Yoyo and the Olympics

[unklesteve (Steve Brown)]

This conversation has happened, with pretty much identical arguments on all sides, every few years since 1996. Just some perspective.

@GTDropKnot

-coverage for the world Yoyo contest is terrible like the videos look like a middle school talent show. (I want Birds Eye views and slowmo and just better footage)

In 2016 and 2019 I had a professional crew filming HD, multiple angles, broadcast quality titles, etc. Yoyo players worldwide complained that they wanted a static, head-on shot for everything so they could just learn the tricks.

In 2019 people complained for the entire duration of the event about the film crew that was there shooting for the Netflix “We Are The Champions” documentary on the contest.

What the community wants yoyoing to be & look like has always been at odds with what the general public wants to see and what producers and people with the money to make this happen want it to be and look like. Those two things have not come closer to each other in the 29 years I’ve been doing this. I’m not saying they never will, I’m just saying it’s going to take a lot more than what anyone is doing now.

[GTDropKnot (Henry)]

Aight cool I gotchu and think it is probably true that no matter how well yoyo is packaged for the general public’s consumption, it still won’t be as interesting to them as it is to the community here already. I also don’t think it would be good or realistic for yoyo players to have to comply with wada drug testing to compete and that would be necessary for yoyo to be an olympic sport. So after learning that, I am not trying to push the idea any more really. I still do think yoyo in the Olympics would be cool and good for yoyo but yeah

[YoyoGeezer]

I totally did not get the sarcasm. I feel stupid now. Forget my post… apologies.