Yo-Yo World Trick Book: Featuring 50 of the Most Popular Yo-Yo Tricks

By Harry Baier

Walk the Dog, Rock the Baby, and perform the Robin Hood, Sky Rocket, and Eiffel Tower! This entertaining book features 50 of the most popular Yo-Yo tricks, along with an illustrated history of the toy and its variations. Helpful diagrams accompany the easy instructions, and you'll also find tips for keeping your Yo-Yo in top condition.
Author Harry Baier is the creator of the internationally acclaimed Moonstar and Mondial, the Rolls-Royces of Yo-Yos. His complete guide to Yo-Yo tricks can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Apr 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9780486793993

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Yo-Yo World

Trick Book

Featuring 50 of the Most Popular Yo-Yo Tricks

History of the Yo-Yo

Yo-Yo Families and How They Work

Harry Baier

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Mineola, New York

Copyright

Copyright © 1997 by Harry Baier

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2014, is an unabridged republication of the English version of the work originally self-published by the author in 1997.

International Standard Book Number

eISBN-13: 978-0-486-79399-3

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

49488801   2014

www.doverpublications.com

Introduction

Preface

History of the Yo-Yo

Yo-Yo Families

1. The Classic Yo-Yo

2. The Academic Yo-Yo

3. The Modern Yo-Yo (Freewheeling)

4. The Yomega with Brain

Puzzle Page

Explanation of illustrations Preparing Your Yo-Yo

Changing the String and Adjusting its Length

Changing the String (YOMEGA Models)

Making a Finger Loop

Winding the String

Winding the String (Advanced Method)

Basic Trick: The Sleeper

Walk the Dog

The Creeper

Spaghetti

Around the Corner

Walk the Dog (through the legs)

Surprise

Robin Hood

Sky Rocket

Rock the Baby

Pinwheel Baby

Dizzy Baby

Picture Tricks

One-Handed Star

Texas Star

Eiffel Tower

Pro Tricks

Brain Twister

Front Mount (Forward and Backward)

Pinwheel

Rock the Baby in the Brain Twister

Barrel Rolls

Side Throw

Break Away

Around the World

Man on the Flying Trapeze

Man on the Flying Trapeze (backward)

Monkey Climbs a Tree/Elevator

Pendulum

Around the World (small)

Rock the Baby in the Eiffel Tower

Double or Nothing

Triple-, Quadruple- and Middle or Nothing

Windmill

Man on the Flying Trapeze/Trapeze with Back Flip (Lindy Loop)

Lindy Loop Variation #2

Lindy Loop Variation #3

Dunk Shot

Sleeping Beauty/UFO

Loop the Loop

Basic Loop

Forward Pass

Loop the Loop

Reach for the Moon

Bank Deposit

About the Author

introduction

A child lives through play, and toys are his world.

A child learns and develops his causal thinking by playing, as ho begins to recognize cause and effect by the process of repeated patterns of play.

But playing isn’t limited to children. Adults enjoy it too, especially in light of the constantly growing demands of working and everyday life. Adults learn by playing with toys and are thereby able to relax in a different way.

Preface

This book is dedicated to a toy that is known all over the world as Yo-Yo. However few people know what can actually be done with it. The Yo-Yo tricks taught in this book are intended to popularize the Yo-Yo and put an end to its time in the shadows. I underestimated the Yo-Yo because of its simplicity until I discovered the possibilities that the modern freewheeling Yo-Yo has to offer. Now I carry at least one of these spinning gadgets around with me everywhere I go.