YoYo Player

YoYo Player

By Steve Brown & Mark McBrideArtsHistoryPerforming Arts
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YoYo Player episodes

  • Julius & Rick

    Julius & Rick join the tour. There's a lot of uncomfortable laughter in this one. 

    17 min
  • Jason & Nick

    This week we get some more info about how Mark & Greg got this idea off the ground, and we meet demonstrators Nick Van Der Schie and Jason Tracy.

    30 min
  • Rollerblades & Bikini Models

    Behold, Season 2 is here! This entire season dives deep into the 1999 Fiend Magazine YoYo Tour when a grip of yoyo players from different companies went out on the Vans Warped Tour and spent an entire summer slinging yoyos and getting into trouble. 

    In this episode: the mayhem begins. 

    27 min
  • YoYo Player Podcast Season 2 Trailer

    Season Two of the YoYo Player Podcast is a complete oral history of the legendary 1999 Fiend Magazine YoYo Tour with guest appearances by the people who were there. Organizers, demonstrators, and musicians all chime in to talk about the mayhem, on the record, for the first time ever.

    First episode drops June 25th, new episodes every Thursday.

    1 min
  • Fiend Magazine

    Mark & Steve dive into the history of Fiend Magazine, the first full-color magazine dedicated to yoyoing. It only lasted 4 issues (kinda) and died a glorious death.

    This is the final episode of Season One! We'll be back in 2025 with Season Two.

    This episode brought to you by YoYoExpert.com. 

    52 min
  • How To Be A Player 1 & 2

    Mark & Steve talk through the making of the "How To Be A Player Vol. 1 & 2" videos during their time with Duncan. Originally released in 2001, these VHS tapes were commercially released and quickly became cult classics yoyo players and fans of VHS kitsch.

    This episode brought to you by YoYoExpert.com. 

    53 min
  • Behold: The Yonomicon!

    Steve and Mark talk through the history of The Yonomicon, the most feared, inspiring, and confusing book in the history of yoyoing. Original released almost 20 years ago, a newly revised edition is now available at Yonomicon.com!

    This episode brought to you by YoYoExpert.com.

    Theme music is "Runaway" by Reconciler.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Oral History of 3A

    Steve and Mark talk through the history of 3A style, which started as a joke used for publicity photos in the 50s and became a full-blown style once Mark got his hands around it. 

    This episode brought to you by YoYoExpert.com.

    Theme music is "Runaway" by Reconciler. 

    1 hr 4 min
  • Team Losi

    Steve and Mark talk about Team Losi, the R/C car company that gave Steve his first big break as a demonstrator. 

    Brought to you by YoYoExpert, the best place to do expert things with expert yoyos, especially if you want to do those things expertly. 

    48 min
  • Oral History of 5A

    Steve and Mark sit down and talk through the beginning of 5A - how it started, what inspired it, and discuss the full starting history of this unique style of yoyo play. 


    1 hr 14 min

About YoYo Player

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YoYo Player is a show about the modern history of yoyoing from two of the guys who helped make it.  Before the global yoyo boom of the late 90s, two guys in Florida sat in the back of…