Split Challenges

by Crazy Ivan

The other night we're all sitting around munching on fine American cuisine (Hot Pockets) at the Cabin of Skills.  I'm waiting for mine to cook, Bamboo is sitting at the bar by the kitchen, Bones and Kore are at the dining room table and Rush is on the couch.  Pinky was in bed by that time, which is why we were forced to resort to eating Hot Pockets.

Rather than take a bunch of time to describe the layout of the room (which is an essential part of this story), I decided to go the quicker route of drawing up a terrible looking map on Paint:

On Second thought, I shoulda just described it...

So in order to keep myself entertained while I'm waiting (for 3:30 on high), I decide to start throwing splits.  I've got two Myachis in my pocket and I toss a split where one goes to Bamboo and one goes to Kore.  It's a near/far split where both still have to go forward, so it was a fun challenge.

Of course, in this cabin you can't do a throw without it becoming a game, so I decided to try to hit every combination of two people in the room.  With Bamboo close and Rush so much farther away, it became a serious challenge.  It took a few tries on a couple of combos and we decided that the ceiling was too low for me to get the Rush/Bones split, but I got all the others in a few tries.

And then, of course, everyone was in on it.  We had so much fun that I forgot all about the lava-temperature pepperoni and cheese that was waiting for me, freshly nuked.

If you've never done it before, try it sometime.  It's best if you have two friends that are into the game (or at least have a descent catch), but you can even try it alone.  Set up two golf targets and try to throw into both of them at once.  The key to the split, of course, is that both Myachis have to come off the same hand.

Pop Shove Its, slow Heel Flips, Hard Flips and a few other unique hand motions will allow you to split into any two locations in a room with a little thought and a lot of practice.

And if you have trouble visualizing what I'm talking about, don't worry.  A video is coming soon.

5.1 Hits the Shelves at Dollywood

by Crazy Ivan

It's really late and I have an early morning followed by a long day tomorrow, so I can't write a very long entry tonight.  But I had to give my first reactions to the 5.1 series going on sale today.  It's always a really big deal to see a new series fly off the shelves (or pegs, technically) for the first time.

Pinky got the call around 4:30 that the new series was at our local warehouse.  We were running mad low on product already and the warehouse is only a few minutes from the park, so she headed out to pick up a half dozen boxes.  Right after the 5 o' clock contest we put them on the shelves.

Of course, I knew the colors and fabrics for quite a while before the series actually came out and I'd long since pondered with Animal, Mav, Monk, Kid and Myachi Man about which would be the best sellers, which would sell to the older crowd, which would sell to the younger crowd, which would be the favorites among collectors and which would linger on the shelf the longest.

So I can only give my immediate impressions right now and they're subject to change the longer things are progress.  We only had the new series up for a few hours today so I don't have much data to go on.  But here goes my first impressions:

No surprise, the Boneyard Red is mad popular.  Cammo and Skulls always outsell anything else they're coupled with so that will almost certainly be the top seller.  When the two are combined, as they were in the legendary Hardcore Cammo, they're all but unstoppable.

The Power Grid is selling hard to both the guys and the gals.  Purple sacks are usually coin flips, but that one looks like it's going to rock.  The Medallion might actually compete with the Boneyard Red for the best-seller of the series and I wouldn't be surprised if the Fishbone Orange is right up there with them.

The Puzzle is going to be big with a lot of crowds.  It was actually the first sack that sold when we put them on the shelves and we were already having trouble finding them by the end of the day.  Still very little word on which will be the best jammer, but the coolest looking one in action is probably the Othello.  The Power Grid is a close second.

Anyway, I meant not to write anything long and I'm in danger of doing that.  I need to get to sleep.  I'll have a new series to sell tomorrow.

More bulletins as events warrant.

Welcome to the Cabin of Skills

by Crazy Ivan

Tonight, the Cabin of Skills lived up to its name more than it has up to this point.  Don't get me wrong, I brought a number of toys so there's been plenty of juggling, hacky sacking, diaboloing and cigar boxing, not to mention endless hours of Myachi playing.

But tonight was a bit different.  Long time maniac and forum favorite Digit came over this evening and brought his roommate, who is a pretty impressive juggler.  He also does a little diabolo and was looking for some new tricks to try.

I obliged, of course, and taught him a few of the tougher basics.  I also gave him a few new tricks to work on in three and four ball juggling.  There was one point where Bamboo was juggling, Bones was juggling one ball and two Myachis, Kore was jamming and Digit, his roommate and I were all throwing down diabolo tricks.

