International Players

BJC 2010: Day 2 was fine and today it's time for Berlin Open

2010-06-05T02:15:00.000-07:00

Weather is awesome. Great atmosphere. And more players arriving. Today is the day of the contest. Let's see how that goes.

BJC 2010: The convention has started

2010-06-04T00:53:00.001-07:00

Yesterday was the first day of the convention and we had a great time. Players from Germany, Italy, Poland, and Finland were there to throw and drink. It was awesome.

Tomorrow Pac will be arriving in Kuala Lumpur.

2010-03-15T02:09:00.000-07:00

Pac will be arriving in less than 25 hours all the way from Dusseldorf to Singapore and eventually arriving in KL. I've haven't seen him since I left Prague for Budapest last year and can't wait to have some fun with him until AP!

Woooohoooo!!!

Today I'm going to Dimi's house

2010-03-15T02:01:00.000-07:00

Since it is quite far away, I won't get there until tomorrow evening. I am still insanely excited, since I'm going to see Dimi again and because I haven't left Europe since August 2001 and I have never been to Asia in my life and I'm going to be at AP in two weeks!

the vienna-berlin-connection

2009-06-19T00:43:00.001-07:00

it's ok to be half an hour late for work (even though you really promised to be on time), if you had one of the best yoyomeetings the night before.

we had a special burninberlin meet for coyote from vienna, austria. he's visiting berlin and we've known each other from way back when. he definitely made the meeting very special. we had soo much fun!!

a lot of string rocking, yoyo talk, loads of beer and a doener at kotti after 1am! that's the good life!! :D

another highlight was dennis showing up with pablito. two awesome guys. pablo liked the meeting a lot, too, and will most probably be at more meetings in the future.

the only sad part is that we had so much fun, we forgot to take pictures.

i just have to say: .AT KNOWS HOW TO PARTY!!

i fell in love with so many people this weekend

2009-06-17T23:29:00.001-07:00

uk nationals is a fantastic event!!

i will not even try to mention everything and everyone making this weekend one of the best in my life. so many players, so many styles and such great people. all of them! and i didn't even get to talk to everyone.

i made contact with four more yoyonations this weekend:

there was the kid from norway (simon i believe) and i didn't even realize until after the contest. already a good player with a bright future, if you ask me.

then there was rushka from latvia. what a guy! only 16 and made his way to uknats all by himself. that's dedication! we didn't talk much, but definitely another awesome yoyo personality from the baltics. watch out for him at upcoming events. i know i will.

and boy was i stoked when i met gavin the day before the contest. my first chinese player!! i couldn't stop touching him. :D great guy and just starting out, he's already tackling 2A and 5A. there's more in store. and he's taking a trophy back to china.

last but not at all least, there was corli. just wow! boy, is she a little bundle of awesomeness. not only skill, but an insane amount of style. so soft and round. and not at all girly. she is hardcore and getting better every day. won sports ladder like it was nothing. and she's krisztian's girl, so she has a very good private teacher. ;)

i can't wait for the next uk event. there's two coming up for 2010: eyym and uknats!! i can only advise every player out there to do their very best to make it to london for at least one of those events. it is going to be fantastic.

other internationals include:

fabio from italy, who took first in international 1A

rage and crackout from ilyy, being the only germans beside me at the event

paul paulini, wasn't at the contest, but made it to the pub for the preparty

the picture shows me getting second place in x-division with luke (1st) and simon (3rd).

some more pics:
from richie

by simmy

and a bunch by rage and crackout from ilyy

videos are gonna be uploaded this weekend. i'll post links as soon as i get them!

a thousand thanks and mad love to everybody who was there and made this weekend so extra special.

i had the best world yoyo day ever in prague!

2009-06-16T04:33:00.000-07:00

the prague community is definitely one of the greatest out there. so much friendship and great traditions. every world yoyo day they have a bbq, where they celebrate by eating, drinking, socializing and of course playing yoyo. since it fell on a weekend this year i went and although the weather was questionable, i had the greatest time! i even learned two new freehand tricks.

my advice to any yoyoer in prague on world yoyo day:
get in touch with them and go to the bbq!!

can't emulate this

2009-06-03T01:41:00.000-07:00

for the past week i had half of the official duncan staff staying with me: emil lamprecht!!

he is another one of the awesomest people in the world. the kind you can only meet through hardcore yoyoing. :) i really enjoy having him here in berlin. we already had two yoyo meets with him. one just for him and then he was still around for our regular meet this week.

a gigantic thank you to my warszawa crew for hooking us up!! i love you all anyways, but sending me that guy??!? zajebista akcja!!! <3<3<3

(btw: that guy in the middle on emil's and my lap is axl our resident yo-yo-freak-freak)

[edit: i just learned that he's not all that officially employed by duncan, but i still like the idea and he's definitely a duncan person. a word for LOVE with six letters anyone??]

oh no kyler don't!!

2009-06-03T01:20:00.000-07:00

i'm blogging this even though it's only mildly international. on saturday i met up with yojoe and kyler yazzie, my two indian yobros. yojoe is the half india-indian variety and kyler is a straight up native american indian from arizona who's been living in germany the past year. and now he has to go home, because of visa stuff.

kyler is the bomb, and for all you german understanding people out there: "KYLER: KEINER IST GEILER!" he really lifted the level of yoyo playing in northrhine westphalia to a new and higher level. he taught me tricks, that are actually way to complicated for me, but he has this way to get them into my head and hands really fast. and i love every single one of them.

that afternoon in the park in bochum was the best.

first clip video from eyym09

2009-05-13T00:45:00.000-07:00

simone did it again!

very nice clip showing all the important locations and a few of all the players who were there.

you can find it here:
http://www.vimeo.com/4598154 (if you register a vimeo account you can download the high quality version)

i'll keep you posted on other clips, as they are published.

enjoy!

some visuals from zurich and the bunker

2009-05-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

photos will give a much better impression of all the fun and yoyo at this eyym. i found some picture sets and here they are.

from italy these are niubi's photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brokenhero/sets/72157617659872421/

this is a set by peter from slovakia:
http://picasaweb.google.cz/peter.kison/EYYM2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCOTE8K-TjNvCuAE#

and as always there are tons on TYM:
http://www.tym.de/eyym2009-1.htm
along with a video from ellis' birthday party in the bunker on sunday (lots of players and no yoyo):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNeUdnx7tqI

you can find more links on the european forum:
http://forum.yoyo-europe.eu/

i'll be back when the video clips start showing up.

we were lucky we had the bunker!!

2009-05-06T02:46:00.000-07:00

because eyym 2009 in zurich this year was the _bomb_!!

so many players, so much fun and so many styles. i just woke up in berlin again for the first time since eyym. i'm trying to catch up on all the photos that are around and will post the links, that i find.

my mind's still wobbling from these wonderful days!

Bangkok was hot.

2009-04-30T00:01:00.000-07:00

I just came back from Bangkok for their 1st Thailand National Yo-yo Contest and it was great. The players were great, friendly, accommodating and just great players. It was super fun!

More to come soon!

Pac, What happening over in Zurich?

it's time

2009-04-29T23:15:00.000-07:00

it's time to get ready to catch the train to zurich.

it's time to go to the eyym 2009.

it's time for the first post on our new blog.