EXCLUSIVELY 2A now that BAC IS OVER!

BAC WAS GREAT! I focused mainly on 1A for this contest because I know I will practice exclusively 2A the next 3 months until World's.

Here is a video of my PRELIMS IN 1A:

Joseph Harris-BAC 09-1a Prelims from ittuzed on Vimeo.

The results:

1A Prelims:
1 Jensen KIMMITT 100.00
2 Charles HAYCOCK 77.34
3 Alex BERENGUEL 64.21
4 Joseph HARRIS 60.60
5 Trent FRANKS 53.86
6 Zach GORMLEY 53.27
7 Mark ALLEN 50.70
8 Masanobu IWATA 49.95
9 Gentry STEIN 46.69
10 Vncent DEZUTTI 46.33
11 Josh YEE 38.46
12 Ian BAILEY 36.91
13 Travis OWEN 34.46
14 Boyd SETH 34.04
15 Alex KIM 33.99
16 Vincent ARECELLANA 32.56
17 Sam UNGERER 31.07
18 Juan RENTERIA 30.68
19 Sam LOPEZ 30.29
20 Tyler GOLDENBERG 25.21
21 Dalan KERR 24.77
22 Joseph LIU 24.25
23 Sean VANZANDT 24.02
24 Everett CADAY 23.19
25 Paul DANG 21.58
26 Jared TISHER 21.47
27 Luke ROMERO 16.67
28 Joe BENSON 14.76
29 Mateo OLIVENCIA 8.70

1A:
1 Jensen KIMMITT 93.76
2 Sebastian BROCK 93.07
3 Paul HAN 85.49
4 John CHOW 77.31
5 Augie FASH 74.25
6 Mark ALLEN 73.40
7 Alex BERENGUEL 69.96
8 Grant JOHNSON 66.18
9 Zach GORMLEY 62.97
10 Paul YATH 61.28
11 Andrew BERGEN 60.41
12 Vincent DEZUTTI 57.97
13 Charles HAYCOCK 56.40
14 Joseph HARRIS 51.94
15 Gentry STEIN 50.81
16 Masanobu IWATA 46.08
17 Trent FRANKS 32.48

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Teaching yoyos in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Long time again since I updated! But I have been busy. If pictures are worth a thousand words, what about a video and some pictures? This was an immersion trip dealing with social justice issues in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

I had 4 yoyos when I arrived. When I left, I had 1. These kids needed it more than I did. The trip humbled me. But I still managed to "change lives with a yoyo!" (That should be my slogan!)

Redondo Contest is over and was FUN!

Been a while since I've updated...but there has been a lot of things going on! I worked with Grant Johnson last weekend and I have to say, he is going to be a good 2A player if he wants to be. You can see a lot of character when you teach somebody something. I see a lot of potential with Grant.

In a way, I feel like I've grown and moved on from the "competitor-looking-for-a-mentor" aspect to actually becoming the mentor now. After all, if it wasn't for all my experience working with others who guided me in the yoyo community, I could not be able to pass it down to Grant last weekend, or to anyone for that matter.

Anyway, I almost have $0 in my name. I really want to go to Santa Cruz for Stu's yoyo club! I'll see if Dad feels better and I can drag him along...or maybe he could just lend me the car! Or I could find someone to give a ride there and back? Who would be interested? Hmm...I don't want to ruin the 3 consecutive weeks doing something yoyo related.

February 21 - Pacific Northwest Competition
February 28- Spindox Yoyo club
March 7----- Redondo Beach contest and Grant's house
March 14--- Santa Cruz yoyo club?????

Alright, enough updating. Time for some videos! This is what I mean by Grant can be AMAZING in 2A if he wants to be:

Redondo Beach Contest this SUNDAY

I was done tutoring and decided to submit my online timesheet. I watched some new yoyo contest videos in Japan then stumbled across yoyonation (www.yoyonation.com) for no reason at all. I hardly check any yoyo board except for Greg's board (www.yoyoing.com)

Anyway, on the yoyonation board there was a quote that made my ENTIRE WEEK better;

I feel nervous when meeting pros. When I was talking to Joseph Harris, I was stuttering like crazy!

There was a lot going on with me this week aside from the regular school (midterm), work, internship, tutor. There were some personal issues that affected me this week but after I read what the person wrote, my face lit up. ^_^

The Redondo yoyo contest is this Sunday, I'll be leaving after my class ends at 9PM once again. Can you believe this is my 4-5th (I lost count!) time back in SoCal the past two months? Talk about being a dedicated yoyo pro. What's funny about it all is that I am a YOUNG pro yoyoer that only does performances PART-time. If I could make a living out of this, that would be great. Let me rephrase that and shoot for the moon;

If I can make a GOOD living out of being a professional yoyo player, that would be great.

Because everybody in the world knows that the label of a professional yoyo player falls under the category of 'starving artist.' That's why I'll have 2 bachelor's degrees to fall back on. Once I am accepted into Business school and earn my MBA, I'll have that to fall back on too. That is of course, if the 'PRO YOYO PERFORMER' thing never works out. =P

That's called having a plan. That's my plan...Other than that, this yoyo pro is out. Oh, here's the most recent yoyo performance of me; it was my 1st place freestyle at the Pacific Northwest Regional


PNWR 09 - 2A - Joseph Harris from Box thor on Vimeo.


THANK YOU BOXTHOR (aka Matt) for the video. Great quality! Enjoy.