..for 50p in a charity shop the other day. I can't stop playing with it. I keep putting it on my finger and flicking it up in the air a few times, then putting it away again. I've noticed that I can flick up then sling-shot it round back up again but the third time i try it always fucks up. Can anyone perpetually yo-yo upside down, or is the second sling shot the cut-off point for all yo-yos?
This thread went 4 hours without a single reply... you get my pity post of the week LeodGanja. I never liked yo-yos anyway. Except that one made inthe late 80s that always came back to you.
I love yo-yos. I have two classic wooden ones. I can do a few tricks with them. Mostly I just find the repetitive motion therapeutic and good for thinking.
depends on the yoyo. there are lots of kinds of yoyos, with the way the string is attached, width, etc. theres probably a few types that can slingshot back to back continuously, but if you got it at a charity shop, most likely its not capable.
I was never very good with a yo yo but did constantly have one around as a kid. Maybe it was an eye hand thing but I never got the hang of doing any of the tricks with it.
I was a professional yo-yo player in the 70's. Traveled the country and outside the US, doing demonstrations, teaching, running contests, awarding prizes and the like. There are books and videos on every aspect of the hobby.
Australia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Costa Rica. On the yo-yo trick front we have around the world, around the world backwards, and through the subway. I would say the yo-yo biz has its' ups and downs.
Yo-yo's kick ass. They got really popular when I was in elementary school and basically everybody had one. I used to be able to do all sorts of tricks with them when I was younger, especially with the fancy yo-yo's with the ball-bearings in them.
Everyone says yo-yos were really popular when I was a kid. That effect is part of a marketing strategy. The target age for what is called yo-yo promotion is from 8 to 11. In order to have a persistent crop of children in that age group, they target a metropolitan area but not all metropolitan areas at the same time. Say I ran a yo-yo promotion in boston. I would advertize and make personal appearances, school assemblies and the like for a period of two months, creating great excitement and lots of sales. If I came back to boston the very next year, my sales would crash because yo-yo age kids still have yo-yos from the year before. So i would need to wait three years before the market was ready again. Boston two months, move to say, Salinas- Monterey, california for two months, and on like that during the school year. Yo-yo guys used to get about 6 weeks paid vacation, at a reduced rate, during the time school is out. The reason they don't work in the summer is that kids do not congregate in such large numbers as when they are in school, and it is at school, during assemblies and after school television advertizing that creates the excitement because the kids are playing of each other.
Safety note: The yo-yo is attached to your finger. In the event you should lose control, don't try to protect your face with your hands.
