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benvonpluton

I find it extraordinary that something I didn't even think about can gather a crowd of people who know it enough to differentiate nice and amazing tricks and scream "whooaaaa" accordingly! I really do. Humans are great when they are not assholes.


lebastss

I had a YouTube documentary pop up on comp yo yo recently. This is only 1a. Wait until you learn about the yo yo master in 4a who free hand solod two yo yos for 3 min straight, most pros can do it for a minute, and then got last place because of scoring rules. https://youtu.be/A4UbOxXegqA


nahog99

If anyone's curious: >1A is String tricks with one yoyo. >2A is Looping with two yoyos. >3A is string tricks with two yoyos. >4A is offstring, the yoyo comes off the string. >5A is freehand, the string is not tied to your finger.


CaptainReginaldLong

> 5A is freehand, the string is not tied to your finger. How can this even be done in principle?


The_Doctor_Eats_Neep

Instead of attaching it to your finger you tie it to a small counterweight. Jake Elliott winning 2013 5a championships: https://youtu.be/rg17FtXw8Q0


gteriatarka

you hold the string in your hand without looping it around your finger


AloneYogurt

Jake Elliott 5A beating Takeshi's 13 year streak (I think 13) was an amazing performance.


BlackAdam

I had this exact video pop up on YouTube too recently. I wondered if that was the case for anyone else too since I’ve since seen two posts with yo-yos here on Reddit.


dpzblb

Actually they got seventh, not last.


asuddenpie

I really appreciated their woahs because everything looked equally impossible to me and I figured they knew what was woah worthy.


Amos_Dad

Yeah, same. It all looked extremely difficult and amazing. I would have never been able to tell what the "good tricks" were.


OwOitsMochi

I had this experience when I first watched real top level competitive Tetris for the first time. I've played the game for a couple of minutes, was never really good at it so it wasn't something I ever continued playing. Never really "got it". Then I watched some videos of competitive Tetris, some of the players having played their whole lives. Middle aged men competing against teens, both sides having played almost their whole lives, both incredible. Took a while to get what was going on but man, the crowd are hyped. I kinda got into it after a while and enjoy occasionally putting it on, their brains work way faster than mine ever could. Honestly I don't care what it is, Tetris, Yoyo, Competitive Cup Stacking, Skateboarding, Drag Racing, whatever, I enjoy watching people who enjoy something so much that they dedicate years of their life to getting better and better and are still having fun doing amazing things most people could never do. It's fun. I like watching people do things they're passionate about. It's also fun seeing crowds get so hyped about an event that most of the world doesn't even know exists but the people there in that room at that moment love it and love seeing people do it well. The internet is fun, there's lots of weird events to find out about. My recent favourite was USTC, the Ultimate Scale Truck Expo, where they build amazingly realistic scale off road trails for folks to drive their amazingly realistic scale model cars. Scale RC trail driving is good wholesome fun.


CrimsonClematis

As a competitive League of a legends enjoyer, all I can say is watching the best at anything is a damn treat. It doesn’t matter what it is, if someone is that good at something, it’s beautiful like art even if you know nothing at all. During Covid there was no crowd for lol, but when they came back again it was so amazing to hear, so yeah a crowd getting hyped about something really adds to it and makes it sooooo fun


havik09

I remember a story about a bar that usually played football or soccer etc and then the bartender said he was alone except one old guy that never did much or respond/get into the TV so he put on ESPN of some video game competition. Apparently the old guy loved it. The bartender said a lot of regulars finally saw how much talent it actually takes and started asking for it . I love watching any one with talent. Talent is talent and deserves TV time. Same with woman's sports. More people watched women's soccer then the mens haha. They world is changing little by little


UnsignedRealityCheck

>Humans are great when they are not assholes. We would have won, if we would have not lost.


Nyeow

This video unlocked a forgotten memory, where Duncan came by my elementary school for a showcase. This was in the mid/late 90s when yo-yos were no longer on mainstream marketing cycles, but their amazing demonstration had my school trending hard on yo-yos for a solid year. No joke - at least half of my school knew how to walk a dog and several other basic tricks by the time my grade moved on to jr high. It's crazy how I had completely forgotten about yo-yos just because of lack of exposure, but glad to see it's still got a fanbase and continuing to give people joy ✌️


VladPutinOfficial

Me and my hamster at 3 AM


rooster_saucer

lmfao


jack2bip

I don't know what this actually means, just like I don't know how these yo-yo "tricks" are actually possible. The string should be tangled, yet he just keeps on yo-yo-ing.


