Mission Statement

Ako Apparel was created in November of 2008 by Alix Ako & Chris Haider. "A'ko" translates to "me" or "I" in Tagalog. When you wear the Ako brand you are basically saying this brand I'm wearing is about "ME". Though it's begining roots is Pinoy, the ultimate goal as the company grows is to be a universal brand.

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AKO Kendamas

Monday, July 21, 2014

June customer giveaway prize winner is...

At the end of month we will hold a giveaway for customers that month. So any one who buys in that month is automatically entered into the giveaway. Doesn't matter how many items or how many times you order. You name can only be entered once for that month...what do you get? For the most part it will be a custom one of a kind AKO Kendama. Usually w tester that we experimented with and decided not to put into production. Or in the future custom one off artistic kendama. Show casing Chris Portacio's artistic background...

Our winner for the month of June is DION!

Thank you Dion for your purchase and support of AKO Kendama. We will be contacting you to inform you of your prize! Everyone else it's July! A new month and another chance to be put into the July giveaway. And don't worry we will be releasing new single colored kendamas. 5 colors to be exact. So check those out they should be dropping by the next week or so! Click on the store link above to go our online store!


Thursday, July 17, 2014

Price drop and The Trio droppin! Due to the many kendama brands in the market we felt the need to drop prices to be more competitive. On another note the Trio series has released. In this series we will release 3 colors for a short period of time, then after that another 3 colors will come out to replace the previous set. This is a series geared towards the beginner kendama player looking for an affordable kendama to start off with! So get your while they last! Use JUSTPLAY10 for 10% off your order!...

Friday, June 13, 2014


Dear Friends & Family,

Well the wait is finally over! AKO Kendamas is officially up for business. Right now we have our first 3 kendamas released. We have tons more customs that we are working on and will be released in limited quantities. Why limited? Because we want our kendamas to have a collectors value to them. Over saturating the market with unlimited kendamas doesn't drive people to want to obtain your product or hold any value to it. It'll just be another kendama that you can keep buying. We don't believe in that, what we believe in is small batches. Small run of customs that once run...that's it. That version will no longer be produced. There's so much we have planned, I hope you stick around and ride this kendama wave with us.

Also Tees will be up soon! I believe we have 3 designs releasing as well. My business partner Arbel and owner of AKO Apparel along with our designer Ivan will be putting those up soon. You guys will love what they've got planned on the apparel end! Gonna be exciting stuff!

Thank you for all the support alot of you have shown us, from the moment we launched the idea out and now to the product release!

Best Regards,
Chris Portacio
Owner
AKO Kendamas