His presence on Instagram has been pretty revealing lately. He’s not doing so good, and I wish there was something that could be done.
It’s like a midlife crisis of sorts. He doesn’t feel like he has anything to contribute to the community. It’s like he is coming to terms with the fact that he has had his hayday and now it is time to reassess what life means for him. He deleted his last post, which was really painful to read.
We need to pray for our brother Jensen, or send him good thoughts or vibes or whatever it is you do. I have experienced a lot of the things that he has been expressing lately, and I know how suffocating it can be. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
It pains me to see him being so real. I might not understand exactly what he’s going through, but I can imagine. And I’m sure that many of you can too.
If any of you feel led to reach out to him, I encourage you to do so. I can’t imagine this community without him, and I can’t imagine this world without him. It’s getting pretty bad y’all, let’s show him some love.
Send him a pic of your signed yo-yo and tell him what it, and his presence / videos / art, means to you!
Not sure if anyone can connect you with his actual email, I don’t view Instagram as a way to meaningfully connect with others, I mean can you even write someone a long message that way?
I have had instances where certain people blocked personal messaging on Instagram, even people that I actually follow and that follow me back. I have on the other hand messaged Jensen personally. In the past and even today. I don’t know if other people can though.
I’ve been working on one of his combos that interested me over the past week, so to say the least, even if he isn’t directly impacting the community going forward, his legacy has and still is impacting the community. I still find myself always going back to one of his signature yoyos, the Wooly Marmot 2. Hope he gets through this rough patch, thoughts are with him.
from time to time i send him messages on facebook and he’s always polite, patient with my questions. might wanna PM him to see if that works? or dos it work like what @JohnnyJ said, with the request box and all?
Yeah, it’s pretty much that easy. I’ve talked to him a couple of times through pm on Instagram. I talked to him today for a little bit, he’s just a bad place. This really sucks
I feel like he knows exactly how the community feels about him, and I can’t help but feel like it is somehow making all of this worse.
I wish he just took some serious time off the internet in general. He will forever be a hero for the community, and we all can wait for him to feel better.
Not too long ago, he said this would be his last year of being involved with yo-yos, in any big way at least. He said he was moving on to art.
I don’t think it would matter what he was accomplishing right now, or where he “stood” in the hierarchy of yo-yoing. He’d probably feel pretty much just as bad.
He was going through a bad time a few years ago, and I started a thread just like this back then. I talked him to through FB, and I don’t know if I helped, but he got out of the woods for a while.
He’s always so open on FB, and I guess IG. Hopefully that gives him some sort of therapeutic benefit. Maybe knowing how valued he is will help.