St Louis YoYo

It’s that time again… ALREADY! 🪀✨
Dust off your Kendamas and prep your opening gambit! ♟️🪀
Join the StL YoYo crew at City Foundry STL for a Saturday filled with skill toys and strategy!

The StL YoYo Meetup is back at City Foundry this Saturday, May 2nd. Find us in the Food Hall by the giant chess board from 11am – 1pm.
Come play, stay for the food, and vibe with the community.
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It’s a known fact that Napoleon’s troops carried yo-yos but the music of the time?
If Napoleon was a yoyo player what about Beethoven? Well we think Beethoven would have definitely played Yoyo and Kendama! Imagine….Beethoven dealing with war and issues of deafness taking a break from composing to: silently bending at the knees…….swings Ken……wood flying high……..catches ball….balance…..jump…..wing stall…..360 flip….drop!

200 years after the Yoyo boom of 1815 we see the same battles being fought with Kendamas and Yoyo’s! Our next judge, CJ Atkinson, has the same emotional fervor as Beethoven or Napoleon and will judge the 2026 UYYC ladders and freestyles! CJ does it all whether competing or designing Yoyo’s & Dama’s, and in fact also actually wrestles!

When: National Yoyo Day 6-6-26
Where: History Museum StL
What: Yoyo & Kendama Freestyles & Ladders
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Space Walk high.
Catch the Ball,
Let wood fly.
Swap to Bird,
Balance still.
Nightingale jump,
Steady skill.
Wing stall edge,
Precision thin.
360 Flip,
Drop it

*Beethoven’s “Name Day” Overture, Op. 115 is a 13-minute concert composed during the Napoleonic Yoyo Boom of 1815!

*time period was huge for Yoyo & with Napoleon’s troops occupying Beethoven’s Vienna; we imagine Beethoven exposed to the Yoyo just like the world was indeed exposed to Beethoven!

*all art designed by Jacob Lundak of Darkline Designs

Grab your “Yoyo Ball” and hit the streets with StLYoyo!
March 7
11am - 1pm
City Foundry StL