it was, but his enthusiasm was contagious. He was nuts for kendama. He was blown away by the fact that I knew what it was and even had one (although I hadn’t touched it in years). When I got home I dug out the old kendama and started playing with it with a newfound interest. It was fun. It was challenging yet doable. It had endless possibilities. By this time youtube was a common place to check stuff out, so I thought I’d look into kendama. Sure enough, I found a few videos by Matt “Sweets” Jorgenson, the man I consider to be the father of the American Kendama Craze. After checking out some of the stuff he was doing with kendama, I was hooked. A few monthslater while on vacation in the Bahamas, I decided to launch a kendama company. Hence the origin of Bahama Kendama.

Kendama popularity started to grow in 2012, 2013 were great years for kendama. We sold tons of kendama, both wholesale to stores as well as direct online. We came out with new design styles, hydro printing, glow in the dark, hand painted, and the list goes on. We started making all different sizes, small, medium and large, and then extra small and extra large, then extra extra small, and extra extra large (we called that one Kenzilla), and then tried new kinds of materials and different types of kendama, Hardwoods, Acrylic, even Aluminum, and five cup kendama, six whole kendama, and some so wacky they never made it past