2008 National Yo-Yo Contest

The 2008 National Yo-Yo Contest could have been bad… Upon arrival on Friday competitors were met with rain which forced the contest to cancel the Friday Night Preliminary Activities. However the contest directors decided to stick through it outside and even came prepared with a little leaf blower action to clear the stage:

From Nationals 2008

Congratulations to our new National Yo-Yo Champions!!! 1st Place in the Single A Division is Eric Koloski 2008 Nationals - 1A - Eric Koloski from Box thor on Vimeo 1st Place in the 2A Division is Joseph Harris 2008 Nationals - 2A - Joseph Harris from Box thor on Vimeo. First Place in the Triple A Division is Paul Yath 2008 Nationals - 3A - Paul Yath from Box Thor on Vimeo. 1st Place in the Offstring Division is Bryan Figeuroa 2008 Nationals - 4A - Bryan Figueroa from Box thor on Vimeo. First Place in the Freehand Division is Miguel Correa 2008 Nationals - 5A - Miguel Correa from Box thor on Vimeo. Congratulations to André Boulay named a National Yo-Yo Master André (who you see in the Expert Village videos on this website) awarded with the title of National Master. This award has only been giving to 12 other yo-yo players - you can see them here: National Yo-Yo Masters

From Nationals 2008

THP RETURNS?!?!?! If you have been around the Yo-Yo World long enough you might recognize these teal blue shirts. Back in the day these were the shirts of Team High Performance which was arguably the beginning of yo-yoing as know it in terms of freestyle competitions, etc. YoYoFactory decided to bring this tradition back:

From Nationals 2008

See the full results at: http://nationalyoyo.org/contest/2008/pages/results.php