RYO

Ryo as he appeared on Japanese TV in 2006.

Satake 'RYO' Ryo was a JEB competitive spinner and pen modder. He was famous in the early pen spinning community for creating the highly popular mods Dr. KT, Lakubo Jell and Ryo Cheat Comssa.

Along with Bonkura and SEVEN at the time, RYO was one of the early spinners to appear on television in Japan. He had also participated in the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2007, making it to the 2nd round. The year after, he also participated in the Asian Cup 2008 for the JEB team, coming 4th place out of 8 communities.

History

Born sometime between 1992-1993, he lived in Higashiōmi, Shiga Prefecture at the time he was active in the pen spinning community. He originally learnt his first pen spinning tricks from his elementary school teacher, which would have meant he had started spinning in 2004 or before, making him a 3 year spinner by the time of World Tournament 2007. After the creation of Aysh's ペン回し資料室 (Pen Spinning Reference Room) in 2004, RYO created a website of his own called WLPS (We Love Pen Spinning).

Competitive Spinning

World Tournament 2007

See also: Pen Spinning World Tournament 2007

Round 1

Win versus Ceedgee from SweSpin.

Round 2

Loss versus ps-728 from JEB.

Asian Cup 2008

See also: Asian Cup 2008

Round 1

Video unknown. Versus ellusion67 from UPSB.

Round 2

Video unknown. CV phase

In the media

RYO appeared on Japanese TV in the early pen spinning era, the show was likely aired sometime in 2006, with spinners on UCPSB referencing it in Jul 20, 2006. He appears as a Junior High School 2nd grade student, which would make him either 13 or 14 years old when the recording was taken.