New Video Player

Our hope at YoTricks.com is to give you the most accessible and powerful yo-yo trick learning experience on the web.

Recently, we were excited when our friends at Freshly Brewed Web Design suggested a new video player which offers greater functionality than our current player. This new functionality has the potential to give expression to many of the ideas that have been simmering in our minds for some time. For example, this new player gives us the flexibility to add several related videos to a single post without muddying the look and feel of the site. Using this one feature we could add trick variation videos, trick histories, trick ladders and more. In our testing we have also found that this player loads faster and works with greater consistency than the player we now use.

We hope your experience with this new player is as positive as ours. We have currently posted one video with this player, and over the next couple of weeks we will be releasing more videos in this player as well. Let us know what you think and look for new features to be added to future videos.

Yo-yo at Walgreens

Peter Fish yo-yos have been sighted in the wild! This picture was taken at a Walgreens in Portland, OR today showing a display with Originators, Dominators, and Luminators alongside the Zrang airplanes. On the video monitor you can see a short commercial for the yo-yos that shows me doing a few one and two-handed tricks. Checkout the Walgreens in your area and leave us a comment if you find any of our yo-yos.

Happy New Year from YoTricks.com

Here at YoTricks.com we want to welcome you into 2010. We have a lot of plans for the new year to take the best place online to learn yo-yo tricks and make it even better.

As you probably already know, YoTricks.com already offers a great video-driven user experience for learning new skills. Besides all the tricks being conveniently organized into major trick categories, the tricks are always arranged in order of difficulty to make it easy to find new tricks to learn. In addition to this we hope in 2010 to add a new trick ladder functionality. The trick ladder is a series of tricks used in competitive yo-yo play. We will combine our great videos with an easy to navigate  system to help you master these competitive tricks.

Early in 2010 we will also be bringing you yo-yo specific modifications to help you push your yo-yos to the next level. These mods will come with video instructions and mod-kits that you can order from our store. Right now we are putting the finishing touches on several great mods that we hope our users will take, use, and even improve upon.

All this year we will keep you up to date on new yo-yo releases, competitions we will be attending, new video releases, and much more.

So, from all of us at YoTricks.com, we hope you have a great year and that it is full of joy and plenty of yo-yoing.