Actually I was told differently… I was going to buy a Sweets aTack, but the people at the Kendama Forums recommended an Ozora Kendama for a beginner. So, I got an Ozora and it’s amazing. Hope my insight helped. God Bless - Moefv
pretty much anything mentioned will work. It just depends what you want. My oozora is pretty light while the tribute I have is pretty heavy and the sweets that I’ve tried are in the middle. atacks are pretty sticky so it makes it easier to do balance tricks but some people see it kinda like cheating. Imo I would say go oozora but you can’t go wrong with the tribute or sweets either
I know you’ll enjoy them both. A quick word about that “other” forum. That forum and this one are the two I hang out at nowadays. I wouldn’t dream of bashing them, but what you have to remember when you’re over there is that it’s based in England. Over there they have an official governing body for kendama contests, (actually, that’s who runs that forum) and there are only certain kendamas that are “legal” for competition. The Sweets and the KendamaUSAs are mostly what we talk about over here, but they are not competition certified in the UK. That’s why you seldom hear them recommended on that forum. We have no such governing body in North America, and since I’m not in any danger of getting to go to the UK anytime soon…
Ha! Yeah, I guess the context for that remark was a little vague, wasn’t it. Moefv brought up the Ozora because that’s the one most of them seem to recommend on that forum. If you hang out on that forum, you might get the idea that the Sweets and the Tributes aren’t that great, because they seldom recommend them. I was just pointing out that if there is no love for the one’s we’re recommending on the other forum, it’s not because they’re not good kendamas.