfriend. It's everything a new yo-yoer could want in a yo-yo.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span>Somehow, I find myself throwing this guy more and more (along with my No-Jive and whatever metal). I don't know if it's the probably-too-light weight, the pogs that I've actually kept in, or the mentality that comes with the low price, but then Luminator is just plain fun. When I throw it, I get that giddiness that reminds of the first time I really yo-yoed a ball bearing model. It's a weird yo-yo, it's hard to predict, but it's got that goofy-colored-plastic-fine-to-break-who-cares-its-summer feeling that harkens back to the days before middle school. 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</script></span>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3501416778461331200.post-58488631829683037842010-03-24T13:47:00.000-07:002010-03-29T11:03:44.551-07:00Satisfying Tricks<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/Boingy-Boing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 332px;" src="http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/DouglasBrown/Yo-Yo/Boingy-Boing.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;" ><div style=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There are some tricks that just do it for you. There are some tricks that encompass yo-yoing for you. There are some tricks that, when you land them, you feel like the biggest badass on the planet. Then there are some tricks that just "feel good". Here are a few of those tricks that I do every day which never leave any less of a mark when they're done. </div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I remember the first time I saw a grind. It was over at <a href="http://mastermagic.net/Tricks.html">mastermagic.net</a>. Andre's dark magic was crawling over his arm like a little pet friend, and I decided that this was the greatest thing I've ever seen. Yo-yoing was no longer confined to a little network of strings between the fingers, it'd been set free to rock out on whatever surface you wanted. I can't remember the learning the process at all, sadly, but now grinds are a part of my daily bag o' tricks. A finger grind on a dead smooth yo-yo is one of the best feelings there can be. And, hey, it helps that it's one of the most impressive tricks you can do. It's not speedy, it's not techy, it's simple. People can identify, understand, and RECOGNIZE your mad skillz.</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Somewhere there's a video of Steve Brown on the news. He's just got off and plane, and was performing for a group of people. One of the tricks he chose, and the one the crew decided to show, was Boingy-Boing. It is impressive, but no more so than any of the other tricks in this post. Instead, I'm draw to this trick because of how cool it feels. When you hit that rhythm and it gets going, you just get this air of acomplishment. The fact that I often see it on lists of "difficult tricks" to get down really helps that feeling of having mastered a "worthy" trick. Yeah, yeah, I know, it's all individual-based and you only make goals for yourself....but you have to admit that you feel better after learning a trick you've been told is hard. Okay, well, <b>I</b> do. </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My buddy was the first one to learn Brent Stole. I was never very interested, content with my hooks. Honestly, I just could not get my head around what was happening, and decided it wasn't worth it to learn. Yes, I know how terribly stupid that sounds and is. He comes in to our little free period and declares, "I've got it like 8 out of 10 times!" So, okay, I decided to bite. "Teach me," I told him. I'm always of the believe that you don't truly know something- be it yo-yos or the difference between Humanistic and Cognitive theories of psychological therapy - until you could teach it. So, he basically tells me "Okay, you start with you finger turned like this, you throw the string, and while it's in the air you turn your finger outward and kinda move you other arm like this." It sounds crazy vague and unhelpful, but somehow that's all it took. It clicked, and I did it. It's since become my go-to whip, and it's no less satisfying now than the day I learned it. It's the feeling I get when the yo-yo plops solidly down, not in a knot, but the very specific brent stole mount that gets me.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I only decided stalls because of Ed. First of all, he's the one responsible for turning me (and, I'm going to guess, a ton of other people) onto <a href="http://www.yoyonation.com/talk/index.php/topic,28406.0.html">wooden yo-yos</a>. His videos have a certain style that is undeniably his own. A major part of his distinctive style are stalls. Finally, someone asked him to post a video about how to nail them, and of course, he did.</div><div><br /></div><div><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7924252&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7924252&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I didn't have any trouble getting them down, because they're pretty simple, in both looks and execution. But their effect on my play has been phenomal. With wood, you can stall at almost any point. And when you do it right, it hits that string HARD. There is a SOLID feeling when you stall a yo-yo, and you've got to be heartless if that THUNK doesn't do anything for you.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div> </div></span><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Justin Chathamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18196542119473458067noreply@blogger.com0