[047]

Yep, that thing with the string. Any kind of yoyoing, string tricks, picture tricks, and off string tricks, I love it all and was wondering if anyone else was enjoyed it as well.

[passinthru]

hey welcome to the boards

um..I'm no good witha yo-yo...I find it really soothing though to just watch it go up and down up and down....cna't do any tricks...

Katie+

[Nimrod]

sort of, but i'm not too good.

i can rock the cradle, walk the dog, that kind of thing, but i'm not particularly good. :kstare:

[BlazeQ]

I don't have a yo-yo, but I pick up my brother's ocasionally to give it a couple turns. It's fun I can walk the dog but that's about it.

You guys know where the word "yo-yo" comes from? :kgrin:

BlazeQ

[passinthru]

Originally posted by BlazeQ
You guys know where the word "yo-yo" comes from? :kgrin:

ok do share....

Katie+

[047]

Yep, from here:

The first recorded reference to any type of yo-yo in the United States was in 1866 when two men from Ohio received a patent for an invention called "an improved bandalore," in that it was rim weighted. One year later, a German immigrant named Charles Kirchof patented and manufactured the return wheel. From then until 1911, although various patents were awarded in the United States related to the yo-yo, nothing notable occurred. In 1916, the Scientific American Supplement published an article titled "Filipino Toys" which showed it and named it a yo-yo. This was explained by some as the Filipino word for "come-come" or "to return." Significant events were soon to happen in the United States.

Full details and much more information can be found at the American YoYo Association.

[BlazeQ]

Now I haven't looked it up, but I read that it comes from a natives' language and it meant "come-come". Originally the yo-yo was larger (some had spikes) and was used by the natives as a hunting tool. They would climb in a tree and wait for an animal to pass beneath and then their expert yo-yo skills would come into play

[edit] looks like someone posted before me [/edit]

[Rocguitar]

I used to be a yo-yo addict. I'd take it everywhere. Kinda funny now. Oh well. The best trick i did was rock-the-cradel-in-the-brain-twister. Now i play guitar.................

[H.M. Murdock]

Haha..... I yoyo every now and then.....

I can make an eifel tower look like a ten-gallon cowboy hat.:kduh:

[john8_36]

i used to be really into yo-yoing. i got a special yo-yo that was supposed to be able to do all these cool tricks. ironically, that one doesn't do anything i try to make it do, but the ones at the 99 cent store do everything imaginable. i just like to amaze my baby cousins all the time. they think i'm magical or something. :klol:

[SenorPapaCabasa]

i used to.....in 7th grade

[Tracy]

I've never even been able to make it go up and down...

[Michael]

i cant do much...lol...but i "tried" to bring yoyos back at our school

[OneWithTheMud]

I can do a couple trick things with a yo-yo but I haven't picked one up in a long time.

[robert4xst]

I try to yo-yo.... it doesn't work that well.. I'm not all that great at it.