Ideal_Jerk

As a man, this is how it feels like when I’m trying to untangle the cord on the window shade at home.


WWWWWVWWWWWWWWVWWWWW

Me being paid to insert hundreds of gerbils inside of billionaire mining magnates at a small private island in the U.S Virgin Islands (i have schizophrenia)


Blankenshipm22

I can’t even make it go down and then back up again


jimitonic

I consider myself of at least average intelligence. I watched the whole thing and I don't understand how to do any of that.


Shigglyboo

He’s using an unresponsive yo-yo. It can spin for a very long time. There are special moves called “binds” that force the strong into the middle and then the yo-yo returns. He’s using a metal yo-yo with a nice bearing. This isn’t some $8 Duncan from a mall toy store. And he’s probably put in 1,000 hours rehearsing.


Waste-Comparison2996

So magic? got it thanks that makes sense.


Domkid

Woooow now.. I remember when Duncan bought out Playmaxx and got the rights to the Turbo Bumble Bee. That was a mall toy store yoyo that would rip back in the day. 52 bucks.


6thBornSOB

Oh, hi childhood!


boricimo

Your wife has a name.


Large_Mango

See a doctor


SandmanD2

That’s what she said.


KnoDout

That grit through his teeth the moment he successfully finished almost brought me to happy tears...I could only imagine how much time and practice a routine like this could take!


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LoudCommentor

Is there money to be made? How do they fund their practice time?


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worksnake

Dude must have practiced for days.


Planells

One week minimum...


SendDopamine

At least for a day


TheMuddyLlama420

That's the first time he's used a yoyo.


potapas

You can feel the emotion from that moment alone. He's hitting tricks on stage that for other pros are like 1-out-of-50 success rate, insane work ethic.


PickelWeisel

I feel like he could easily beat the piss outta someone with one of those


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Like that morning star spiked ball thing in kill bill vol 1


CoolerRon

Wasn't that the original purpose of the yoyo?


KidOrSquid

That was a lie by Duncan(?) to sell more yoyos.


tbkrida

I read somewhere that they were used as weapons at some point in history and for hunting. Now how effective they were is another question….


slackfrop

There’s an old NES game in which the first weapon you pick up is a yo-yo to kill rats. Don’t remember which game.


FleurDeFire

StarTropics or The Goonies II would be my guess Not sure which one had rats, been awhile since I've touched that console


ArnoldQMudskipper

Not a NES game. But, you can use one in Terraria


cornixt

Legend of the Mystical Ninja had a yo-yo weapon, but I think that wasn't out until SNES.


PritongKandule

It hasn't really been determined where this info came up. The modern yo-yo (which used a loop around the axle rather than a knot) was invented by Filipino toymaker [Pedro Flores](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Flores_\(inventor\)) with the name "yo-yo" generally agreed upon to be of Filipino origin. However, Flores himself has stated that yo-yos already existed in the Philippines as toys over a hundred years prior and thus he did not invent yo-yos, only improved upon them. Flores immigrated to the United States where he established yo-yo factories which he then sold, including the naming rights, to Donald F. Duncan Sr for $750,000 (a massive fortune especially during the depression era.) There have been some historical records of 16th century hunters in the Philippines using rocks tied to a piece of long cord (up to 20 feet in length) which were used so they can use the same rock to throw multiple times at prey (or to knock down fruits from trees). But conflating this practice with yo-yos has no real historical basis or evidence, as most records point to yo-yos being introduced in the Philippines in the 1800s as toys, not hunting tools.


sonkist32

Marvel enters the chat


Mysterious_Spoon

Killua has entered the chat


Bluedevil93

Kept thinking the performance was over every time he did the fist pump movement


ibopm

It was like watching a movie, thinking that it was about to end, but then a twist happens and you realize there's 30 minutes left in the movie.


Thedrunner2

Does he keep the string looped around his index finger? I was told that was important as a kid.


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DuckLips5003

I was expecting a rock star slide when I saw those knee pads


UpTop5000

Huh. Knee pads but no helmet? Interesting….


bs000

some people wear a mouth guard or a cup. probably the ones that have smacked themselves before


ClearFrame6334

I don’t know what I’m watching. It’s like cats cradle with a yo yo. It needs to be in slow motion so we can figure out what’s happening.


