Hi all! I’ve been doing a biweekly yoyo show and podcast on yoyo theory called Kill Your Yoyo.
After every show, I expand on a point that I found interesting in a blog post. This week I interviewed the amazing Duncan sponsored 4a player, Chris Chunn and one thing that got brought up is the idea of being yourself on stage. I think that it almost doesn’t matter who you are on stage, just as long as you are some character. So I want to know, who are you when you perform? Do you just play a larger-than-life version of yourself or do you portray some character? Also, what do you do to convey a character through yoyoing?
Check out the post at this link and then let me know your answers!
Chris is SUCH a great ambassador for yo-yoing !!! I feel like he’s played an integral role in my early progression because I found his Yotricks tutorials some of my favourite on the site , the way he explains things is so easy to follow
I know there’s a great joke in here somewhere, but I can’t think of it. For the grandkids I do whatever I’m working on. Superflow, Kamikaze, Spirit Bomb (sometimes successful), Hidemasa Hook, Boingy Boing, Pop 'n Fresh. They’re moderately impressed - but if I do The Elevator, or The Gondola, Rock the Baby, they LOVE IT.
Well, the 11-year-old grandson is not interested. His 8-year-old sister, however, can make her blue Butterfly go up and down all day long. It’s a start …
Actually, the granddaughter is the one who stumbled across one of my 30-year-old yoyos a year and a half ago, and basically got me back into throwing. It turned out to be a godsend, as i broke my right wrist a couple months later, and spent 3 months of 2020 in a very restrictive cast. That ruled out guitar, mandolin, kayaking, fishing … So I did a lot of left-handed throwing that summer. Throwing was the only thing that kept me sane, and some days, it still is.
Zammy this answer is so genuinely accurate to what I was trying to get at in the essay. And you forgot that you’re also the tireless defender of Moebius!
