{"id":3455,"date":"2015-02-05T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yoyorewind.com\/en\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:14:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T07:14:05","slug":"over-40-video-contest-special-award-winner-minoru-arai-competes-at-2015-wj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoyorewind.com\/en\/news\/2015\/02\/05\/3455\/","title":{"rendered":"OVER 40 Video Contest Special Award Winner Minoru Arai Competes at 2015 WJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9677\" src=\"http:\/\/yoyorewind.com\/jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/blog20150131-01.jpg\" alt=\"blog20150131-01\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Minoru Arai, one of the Special Award winners in our <a href=\"http:\/\/yoyorewind.com\/en\/news\/2014\/12\/08\/3085\/\" target=\"_blank\">REWIND \u201cOver 40\u201d Video Contest<\/a>, competed in 1A at the 2015 West Japan Regional Yo-Yo Contest (WJ)!<\/p>\n<p>His freestyle video is now online so come check it out!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"2015WJ Preliminary 1A 23 Minoru Arai\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wxsthf-tk8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His nickname is \u201cArapon.\u201d He entered the video contest as Minoru Arai (Arapon).<\/p>\n<p>In the past, he has competed before at WJ, and since he&#8217;s from Okayama, at the Chu-Shikoku Yo-Yo Contest (CSYC) that takes place every year in Okayama Prefecture (called Okayama Yo-Yo Contest in the past).<\/p>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s WJ freestyle, he executed his tricks carefully and deliberately, and we were impressed with his apparent focus on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to seeing him again at the next WJ and CSYC contests!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t already see his winning video, it had a totally different approach from the other entries. In it, he interacts with people on his travels by introducing them to yo-yo. It is a beautiful idea and, quite frankly, we were touched with the results. It&#8217;s definitely worth seeing again so we highly recommend giving it a watch.<\/p>\n<p>His winning entry in the Over 40 Video Contest is here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"REWIND \u201cOver 40\u2033 Video Contest  \u2013 Minoru Arai (Arapon)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oc_x6CjaUNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minoru Arai, one of the Special Award winners in our REWIND \u201cOver 40\u201d Video Contest, competed in 1A at the 2015 West Japan Regional Yo-Yo Contest (WJ)! His freestyle video is now online so come check it out! His nickname is \u201cArapon.\u201d He entered the video contest as Minoru Arai (Arapon). 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