7/20 Japan Yo-Yo Tour: Iwakura, Aichi Report

On July 20th, we held the Japan Yo-Yo Tour event in Iwakura City in Aichi Prefecture.

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We had exciting demo performances from famous players such as Rei Iwakura, Zac Rubino, and Gentry Stein!

 

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We also had some mini contests. This is from the 10-second sleeper contest. There were also some players that did other tricks instead of just a sleeper, haha…

 

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Rei tried it with an unexpected top-on spin!!

 

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The final 3 competitors!

 

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Rei won with an EXACT 10 seconds with his top-on spin. Wow!

 

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C3yoyodesign Rising Force team member Ryuichi Nakamura also showed his skills in a demo performance.

 

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For the final few demos a ton of non-yo-yo-people came in to watch. They seemed really impressed with the performances!

 

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The Forward Pass Speed Challenge mini contest. This time we had General and Pro (Sponsored and contest-ranked players) Divisions.

 

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Congratulations to our General Division winners!

 

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In the Pro Division, Rei won again!

You can see all of our event photos here on Facebook.
Thanks to everyone who came to our tour stop in Iwakura!

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REWIND's Shibuya staff. A strong force within the yo-yo community since the 1997 Hyper Yo-Yo Boom, Jun has made friends all over the world through the power of Yo-Yo. A member of Team YoYoJam from 2002-2015, he won 2nd place at the 2003 World Championship in the 3A division. He runs the Shibuya Yo-Yo Club. He loves music and going for walks.

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