Dear all, this is going to be a long but interesting post, hang on there with me.
As you may know I helped to create, keep on going, and improve the EJC Diabolo Battle
https://www.facebook.com/EJCDiaboloBattle/. I received tons of love because of that, I am proud, and I will keep on going. Thanks to everybody for the help and for coming and enjoying it!
Why I do these things? Well, it seems it makes me happy to know that diabolo evolves and expands around the world. This year I tried to convince the sponsors of the EJC Diabolo Battle to bring players to compete to Asia as an award in the EJC Diabolo Battle. So if you win the EJC Diabolo Battle you could go to Asia to compete.
Unfortunately sponsors do not want to go by this, mostly because 'what happens if the winner is usually not using my diabolos??', which is a valid concern.
Then in the EJC I learnt that Twin Spin already has traveled to Asia for a competition, and they actually won a medal in the Asia Diabolo Cup.
This means the
Asian Diabolo associations already have a structure and a plan and willingness to bring players from Europe to Asia.This is great news for all of us, and now my goals are to:
1- Make European players aware that they can go to Asia to compete
2- Motivate players to try to go to Asia to compete and so make the whole International Diabolo Community grow.
For this I intend to
- Make a calendar of worldwide competitions where foreigners are welcome and invited to join.
- Make a Facebook page to try to share this information with all the players
So this is a declaration of intentions, feedback is welcome. Let us diabolo!!
International Events:Finnish National Diabolo National Open for all nationalities
It has one or two champions, the Overall Champion and the Finnish Champion, which can be only a Finn
Orientative date: Second week of July (the 2017 edition has not happened yet)
China International Diabolo Tournamentat China JinHua , date: 20-21 Oct 2017
Tournament Registration: 15 June 2017 until 15 August 2017
https://www.idfdiabolo.org/2017-cidt/Local events (not open for foreigners)War-D Asia Cup Diabolo Tournament - Malaysia (Open only to people from Malaysia

- the winner represents Malaysia in the Asia Diabolo Cup)
All you need to do is :
1) Record a show act video clip of 2mins
2) PM us the clip with your name & age
3) Video clip Audition results will be announced on 17/9 and those who listed are eligible for registration for the War-D Tournament on 11/11.
Video clip audition expires on 10/9 so hurry up & grab your chance!
https://www.facebook.com/wardtournament2016/See a link to the ad (
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=335105540272799&id=213891035727584)
And now I would like to link
some Diabolo Associations that are worth knowing and followingFinnish Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/groups/133730164355/International Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/International-Diabolo-Association-213891035727584/International Diabolo Federation
https://www.facebook.com/InternationalDiaboloFederation/Taiwan Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/tdaccf/Japan Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/japandiabolo/?ref=br_rsMalaysiaSabah Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/sabahdiabolo/?ref=br_rsUtar (University Tunku Abdul Rahman) Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/utarclsdiabolo/?ref=br_rsMelaka Diabolo Association
https://www.facebook.com/MelakaDiaboloAssociation/I will try to complete these, any feedback is welcome.
I would like to give special thanks to the president of the Japan Diabolo Association, Tetsunori Saito. He seems to be a similar person to me, told me a lot of how the competitions look like in Asia, and his motivation is probably crucial for me to write this today. Saito, you are Awesome!
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