Thursday, April 15, 2010

The List

  1. Go to Worlds.
  2. Learn 2a Fountain (with both hands).
  3. Perform for an audience of strangers.
  4. Perform for an audience of people I know.
  5. Learn more tricks.
  6. Put together a freestyle
  7. Teach children how to yo-yo.
  8. Teach an adult how to yo-yo.
  9. Give away a yo-yo to someone without one.
  10. Yo-yo in a different country.
  11. Compete in the trick ladder at a yo-yo competition.
  12. Compete in 1a freestyle at a yo-yo competition.
  13. Become sponsored by a string company.
  14. Become sponsored by a yo-yo company.
  15. Design and create my own yo-yo.
  16. Make some string.
  17. Create a string ball the size of a basketball.
  18. Earn money by yo-yoing (Even if it’s a dollar).
  19. Do a yo-yo demonstration/performance for free.
  20. Break a world record.
  21. Own at least 10 different yo-yo related pieces of clothing.
  22. Play 2a exclusively for a month
  23. Play 3a exclusively for a month
  24. Play 4a exclusively for a month
  25. Play 5a exclusively for a month
  26. Put together a yo-yo contest.
  27. Make it onto yoyoforesight.com (Hi Elliot!).
  28. Give Drew Tetz a hug.
  29. Learn a trick from the current world champion.
  30. Learn a trick from a past world champion.
  31. Learn how to snap start a yo-yo. (Hi Ed’s 66 rules)
  32. Put on a forum contest to give away free stuff.
  33. Go to Nationals.
  34. Teach a trick to a professional.
  35. Create and name my own trick (or many tricks).
  36. Sponsor a yo-yo event.
  37. Sponsor a yo-yo player.
  38. Make a yo-yo video that I would want to watch.
  39. Sleep over at John Higby’s yo-yo museum.
  40. Compete in 2a at a yo-yo contest.
  41. Go to a contest in another country.
  42. Invent a new mount.
  43. Find a job that lets me yo-yo all day long.
  44. Throw a Catch 22.
  45. Paint a yo-yo.
  46. Write a yo-yo review.
  47. Get the media’s attention with my yo-yoing.
  48. Enter an online video contest.
  49. Volunteer to help at a yo-yo contest.
  50. Get consistent at 2a Tangler.
  51. Learn some 2a arm wraps.
  52. Figure out circular Eli Hops.
  53. Host a local yo-yo meet up.
  54. Play exclusively with a No-Jive for a month. (Hi Ed!).
  55. Perform with John Higby.
  56. Talk to Steve Brown.
  57. Talk to YoyofactoryBen.
  58. Get Caribou Lodge Chris to teach me some of his tricks from his video “Don’t Have to” (So Good!).
  59. Help at/Run a store that sells yo-yos.
  60. Find a girl that likes to yo-yo (or is okay with how much I love it).
  61. Own a Levi Painted Peak.
  62. Trade yo-yos with a pro.
  63. Let a friend borrow a yo-yo.
  64. Give a friend a yo-yo.
  65. Teach a new style to a pro.
  66. Get a yo-yo tattoo.
  67. Try to abide by Ed’s Rules (Get it #66!)
  68. Get a yo-yo powder-coated.
  69. Learn how to regen (well).
  70. Get Patrick Mitchell to be my 2a mentor.
  71. Watch Sid yo-yo in person.
  72. Watch Guy yo-yo in person.
  73. Figure out boingy-boing.
  74. Watch Jensen Kimmitt freestyle in person.
  75. Don’t be too nervous to tell him how awesome said Freestyle was after the fact.
  76. Carve a wooden yo-yo (Hi Ed’s rules again!).
  77. Have John Higby paint a yo-yo for me.
  78. Own a pair of Patrick Mitchell modded raiders.
  79. Don’t come in last at a contest.
  80. Record clips of all my favorite players.
  81. Compile the clips into an insane yo-yo video.
  82. Watch Yoyofactory practice their freestyles during worlds.
  83. Practice chopsticks style tricks.
  84. Make my own sweet yo-yo case/display.
  85. Go to Worlds again.
  86. Teach my children to yo-yo.
  87. Make friends with a player from another country.
  88. Own a Higby Edition 888.
  89. Buy something at every contest I attend.
  90. Yo-yo till my fingers bleed.
  91. Go to a bar with yo-yoers.
  92. Shoot for the moon (Master it).
  93. Buy a lathe.
  94. Learn to mod yo-yos.
  95. Hand-turn my own yo-yo.
  96. Start a special collection of some type of yoyo.
  97. Thank all my heroes for what they have done for yo-yoing.
  98. Earn the respect of other yo-yoers.
  99. Don’t take this list too seriously.
  100. Yo-yo each day.

Monday, April 12, 2010

The Story

This coming Thursday, April 15, 2010 I will have been yo-yoing for one and a half years. I have been thinking about starting this blog for sometime now, and the realization that it has been over 500 days since my right middle finger was callus free that has brought me to commence what I am going to call my "Yo-yo Bucket List". The list will incorporate 100 things I want to do before I die, all of which will revolve around a toy and some string. The list is meant to give a focus to my yo-yoing. I want it to create a drive toward a goal, and even if I only get to cross off a quarter of the things that are found on the list that will be enough. I plan to update the list and this blog as things get crossed off, and if any good stories come along the way I will share them. As far as the list is concerned I am going to post the official 100 things to do in the yo-yo community before I die this Thursday. It mark the end of my first year and a half of yo-yoing and the beginning of the rest of my life as a yo-yoer.