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The Story of Sunwing
Sunwing Specs Weight: 65.5 grams Material: 7068 w Stainless Diameter: 55.48mm Width: 45.54mm Gap width: 4.5mm Axle: M4*8mm Pads: 19.2*14.2*1.2mm Bearing: Concave Bearing The release date will be announced soon! Bimetal has always been yoyofriends' forte and project Sunwing is no different. The brainstorming of this yoyo started back in mid 2023, along with papercut for the 2024 anniversary yoyo. We first begin looking at different types of bimetal yoyos. Immediately the inner ring yoyo and outer ring yoyo come to mind. We have made a lot of inner ring yoyos already like the Vulture and Overclock. We also made...
The Story of Peregrine X
Peregrine X Diameter:55.33mmWdith:47.98mmGap:4.52mmWeight:63.9gBearing: ConcaveAxle:M4*8mm The Peregrine X will drop Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 8 PM EST! The story of the Peregrine X starts with the original Peregrine. The Peregrine was an idea drafted by team back in 2018, an ultimate competition yoyo that can follow up to the legendary yoyofriends hummingbird. In 2019 and 2020, Peregrine became fruition with specs gathered and discussed by all the yoyofriends team and design actualized by the yoyofriends design team. Classic 7068+Stainless Steel design, simple aesthetic with performance in mind, made for the ultimate yoyo for stability, acceleration and speed back in the day, a yoyo finally...
The Story Of Damascus FS
In November of 2022, yoyofriends released the first ever damascus steel plus titanium rimmed yoyo. It has received positive feedback and success. We want to thank you guys for all the support so we can keep experimenting with new materials and manufacturing possibilities When we made damascus steel with titanium rims, it cost us a lot to source the material needed to create this project, we especially had trouble finding metal rods over 50mm in diameter to make the yoyo. We made the decision to add a ring to make it a full size bimetal yoyo instead of making an undersized yoyo for our fans. ...
Overclock
Hi, my name is Yiyang Wang, you guys can call me Philip, the team leader of yoyofriends. I got sponsored by yoyofriends in 2018 and started an incredible journey and partnership to get to this point, I am extremely proud of what we accomplished so far. On that journey, I have met with great players all over the world, having a yoyo team, which was one of my dreams as a little kid after watching the TV series Blazing Teens in elementary school and learned so much more about yoyo behind the scenes. One of the most fascinating things is learning about yoyo design languages and...
The Story of Graviton:Y
We released yoyofriends’s first signature yoyo Graviton(Tony Sung’s). Graviton is a yoyo with a neat profile and fancy titanium ring. About this yoyo, Tony has been posting various trick circle posts with his Graviton on his personal Instagram; flowy techs, impossible bangers, Godspeed horizontal combos, literally whatever tricks. After the release, we get some feedback from Tony. He told us that his friends and fans asking for low budget version of Gravitons. Then Tony went to the States, Korea, and Japan last year He try to let everyone try his signature yoyo and they loved it.Nevertheless, they said that the...