6-year-old is better with a yo-yo than most grown men

There are some things the average guy is going to think he’s good at no matter the difficulty, complexity or skill required to do it well.

The yo-yo is one of those things.

Then you watch 6-year-old Kazuya Murata do his thing and you come to one of two realizations:

1. Holy cow! There’s no way I can do that.

Or

2. If a 6-year-old can do it, how hard can it be?

Murata, who goes by the nickname Yo-yo Baby (he even has his own hashtag: #yoyobaby), is a star in the yo-yo world.

How can he not be, right? Just look at him.

At the 2013 Asia Pacific Yo-yo Championships Murata finished ninth at the highest level (1A) against competition 10-20 years his senior. And when you watch the video Yo-Yo Baby looks so comfortable he comes across as disinterested as he plows through his routine effortlessly.

And this routine really gets cooking. His hands and the yo-yo are moving so fast they’re a blur. Yet Yo-yo Baby has the time (and confidence) to be checking out his audience.

He’s probably got groupies.

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Contact Graydon Johns at gjohns@reviewjournal.com. Find him on Twitter: @gjohns