Sector Y v2.0

And here’s another video from the same meet filmed by first-time-attendees, the aegYOcrew from Vallejo High.

This video was one of the videos from thte PSY DVD. It was composed of mostly old footage, but a good amount of new footage as well. (This footage is mainly from the 2000 and 2001 era.) I’m not sure why the song choice is the same as another video I did. I do remember it being intentional, but I can no longer remember the reasoning behind it. Lots of footage was collected from 2000 Nationals, with others being sent in as part of the “PSY” project.

Video: Survival [ Vimeo | Download (720x480 MP4) ]
Music: Crazy by Seal
Duration: 4:09

Visions was another video that was a part of the String Theory DVD. It featured some content that had not been seen before, as well as some old tricks that were refilmed. Most of this content has been seen by now, but it’s still a good look back to the turn of the century.

Video: Visions [ Stream | Download ]
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Music: I forget…anyone remember?
Length: 3:26

This was the last video to be created for the String Theory DVD. Up until this point, none of the clip videos I had made were about me. Sure, I was featured in other videos, but I was never the only one.

This video didn’t even start out as my idea.  I was helping my ex-gf with a project where she had to take her baby pictures and rephotograph them at her current age. She had mentioned something about me not having my own video, and that I should put something together to showcase where I started and how far I’ve come. Well, at this point I was pretty much out of the yoyo scene, so I figured it would be an easy task to throw something together that definitively showed where I was when I started (1999) and where I ended up (2004).

The whole video had a whole “life and death” / “rise and fall” theme to it brought on by not only the baby pictures in the beginning and the text at the end, but also due to the song that was about losing someone close to you. I had, essentially, at this point distanced myself from the yoyo community enough where this seemed fitting to my situation.

At the time I made it, I never thought that I would be returning to the yoyo scene. Now that I have, this video no longer serves a purpose. Nevertheless, I’ve already released it once so I might as well release it again. So here it is in all it’s cheesy glory!

Video: Unsung Hero[ Stream | Download ]
Music: Tha Crossroads (Video Version) by Bone thugs-n-harmony
Length: 5:06

This was a combination of the Nationals 2001 contest video as well as the second PSY trailer. It featured not only footage from the 2001 National Yo-Yo Contest, but also various clips sent in from around the world. I believe this video was the internet-debut of Arthur Staykov, one of the B3 members from Poland.

Looking back at the video, we start to see the emergent trend of faster tricks as well as more complex string tricks. By 2003, these trends eventually led to a new renaissance in 1A where more emphasis was placed on getting as many string-hits into a single combo as possible. This is one of the last glimpses of the 1A of yesteryear. Aside from the PSY/String Theory DVD, this was one of the last videos I released publicly on the old Sector Y.

Title: National Breakthrough [ Stream | Download ]
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Date: October 21, 2001
Music: In the End by Linkin Park, One Million Miles Away by J Ralph
Time: 3:53
Resolution: 640×480 (SD)
File Type: Quicktime H.264

Back in the day of no money and no job, getting to Worlds on a yearly basis was an impossible feat for many of the Spin Doctors. This video was created/released the same week that Worlds 2001 was planned. Even though we couldn’t get to Worlds, we still wanted to show off some of our latest tricks and combos.

This is probably one of my favorite videos made, mainly because of how groundbreaking some of the tricks were at the time. This video featured a few sequels such as Orange Tulips (Red Clover II) and TimeTwister 2, which took the original tricks and expanded on their concepts. But the real showcase of the video were the phenominal Yellow Airplanes (Kamikaze II), White Buddha 2nd Generation, and Breath. These tricks almost single-handedly pushed yoyoing into an era of more complex slack and plane-breaking. Unfortunately, plane-breaking was difficult to film due to angles and never really caught on until much later in decade.

Title: Wish We Were At Worlds [ Stream | Download ]
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Date: August 12, 2001
Music: Rachel In Trance by Zymotx, Orinoco Flow by Enya, The Fields of Love (Instrumental Mix) by ATB
Time: 3:17
Resolution: 640×480 (SD)
File Type: Quicktime H.264

The year 2000 was one of yoyoing’s strongest years. 1998 and 1999 created the craze, and in 2000 the bar was raised. Everyone brought their A-game. Everyone who started with the boom now had over 2 years of practice, and string tricks continued to push forward. This video is a look back at the innovation that exploded around the turn of the century.

Title: 2000 Revolutions [ Download | Stream ]
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Date: Created 2004, footage from 2000.
Music: Days of our Livez by Bone thugs-n-harmony
File Type: Mpeg-4