I will share a few
1st.
I was at Target standing near the pizza hut waiting for my Dad, I was getting bored so I pulled out my yoyo (I think it was my old Spinmaster 3) and started casually throwing.
I was just doing some cool tricks when a guy comes up to me:
Guy: Hey you are pretty good with the yoyo!
Me: Thanks!
Guy: I used to be pretty good at it once, I went to contest too.
Me: Wough really? Same here? You still yoyo?
Guy: Ah not really, I was quite good for a time, I won a contest actually.
Me: Cool! What contest?
Guy: It was the US Finals.
(So I think, US Finals? Maybe he means nats? Wough! He probably won a sport ladder or something cause I didnt know him from any past championship champions)
Me: Oh US Nationals?
Guy: Yes thats the one.
Me: Wow! So you did the sport ladder?
Guy: No I actually did the performance
Me: (Confused) Wait what year did you go?
Guy: 2001
Me: Hmmmā¦ Whats your name?
Guy: Jason.
Me: Lee?
Guy: Oh awesome you know me.
(STOP! I know this guy isnt Jason Lee. I know Jason Lee and this guy WAS NOT HIM!
This is Jason Lee:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU_es1xJzD0
The guy looked about late 40s, Somewhat like George Lopez.
THIS GUY IS NOT JASON LEE!
Me: Wanna try my yoyo?
Guy: Naw, I dont yoyo anymore, I was once good but now I cant ever throw a yoyo
Me: Aw.
(So now I test him)
Me: Yeah Nats was awesome that year ha? Kinda hot though since it was in Las Vegas.
Guy: Yeahā¦ everyone didnt like it
Me: Yeah
The guys family comes over.
Guy: Well I gotta go, Nice meeting you!
Me: You too, laterz.
WOW! That was amazingā¦
Next story!
I was at a church youth group showing some guys some yoyo tricks.
This is back in 2001 and I was using my old renegade.
I was going to do an around the world to over the shoulder trapeze but the string broke!
SNAP! It flew and I am not kidding IMBEDDED ITSELF INTO THE CHURCH WALL!
Bam!
Sad right? But even worse, this was not our church! We were coming from out of town and happened to see a vineyard church and went in for their sunday service.
I felt really bad but they said it was ok.
The Gade was ok, but the wall was very damaged.
My friend Brandon got a new bigyo so he wanted to make a long string for it, I told him to try to make a long one (you know for those big shoot the moons people do?)
Little did I know how long of a string he would make!
He came back the next week with a large bag.
The bag was filled with string, each tied together and with the bigyo at the end!
We wanted to try it so we strung it out, okā¦
Ground level, walk it upstairs one level, into the living room, around to the stairsā¦ next levelā¦ ok around to the backā¦ next levelā¦ we realized that we could not try it cause after getting up to the top story of our building, there was still at least 6 more stories of string!
We still have not been able to try it, But he added some more strings and we might try it off of a skyscraper if we can find some place to let us do it.
When we do, Ill make a vid.
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