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Mk1 Contact
The Mk1 Contact is an lightweight organic yoyo that releases on February 27th at YoyoExpert, YoyoSam, YoyoWorld, and YoYoTricks. $45 for solids, $50 for fades. Diameter 56.9mm Width 45.3mm Mass 62.6g Material 6061 aluminum 10mm axle and wide C bearing for unresponsive yoyoing 8mm axle and slim C bearing for responsive yoyoing
Mk1 Exia Yoyo Release
We released a new yoyo, the Mk1 Exia, which is now available at YoyoExpert, YoyoSam, YoyoWorld, and YoyoTricks. It’s an inner-ring 7068 bimetal and retails for $95. The Exia was designed to be light-weight yet uncompromising, with an efficient and aggressive weighting that still feels natural to hold and throw. The aesthetics, engraving, and name…
Max Choo – Mk1 Exia
Max Choo throwing the Mk1 Exia with that special blend of tech and string motion. The Exia will arrive worldwide in November.
Mk1 Design Contest
When I started designing yoyos it wasn’t clear where it would take me. There was almost a year between my first tiny batch of Diffractions and the first bigger run of 60. I always enjoyed talking to the handful of other designers I knew, and one of my dreams at the time was to collaborate…
Mk1 Yoyos x OPYOYOS Converge
The Converge is our new bimetal yoyo collab with OPYOYOS. Dropping Friday, July 24th, at 10AM here at mk1yoyos.com. Converges will cost $140, or $110 for b-grades. Width: 46mm Diameter: 58mm Weight: 62.5g Axle: 8mm Material: 7068 Al and Stainless Steel
Mk1 Umbra Release
The Umbra is now available on the MK1 Store, at YoYoExpert, YoYoSam, and YoYoWorld.dk.
Crochet your own Yoyo Bag
Back when I started yoyoing, I was inspired by this post on Throwcafe about crochet. I’ve since picked up crochet as a side hobby, and beyond making the pop-culture sensation “baby yoda”, I developed my own variant yoyo bag that was included in the Diffraction 2 release. I recently downloaded the information about this yoyo…
Umbra
Back in May I started working on an ultra-wide 55mm x 55mm design, with a 55 gram weight, a mathematical obsession with a single number that would show up repeatedly in the yoyo. I eventually scaled the weight up to 62g, refined the profile, and put it on the back burner while getting the Diffraction…
Jack Hudspath – The Diffraction
A little while ago I reached out to Jack to see if he’d like to try the Diffraction v2, which is a tuned-up version of my little yoyo project I started last year. He liked it, so we decided to work together. Get the Diffraction 2 on Yoyoexpert.