World Champion and Team YYJ member John Narum has been busy helping out and sharing his skills at some really great Charity Events!!!
Race for Cure
Change for Kids
This is a great reminder of just what you can do with your amazing skills! Thanks John!
Keep an eye on our blog for upcoming information about John’s new exciting offstring yo-yo!
A huge congratulations goes out to Ian Johnson and John Narum at the very recent Minnesota State Yo-Yo Contest!
Ian placed 1st in the Open Division showing off 5A!
John took 1st in Offstring and Ian followed very closely in 2nd using the new FIESTA!
Great job to both Team YoYoJam members!!!!
TEAM YoYoJam was at the World Yo-Yo Contest and brought a high level of play.
YoYoJam launched the Atmosphere – signature series of 2004 World Champion Makoto Numagami which was received well and is sure to be a favorite in the YYJ line up.
Prototypes were launched of the Night Moves 5 (new design by owner Dale Bell). This yo-yo features a tough nickel plated body with beautiful gold coated rims.
And Johnnie DelValle is in the works on a new ALL METAL design – the ENEME. Similar shape to a tweaked X-ConVict this yo-yo is nearing production with a few changes from the one at this years contest. This is bound to be an all time classic in metal yo-yos!
YoYoJam also proudly invited a new team member – IAN JOHNSON out of Illinois who is a strong and Up-And-Coming 4A, 1A, and 5A player!
Check out his profile here: IAN JOHNSON
WORLDS 2009 TYYJ PLACINGS!
Congratulations to the following players:
Rei Iwakura for 1st in the Artistic Performance Division, 2nd in the Offstring division, and 3rd in the Combined Division!!!
Hiroyuki Suzuki (Mickey) for 2nd place in the 1A Finals!
Eric Koloski for 8th place in the 1A Finals
Joseph Harris for 5th place in the 2A Finals
Daisuke Shimada (SHIMA) for 5th place in the 3A Finals.
Bryan Figueroa for 4th place in the 4A Finals
John Narum for 5th place in the 4A Finals and 14th in the 1A Finals!
Ben Conde for 8th place in the 4A Finals
Makoto Numagami for 9th place in the 5A Finals
Also
congratulations to Rei Iwakura for being awarded the 2008 YoYoJam President’s Choice Award
Honorable mentions to:
Grant Johnson for the largest improvement in 2A we have ever seen. He also had an insane 1A prelim!
Ann Connolly for a great 3A prelim performance!
Brandon Baines for one of the most entertaining 1A preliminaries!
Yoshi Mikamoto for a great 2A prelim – watch out for him at Nationals!
Mikhail Tulabut for making yo-yoing look good!
Ian Johnson who competed in 1A, 4A, 5A, and Combined!
Special Thanks to:
Bill de Boisblanc for running judging
Nathan Crissey for judging and organizing the event
André Boulay for running judging
Johnnie DelValle for judging a bringing an incredible new yo-yo to the YYJ line up.
Yoshi Mikamoto for judging and competing!