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Do you have three minutes and a half to watch two yo-yos? (Original Post)
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2016
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When I was a kid, Fanta had a huge promotion that used yo-yos as a giveaway.
Baitball Blogger
Oct 2016
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Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)1. How the....
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)3. Trick strings. I'm sure.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. I was lucky if I could get one to go up and down 10 times. n/t
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)4. I was so proud when i could "walk the dog".
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)5. When I was a kid, Fanta had a huge promotion that used yo-yos as a giveaway.
There were five tricks that were advertised. Five simple tricks. It took time, but I learned them all. The most difficult trick was the around the world, where you flipped the yo-yo and trapped it inside a triangle and watched the wheel rotate inside the triangle. I thought I was hot-stuff back then. This kid in the video must be riding a high that I can only imagine.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)9. We called that
Rockin' the Cradle.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)10. That's right!
Around the world was just a 360 degree circle.