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 ...

It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but yo-yo play is serious business. Especially in Cleveland this week, where the world’s most skilled yo-yo players are gathering for The World Yo-Yo Contest. The ...

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, ...

BURLINGTON - "Sleep it," Judith Schulz ordered. With those words, three silver-colored yo-yos dropped to the end of their strings and hung there, stalled but still spinning. The three boys holding the ...

NORTH OLMSTED — From basic throws to velvet rolls, beginner tricksters to yo-yo pros, dozens turned out to showcase their talents at the Fourth annual Ohio State Yo-Yo Contest Saturday. Organizer ...

Yo-yo master Isaac Sams displays one of his tricks in Buckhannon, W.Va. Sams, who has been slinging a yo-yo around since age 10, is a self-taught yo-yo junkie, getting most of his inspiration from ...

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 ...

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 ...

The contest features various styles of yo-yo play, with each contestant doing a performance set to music. Yo-yo like a pro: Inside the World Yo-Yo Contest in Cleveland It may not be an Olympic sport ...