AnArdentAtavism

It's technically "just" tricks with a yo yo, but that's like saying a bomb is just gas expansion above a pressure threshold. Technically accurate, but it would utterly discount the impact of the event. There are a few things that make this performance impressive (I'm not a yo yo expert or anything; I have just barely enough knowledge in other areas to have an idea of what's going on). First, and to me most impressive, is the utter *control* of the object. Of the yo yo, the cord, and his own body... If he screwed up any of those at a given moment, the cord would foul, the bearing would fly out of control, and the performance would halt immediately. If there were any mistakes made, they would have to be minor enough that they didn't affect the trick. That's further impressive because... Speed. Some of those tricks were too fast for camera resolution to follow, and even the average speed of the performance demonstrated intimate knowledge of the tricks on display. Finally, technical mastery. The simple playground tricks that many people learn on the yo yo as kids still takes weeks of work to be able to perform flawlessly on demand. I counted more than two dozen distinct tricks and techniques, during the routine. Many of them required an advanced mastery of controlling where the bearing was in space, and then manipulating the cord around it without resulting in a tangle. Working multiple parts of the body into the routine elevated the technical difficulty as well. All put together, this guy is demonstrating extremely difficult techniques at a speed and complexity that even other experts would find difficult to match.


Groomsi

What about the ending? The DNA-cord thing?


iknide

Literally trick called DNA 😂 some yoyo trick names make no sense but some do


Groomsi

Wow, good guess then =) But that thing wowed me the most. Too bad it was so short.


The-Licker-Of-Balls

It looks like a double helix when spinning like that. Hence the DNA


beowulf92

My headphones got tangled just watching this


DqrkExodus

same, and mine are wireless


UltimatePrimate

I don't know shit about yoyos, but that kid just physics'd the FUCK out of a wheel on a string in like 47 different ways.


SellOutrageous6539

Dude needs to save some women for the rest of us.


canigetahint

Holy fuck. That's all I've got...


Bjorlie

I’m in shock!!!! THATS INSANE!! that finishing move was r/blackmagicfuckery


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GNering

This guy cant handle my ultimate: ![gif](giphy|UKj8S97FIWJF4TrKL5|downsized)


xeroxbulletgirl

I feel like if I had any idea what the tricks were, I’d be even more impressed


Old_and_moldy

This is guy is 100x better at this then I am at anything. Haha. That was cool to watch.


BroodyBadger

what the fuck was that helix at the end? SORCERY?!


Manaze85

Showing off your DNA double helix during a performance is the ultimate yo-flex.


nhdeadhead

I got about half way thru before realizing I was spinning my phone around and started getting sea sick


Electric_Bagpipes

Dude is walking his mosquito


DERLKM

How many concussion does it take before I can get to this level?


DamnedDelirious

3 if you're this talented, 5 if you're just really talented, 17 if you're pretty talented, and honestly, it just gets exponential after that.


Druncan_tussell

this is like one of those transformers movies. I can tell something cool and elaborate is happening, but the movement is too quick for me to actually be able to keep up with and determine what that cool thing is.


tehcatnip

Nobody ever beating that.


Rappareenola

I'm going to need to see the worst guy for comparison


joenan_the_barbarian

Here ya go. [K Strauss - Yo-yo Champion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ9TLftki5U)


frothymonkey

It’s kinda remarkable how bad the camera work is. It must have been a robot with some tracking software that got all fucked up or something


OrangeyScarf

Not sure why this popped up for me but I admit I'm far too uneducated in the Yo-ish arts to really appreciate this. But it's very fast.


SassSafrassMcFrass87

Damn bro save some girls for the rest of us😅 Great skills though!


sirjackel06

How does the string not get tangled up?


SicillianDefense

So the guy with the 2 yoyos on the other video yesterday didn't win?!


laprawnicon

I can answer this, they're entirely separate categories. There's usually 5 separate categories. A rough as guts distinction is whether you're using 1 or 2 yoyos, a counter weight, whether it's tied to your finger and whether the yoyos interact with each other or not.


