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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...

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...

For the most part of 2023, yoyofriends wants to release a titanium model. We want to be different from Ti Sunbird (classic V shape)  and Ti Koi (classic O shape) in design language. We want to release a type of H shaped titanium. The main advantage of H shape is superior stability and control.  To tackle this project we got inspired by the shortcut, a hybrid H/W shaped monometal that is very popular among the yoyo community.   The shortcut is famous for its 6 even cuts along the profile of the yoyo, definitely giving it a striking look.  When we are...

We have now entered into the year 2024, time truly goes by fast as yoyofriends is celebrating its 8th anniversary ever since start. We really want to thank you for all the support for this incredible journey and make this possibly. Every year we traditionally will have an anniversary model to celebrate and kickstart our year. This year we want to do another bimetal, we want to create a somewhat budget bimetal offering that highlights the extreme manufacturing capability of yoyofriends and our parent company, FPM. To have an extreme rim design and keep the cost somewhat low, we decided to go with...

Shine by yoyofriends and Drake Bogataj Specs： Material：7068 aluminum alloyDiameter：56mmWidth：46.1mmGap：4.45mmAxle：M4*8mmWeight：64.6g Yiyang messaged me sometime in early 2021 about a signature yoyo and I had a strong idea of what I wanted. The Sync was my go-to ever since it was released so I started with that as a baseline. I started a group chat with Yiyang and the designer.  and we had a lot of fun with the process of creating my signature yoyo (too much fun? nah).  A concise and elegant appearance was important to me and I tried to remove visual lines and cuts to replace them with curves....