Daniel's News - October 23th, 2025

Daniel Hooper
Oct 23
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.

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Now with the the today's news!

METAL SKYVA 2 VIDEO (RELASE DATE)

After days of hard work and almost ruining it, the all-new review on the Metal Skyva 2 (2025 redesign of the 2017's metal skyva yoyo) is Now Complete and ready for Youtube! The elimsted duration is 12 minutes and writing have been improved to be more on-point, detailed and researched. Also I'll be confirming that this will be an halloween special this time!

**OCTOBER 26TH | 1AM AEST (*Australian Eastern Standard Time)***

Get ready for this review to come time for not only this sunday, but also Halloween!

Culture Talent Show (YOYO PERFORMANCE AND RECAP)

I'm also back from an great weekend on this month, one of them being the Culture Talent Show at Granville Park in Sydney (I've announced in the last news blog) that I'll be performing there. My experience at the talent show this year is nothing short of great and did my great performance at the show this year. Yeah I did the same performance as the Spicy Brain one from last year, but with new moves, tricks and even improved choregraphy on my moves.

At the end of the day and into the award ceremony thing, while I didn't win something big like $600 (1st place prize), however I got an certificate award for 'Best Presence' and I'm proud about my performance and award (all thanks to heaps of practice every day and that can of Solo Energy I drank before the performance.)

However, getting there was quite hard. When I catch an train to Strathfield, there were not many trains going to Merrylands (purposed station for Granville Park), but someone working there said that the one at Harris Park have trains going to Merrylands (11 min walk from Granville Park). When I went to that station, there were not many trains to Merrylands and trains was getting cancelled constantly, and I felt that I was going to be late. So I catch back to Granvile station and catch an uber to the park.

ALL SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING

IYF Australia (Organizer of Talent Show), Multicultural NSW and More!

For making me day and of course, the award!

Something I will cherise forever!

Also Thanks + Shoutout for IYF Australia (and someone who took this photo)

For this pretty nice (and only) photo of me at the event too!

HUNTER YOYO MEET (OCTOBER 19TH RECAP)

For the first time, after an long while of running the Hunter Yoyo Meet (since last time in late-2024), I have bought back the yoyo meet with changes. Like It's no longer in Maitland anymore, instead at Gregson Park in Hamilton (Just west of Newcastle and Its CBD), Yes that's right I'm now doing the yoyo meet at Newcastle for future events.

What do I think about the yoyo meet last sunday?

Well the overall experience with this yoyo meet went out pretty good. We got some kids coming down, trying out yoyos and/or juggling balls, as I teached some kids how to do certein that yoyo players (like me) can do!

Here are the gallery for October 19th

I would like to give an thank you to anyone who came to the yoyo meet on that Sunday. You guys and people went pretty well with me and anyone here in the yoyo meet on October 19th With the success of that yoyo meet, I'm planning to start again on November and December

(On 1 sunday and/or saturday every month! Maybe).

STAY TUNED FOR THE YOYO MEET FOR NOVEMBER

NEW DRUM COVER PLANS (For November+December)

Since October will be ending soon (so does Halloween, maybe), I've planned new songs that I'm covering on the drums next month, in my new on-going series "Drum Time with Daniel".

And here are the following