Kendama

If you are thinking about getting a Kendama for your child or teenager buy-kendama is the best place to buy one. They have very fast shipping and they are the only store to sell the Kendama faces. They are the hottest selling kendama on the market.

There are also reports of Kendama parties and meetings at parks where kids show of their new tricks. For those of you who do not know there are a huge list of tricks that you can do with a Kendama. Some are done by holding the ball and some are done by holding the kendama stick. There are thousands of youtube videos to home in your skills. Good luck and have fun with your kendama.


To play with a kendama, one grips the toy and using one hand only, jerks the ball so that it may be caught in one of the cups or impaled on the spike. More advanced tricks are sequential balances, juggles, and catches.[2] There are eleven prescribed moves on the kendama trick list for achieving a kyu ranking and several more for a dan ranking. A 1-kyu rating, for example, is attained by simply catching the ball in the largest cup. A book published by the Japan Kendama Association lists 101 different tricks for the toy and there are supposedly tens of thousands of trick variations.[3] Different stances and grips are required to perform different tricks. While most people play with kendamas for personal satisfaction, competitions do take place, especially in Japan. Participation in such competitions entails performing lists of tricks in sequence or completing particular tricks repeatedly for as long as possible. Additionally, tricks may be performed head to head with a rival to determine a winner. The competitor who is first to fail a trick loses.