i had the best world yoyo day ever in prague!

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

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!!

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

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

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!!

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.

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?