St Louis YoYo

04/29/2026

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.
UYYC.org

04/14/2026

Everett Early from STL YoYo just rockin’ a fantastic performance at his Claymont Talent Show! 😻👊💥

2026 5th Grade Claymont Performance.

03/28/2026

Come join the StL crew next Easter weekend for a day of Kendama and YoYo, Saturday April 4th!
Want to learn any Kendama ladder tricks you’re stuck on? No problem! Will also have on hand some extra damas for anyone that wants to learn the basics….we’ve got you covered!
To help with teaching the Kendama ladder tricks; 2025 UYYC Kendama winners CJ Castle and Adam Poels will be in town as special guests!
All of the ladder tricks focused on are the same ones at this years UYYC.
So if you’re able to definitely check us out at the City Foundry April 4 from 10:30 to 1pm! 😎🤙

CityFoundryStL.com
UYYC.org

03/23/2026

So far travel out of St. Louis Lambert airport is fast moving and isn’t reporting any long lines that the rest of the country is experiencing. That being said if you are flying into St. Louis we recommend to arrive 3 hours at your departing airport…….in case the airport your flying out of is experiencing delays. 😎🙌

St. Louis Lambert International Airport is reporting security wait times of seven minutes or less as a partial government shutdown creates hour-long delays a...

03/15/2026

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
UYYC.org

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

03/12/2026

UYYC 26 is adding its first ever OVER 40 division to the event schedule! We just updated the contest website with the divisions and schedule for the 2026 contest on June 6; which is the perfect opportunity to hone your routine on stage before Nationals! Just 1 minute freestyles for the OVER 40 division so there is enough time to get through the order. Also feel free to pick your best style whether it’s 1a-5a; join the UYYC stage for your 1st freestyle run through then hit the stage in Vegas!
UYYC.org

03/06/2026

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

02/26/2026

The emcee for this year’s UYYC is Graeme Steller! Graeme is based in New York and UYYC will be his 1st time to StL on 06/06/26!
Graeme is a legend in the Yoyo community from MC at major events like PNWR, US Nationals & the World Yoyo Contest!
UYYC.org

01/01/2026

HAPPY NEW YEARS from STL YoYo! Special thank you to all the families and players that have joined us in 2025! Feel free to stop by this Saturday for the 1st St. Louis YoYo meetup of 2026!
CITY FOUNDRY STL
11am - 1pm
Jan 3, 2026

12/05/2025

We will be at City Foundry tomorrow ……we are taking over! Join us from 11am - 1pm and don’t forget you can take advantage of some very eclectic shops for some early holiday shopping!

10/28/2025

join us this Saturday November 1st for some post Halloween Yoyo shenanigans!
City Foundry
11am-1pm

We will have on hand 3-D printed yo-yos from and .

Pictured is the new “Candy Corn” from Rico at 3XL with custom black string from !

06/14/2025

Grant Johns winning 1st in the Sport Division ages 12 and under at UYYC25! Full freestyles for the sport division is on the YouTube channel: Yoyo Contest Central.
The Sport Division is an amateur division that features a 1 minute freestyle as opposed to a 2 minute freestyle in pro division 1A; playing a pivotal role to building stage confidence while providing stage time for the next generation of competitors!

Sport 1A Freestyle 12 and Under
1st Grant Johns, IN 62.4
2nd Spencer McCann, IL 51.7
3rd William Leaverton, TN 38.1

Sport 1A Freestyle 13 and Over
1st Nico Gladis, WI 60.0
2nd Jacob Doane, IL 5.9
3rd Corban Lafon, MO 3.7

Grant Johns wins the Sport 1A Freestyle division for ages 12 & Under at UYYC 2025. The 2025 United Yo-Yo Championship was held on Saturday, June 7th at the M...