Dave Schulte

Dave Schulte is a professional yo-yo player and a U.S. National Yo-Yo Master from Minnesota. He is often known by his stage name "Dazzling Dave". Dave got a late start as a professional yo-yo player, after graduating college he became a Technology Education teacher. In 1998, he was offered a one-year tour as a full time yo-yo demonstrator and member of Team High Performance by HPK Marketing, and never went back to teaching.

He started his own business in 2000, and is still a full-time yo-yo professional who travels the midwest and the world teaching people how to play yo-yo. He has a series of signature yo-yos to his name, from the auto-returning Inferno from Abbe Toys, to unresponsive metal yo-yos such as the CYYC Flyer and Dif-e-Yo InTernal Turmoil.

Dave also has an extensive yo-yo collection (though not on the level of Lucky Meisenheimer), with examples from various manufacturers such as Duncan, Yomega, YoYoJam, Custom Products, Bandai's Hyper Yo-Yo range, Tom Kuhn/BC, Spintastics, SuperYo, etc.

He was also a member of Team Hyper Viper alongside Jon Gates, to promote the Henrys Hyper Viper yo-yo and offstring play in Japan during the late-90s Hyper Yo-Yo boom.

Signature Yo-yos

• Abbe Toys Inferno
• Spintastics Manta-Ray
• Dif-e-Yo InTernal Turmoil
• CYYC Flyer
• Dazzling Dave Z
• Dazzling Dave Zipper

Gallery

Dave Schulte & Chuck Short at the 1999 Worlds.

Signature auto-return yo-yo.

Special "mod" yo-yo made by Eric Wolff, this is a high performance Inferno capped yo-yo made out of osage orange wood.

Graphics on the Manta-Ray made in 2004.

Graphics on the Manta-Ray made in 2004.

Graphics from the original Manta-Ray made in 2000.

1999 BC/Tom Kuhn Fixed Axle Challenge at the World Yo-Yo Contest. 1st Dave Schulte, 2nd Steve Brown, and 3rd Gary Longoria(?)

Achievements

• Three world records.
  • Eli Hops World Record (Open), 120, Set at the World Yo-Yo Contest with a Dif-e-Yo Bare Bones
  • Trapeze Regenerations World Record (Open), 224, Set at the Midwest Regionals with a Yomega HyperWarp Heavy Wing
  • Longest Shoot the Moon, 13' 2", Set at the 2006 World Yo-Yo Contest with a YoYoJam Aquarius
• Winner of the 1999 BC/Tom Kuhn Fixed Axle Challenge at the World Yo-Yo Contest

Titles

• 2001 Named National Yo-Yo Master
• 2000 Minnesota State Champion
• 1999 National A Freestyle 5th place
• 1999 World Fixed Axle Champion
• 1998 Northeast Regional Champion
• 1998 Midwest Regional Champion
• 1997 Twin Cities Champion
• 1996 Masters World Champion
• 1995 Masters Twin Cities Open 2nd place

External link

• Dazzling Dave's Official website