docpop, 1 day ago to random

I love this #yoyo video by Fabian Adhi today and wanted to share it around. Rad tricks and nice editing. I can't wait to see more of Fabian's vids.
Original video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Sr1TiSaQK/

A video of a young man in a wheelchair, doing yo-yo tricks. The video is shot in a really nice looking indoor mall and the video cuts and changes the location frequently, but it does it in a way where the tricks all line up and make sense. Even though the location changes, the moves are consistent. The yo-yo tricks are intricate string tricks with slack elements.

docpop, 1 day ago to random

I posted a new #yoyo tutorial for #5AMay. This one explores some new concepts that happen when you blend responsive tricks with an unresponsive yo-yo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJo5XzyPqVw

docpop, 5 days ago to random

I like the way this flows. Using a Weekender #yoyo.

A man playing with an orange aluminum yo-yo in his living room. The lighting is very dramatic, most of the room is dark, but there is a bright orange and pink light pointing at the yo-yoer. He does tricks with a very responsive yo-yo that has a counterweight on the end of it. The man is me (Doctor Popular), a 46 year old white guy with a beard and black framed glasses. I'm wearing a black t-shirt with a white lightning bolt printed on it.

docpop, 8 days ago to random

I posted a short interview with Miguel Correa about his history in yo-yoing, what he loves about 5A, and a quick tutorial of Tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eZh_0Ln6I #yoyo

docpop, 13 days ago to random

Freegen: a mid-air regeneration with a counterweight 🪀.
#yoyo

Me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. I throw a breakaway throw and then let go of the end of the string. The yo-yo flies in the air and sucks the string and the counterweight back into its body, then kicks the counterweight and string back out again for me to catch.

docpop, 14 days ago to random

"Yo-Yo" by Toru Shimizu.
https://docpop.org/2023/03/ukiyo-e-yo-yo-by-toru-shimizu/ #Ukiyoe #yoyo

docpop, 15 days ago to random

I animated some #yoyo tricks.

Video of me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. I'm using a very responsive yo-yo with a counterweight on the end and doing original tricks. Throughout the video, glowing lines and drawings appear on the screen and audio effects are heavily used. The video starts off with some slow motion footage, during this slowed down section I do intricate tricks while the audio creates the effect of time slowing down and a "woosh" can be heard as the yo-yo moves. Then the video returns to normal speed with a record scratch sound effect, before going into cool jazz music. My glasses get filled in to look like shades. The jazz stops and an animated ufo appears on screen over my freehand as the yo-yo spins on it's side on the pointer finger of my other hand. A cow is animated over the spinning yo-yo, giving the look of a yo-yo floating over a cow. The string between the two hands looks like a tractor beam coming from the ufo and lifting the cow up. The ufo goes off screen and I finish my tricks with the sound of a crowd cheering in the background.

docpop, 19 days ago to random

Having fun with my PLTPS #yoyo

Me using a yo-yo in my living room. I’m doing tricks with a slim green yo-yo and a counterweight. The music is a logo hip hop beat by The Heavy Twelves.

docpop, 24 days ago to random

DNA Switch with a PLTPS #yoyo and counterweight.

Me in a bright orange shirt standing in my living room and doing yo-yo tricks. I hold the yo-yo horizontally between two of my fingers and pull the string like a ripcord. This makes the yo-yo string on it's side on the tip of my finger. I then toss the yo-yo in the air and catch it on the pointer finger of my opposite hand. I also let got of the counterweight on the end of the string and catch it with the opposite hand too. Basically this trick is doing a "DNA" trick on my right hand, then switching to a left-handed DNA.

docpop, 25 days ago to random

Yoyofactory are doing their annual A-May-Zing sale all month. Each day are new deals. As far as unresponisve #yoyo suggestions, I like the Edgeless a lot. If you buy an unresponsive yo-yo, you'll need to know how to bind, which isn't difficult to learn. If you are looking for a classic responsive yo-yo, the Arrow might be a good fit.
If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll try to help. I don't work for YYF and haven't used most of these models.
https://yoyofactory.com/collections/all-products?filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&sort_by=created-descending

docpop, 28 days ago to random

Dropping science with a #yoyo.

Me wearing a mad scientist costume (lab coat, safety goggles, and a white wig) while yo-yoing. I'm doing counterweight tricks with a responsive yo-yo for about 20 seconds. The video is shot in my living room and the music is relaxing ambient music made on modular synthesizers.

docpop, 1 month ago to random

This morning's #yoyo combo. Using a Populist yo-yo and music by Cartoon Violence.

A man doing yo-yo tricks in his backyard with a purple aluminum yo-yo. The tricks are semi advanced and flow together. The music is lo-fi pop music with clunky casio drums and a simple melody and the video is shot from a gopro mounted on a the player's head.

docpop, 1 month ago to random

Pedro Flores, the Filipino American immigrant who is known as the "Father Of Yo-Yo", was born on this day in 1896. So I made this drawing to celebrate his birthday.

The #yoyo (also known as the bandolore) had been around for centuries, but Pedro created a new method of attaching the string in the 1920s that allowed the toy to "sleep" when it reached the bottom of the string. Up until his invention, yo-yos only went up and down! In 1932, Pedro sold his company to Don Duncan. #PedroFlores

A timelapse of the drawing being made. It shows light blue lines in the figure of a man standing up, and then becomes the final black and white drawing Pedro Flores.

docpop, 1 month ago to SanFrancisco

#PaulEscolar was an extremely talented yo-yoer and artist who passed away in 2021. Though I met him through #yoyo, I was a huge fan of Paul's illustrations and line work. The dude was a genius with a sharpie.

I'm excited that the folks at Method Made are putting together a show based on Paul's work. The show opens tonight, April 20th, at 4:20 pm at 2544 Mission Street in #SanFrancisco.

More details and artwork here https://www.tmmdl.com/collections/paul-escolar-in-memory

A self-portrait of Paul Escolar walking past a line of people. The people are all in corporate attire and looking at their phones. Paul is in a t-shirt and looking ahead hopefully and relaxed. The artwork is black and white. Paul's character pops out from the busy background by giving more black fills to his hair, pants, and shoes.

docpop, 1 month ago to random

This morning’s #yoyo combo while waiting for coffee.

Doc playing with a yo-yo in a coffee shop. There are people in background reading books or standing in a line waiting to order. Doc is wearing a denim jacket, orange beanie, and black KN95 face mask. He does a long spinning yo-yo combo for about twenty seconds, then shows the yo-yo (a titanium butterfly shape model) to the camera.