I recently moved to Bemidji Minnesota and I have a lot of unused kendamas. Trying to start a club to play by the lake. If anyone is in the area I will give you a kendama so we can play.
Have you poked your head into the Kendama Discord Server? They have a pretty active base. I think there are some players from MN there too. (Too late now I guess but they also have some AZ players I know for sure.) https://discord.io/Kendama