The Jiro Maestu and Ryan Cua Interview with Throwing Fits
Throwing Fits
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Bonjour! This Week, Jimmy and Larry are coming to you live from Paris Fashion Week to celebrate the LTTT x ASICS SportStyle collaboration, hitting the stage with Jiro Maestu and Ryan Cua—the founder of Little Tokyo Table Tennis and the global energy/collaborations manager of ASICS SportStyle respectively—to talk everything from how Jiro and Ryan first linked up to creating a community based around your passions to the next big thing in sneakers and what it feels like to go from dropping out of school in Paris to hosting one of the city's hottest activations.
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour. |
| 0:04.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:04.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:06.4 | Bonjour, Paris. |
| 0:07.5 | We are throwing fits the self-proclaimed only podcast that matters. |
| 0:10.7 | And we are joined by two homies who linked up and put together what men are calling the greatest table tennis sneaker of all time. |
| 0:16.9 | Here to dive deep. |
| 0:17.8 | Speaking to the bike. |
| 0:18.3 | Holy shit. |
| 0:18.8 | Here to dive deep into the collaborative process, what's next for the world of sneakers |
| 0:22.5 | and the cheat code on how to get your very own ASICs collab. |
| 0:25.7 | Please welcome Giro, the founder of Little Tokyo Table Tennis and Ryan, |
| 0:29.1 | the global energy slash collaborations manager of ASICSports style. |
| 0:33.5 | What a job title. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome, guys. |
| 0:40.7 | Jiro, why aren't you wearing the LTTT-A-6 mascot uniform in this heat? |
| 0:44.9 | Are you too big time that he got an A-6 club? |
| 0:46.7 | I just took it off right now, but I don't sweat. |
| 0:50.3 | That shit is serious. |
| 0:51.2 | It is very serious. |
| 0:52.1 | They, yeah, props to them for. How long did that take to make? I don't know how long it took to make. My agency, AIMCO, they took care of the production. We made a version of them ourselves in L.A. To kind of test out. But they were just as hot. And shout out to Zoe, my sister, who designed the mascots. I'm going to say your sister is the mascot. She is a professional mascot maker. She's a painter, but she did. I hope you're paying whoever's wearing them extra in this heat. Who approached who about collaborating together? Like, how did this happen? You came on to me, right? I think I slid in, yeah. I think I was |
| 1:29.0 | the first to slide into the DMs. So is that where all great collaborations happen just in the DMs? |
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