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This video of the 2006 World Yo-yo Champion Hiroyuki Suzuki has made it’s way around youtube so much that it’s starting to look a little haggard.  It has been submitted to the social news bookmarking site Digg.com a couple of times, but it finally has hit the front page.  One of my favorite things about Digg are the comments because some really cool things can happen, like this comment here

“You may not believe me, but I was actually the world champion in the yo-yoing advanced division back in 1999. Back then the yo-yo tricks involved weren’t nearly this complex (lucky for me). It wasn’t until the Japanese and Bandai started sponsoring whole teams of Japanese pro yo-yoers to come to the States for advertising that things got this intense with all the double and triple trapezes and string tricks. And if you think this looks cool in the video, see if you can go to a yo-yo competition (I know how dumb that sounds, but it’s cool actually) and see it firsthand.

@runforcover: Believe me, with the friction those strings put on your skin when they’re going around your finger, you’ll want something on. Those are probably the same thing I used, billiards gloves. -RyanZ”

I was talking to Unkle Steve about who this RyanZ might be and we decided that it was probably Joel Zink’s brother whose name happens to be Ryan.  Fun stuff, I love this social internet. 

-Josh