Yo-yo champion Harrison Lee explains yo-yo tricks in 26 levels of difficulty. Starting with tricks using an unresponsive yo-yo, Harrison progresses until he's popping the yo-yo into the air, and ...

It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but yo-yo play is serious business. Especially in Cleveland this week, where the world’s most skilled yo-yo players are gathering for The World Yo-Yo Contest. The ...

BURLINGTON - "Sleep it," Judith Schulz ordered. With those words, three silver-colored yo-yos dropped to the end of their strings and hung there, stalled but still spinning. The three boys holding the ...

Yo-yo master Isaac Sams displays one of his tricks in Buckhannon, W.Va. Sams, who has been slinging a yo-yo around since age 10, is a self-taught yo-yo junkie, getting most of his inspiration from ...

“Where was the yo-yo invented?” asked a young patron at the Vernon Area Library’s yo-yo workshop last month. Most likely, your mom and dad have a few tricks up their sleeves when it comes to yo-yoing, ...

The contest features various styles of yo-yo play, with each contestant doing a performance set to music. Yo-yo like a pro: Inside the World Yo-Yo Contest in Cleveland It may not be an Olympic sport ...

Even the most basic yo-yo tricks depend on the toy’s ability to keep on spinning. But why does it spin so fast for so long? The magic center of a yo-yo is a bearing—a bunch of tiny metal balls trapped ...

LAKE RIDGE, Va. (AP) - The Cub Scouts in Pack 295 knew all about the two-dimensional world of the video game Minecraft, but they had never “pulled the puppy by the tail.” Some of them had never even ...

The patter of public address announcer and disc jockey Brett Outchcunis — whose friends call him “Oootch” — was a constant presence in the auditorium of the John F. Kennedy Middle School here on ...

Andra Cernavskis Luke Renner has been playing with yo-yos since he was in junior high school. Years later, he has managed to become a yo-yo master and used his hobby to produce a full-fledged kids ...

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