Introducing Ascent 2 - small changes, big impact. Ascent was released in late 2022 as an upgrade to the Elevate shape, taking feedback from customers about which areas to improve upon while keeping within competition standard. Little did we know that in KWC 2023, the 75mm sarado length limit was removed - with the only ken limit being the 170mm sword height.   This opened doors for us to try new things with our "taller shape" with the "standard shape" being the Hybrid-2. First and foremost - improving gunslingers through a small-cup sling support. We've always felt this was necessar ..read more

Kendama is just an insanely creative sport. Literally anything is possible and as a result of that, there are hundreds and thousands of clips being posted up every day. Trust us, we watch a ton of them. Every now and then, people ask us to recommend some tricks to try out and we'd spend time digging for something awesome that we saw a couple of days ago. So we thought, why not just put them on an easy to refer to page on our website. Enjoy.   1. Satisfying Juggles The first clip is from Jeff (@9oh4dama) of Kendrama who laces a peacefully satisfying consistency line of juggles with late d ..read more

2022 Shipping Update: There are 2 main ways that we ship our kendamas to you - no matter where you are in the world. Standard Shipping & DHL Shipping. When it comes to shipping fees, we've found that at 2 or more kendamas, it costs almost the same to use DHL as it does Standard Shipping for most of the world. (Except that DHL takes about 1/4 of the time!) In addition to that, DHL has superior customer service and more detailed tracking compared to Standard Shipping, which uses the service of local posts (think USPS). Because the prices are similar, most of the time we upgrade users who ..read more

In 2020 we released the Elevate shape, our attempt to push the limits of a KWC approve kendama size. It was 17cm tall and had a 75mm sarado. We did not make the ringstall and base cup size to the limit as it would have affected lunar play. The first version of the Elevate was not perfect. It's sarado was slightly too thin, resulting in a gap when using a 62mm tama. We fixed that in 2021, with a thicker sarado and introduced longer stall points. This both closed the gap and improved the lunar balance with additional wood making the sarado heavier.   Today we are launching Elevate X, a non ..read more

Today, we are excited to officially announce the launch of Hybrid-2, our new shape that will take centerstage in 2022. I want to first start with the thank you. With your support, we were able to make Performer one of the most popular non-big brand shapes out there. In that process we have also made it a point to take your feedback on both objective and subjective improvements While there is no perfect shape, our goal is to make Kendamas for Everyone and thus Hybrid-2 will combine our favourite things about the Performer and Elevate, with some small upgrades. Let's get started ..read more

While most youth have stopped playing kendama, Justin never did. This weekend he will be Singapore's only representative at the Kendama World Cup (KWC). KWC is held annually every year in Hatsukaichi, Japan and takes place this year over Zoom. Cereal Kendama pro Justin Hernandez competed in the qualifying rounds on 21st August, landing all 10 of his planned tricks and scoring a whopping 81 out of 100 potential points. Out of 702 participants, only 41 will make the finals. Based on past data, we expect that Justin will qualify for the finals and be the first Singapore representative since 2 ..read more

What's good fam! This week (23rd Jul) we dropped the Entry Mods - our new series of simple kendamas with the intent of letting as many people try the Performer shape as possible. At $30USD for 2 kendamas - this is the most affordable kendama we've ever offered. Naturally it would raise certain questions and this blog post is meant to answer it all. tl/dr: slightly lower costs, and much less profit but more players can try our shape #1: The Price of Our Goal Since launching the Performer shape, we have received a ton of great feedback about how it jams. This made it our goal to get the sh ..read more

If you don't already know, Dama Fam Inc.! is one of the hottest kendama groups on Facebook, with vibrant discussions going on each hour. This week, a huge positive discussion was started after Artemis Kendama founder Matt Zanoni shared his list of shapes categorized into Small, Medium and Bigger. The original post can be found here. However, we are putting the details in this blog post in the event the post gets buried or deleted. First, however, we'll start with a lit picture of Matt so you can put a face to a name. The original post broke shapes off the top of his head into the fo ..read more

November 2019 was a turning point for Cereal Kendama the new CREAL 1.5 shape was released. For the first time, it truly felt like we had a shape designed for modern play. Since then, we have gone to produce over 20 designs and collabs with the CREAL 1.5 shape. In that process, we began to think of all the improvements that could be made to CREAL 1.5, changes that would improve the playing experience for all types of players. Out of that comes Performer, a shape designed to optimize performance for any player, new or old. A shape that we ourselves enjoy jamming. In this post, we will go throug ..read more

What's going on fam - its been a couple of months since our last update so expect a huge one! To start, as many of you know, Cereal Kendama is the night job of Wen Chuen and I. We work our main day jobs and truth be told the last couple of months have been pretty hectic and therefore the reason why we have not provided a ton of updates. That being said, we're really aiming to put time aside for these updates as we feel that they are really helpful to you guys, our community. Without further ado, let's get started: 1. We made the KWC trick list! If you haven't already seen, Gloken has uploa ..read more