Krisztian has been taking Europe by storm this season! Placing high at European Yo-Yo Championships, and beating current Euro-Champ Vashek at the Prague Contest and this weekend in Bratislava. Krisztian is shooting for #1 at UK Nats this coming weekend, which will give him a finals spot at the World Yo-Yo Championships in August.

Also, at UK Nats Krisztian will be throwing the newly release Gnarwhal. Quickly become the top throw for CLYW team and players alike, the Gnarwhal boasts but style and performance into the perfect package. Be sure to pick one up from Krisztian at UK Nats before they are all gone.

Over the weekend there were two contests … MWR in the US and Slovakian Nationals. Team CLYW was out there representing and having a great time!!!

In Slovakia, Krisztian placed 1st in the Open Division beating out 2nd by 16 points!! Congratulations Krisz!!! Soooo proud of you!! You’re on fire this year!! Once we get some photos and videos we’ll post them up. This coming weekend Krisztian will be competing at UK Nationals. Man this is the busy season!!!

At MWR, Alex placed 2nd in 1A and ended up getting the seed for US Nationals!! Alex was using a prototype of his signature throw, the Sasquatch. Here’s his sweet freestyle:



Adam, John-Bot and Abe were also at MWR. John-Bot made 1A finals and came in 14th … and Adam came in 5th!!! NICE!!! I can’t wait to see your freestyles guys!! You’re always my favourites to watch!!

Last fall I was given a great idea from Mitch at BTNC for a Campfire edition … ‘Campfire Coal’ … here’s how it turned out:



I made 22 and have been sitting on them for quite some time. No stores will be selling any. The only way you’ll be able to get one is if you are at one of the random contests we’ve sponsored or if you’re going to MWR this weekend.

We’ll be selling 10 there. If you’re interested in getting one find either CLYW team member Adam Brewster or Abe Da Gravedigga at the MWR BBQ … or possibly after the contest since they aren’t allowed to be selling them at the mall. Man I wish I was going to this contest … I love Minneapolis, plus Why? and Deerhoof are playing Saturday night.

GOOD LUCK ABE, ADAM, ALEX and JOHN-BOT AT MWR!! YOU GUYS ARE BEST!!

Say hi to Seth from Save Deth for me!! That guy … he’s always so well dressed.

Sorry this took so long everyone, but we received a large amount of entries to this contest and wanted to make sure that we gave them our full attention to go through them all. 58 in total!!

YOU amazed us!! The concepts and passion you all show in your yoyoing is just so inspiring!! Thank-you so much for taking the time to enter our contest and to step outside of the comfort zone of the standard clip video to show us why you love the types of tricks you do and why you do them.

Well Adam and I picked our favourites … and here they are:

For Show & Tell we have Josh Yee, who took the time to show us Boing-e-boing. We loved the way you put this video together, with the narration and explanation on why it’s your favourite trick. Plus how you added in so many variations. It was just so well done. Great work!!!


CLYW Boing e boing from Jayyo on Vimeo.

For Arts + Crafts we picked Reginald Dias as our winner, with his trick Melancholy. He really showed the evolution of a trick that really meant so much to him. With guidance from some of his friends to the challenges he was faced with in life, Melancholy was born. Such a great trick … I can definitely tell how much you have improved over the last year. Amazing stuff!!



Thank you everyone who took the time to enter our contest!! Thank you Adam Brewster for coming up with such a great contest concept!! Josh, Reggie … I’ll be in touch with you shortly!!

Here are some honorable mentions that we thought were really great as well:



http://elephark.com/yovids/clyw-showandtell-9afreegen.mp4

http://elephark.com/yovids/clyw-artsandcrafts-x15directorscut.mp4

Zach made a new exciting video to mark the anniversary of having been throwing for 3 years. Check it out!! Amazing tricks Zach!!! Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!

3 years from Zach Gormley on Vimeo.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABE!!!!

Over the last month, Abe and JohnBot joined the professional pinball circuit. They did a tournament last week and Johnbot ended up walking away with 3rd place!! You guys never seize to amaze me!!

Here are some photos of them warming up …

Golden Age from Chuck on Vimeo.

What a surprise to receive a new video by Charles. I am absolutely blown away by this new video. The cinematography is just SO beautiful. You can definitely tell the amount of time and effort you put into this. You’re amazing Charles!!

THE FUTURE OF CLYW

Congrats Zach on getting 3rd at CO States. That was an AMAZING freestyle. GREAT JOB!! Loved the hat trick!!



THE FUTURE OF CLYW

At BAC Elliot and Zach were fortunate enough to get some of their new tricks filmed by Sector Y’s Gabriel Lozano. Check it out:

Gnarwhal by CLYW from Gabriel Lozano on Vimeo.

It turned out SOOO GOOD!! Thank you so much Gabe for putting this together!! I love the editing at the beginning!! Man it feels just like yesterday that I was going through your tutorials at 1am trying to learn how to do Spirit Bomb. Nuts.

Both Zach and Elliot are playing Gnarwhals in this video. Great work guys!! You’re AMAZING!!

After Zach’s impressive 1st freestyle of the season at BAC a few weeks ago he’s looking to capture 1st place, and the seed, at Colorado State Yo-Yo Championships this weekend!


Best of luck Zach, from all your brothers at CLYW!



Thanks to Paul Dang for the photo

The thing we hear so from fans is they LOVE watching the CLYW team on stage. They bring an energy to the stage and an almost “relaxed” approach. BAC was no exception!


Elliot and Zach got to show their stuff at the 2010 Bay Area Classic, and boy did they give a SHOW. Last year at BAC Zach stepped up and showed he could play with the big boys. This year he took it a step further and commanded the stage! Elliot’s first BAC was not to be missed.


Zach Prelim:

Zach Finals:

Krisztian has been on a rampage of Europe in the past months. First dropping into Russia to help out with a big event, now he took the Prague contest. Krisztian is focused on UK Nats late this month, then once he captures that title its on to a spot in Finals at the World Contest!