Date of Birth: 9/6/86
From: Southampton, UK
Teams: YoYoJam & Team Hyper Mega 3000
Favourite Yo-Yo Trick: ‘Garbage tricks' (see my AP freestyes), tangler, submarine & anything silly or fun.
Other Interests: Juggling and in fact any kind of skilled manipulation, performance, skateboarding, handstands, video editing, skipping, circus arts and running the BYYA.
Titles:
1st Place 2004 SRC Y Division
4th Place 2004 World Yo-Yo Contest AP Division
4th Place (again) 2005 World Yo-Yo Contest AP Division
Sliver Medal (UK) Young Juggler of the Year
Performances:
Lots! Literally toooooooooooo many to list!
My personal favourites include performing a quickly improvised yoyo act for a show at magicians school Madrid and working as a ‘Russian Cossack' yo-yoing and juggling in a Christmas part show. I had to work hard on my Russian accent for that gig, hehe.
Claim to fame:
I'm the youngest person ever to run a National Yo-Yo Association and I have organised ‘The UK National Yo-Yo Contest' since 2002. I also help run ‘SRC' and ‘NRC'.
I was an ‘International guest of honour' at the 1st Spanish Yo-Yo Congress and a guest judge at the French National Yo-Yo Contest in 2005.
Creator of Team Hyper Mega 3000, a group of the best young jugglers in the UK. And I've been called 'the most immature person I have ever met' by a (surprisingly?) large number of people.
Currently: Undertaking a 3 year degree course in contempery circus at ‘The Circus Space' biased on London, England.
Loves: Vending machines, Fanta and vending machines that dispense Fanta.
Favourite quote: “365 days for 3 minutes”. “All or nothing” and “You gota wanit”
Advice: In the worlds from a great Yo-Yo master, “Practice, practice, practice and when you have finished that practice some more”. Also keep it fun and try to think differently.
Website: www.yo-yo.org/aza & www.yo-yo.org/byya