{"id":680,"date":"2011-10-13T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=680"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T16:20:49","slug":"owens-wins-national-yo-yo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2011\/10\/13\/owens-wins-national-yo-yo-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Owens wins national yo-yo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2011\/10\/20111001_MG_4065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-681\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2011\/10\/20111001_MG_4065-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harold Owens, III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Shamereal Johnson<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may have seen him near the Administration Tower\u00a0 walking the dog or possibly in the student center rocking the baby.\u00a0 He is Harold Owens III, a Jackson State University student, and what he is walking and rocking is a yo-yo.<\/p>\n<p>Owens, an Indiana native,\u00a0 recently took first place in the 1A Division of the USA National Yo-Yo Contest. The contest is held annually in Chico, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Competitors qualify to compete in the National Yo-Yo Contest through nine regional contests held throughout the United States in five different divisions. There are five divisions, ranging from a traditional yo-yo, used to perform intricate tricks on the string, two yo-yos, to one that doesn\u2019t even have a finger loop at all, but rather a counterweight at the other end. All of the division players are given one minute to show their best tricks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> What do they call you in the Yo-Yo circuit?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> I do have a nickname. It is Yo-Yo Gotti.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> How has your time at JSU been?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> I love JSU.\u00a0 It has a homey feeling to it and nice people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> What kind of feedback are you getting on campus about your skills?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> Since I\u2019ve been doing some tricks on campus from my perspective it has drawn positive feedback and also made me a little more confident to be myself and I have more friends from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> How long have you been yo-yo(ing)?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> I have been\u00a0 yo-yo(ing) since I\u00a0 was in the seventh grade. I started because one day I was bored and picked up the yo-yo and learned that I\u2019m pretty good at it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> How did it feel to win the National Yo-Yo competition?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> To win Nationals was an awesome feeling.\u00a0 There was a lot of competition\u00a0 there and it wasn\u2019t easy but my parents were there to support me so that also played a big part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> Finally, have you taught anyone else your craft?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> Yes, I have taught my little brother some basic tricks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> Who is your sponsor?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:<\/strong> My sponsor is the YoYoFactory.\u00a0 This is my first year with them and I have enjoyed them thus far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q.<\/strong> Can you tell me about the YoYoFactory?<br \/>\n<strong>Owens:.<\/strong> The YoYoFactory was founded in 2003 by USA based International Yo-Yo superstar YoHans Hans Van Dan Elzen. Elzen\u2019d\u00a0 focus was on creating unique patented technology that would actually make playing with a Yo-Yo a more enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamereal Johnson Staff Writer You may have seen him near the Administration Tower\u00a0 walking the dog or possibly in the student center rocking the baby.\u00a0 He is Harold Owens III, a Jackson State University student, and what he is walking and rocking is a yo-yo. Owens, an Indiana native,\u00a0 recently took first place in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}