The 2025 United YoYo & Kendama Contest will take place on 2 days: Friday June 6 at the STL City Foundry and Saturday June 7 at the Missouri History Museum. This year UYYC is also the same weekend of National YoYo Day. We have the full schedule and venue information posted on the UYYC contest website.
Registration is now open and players can register and upload their music at REGISTRATION
Check it out! Here you go it’s the official list of
Kendama Ladder tricks for UYYC! Also on the contest website we linked all of the Kendama tricks to Sweets Kendamas tutorials.
This year we have Kendama ladders on both days with chances to win prizes both Friday and Saturday. With Kendama freestyles wrapping up the entire event on June 7!
UYYC venue, schedule, rules, and trick lists are now online.
UYYC KENDAMA LINK!
Announcing the UYYC Platinum Sponsor! DERT!!
We have big news for all vendors; the rental for the UYYC Buy, Sell, Trade room is now sponsored by DERT! The BST room is now available to all Kendama & Yoyo collectors, sponsors, or any brands interested in attending. The only fee is a flat fee of $50 which goes directly to the museum. Anyone interested please message us and we will reserve your tables!
Briefly:
-dert is sponsoring cost of Vendor Room
-$50 flat fee to be a vendor
-vendor fee goes directly to the museum
-UYYC does not charge any $ from vendors
-6ft tables, chairs, and power available
-June 7 at the History Museum
-message us on IG or here to reserve
Russ Andert is a STL local machinist that has been designing Yoyo’s for over 20 years. Dert is sponsoring the vendor area this year which makes it more affordable for small brands to attend! We also have enough tables for collectors of both Kendama and Yoyo to sell in the vendor area. If you would like to support the event as a sponsor, vendor, or by donating a prize for the UYYC raffle please reach out to us!
*UYYC platinum poster design by Jacob Lundak!
UYYC feeling the love! Big UYYC NEWS…….this year we have Coffin Nachtmahr judging the 2025 UYYC Yoyo and Kendama freestyles on June 7th!
Not only is UYYC the weekend of National Yoyo Day; it’s the 1st time bringing Coffin to meet players in the STL metropolitan area!
We look forward to the chance to meet up, hang out, throw, and share his passion for his signature brand, OhYesYo!
Don’t slip up…..if you can make it into STL on Friday night June 6; all the judges will be at the UYYC Ladder meetup at the City Foundry, 6-10pm. This will be a great opportunity to win extra prizes, meet players, judges, and get a poster signed! 
It’s coming….National Yo-yo Day weekend; UYYC 2025 returning to STL! In the building none other than MC Brian Melford as the master of ceremonies for the 2025 United Yoyo & Kendama Contest! That’s right Brian Melford is on-stage all day announcing every division from Sport, 1A, X division, and finishing the day with Kendama Freestyles!
Coming all the way from New York, representing the New York YoYo Club, sponsored by GSquared YoYo’s, and an active competitor….DANIEL DIETZ! One of our main judges on the UYYC panel who is still actively competing. Dietz 1st trip to StL he competed in 2009 at Moyostates and this trip we look forward to seeing Dietz return this time as a judge!
UYYC Kendama Judge & YoYo Judge….. CJ ATKINSON!! 
CJ has worked behind the scenes with Recess Yoyo’s and as a designer with the DUNK YoYo with Jake Bullock. Not to mention he has a LONG yoyo competition career and will offer some great insight to judging the kendama freestyles; the weekend of June 6-7 is also CJ’s 1st time to St. Louis as a UYYC judge!
Todd Rollenhagen
Todd Rollenhagen has been yoying since 2020, he is constantly striving to learn new styles and tricks as well as continue to master tricks in his own style. Sponsored by Rain City Skills and the creator of Foxtails Yoyo String, an organizer of the Mile High YoYo Club and the Colorado State Yoyo Contest, Todd joins the UYYC Judges team this year to help with tabulating NYYL raw scores for the final results of the day!
Ill be there saturday! Wish I could come to the friday event but I have youth camp that week ending on Friday and then a 6-7 hour drive up to the contest. Looks awesome though!
Will I miss any sign in deadlines or anything If im not Friday?
You’re totally fine we will see you Saturday June 7. You can register and upload your music online up until June 1st. After June 1st is too late to upload and pick your music and instead we will pick your song randomly at the contest! 
Hope you had a chance to snag some vinyl yesterday on Record Store Day! If you’re coming to St. Louis for UYYC we have a lot of great places to shop vinyl like the Record Exchange, Vintage Vinyl, Euclid Records, and Dead Wax Records. UYYC also has a Vinyl Announcement of our own!
We have DJ’s spinning vinyl for the Friday night Kendama ladders and the afterparty on Saturday! Test your freestyle with real flow to some vinyl vibes at the STL City Foundry June 6-7!
Friday 7pm-9pm
Saturday 6pm-9pm
Contest Info UYYC.org
