Who is your favorite yoyo player(s)/Which player(s) inspired you the most. For me, it would be Ayumu Kasuga and Hajime Miura.
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Of all time? Jensen Kimmitt and Guy Wright
Right now? Justin Dauer, Hunter Feuerstein, Kris Toledo, Anthony Rojas
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Barney Akers.
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Rei, Hajime, takeshi, sora ishikawa, John wolfe,
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Got a go with Eric kolaski he did some awesome stuff
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+1 for Dauer.
As for players not mentioned yet, Daiki Tanaka.
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Hiroyuki Suzuki ‘05 vibes alllllll dayyyyyy
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Jake Bullock, Tyler Severance, John Ando, Anthony Rojas and Zack Finch
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Anthony Rojas, Betty Gallegos, Mark Montgomery, Spencer Berry, Ed Haponik, Charles Haycock, Coffin
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I always forget people but a few I can think of Mir Kim, Takeshi Matsuura, Zach Gormley.
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JD, and Rojas
Hajime Miura of course. Also I really like Aliyah Tan, Song Zihao, and Sora Tahira for 3a. Takeshi has amazing 1A and I love it. Yuta Kashiwaya also has amazing 1A and my favorite execution out of everyone. Tsukasa Namba is another one of my favorite 1a players bc he’s got tricks that looks so far ahead of their time and are just insane. Ryuichi Nakamura had my favorite final last worlds and I watch it a lot bc it’s such a full performance. Dark side bb.
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Some of my favorite kind of yo-yoing here
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Tessa Piccillo, Tsukasa Takatsu, there are others I enjoy watching and appreciate their contribution to the craft. When I am asked about yo-yo by a non yo-yo individual that is not familiar with modern yo-yo play. I show them Tessa’s “ CLYW Kodiak “ YouTube video, and a few of Tsukasa Takatsu repeater videos specifically
“ metempsychosis “ to get the hooks in good a deep. Then I give whom ever, the yo-yo expert website and tell them to get on the forum and ask questions. Have not seen one make it to the forum yet.
I will save a few people from not knowing the yo-yo along my journey, mark my words!
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Mark Montgomery, love his style and his yo-yos.
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Ed Haponik, Drew Tetz, Kyle Nations and Doc Pop.
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I would say this is my list
Tommy Smothers
Steve Brown
Chris Neff
Yuki Spenser
Yo-Hans
Looks more like the Farewell Tour presented by the Yo-yoBoomer Club.
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Mickey, Takeshi, Gentry, Iori, Shinya Kido, Minato Furuta, Grant Johnson
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some of my favorite players and the reasons i like them in no particular order
Jensen Kimmitt: stylistically i think he’s one of the best players of all time. i grew up watching his videos wanting to be able to yoyo like him and even to this day i wish to develop a style as visually appealing as his was.
Danny Severance: he seemed to have a mindset of just making whatever he wanted to without caring if it was what other people were doing at the time or if other people would like it or not. the idea of making tricks for yourself is really cool to me. i wanna do that.
Mai Kaneko: kind of a weird one since it doesn’t really have much to do with her yoyoing ability. she is one of the most entertaining players i have ever watched and does a really good job at just being herself. very inspiring. very cool.
Guy Wright: he had a really heavy focus on just making stuff look really good, whether it was really difficult or really simple. his style of execution has always been really nice to watch for me.
Augie Fash: really cool guy to talk to. his style of play is the main reason i like him as a player, but he also made Hometown Hero which is the best yoyo video of all time in my opinion, so there’s that as well.
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Time to be a crotchety old man.
A lot of players today have very similar looking styles of meta tricks. Remy Baskin, Justin Dauer, Blaise Becker, Colin Beckford, etc. are all INCREDIBLE yoyoers, and seem like awesome guys.
But a lot of their meta stuff ends up looking pretty similar.
And that’s no fault on them, it’s the era they live in. They’re doing what they have to in order to be competitive and score well. I respect that.
But the yoyoers I enjoy watching the most are from about 10 years earlier. Think US nationals in Chico, when thousands of people were still showing up, and there were less than 10 real yo-yo brands.
If you watch at Gentry’s Nationals 2013 and worlds 2014, his tricks LOOKED like the music. There is real artistry there.
The less brutal competition of those years left more room for creative expression.
So yeah, my favorites are generally from that era. In no particular order.
Zach Gormley
Gentry
Harold Owen’s
Hiroyuki Suzuki
Ben Conde
Shu Takada
Paul Kerbel
Louis Enrique
But even so, I gotta shout out Mir Kim, because he blew the top of my head off.
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