HSPIN will phase out from the yoyoing community.

Organ Transplantation from Chris K on Vimeo.

Best regards,
ChrisK

Email from "Hironori Mii (Yo-Yo Company Inc.)" to ChrisK on February 1, 2012:

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Dear Chris,
It was very nice seeing you again in Prague.
I am writing this e-mail on behalf of Daisuke Shimada of YoYoJoker. Daisuke is a legend 3A world champion as you know and he runs YoYoJoker, a yo-yo manufacturer in Japan.
He thinks you, Hspin is one of the originators of the metal yo-yo era and want to show his respect for your work.
Please see the pictures I attached. He is making a yo-yo with D size bearing which you started using, and people call them Hspin size. [...]
Hironori Mii
REWIND
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What more needs to be said...
Daisuke: Thank you for your kind and honorable intentions. It means tons to me and to HSPIN. All the best with the D-Strider.

D-Strider at Rewind

ChrisK

Last time Hadrien visited my family in Basel, he convinced me to give him the remaining Antipodes, so he could fix and tune them. So I sent all 70something Antipodes to France.

Hadrien then grabbed two of his buddies and went at it with max devotion:
All Antipodes were unpacked and disassembled. Each half was siliconed with "flowable", and the yoyos were re-assembled and tested and tuned manually. The yoyos are now fully compliant with the Core Series value promise to deliver affordable, competition-grade yoyos.

The 68 yoyos that made it past Had's eagles eyes are available now. We won't raise the price, but we re-confirm that these yoyos are what we promised they would be!

Please do not hesitate to contact hadrien@hspin.com should you have any questions. Enjoy!

US$39

Friends,

I realize that the my silence around some changes in HSPIN has lead to all kinds of rumors. I hope to resolve them with this post. The below email was sent to the HSPIN NETWORK on July 29.

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Friends,

On July 6, I had a very important and relieving meeting with the other four shareholders of HSPIN. You don't know them, but they are my best friends who have always supported me in the background.

With the advent of my daughter, with my family moving to Switzerland in August, and with the new exciting job I accepted <...>, I will have even less time for yoyos. I know I already frustrated some of you with the lack of attention.

As for myself, I have to be honest and admit that yoyos became a burden to me, no longer fun. We lost USD >30'000 over the last two years, which is appalling. The primary reason for this, is that I was too generous. So I started to worry about finances, and the fun was out of the window.

I got married playing the yoyo, and yoyos will always be dear to me. But I need to be realistic about my capacity.

So during the above meeting, we <...> decided to go back 7 years, when I did this just for fun with my own ideas.

HSPIN will continue. I will produce 1-2 yoyo batches a year. These yoyos will be my own brain childs, and will again be my personal "extravagant", weird style - which is what made HSPIN famous 10 years ago.

I will have to cut <...> costs, including sponsoring, travel, TShirts, stickers, <...>.

As of now, the PYRO III and Antipodes can be registered here.