Sector Y v2.0

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In this video, Terry teaches you a fundamental 5A trick called Bee Sting.

The original Sector Y website launched October 15th, 1999. It’s been a full decade since then. Over the past 10 years, yoyoing has evolved farther than anyone could have imagined. Contained inside every modern combo or trick are traces of the tricks from yesteryear. We have come a long way in the past decade. It’s time to sit back and reflect over the past 10 years, and think about what the next 10 years holds for us.

This video is dedicated to all players who have helped advance this hobby in one way or another.

Title: Decade (Advance 2010)
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Download: HD (1280×720, 754 Megs) / Medium (720×405, 308 Megs) / Small (480×270, 114 Megs)
Stream: Vimeo
Music: Flight Test, One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21, & Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 1 by The Flaming Lips
File Type: Mpeg-4
Note: Most of this footage comes from the Nationals 2009, some footage shot in Self Edge (San Francisco, CA). The smallest video is iPod/iPhone compatible.

Velvet Rolls is one of the fundamental 3A tricks. Chris Makita shows you his 1A interpretation of the classic 3A trick.

Here’s a presentation of some repeating tricks that have been developed over the past 5 years. It’s interesting to see how time-symmetrical some tricks can be. Tricks are shown forward and in reverse. Some of the changes are very subtle, some look different but just as cool backwards, and some are clearly impossible to do in reverse.

I made this video just to help catalog some of the lesser known repeating tricks. Repeating tricks have taken a backseat over the last few years in light of more complex, technical tricks. The art of making that simple one-or-two move repeating trick has been slowly fading away, but there have been a few strong progressions over the years. This video is here so we don’t forget.

These repeating tricks were filmed during the National Yo-Yo Contest 2009 in Chico, CA on October 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 2009. Many thanks to those who let me film them.

Title: Things that repeat. [Download | Stream: Youtube or Vimeo]
Creator: Gabriel Lozano
Music: Broken Van (Missing You) [instrumental] by Kno
Time: 2:13
Resolution: 1280×720 (HD)
File Type: Mpeg-4
Note: This is my first attempt at playing around with HD footage. All footage shot on a Canon HF S100. Video created in iMovie.

Jason Lee’s original Superman was a pioneering trick. While common now, tricks with Spirit Bomb mounts were rare and difficult in the early 2000s. Jeff Longoria made the mount well known, but Superman was the first real demonstration that the Spirit Bomb mount could produce smooth, flowing string tricks.

2002 was the year of the sequel. With tricks like Orange Tulips, Yellow Airplanes, and Breeze all pushing yoyoing forward, it was only appropriate that one of the most significant tricks in modern yoyoing got a sequel. Thus, Superman II was born.

Title: Superman II
Creator: Jason Lee
Resolution: 640×480 (SD)
File Type: Quicktime H.264

Breeze is Spencer Berry’s sequel to Breath. It was originally created after Nationals 2001, but because there were no contests (nor much going on at the local Spindox meets) it was never put into a clip video. Over the past 8 years, this video has been lost, found, lost again, destroyed in a harddrive failure, and then miraculously found on an unlabeled backup DVD.

This particular video comes from February 6, 2002. It was filmed near the Social Sciences & Humanities Building at UC Davis. As far as I know, this is the only time this trick was caught on tape.

Title: Breeze (Breath 2)
Creator: Spencer Berry
Resolution: 640×480 (SD)
File Type: Quicktime H.264

Hidemasa Semba is one of the most influential players of modern day yoyoing. In this video, he teaches his trick called Nanda Kanda. Nanda Kanda, Japanese for “Whatever,” was created sometime in 1999/2000. In addition to this video, The Sector Y Archive has illustrated instructions for this trick.

Candy Cigarettes by Guy Wright.