Tommy Gun is the webmaster and co-owner of ExtremeSpin. He is also the admin of The ExtremeSpin Forum. He has been yo-yoing since 1998, and was a judge at Midwest Regionals in 2002. He has made many clip videos from various contests, as well as filmed the freestyles and made them available online. He used to go by the handle "obscuremind" back in the old days.
He runs a blog called Notes from Tommy Gun that discusses skill toys and upcoming events (such as forum contests). All the updates for ExtremeSpin are also posted, so you can subscribe to the RSS feed to get them automatically.
He is credited with creating a style of yo-yoing called Doubles which involves using two yo-yos on one hand (one on your index finger, and the other on your ring finger).
Some of the more recent single A tricks he has created are:
- Thixotropy
- John Doe Whip
- Circle Grind