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 ...

Federico Urian was an expert at Rock the Cradle, Man on the Flying Trapeze and The Creeper. In his prime, few others in America could Walk the Dog, Skin the Cat, or throw a Forward Pass like he ...

This easy weight loss trick is no sweat. Jenna Rizzo, a Georgia-based fitness coach who specializes in women’s weight loss, is offering a simple psychological tip to combat yo-yo dieting. “Take out a ...

Believe it or not, June 6, 2019, marks 75 years of celebrating the classic toy, the yo-yo. While yo-yos have been around as early as 500 B.C., the modernization of the toy has brought in a plethora of ...

“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, ...

Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...

To most people, a yo-yo is just a toy. But to Gentry Stein, the whirling bundle of string, plastic, and precision ball-bearings can become much more in the right hands. “It is a simple toy,” he admits ...

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 ...

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 ...

Travis Kaiser, Zach McKinley and Scott Moore are known as South Elementary School's "Yo-Yo Boys." The Chelsea sixth-graders first discovered yo-yos last fall in Carol Strahler's science class. "She ...

Evan Nagao grew up in the world of yo-yoing, introduced to the sport by his father as a natural human behavior like walking and talking. "I just started yo-yoing when I was like 1 years old," Nagao ...