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 ...

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CHICO — Can you Rock the Baby? Split the Atom? Throw a Spirit Bomb, Reach for the Moon or land a Kamikaze? The more than 80 registered players participating in the 2010 National Yo-Yo Championship can ...

Forget about little kids walking the dog. The 21st-century yo-yo scene features the grim-faced concentration of young men in hoodies and skullcaps slinging yo-yos behind their backs and weaving ...

When Mark Hayward tells people what he does for a living, he’s usually greeted with a raised eyebrow and a lot of questions. “They are always surprised and say, ‘You can make a living doing that?’ ” ...

SHERWOOD -- Colin Leland can't remember the last time he went an entire day without using a yo-yo. The 26-year-old Tualatin native figures it was sometime in 2001. That's when he first started ...

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 ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

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 ...

Alex Dias, 11, performs a trick with his yo-yo at his home in Dunlap Thursday. Ann Dias can always find her son in a crowd. All she has to do is listen for the whirr and zing of a yo-yo string. "He yo ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...