Iceberg (Classic) by iYoyo
The modern Iceberg (left) the classic Iceberg (right)
Hey time flies! It’s been about a year since I updated the yoyo archive. It’s coincidentally summer break, so I have a bit of time to rock this project, so let’s pick up where we left off. After receiveing our monumental first YoyoFactory order, I had recently discovered that there was a yoyo company operating out of Germany and they had some cool-looking yoyos. So I meekly contacted iYoyo, and within a few days they had arrived at our shop, in our original iYoyo order we received the Iceberg Classic, iYoyo2, and the HiDRA. Conicidentally, Estonian yoyo player Nicolas Lotman was visiting Vienna the day we recieved them. I didn’t know it at the time but Nicolas was pretty well known in the European yoyo scene, and he busted out some pretty dope tricks. I had just gotten back into yoyo and could barely do a trapeze, and Nicolas blew my mind!
The Iceberg is a hybrid yoyo that is made of machined polycarbonate plastic, and has beefy steel rims. As a result the Iceberg plays more like a bi-metal than it does a plastic yoyo. The original Iceberg was definitely a call back to some of the classic Yoyo Jam designs, and iYoyo has done a few modern updates of classic Yoyo Jam designs. But for iYoyo the Iceberg is the hit song. It’s a great all around yoyo, that has won a few competitions, and the Iceberg keeps selling.
We had a number of Icebergs of varing color over the years, and the Iceberg remains one of our top selling yoyos. In 2021 iYoyo released the new 4mm wider Iceberg, which managed to keep the feel and play style of the classic Iceberg, which is something of a small miracle in yoyo design.
Here’s a fun fact; unlike most bi-metals which are a bit fragile, the Iceberg is a workhorse and you can beat the living daylights out of one and it will still play. I’ve seen people do “walk the dog” on concrete with an Iceberg and the yoyo still play decently well.
Back in the early days, I really watched a lot of yoyo videos. Tok Yo-yo was one of my favorite channels. T put in so much effort and there is so much great yoyo information from that era. Well worth a deep dive into the Tok Yo-yo archives.
