Hanging Out With Myachi Masters

by Crazy Ivan

One of the coolest things about being in Pigeon Forge is seeing familiar faces.  Pinky and I actually lived in the area for several years before I met Myachi Man and took to the whirlwind adventure that has been the past 8 years.  We have a number of old friends that live nearby and there are plenty of Myachi Maniacs in the area that I'm just as stoked to see.

Among the many I've seen is our good friend Digit.  He's a guy I met at Dollywood when he was 13 and he was already a skill toy protege.  He was a performing magician already and he was pretty proficient with devil sticks and knew a bit of diabolo.  There was no question at the time that he was a Myachi player in the waiting.

He got hooked on the game back in 04 and we've stayed in touch ever since.  He came to NYC a year ago and we all hung out at the House of Skills for a bit and now I've had a chance to return the favor.  We're in his home town so he hung at the cabin with us tonight.

While we were hanging out it became very obvious that there are certain things about hanging out with a Myachi Master that are different than just hanging out with normal people.  The foremost of them is the fact that when any object has to be transferred from one place to another, it is thrown (unless it's value it above $400).  We don't hand things in Myachi, we throw them.  And we don't just throw them, we throw them in creative ways such as under the leg, blind behind the neck, out of a slingshot, etc.  What's more is that we expect them to be caught in a similar manner.

Another nuance that one picks up on quickly when chilling with Myachi Masters is that everything becomes a challenge.  At one point tonight, Bones does some weird trick with a roll of paper towels so we all immediately had to try and see who could do the coolest variation of what Bones did.  Every time someone would mention a possible trick with anything, we will all start trying to do it.  And because there was an extra diabolo and set of devil sticks in the house, the skill challenges ranged well beyond Myachi.

And lastly, one of the things people have to get used to about hanging out with Myachi Masters is that we're pretty much always working... or at least as much as one can apply the word "work" to a profession that consist mainly of playing with toys.  While Digit was here I had to film and edit the Trick of the Day, check my emails, finalize everything with Rush's twice delayed and once cancelled flight in from NYC, check Myachi's YouTube inbox and update Myachi Man on today's sales.  Basically, the whole time he was here I was on the computer or the phone... but it didn't stop me from doing some cool stuff with the paper towels.