Kill Your Yoyo

Join me as I talk about what flow is and how you can use flow theory to improve your throwing. Half book report, half yoyo philosophy rant about the amazing book Stolen Focus by Johan Hari. 

Gavin Hubner is one of the top competitive yoyoers in the nation. In this episode we discuss 

Shivum Berry is the founder of the incredibly popular brand Thesis yoyos...and he's only been out of high school for two years! Learn the story behind his brand's meteoric rise and exclusive secrets about what goes into each brilliantly planned yoyo release.

Notes:

Watch: Black, TedX talk

Download: Fusion 360

Buy: Ender 3 Pro 3D printer

Read: Free Play, Stephen Nachmanovitch

What do you call an Australian who quits his stable corporate job to sell yoyos on youtube? You call him Brandon Vu. Learn how Brandon built his online yoyo empire and how you can follow in his footsteps.

Notes/further research:

Grant Johnson Youtube Video: Stronger Yo-Yo

Scott Dikkers: How to write funny characters

The legend himself, Doctor Popular shares some awesome pieces of yoyo history as well as his approach to creating many of the tricks that we now regard as classics.

Doc's insta: @docpop

my insta: @ilinx_toys

notes and further reading

Serious Guide to Joke Writing by Sally Holloway

How To Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing by Scott Dikkers

Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy by Greg Dean

Splitting the Atom yoyo trickbook by Richie

Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual by Matt Walsh Et al.

Instagram: @danyllo_barbiero

Dale Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5OYS_VJ6Dc

Jonathan is an incredible yoyoer who's sponsored by Duncan and Original Throw. In this episode, we talk all about trick and routine design as well as flow theory, keeping your yoyoing unpredictable, and much much more.

Notes:

Netflix - The Toys That Made Us

TV Show - Blazing Teens

Jonathan's instagram - jonathanstggg

Polo's instagram - ppolor

Ricardo's instagram - blablanchard

Michael Nakamura is one of the world's best 4a yoyo players who, in four years went from picking up his first yoyo to winning the world yoyo contest. So what accounts for his meteoric rise? Well, you'll find out that and much more as we discuss horizontal 4a theory, the future of soloham, and Michael's approach to contest and performance preparation.

Further research:

Michael's Instagram: @michael_nakamura

Maximum Entertainment 2.0 by Ken Weber

Showmanship for Magicians by Dariel Fitzkee

The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt (the theory of constraints)

The Magic Way by Juan Tamariz

Tarbell Course In Magic by Harlan Tarbell

The Yonomicon by Mark McBride

Ty Goldman is a social media trailblazer and an extremely creative yoyoer with an appetite for bangers. We talk all about his trick creation process, his thoughts on competition and making yoyoing a sustainable lifestyle, and his perspective on yoyoing as someone who was performing at the national level at a very young age.

Follow me on insta: @ilinx_toys

Follow Ty on insta and tiktok: @yobigty

Look up: 

Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch