Daniel's News | April 16th, 2026

Daniel Hooper
Apr 16
3 min read

Hello there! You're all welcome to Daniel's News!

This is where I explain the updates and new stuff happening right now.

Now with the the today's news!

Hunter Yoyo Meet (April 11th Recap + Gallery)

I know it's pretty late for this time but the Yoyo Meet was going very good the other day last week! With lots of people coming down over and learning yoyo tricks from me, It was an great, fun time there! The only downside that I forgot the juggling balls for everyone to learn juggle skills in, but don't worry, I'll bring them for next month.

APRIL 11TH Gallery

Stay Tuned for the Next Yoyo Meet in May

Captain Underpants Drum Cover Update

I am happy to announce that the drum cover for Captain Underpants Theme Song (Weird Al) is now on progress and will be coming next week (just before my birthday). Once again with the changes and an different room this time due to cleanup for my room. With the same improved sound quality for drums as the last. It's coming to Youtube in the following date.

Monday April 20th, 2026 | 2am AEST

UTB Yoyo Contest Update

I have made my entries for UTB's Online Yoyo Contest this year! The division I've done is 1A and 5A and It's now going to appear on UTB's livestream of the online yoyo contest next monday. This is the first time I've entred for an online contest and I'm hoping not to disappoint everyone, with new tricks and movement.

Here are some preview screenshots of my performances

NEW DRUM Cover for May 2026

I have decide an song I'm choosing for the next drum cover video (Drum Time with Daniel) and I'm so excited to do an drum cover of the following song next...

Redneck Wonderland - Midnight Oil

This is one of my top favourite songs from the band (next to Beds are Burning song) STAY TUNED FOR 'REDNECK WONDERLAND' DRUM COVER UPDATES

Spicy Brain 2026 Final Update

I would like to give you an final update for Spicy Brain 2026 and with more details and stuff.

The Song/Theme

The song and theme I'm choosing for this year will be..

An Michael Jackson Tribute Medley!

Just in time with the upcoming 'Michael' movie coming this year. It's an mashup of 4 Michael Jackson songs coming up this time (with the last song being Beat It).

The Medley includes..

Billie Jean

Can You Feel It?

Bad

Beat It

The Costume

The costume I'm choosing this year is an Michael Jackson outfit (part of the Michael Jackson yoyo performance). Here are some of the costume preview for the outfit

This is what it looks like. Sure it's not 100% accature to the actual costume design but I tried my best for what I got and with a help for my family. I still got the silver glove and black jacket like Michael, even with this disco hat thing I got on my head. Plus the black glove I'm using is the very good SOCHI yoyo gloves I got from overseas, while the other one is the sliver chair will got on my left hand (and the black one on the right).

NOTE:

The costume design was going to look like this (as seen in the Spicy Brain 2026 promo video)

But decide on the black t-shirt instead of an white t-shirt because you can see my yoyo tricks and string better when I wear an black t-shirt like always. Also that inflatable guitar in the picture is now popped and I can fully fix it. But luckily I'll get an better guitar prop for Spicy Brain this year than the one in the picture.

Lineup Update.

I originally said that I was going to be the first on the lineup, but unforntunatly I'm now on second or third this year because someone took over, but that's okay I still get to perform at least.

Here is the official lineup for Spicy Brain 2026

You can see that my performance now starts at 5:35pm in the lineup.

Misc.

This year's Spicy Brain performance will also be special and exciting this time with some fog from an fog machine this time! To make an grand entrance in the start or first half of the medley and good thing for that!