My journey to yo-yo mastery | BLACK

Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, to "walk the dog"? You ain't seen nothin' yet. Japanese yo-yo world champion BLACK tells the inspiring story of finding his life's passion, and gives an awesome performance that will make you want to pull your yo-yo back out of the closet.

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[christopherram]

Dont care what anybody says, this guy is an anime character birthed to life

[AlphaOmega]

He's using his chakra, to manipulate the yoyos... his level of chakra mastery is far beyond that of any shinobi I have seen in a long time...

[taslimahassin]

"I once saw him kill 3 men in a bar, with a yoyo"

[vora]

Proof that he’s an anime character:

1. Has the “jo-jo” spin attack
2. Wears a Japanese clothes
3. Is Japanese
4. Has a Spiky hairstyle
5. And most importantly, he has an opening.

Edit: I forgot that he uses a Yo-yo thus making him a Joestar

[seri-ously]

To those who's like: "Meh, seen better" or "He sucks". Take into consideration that he's matching the techniques used here to sync with the BGM. It's a performance or art for inspiration and ideas. Not a show-off talent of who can do jaw-dropping tricks. When you can mix your line of work with other arts, you create something that can be motivational/inspiring and be considered as "beautiful" work or "level of awesomeness".

[gunjan.]

He trained many years for this 10 minutes 😌

A big respect from India to you.

[bread]

A lot of people wouldnt understand how hard it is to make yo-yos seem cool or intense, to the average person hes just whipping it around but if you actually yoyo you know how hard this stuff is. Keep this stuff up my guy

[dio]

8:10 That moment when the anime character is nearly defeated so he awakens his full strength

[meomanik]

Level of difficulty
1.easy
2.medium
3.hard
4.japanese

[denifromdiscord]

"Teach me to be a YoYo master, YoYo man!"
But the YoYo man didn't listen.
*He just kept Yo-ing*

[lyingmongoose]

That bow at the end, just that sincere show of "thank you so much for letting me share this with you all, this passion I hold so dear" had me bawling, man. You can see in that moment the lack of respect he's had to endure for following his calling, just, wow. Loved every second of this.

[laironemaselino]

The avenger that thanos was too scared to fight

[harryjesshop]

This guy is literally the yoyo class from Terraria

[KitsuneFloof]

I love how he sculpted his act with music and culture. An absolutely brilliant performance.

[vDREEGONv]

You can really see the passion he has for this by the intense look in his eyes. Love it.

[samriddha]

Top 10 greatest Anime battles of all time

[Decnet]

Tried it.. did over 6000$ worth of damage to my house..

[FatimaAli-ljyi]

Doing this by yourself and doing this on a stage in-front of thousands of people when you know you are being filmed are two completely different levels.

[Shoebill]

He probably has a flashback everytime he does a trick.

[nofabe]

This guy could survive a fricking zombie apocalypse with just a yo-yo