To be honest I first saw kendamas in real life in nats, and I didn’t think I will ever like it.
Fast forward one and a half years, Yomega made kendamas and they sent me one, well I did play it once in a while, but still the complete basics, and it was still uninteresting, it ended up collecting dust.
Then a few months ago my yoyo friends told me about a local guy who happen to sell kendamas, we jam together and then I got hooked up. In a matter of weeks, I sold a couple of my yoyos and bought four new kendamas, a yellow TK16, Ozora Keyaki, Green Ozora, and just yesterday I bought the pill.
Kendama is great once you went past the “it’s difficult yet it doesn’t look cool”.
Watch kendama edits, I recommend KendamaUSA Japan tour 2012, 2014, Colin Sanders practicing kendama, and KendamaUSA gloken musou tour as the starting point.