Northern Spin Co. Aurora: A High Speed YoYo Review

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Ok, I’ll come right out and say it. I have been looking forward to this review for quite some time; pretty much since I received confirmation that I would get an Aurora review unit. The reason being is that it is the latest creation from one of the first people that I got to know in the yo-yo community. While this company, Northern Spin Co., is new to quite a few of you, lead designer Emmanuel “Manny / EEB” Boutros has been a member of the community for quite some time. Back in his design school days Manny worked with Doug Spence of BBYY to create the Copycat, the prototype for Manny’s first yo-yo the Primer. After the Primer came and went Manny fell off the grid for a bit. I thought he might have left the yo-yo world to move on to bigger and better things. Well, I was half right. He teamed up with a partner, Andrew Hogan, and started the company you see before you today. Their first release is the Aurora, an anodized titanium yo-yo. When I asked Manny why he chose to make the debut NS Co. product out of titanium he gave me the following answer.

What I take away from this answer is simple. He wanted his debut yo-yo to be a no compromise piece of art that shows the world what his new company has to offer. Now we get to see if their offerings are something that the public will want.

Link to High Speed YoYo reviews has been removed. URL has been hijacked

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good review.

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Wow 15 years later. I played mine today! Love it still.

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Such a shame the site is dead.

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Bruh just stole the title of “Necro of the Century.” :rofl:

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Lol, I feel old, I remember when this dropped and reading the review

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My first titanium ever! Glad i still have mine, was just tossing it around yesterday. Super fun yoyo :innocent::pinched_fingers:

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My first titanium as well. I have definitely gotten my moneys worth from it.
I was almost too late when I bought the aurora and Manny sold me his. Somehow I got lucky.

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Can someone reach out to @saintrobyn so we can have the website back!

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I was reading somewhere that he was moving on or somewhat away from yoyoing in the capacity he was doing due to life circumstances.
I don’t remember all the details or if I even have that comment correct so don’t quote me.
I know first hand how life can get in the way and put things on the back burner. If the website went away as in the www listing, to restore it would require a backup or copy of the content stored somewhere to be able to upload to a new site.

I agree there was a lot of history there and my original dive into the unresponsive YoYo scene.
Look how things have evolved- titanium, bimetal everywhere, The players are insanely good now, so many “tricks” that didn’t even exist.

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