The photographers who attended the Catch & Flow tournament in September would have been well advised to keep an eye on their equipment, as some of the tricks performed during the freestyle competition were so outrageous that balls flew dangerously close to their lenses.
"It's called bounce; some people call it pizza toss," says Danish player Philip Eldridge to The Japan Times, putting a name on a trick he describes as one of his favorites.
Held on Sept. 13, Catch & Flow was the first freestyle kendama tournament to be organized in Japan.