Has The YoYo Gone The Way Of The Dodo ???

[CJM3309]

My kids are 8 and 6 and we have a Duncan around the house. I picked up yo-yo fairly easily as a kid for some reason and have a few good tricks. The kids love the tricks and have fun playing with it.

 

[stxrus]

I have a couple of Imperials at my sister’s. I think the Butterfly died before I headed for the Caribbean this last time. I was better at yo-yo than juggling. I still have my juggling balls in the closet.
Maybe I’ll have to get another.

 

[Obsessed]

Yup, my 10 year old grandson just showed me his yo-yo a few weeks ago. I’ll admit, it took me a minute or so to warm up, but I was able to show off a few clumsy tricks.

Now where are those Duncan Imperial tops? I was more of a natural with those.

 

[trev333]

yoyos had other brands? who knew...

we just had these coke yoyos, they're the only ones I remember having... or fanta/sprite logos...

just noticed the Russell brand on them for the first time....

 

[Rich_S]

I tried the Yo Yo app on my iPhone, but it didn’t come back up and the screen broke.

 

[drf64]

 

[Hamstein]

My older brother won a local contest as a kid and got a golden Duncan YoYo.
Seems like Jackie Chan or somebody like him used it as a weapon in one of the martial arts movies.

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Seems they are still around but pricey

https://www.yo-yo.com/

Yep, the YoYo is actually a martial art! Middle finger for me, flick it out, donk the perp on the noggin, back under the right elbow, over the left shoulder, drop the string, and into the breast pocket of your sharp suit ( hopefully missing the carnation tastefully placed above it ) - ...and the job is done!

 

[jaxjaxon]

Yo Yo the original fidget spinner.

 

[ReverendRevolver]

In the late 90s, I had some Duncans, but Yomega was where it was at;
Started with a Firestorm. That was basically just a butterfly with a bearing on the axle the string attached to. Later got an xbrain, way easier to use. Like cheating.

My kids have played with the like 3 yoyos i still had, but they aren't "cool" again yet. Everything seems to circle back around though. Matter of time.....

 

[ChicknPickn]

When in grade school in the early 50's, Duncan Yo-Yo representatives came to our school to sell their products, give a demonstration show on how to do tricks, ability of each type of Yo-Yo and sponsor a Yo-Yo Tricks/Skill contest. In advance of Duncan arriving at the school, most of the boys and some girls, were practicing, during recess periods, their Yo-Yo skills (most of those not practicing Yo-Yo were playing marbles).

A Duncan Yo-Yo was also one of the prizes you could choose from when you turned in two completed Korean War Effort coin folders that held dimes (cannot remember exact amount but somewhere around $2.00 in each folder IIRC).

Yeah, and if you were a real bad-ass, you got the Duncan Butterfly. All the advanced tricks were done with the Butterfly. Those Duncan professionals really blew my mind when I was about 10 years old.

 

[KyAnne]

No, I still have the Duncan "Butterfly" and showed my Grand daughter this week after the Hurricane!

 

[FenderGyrl]

Awesome.
Can somebody find and post Jason Becker shredding on guitar and showing off his YoYo skills at the same time?
FG

 

[mexicanyella]

For some reason This thread is reminding me of my son at about age six, using his Lincoln Logs set as a sort of trebuchet, launching the short log pieces at about 2,500 FPS down the hallway at my convalescent father in law, who was trying to watch a game show from his hospital bed.

 

[Red Ryder]

I remember seeing that show when I was a kid. Thank you for that wonderful memory.

 

[stantheman]

Stlll love YoYo's.
They work for smoking cravings too.

 

[monkeybanana]

What the heck is a dodo? Slinkies, anyone?

 

[61fury]

Those Duncan professionals really blew my mind when I was about 10 years old.

I remember that guy, he came to my local toy store, his spiel was as memorable as his yo yo skills.

I still impulse buy yo yo's but I forget them after about 10 minutes. There are many laying around the house.

 

[Hamstein]

People keep giving me them, but I am actually better with a Diabolo! they are great fun, I have just about managed doing two at once.

 

[Buckocaster51]

The real question is...do you use your index or middle finger for the yo-yo string?

Middle finger.

I had one of those high-tech aluminum spinners Is probably still around here. Who made those things?

 

[Old Deaf Roadie]

We had yoyos as toys when we were kids. Then, I grew up & traveled with a bunch of yoyos. Then, I had kids & got old and now, somehow, have become the yoyo myself, it seems.