So, sure, this has been the Cabin of Skills since we got here, but if you measure things by skills per square foot, it was definitely at its apex tonight.

My Myachi Family

by Prophet

For many, Myachi is a game. It’s something to do when they are bored, or something to pick up every once in a while when they think of it. For others it’s about collections, having the un-latest and greatest Myachis, or about the envy they get to watch when someone witnesses their collection.

But for the most dedicated myachi maniacs, myachi isn’t about who can stick the greatest tricks, or who’s collection would net the most on Ebay. It’s about the friends. It’s about the journey, and every single person that helps you on your path, and every single person that you help along their path.

For many, Myachi isn’t a game of you doing the best you can possibly do. It’s about showing others what the best they can possibly do looks like. It’s not about proving your good at something to someone. It’s about proving that they are good at something to them. It’s about showing them “You are amazing.” It’s about making friends. That’s all myachi is; a way to make friends.

Of all the toys, sports, and hobbies I’ve seen, very few could bring as many people together as Myachi does. For every maniac, new and old, collector or jammer, hard core enthusiast or part-time supporter, Myachi is a string that ties us together. The Myachi community is a close knit family. We support one another. We encourage one another. We are one of the most amazing groups of fanatics I have ever witnessed.

No matter what background we are from, we are together. You’re never truly alone if you’re a part of the Myachi community. I am honored to be a part of this loving, giving, and truly wonderful family. We all are.

5.1 Series Hits the Website

by Crazy Ivan

It kind of snuck up on us, didn't it?  The 5.0 took a while to come out and between the crushing we're doing in NYC, the mad STWAKOJ at Dollywood, huge sales in Australia and hot spots popping up all over the country, the 5.0 series is disappearing faster than we expected.

Not to fear, the incredibly awesome new selection is on the ground in the good old US of A and you can get them on our website now.  It's a really cool looking series with some spectacular jammers.

But there is also an intriguing mystery.  Series 5.1X is listed on the site, but that series hasn't been uploaded yet.  Leave it to Myachi Man to keep the suspense brewing for a little while longer.

Spreading the Word,No Matter How Hard It Is

by Jonathan Reynolds

Now believe me when I say that I love to spread the word about Myachi whenever and wherever I get the chance, and I am sure you all do to, but there are times when people are a little reluctant when the words Hand and Sack are used together.

I recently went on a camping trip with a few of my friends, all of whom are NOT into myachi which saddens me to say, and I brought along with me, of course, a Myachi. Not just any Myachi though, it was my super yummy “The General”. Now camping is fun and all, but after about one day of doing “Camping things”, I just had to pull out my General and start jamming.

At first my friends started to laugh and ask me what exactly I was doing and, of course, what I was doing it with. As you can see I had the perfect STWAKOJ moment laid before me. So of course I told them what I was doing (The exact trick was a simple cold fusion) and I told them that I was doing it with a Myachi Original Hand Sack. Now as I mentioned earlier, using Hand and Sack together isn’t a good idea around immature teenage boys, and they just started to laugh.

And the laughing continued….until I started showing them some pretty awesome tricks. Though the laughing had stopped, they still were looking at me like I was a maniac. Then I hit a daredevil. A trick I hit quite often, but they were amazed by it. Instantly one of my friends got up, walked over to me, and asked if he could try. It was pretty awesome that one of my friends, who just a few minutes before was laughing at me, now wanted to try it, but what was even more awesome was that he hit a daredevil in his first three tries, and his face just lit up!!

Now of course I felt pretty successful that I got one of my friends up and jamming with me, but what really made it a success was when, one by one, the rest of my friends came to join. But not only did we jam that day, we jammed every day the rest of the week!  It felt great, and though spreading the word and getting my friends to join was hard, it was definitely worth it.

Spread the Word and Keep on Jammin….No matter how hard it might be.

Myachi Fireworks Show

by Crazy Ivan

Don't have much time to blog, but I mentioned the other day that we'd purchased a bunch of really awesome fireworks for the fourth.  I've received several requests for a bit of video to back it up, so I had Rush post the video below on You-Tube.

Keep in mind that this is just the "grand finale" of our show... We'd been firing off massive bottle rockets, fire fountains and mini-mortars for a solid twenty minutes before we sent this up.  You'll see two giant bottle rockets, a mortar and an "Apache", which was a 16 shot monster that we wished we'd bought twelve of.

For those that live in the firework lenient states, this won't be that big a deal.  For those who live in the majority of the country, you'll be amazed at what is legal in Tennessee: