Blazing Teens facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Blazing Teens
Screenplay by	Li Jianglin, Zhang Lei
Directed by	Zhang Lei
Starring	Zhang Yifan as Leon Lu Mengxin as Mini Chen Weidong as Mark Yin Peng as Michael Cui Luni as Linda Cheng Sudong as Gordon Ju Renxi as Jacky Yang Zhi Tao as Marco
Country of origin	China
Original language(s)	Chinese
No. of episodes	40
Production
Producer(s)	Zhan Qi'an
Production location(s)	Shanghai
Running time	24 minutes
Production company(s)	Alpha Group Co., Ltd.
Release
Original release	May 1, 2006 (2006-05-01)

Blazing Teens is a fun Chinese TV show. It was made by Alpha Group Co., Ltd. and Auldey Toys in 2006. The show is based on Auldey's popular yo-yo toys.

What is Blazing Teens About?

The show is all about high schools that have exciting yo-yo contests. Schools create teams and compete to win against other schools. Each team faces its own challenges and works together to solve them. Every yo-yo in the show has a special name that matches its design. The series uses cool special effects to show the "magic" and speed of the yo-yos. These "magic spells" are like battles. The player whose magic lasts longer wins the match.

Some of the yo-yo tricks you'll see are common ones. These include the Forward Pass, Loop-the-Loop, and Trapeze. The show also features unique tricks created just for the series. Some of these special moves are the White Buddha and the Cold Fusion.

Blazing Teens Story

Season 1: The Start of the Adventure

The main characters in Season 1 are Leon, Mini, Mark, and Michael. Leon is the hero of the story. Michael is his main rival.

Leon lost to Michael in a yo-yo contest in California. Michael teased Leon, saying his Eastern yo-yo skills were not as good. So, Leon went back to China to improve his Eastern yo-yo techniques. On his trip, he stopped a robbery. This caught the eye of a coach from Jianghai High School. The coach was trying to start a yo-yo team for his school. The school did not have enough money for a training spot or uniforms. The coach tried to use his own money to help. He also had the school's yo-yo players perform a trick show to raise funds.

The coach asked Leon to join the Jianghai team. He thought Leon would make it easier for them to win. However, Leon did not get along with some of the other players at first. These players had once tried to trick a boy out of his yo-yo.

On the first day of summer training, Leon decided to join the team. During practice, Leon liked to train alone. This made other players jealous, and they tried to get him removed. Leon was wrongly accused of stealing and was expelled from the team.

Their rivals, the Chengnan team, tried to cheat. They suggested a friendly battle to see Jianghai's special tricks. Mini lost her match. But then Leon returned at the last moment and defeated the other team.

After training, the team went back to school. Michael came back from the US to form his own team. He wanted to embarrass Leon so Leon would not face him again. Michael's helpers, Cold Cat and Hot Dog, battled the Jianghai team. They defeated many players from both the Jianghai and Chengnan teams.

The tournament was renamed "Youth Fire." This was because the coach wanted all his players to enter. Leon trained his yo-yo to use a powerful move called Final Divine Light. This move required learning seven different Divine Light tricks first. The team also had to change their tricks. Michael's team knew their old tricks because a Jianghai player had switched schools.

At the tournament, Shawn performed well in the first part of the contest. He scored 9.96 points. In the final battle, Leon faced Michael. Leon won the match.

Season 2: New Challenges

In Season 2, the main teams are the Blazing Yo-Yo Club and the Lightning Yo-Yo Club. Leon is still a main character and a member of the Blazing Yo-Yo Club. Marco is the captain of the Lightning Yo-Yo Club. Timothy is the new rival for this season.

The Blazing Yo-Yo Club members include Fiona, Simon, Peter, Frankie, Danny, Sandy, and Charles. The Lightning Yo-Yo Club members are Lisa, Lawson, Billy, and Rocky. Mini was first part of the Blazing Yo-Yo Club. But by the end of Season 2, she moved to the Lightning Yo-Yo Club.

Season 3: The Blazing Team

In Season 3, the main characters are Jacky and Liam. Their teammates are Ken, Jerry, and Lily. Sandy is a girl who creates new yo-yos for the team. They are all part of the Blazing Team, and Jacky is their leader.

Jacky and Liam did not get along at first. Liam was a bit arrogant. He even left the Blazing Team after joining. After more arguments, Jacky made Liam leave the team. Liam then learned he had to join the Fire Cup yo-yo competition. Ken and Jerry tried to give him another chance. However, a misunderstanding happened when Liam's father arrived.

Meanwhile, Dylan, a world-class champion, came to China. He wanted to form a team with the strongest players. He believed only Western yo-yo skills were truly great. He thought Chinese skills could not compare. His team later became known as the Falcon Team.

Liam, Lily, and their friends Sean, Onion, and Charles tried to help Jacky and Ray. Ray was the leader of the Super Tornado team. There was a misunderstanding between them from the last National Competition. They wanted to fix things to stop Dylan from achieving his goal.

Lily's cousin, Takashi, was on the Falcon Team and did not like her. The Blazing Team's main goal was to beat the Falcon Team. They wanted to prove that Chinese yo-yo techniques were just as good as Western ones.

Throughout this season, the show often talks about "the true meaning of yo-yoing." This means enjoying yourself and having fun. After the National Competitions, the story led into Blazing Teens 3.5. This part was about masked yo-yo players. These players were from Dylan's original team.

This season was later made into a live-action movie.

Season 3.5/4: Finding New Players

In China, Season 3.5 was not called a full season. However, on the English Auldey website, it is known as "Season 4."

Liam starts by briefly explaining what happened in Season 3. The team is still looking for skilled players for their team. Liam and Kelvin go to Shanghai. They are searching for a legendary player who is supposedly very good. After Sandy encourages them, Liam and Kelvin reluctantly go. Jacky travels to Beijing. He is looking for another player and visits Mrs. Weng. She is an older lady who supposedly taught Jacky some yo-yo skills. It is hinted that Leo, a player from Dylan's Tornado team, is Mrs. Weng's grandson.

In Shanghai, Liam takes Kelvin to an arcade. Liam plays a game and gets the highest score. A very short teenager challenges Liam to a game. However, Liam rudely refuses. He calls the person a "child" and "immature." He does not know that this "child" is the legendary player he is looking for. This player is already in his last year of junior high.

Liam and Kelvin temporarily stay at Charles' grandmother's house. They ask Charles if he knows anything about the legendary player. Charles shows them his yo-yo, which was damaged by this player. Liam promises to get revenge.

When they go to find the legendary player, Liam first thinks someone else is the one. But then he realizes the short guy from the arcade is the legendary player. Liam challenges him, saying, "the winner will get their wish granted." They start their battle. David wins and makes Liam his "slave."

David is actually a very lonely person. Many people think he uses his yo-yo to do bad things. Liam soon realizes this, and they become friends.

In Beijing, Jacky stays with Mrs. Weng. Her grandson is one of two people trying to stop them from finding team members. He is a skilled yo-yo player.

In an unfinished part of Blazing Teens Season 3, Dylan asked his team to stop fighting Chinese yo-yo players unfairly. Three people did not listen. These were skilled players. One of them was a girl.

Mrs. Weng and her grandson had not been friendly for a long time. Mrs. Weng really wanted her grandson to forgive her. Knowing this, her grandson tried to make Mrs. Weng hurt Jacky. But Jacky helped them change their minds.

Jacky goes to another city to find another player. Dylan's player secretly joins their team and causes problems. Sandy is almost driven away from the team. But Jacky refused to believe that player would do such a thing. She almost damaged the team's yo-yos.

Season 4: Hip-Hop Yo-Yo

This season is also known as "Hip-Hop Yoyo." It has 42 episodes. Many new characters are introduced in this season. Yo-yo skills from different styles are shown.

Only these characters from Season 3 appear in this season:

• Jacky
• Hippo
• Sean
• Andy
• Ray
• Charles

Blazing Team: An American Version

In 2015, Hasbro bought the rights to the Blazing Teens show for North America. Hasbro then worked with Alpha Group to create an animated series. This new show was called Blazing Team: Masters of Yo Kwon Do. A trailer for the series was released in October 2015. The show started airing on Discovery Family in November 2015. Its second season aired in July 2017. The show did not continue for a third season.

Where Was Blazing Teens Shown?

Country	Channel
China	CCTV-14
Turkey	Minika Nickelodeon Kidz TV
Philippines	GMA Network
Indonesia	Spacetoon
India	Pogo
Pakistan	Cartoon Network
Vietnam	Sao TV
Croatia	HRT 2
Arab League	Spacetoon MBC 3 MBC Action Ajyal TV
South Korea	KBS1 Tooniverse

Cool Facts About Blazing Teens

• Sometimes, Blazing Teens Trick Contests are held in China. Fans of the show perform tricks with their own yo-yos.
• Seasons 3, 4, and 5 of the series were made into manhua (Chinese comics). They also inspired a novel with the same name.

See also

• Armor Hero (Chinese: 铠甲勇士)
• Balala the Fairies (Chinese: 巴啦啦小魔仙)