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Kotaro Pro Bamboo Kendama Toy with Extra String
Premium Full-Bamboo Build: Crafted from high-quality laminated bamboo for a lightweight, balanced, and durable Kendama ideal for beginners and advanced players. Smooth finish provides excellent grip for consistent trick performance.
Full-Size Traditional Design: Authentic 7.25" Kendama size with classic ken shape and precision cups. Feels perfectly balanced in the hand for practicing core tricks like Oozara, Kozara, Base Cup, Spike, and more.
Ready For Tricks Out Of The Box: Includes a pre-strung tama (ball), perfectly angled cups, and a sharp spike for clean landings. Ideal for freestyle play, competitions, and progression training.
Builds Skill & Coordination: Great for improving hand-eye coordination, focus, balance, and reflexes. A fun alternative to screens for teens and adults. Ages 12+
Extra Replaceable String Included: Comes with a durable replacement string so you can restring anytime. Perfect for long practice sessions and advanced players who frequently swap strings
If you're looking for the BEST bamboo kendama on the market, buy the Kotaro Kendama brand. Made of laminated bamboo parts, Kotaro Kendamas are designed for high level kendama play.
With enough practice, you'll be doing all your favorite tricks like Oozara (big cup), Kozara (small cup), Chuuzara (base cup) and Rousoku (candle). Use grips like the Sara (or Pen) Grip, the Ken Grip, the Tama Grip or the Rousoku Grip.
The deluxe Kotaro Kendama model comes with a bamboo ball (the tama or dama), a pre-strung length of string, and the Ken, or handle with three cups. Also comes with one extra string! They were historically a Japanese skill toy.
Improve your hand eye coordination, speed up your reflexes and improve your balancing techniques. As you learn how to use the kendama better and better, you'll build skills like patience and focus and enter the magical state of flow. Named After Fuma Kotaro, the Japanese ninja. Some people mistakenly call them cadoma, cadama, kentama, kandamas, kindamas and kondoma or kondomas.
What else makes the Kotaro Kendama better?
Bamboo seems like wood, but it's actually a grass! It grows back extremely quickly, so it's very sustainable.
Manufactured in Asia by a toy company that has been in business making bamboo and wooden toys for 14 years.
Extremely sweet looking and stable handle. Nice, deep and perfectly angled cups.