Author archives: Brandon Jackson
WOW…such an amazing video. Guitars and Exit 8's have never looked better together. Huge shoutout to Dread from Russia for putting this video together.
Duncan is a long time, proud supporter of the Bay Area Classic Yo-Yo Championships which are held every year in San Francisco, CA. This years event will be held on May 26th and is looking to be the largest yet, offering over $2600 in cash prizes! Click the logo below for more info!
Singapore based yo-yo manufacturer Diamont Noir is now the second yo-yo company to license Duncan's patent for yo-yo counterweights and yo-yos that include a counterweight (Patent #6371824). Diamont Noir's president Iskandar Shah is a well known counterweight yo-yo player who took first place at the 2005 Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championship, 2007-2011 Singapore National Yo-Yo Championships, and the 2011 Bali International Yo-Yo Open Championship using two counterweights attached to the yo-yo. This style is known as "Double Dice" or "Double D" style of counterweight yo-yo play.
Diamont Noir's first models to include counterweights are named "Celestial" and "Celestial Deuxieme". Both models will include a special counterweight system that allows the player to customize their counterweight preference.
We are excited to work with Diamont Noir and look forward to seeing them push the Freehand/5A/Counterweight style of yo-yo play to new levels!
Congratulations to Duncan Crew Japan's Kazauki Sugimura & Takayuki "Marron" Kuriyama! Kazuaki took 1st in the 4A division and Marron took home 1st in the 5A division at the 2012 Western Japan Yo-Yo Contest!!
Photos by Kohta Watanabe