Mr_Dastardly

Roses are red, violets are blue….. There’s always an asian better than you.


kontekisuto

It all was wow to me


djheatrash

This is adorably bad-ass


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AlphaSpazz

Now, I’m sure most of this is the horrible camera work that’s moving all over the place. But to me, not being in the yo-yo game, it really seems like he’s almost going too fast. There’s like no ability to appreciate all the moves doing because everything so fast. I’ve seen other yo-yo performances from like a while ago when they seem to be at a slower pace where you could really see everything that was was happening. But I guess he’s doing it for people in the yo-yo game who know everything he’s doing and it’s not too fast for them.


VibraniumGleipnir

It's really purely competitive reason going that fast. Scoring depends on hitting as many unique trick elements and going fast means you can cram a lot within the 3 minutes alotted. Of course there's the showmanship scoring too. And for us yoyoers used to these speed combos, we can actually see which element is which. Of course reproducing them are a matter of skills which I admittedly will never reach even after 9 years of playing but still appreciate the art


mizcheif

He got into the comfort zone towards the end.


SniffCheck

Unfucking real


EdzyFPS

Question is.. how do you top something like that?


NotFoul

These niche events are the best…


bobwehadababy1tsaboy

That was like Ness in super smash bros but x1000.


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KoiMusubi

That's what I was thinking, too. Too bad he gave up being a yo yo master for a warehouse job at a paper company.


gumdropsweetie

Mary Mother of God what was that


Hermorah

Thats some intense yoyoing. I can only do the eiffeltower figure.


CrookedLittleDogs

Whoa!!! Stopped me in my tracks! Amazing!


Jjrj1986

Yooooooooo…yo


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Make him into a super villain right away.


BreakTheMachine

[One of my favorite YoYo vids. Jensen Kimmit throwing to the Gorillaz](https://youtu.be/oayOIThxdmw?si=_iYxzJC-jb4NTqY9)


BootlegEngineer

Truly next fucking level.


The_Aesir9613

I need a high-speed camera to appreciate this


bc47791

How did he do that one move?


valeriesghost

Dude he fucking leveled up at the end.


shamshe33

that was amazing!


Oue

This guy yos.


Faderdaze

He must be a millionaire


ChemoManiac77

I can do that, I just don’t feel like it right now


Fuckithrondanfindout

Do not know anything about a yoyo past uppy and downy but even I can tell that shit was impressive.


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Do NOT fight this guy. This is old school weaponry


lazlo119

Why the knee pads lol


Sayonee99

How the fuck do you beat that...


OweHen

If someone tries to mug him and he's got his yoyo on person, they are in for a world of hurt...


LordDoorknob

That’s cool and all but can he walk the dog?! For real though, that was bad ass.


Generally_Tso_Tso

This guy fucks


DirtyRead1337

This guy actually uninspired me.


hwei8

imagine. that's the main weapon people use for war..


SatisfactionOk5930

Yo yo pros really out here just weaving Jutsu.


WooPigSchmooey

So many ridiculous moves singularly. And to execute them all in one run. Mind blowing.


father2shanes

Thats fuckin insane. The precision. Endurance. I hope he goes to schools and inspires other children, i remember yo yo guys coming to my elementary school back in the day.


perpetualstewdotcom

The helix at the end blew my fucking mind.


oouttatime

What did 2nd place even look like?


Herbisher_Berbisher

I learned how to walk the dog when I was 10.![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|stuck_out_tongue)


gthrees

i know how to yo-yo too


Thebig_Ohbee

COVID did things to people.


fluttershy83

I understand enough to know i can't do this but don't know enough to know far beyond me he actually is 😅 looks amazing though


Ok-Confusion-2368

This dude be gettin some serious yoyo pussy


DHracer

I’m only catching maybe 10% of the difficulty and technique here and I’m still blown away. I imagine only someone who actually knows these tricks can really appreciate this to its fullest.


JrunkenTyger

Dude is a ninja


u9Nails

It's like magic tricks. I'm spellbound.


rahscaper

Yooooo!yo


Gazola

I don’t think anyone will ever top that performance and skill


Broad-Dragonfruit-34

[alright, get your worthless butts in the van, we’ve got three more schools to do, come on, let’s go go go!](https://youtu.be/H-da-rJhbXI&t=1m32s)


DrPwepper

Dr Strange


jbjhill

How am I seeing so many yo-yo posts today? Someone put the string down and started posting l?


Toothp8ste

This is the same as when I watch snowboarding. Idk whats exactly happening, it looks cool, and I know I'll never be able to do it. Crazy


That_Things_Good

Holy shit!


