Alex Garcia

Alex Garcia
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Alias	Warp Speed
Resides	Honolulu, Hawaii
Affiliation	Team High Performance (Team Captain, former) YoYoFactory (current) Fist Salud
YoYoStyle	2A
Playing Since	1995
Known for	High-speed looping Famous in Japan during the 1990s yo-yo boom Fictional persona in Supersonic Spinners/Super Yo-Yo

Alex Garcia, A.K.A. "Warp Speed", is a Hawaiian yo-yo player who was legendary for his two-handed freestyles and using short string for his high-speed looping techniques, from which he gets his nickname from. His signature yo-yo trick was the Criss-Cross Around the World. He was a three-time Hawaii State Yo-Yo Champion, as well as a two-time U.S. National Champion in the 1990s.

He was the Team Captain of Team High Performance during the yo-yo boom of the 1990s.

In 1996, Garcia, along with other talented players such as Dale Myrberg (who would become the World Yo-Yo Champion that year), traveled to Japan to hold yo-yo demonstrations and promotions there, those which helped bring about the Japanese Hyper Yo-Yo boom. Garcia had also become very famous in Japan, to the point of even having his own theme song "Warp Speed", which was produced as a Mini CD single recorded by Forty Four Hyper that had hit the charts in Japan.

He also had the honor of having a quarter flicked off of his ear by Dale Myrberg at one of THP's meetings in 1997.

Garcia was also a major figure in the promotion of the Hyper Yo-Yo line in Japan, having appeared in some of the TV commercials, as well as performing at the Hyper Yo-Yo Japan Championship in 1998 and 1999. He also had a fictionalized persona in the anime and manga series Supersonic Spinners/Super Yo-Yo.

As of current, he is affiliated with YoYoFactory, and runs a yo-yo club based in Hawaii called YoYoFactory 808. In 2012, he had also performed as part of a special guest appearance (alongside Nakamura-Meijin, another former member of THP) at the Japan National Yo-Yo Contest. He is also a member of the yo-yo team Fist Salud.