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Extreme Yo-Yoing
Roland Piquepaille writes "Unless you're a dedicated yo-yo fan and a serious competitor, I doubt that you'll hand over $400 for a yo-yo. Even if it's a state-of-the-art hogh-tech yoyo made with a forged-magnesium-alloy and coming with the latest in axle technology. With this one, you can use the freehand style, meaning that your hand is not connected to the yo-yo, but is replaced by a small counterweight. In 'Reinventing the Yo-Yo,' Science News Online says 'its balance is ensured with precision tooling to micrometer tolerances by a computer-controlled lathe.' This long article doesn't solely focus on this luxury item. Instead, it looks at the history and the physics of the yo-yo, and includes many references. A good read for a weekend! This overview contains other details and extra references about the Freehand yo-yo."
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"The original Freehand yo-yo was the only yo-yo in the world that didn't need to be tied to your hand. With its patented counter-weight system, you can let go of the yo-yo in mid-trick, making the impossible look easy"
No wonder it costs $400! It's got an amazing antigravity device that allows the yo-yo to remain suspended in air after you drop it.
It's made from porcinite!
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Modern technology has brought us to the point where, finally, we have better yo-yos .. again!
Well that's just great! You spend the whole damn year learning elvish and then some annoying kid comes along with a $400 yo-yo and steals the show.
With all of the popularity all of you "early adapters" will recieve, you may have to use your new yo-yo for its original purpose ... to beat off your attackers .......
For a yo-yo to sleep at all is a fairly modern development.
mmmm-yeeees, no doubt due to the great advances in the field of hypnotic drugs.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"Extreme yo-yoing"? Am I the only one who remembers the guy with the buzz-saw yoyo in the James Bond "Octopussy" movie?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Yoyo Baggins, is that you?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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/. I will never get laid again.
You added an extra word. Your post should have been as follows:
An activity OTHER than browsing slashdot that will guarantee I'll never get laid.
The word again gives you a false sense of hope because I know that if I continue to browse
Remember what the NYYA says: "If yo-yo's are outlawed, only outlaws will have yo-yos".
We must protect the right to bear arms, and the right to arm bears.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
...to beat off your attackers .......
Uh, you may want to re-phrase that.
What?
Anyone know if they suffer from the click of death?
can be seen here: Apple's iYoYo
Your hand is not connected to the yo-yo?
So, what's the point?
For 400 bucks, I want real magnesium alloy, damn it!
Or, if you don't want to spend $400, you can see him play in person for about $40-50 or so.
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I'm pretty sure if I tried ANY of that I'd end up with my fingers stuck in a knot and a yo-yo embedded in my forehead.