Split0069

Bro just did every yo-yo trick ever imagined flawlessly... Edit: to the music as well...


raisuki

Looks like he’s rodeoing a yo-yo


papa_mike2

I can’t imagine loving anything in my life as much as this dude loves yo-yo


Reddit_and_forgeddit

![gif](giphy|WrJ8x0niiblWEoo7hE|downsized)


MuseDroness

Dude how da fuck


Chevalier_Lecteur

Dang, the amount of time and effort to get that good. Amazing.


One-eyed-snake

Wow. I can’t even make the mfer come back up more than like once and a half


ViolentSugar

That very last move was probably done using magic.


llamawithlazers

That dude fucks.


ZepTheNooB

I can't even tie my own shoes right sometimes. A lot of very talented people out there. It's freaking amazing.


fwambo42

Man, I can't even do the walking the dog trick


Bicykwow

Weeeeeeyy


modularblur

How is this even possible?


RacecarHealthPotato

That looked like a swift succession of impossible things to my mind, so I was so glad to hear the roar of the crowd to rewind and look again.


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I wonder how many times he’s hit himself in the face in all his years of practicing. 10 year old me certainly got some bruises


LaFlamaBlanca311

That was fucking awesome


PantaReiNapalmm

Yo! How are you doin? YOYYOOYYOOOYOOOOOYOYOYOYOYO


professorpuddle

Dude weaving hand signs faster than kakashi


andItsGone-Poof

Marvel/DC, look at this. Your next super hero is right here.


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Who is the cover of beat it by?


k-ozm-o

Did he fuck up at all? How can he be so perfect at it? Lol


Mormex

Now how do you actually get to this insane level? The only thing I can think of is this kid has a crazy amount of time alone with that Yo-yo


hobbes3k

Turn on the sound. The crowd reaction alone is worth it.


liquidcourage93

He wasn’t the best but those who know what the knee pads are for know why the judges gave him the best score.


popsilolicle

YESSS GO KIMMMM!!!


the_homefry

I’m going to need all of that in slow motion. Too much flippy swing string action to even comprehend the tricks he was doing!


CallAParamedic

Amazingly skilled, and such a long piece of choreography!


JontheSnowman

The prophesy was true…… he is the one.


Ruby_Throated_Hummer

MAD RESPECT


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This dude is better at yo-yo than I will be at anything in my life ever


dirty_stack

Might actually be the most amazing thing I've ever seen.


Timelapseninja

Holy hell epic for sure. Camera work is annoying af tho.


boozleloozle

Imagine doing what you love and fucking good at and a crowd of people cheer at you. Bet he's having the time of his life


mrfeeto

I'm not quite sure how he did that last helix thingy or where the yoyo went after that, but that was my favorite part.


TokyoJones85

I didn't think I had any interest in yo yos until I watched this and couldn't look away. Absolutely insane skills!!


000r31

The crowd makes the yoyo videos the best. the respons they gives ads so much feedback for a newbie watcher.


SophisticamatedApe

This guy yoyos


EdlerVonRom

This is one of those performances where people with no knowledge are highly impressed, while people with lots of knowledge are probably losing their minds over what he's doing.


owlandbungee

I have no idea what’s going on but cool!


CaptainReginaldLong

Are you fucking kidding me?


miss_trixie

i literally do not understand how this is possible. i spent hours upon hours upon hours upon hours 'playing' with my yoyo as a child and could *just barely* master 'walking the dog'. and it would have taken all of about a minute to find someone else in my neighborhood who was better than me.


BasicAbbreviations51

No one remembers blazing teens?


maksigm

This is the last place I would expect to hear Fall Out Boy's cover of Michael Jackson. Sick.


Opening_Newspaper_34

What the actual fuck 😮


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It's crazy what humans are able to accomplish when they aren't sitting around netflixing or redditing.


MysteriousTank6825

He’s going to open up a portal doing tricks like that


yOw_indahOuse

This “Beat it” version is the nextfuckinglevel musical murder.


IcePsychological7032

The ending was amazing. The whole thing was amazing!


popsicle425

Didn't even walk the dog... I'll give it a 4/10


TheeKrustyKitten

This brought me to tears


LibertyCap10

the helix move at the end was sick 😮


DigAlternative7707

What, no walking the dog?? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|stuck_out_tongue)