Why Every YoYo Player Should Play Kendama
Every yoyo player should play Kendama. Why? Well, while yoyos offer limitless creativity and fun, there’s an entire other world of skill toys that can provide fresh challenges. Kendamas provide transferable skills to yoyos, a similiar learning curve, and endless creative trick possibilities.
What is a Kendama?
A kendama is a traditional Japanese skill toy that has been enjoyed for many generations. It consists of a wooden ball (tama) attached to a handle (ken) by a string. The goal is to swing the ball and catching it on the various cups or landing it on the spike. This traditional toy helps to develop excellent hand and eye coordination, balance, precise movements which can be valuable to any yoyo player.
Why Kendamas and Yoyos are a Perfect Pair
If you’re already passionate about yoyoing, adding another skill toy like kendama makes perfect sense. Here’s why the YoYoFactory Kendama complements your yoyo journey:
Transferable Skills
While yoyos focus on string control and intricate movements, kendama challenges you with balancing and precise striking movements. This skill can further help your eye and hand coordination in yoyoing while landing difficult yoyo string tricks and vice versa.
Similar Learning Curve
Like yoyo tricks, kendama moves progress from basic catches to complex combinations. With the YoYoFactory Kendama’s grippy paint finish, it helps beginners to land their tricks more easily yet still provides a universisal kendama to take you from beginner to advanced tricks throughout your entire Kendama journey.
Skill Addicts Trick Tutorials
Alternating between playing from yoyos to kendama can be a nice switch up. And Skill Addicts has added trick tutorials on all the Kendama skills you need to know. You can now seamlessly transition from learning yoyo tricks to kendama moves with a few clicks.
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Yoyofactory Kendama
The YoYoFactory Kendama, crafted from high-quality beech wood and featuring a grippy paint finish on the ball, offers both beginners and advanced players a durable design to play with. Here are some kendama recommendations and a group pack to choose from:
