It's Arnie Dixon's yo-yo extravaganza, how to yo-yo video, distributed by Dunkin'.
Now this cat has his ups and downs. He's called the Yo-Yo Man. I wish that there were more of him, but he does it like he can.
He's going for this yo-yo star, he's got the world on a string. To him it's no big deal, he'll part one wheel, he's a yo-yo king.
Hey, why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? Why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? With the little hocus pocus and the quick flick of the wrist, he brings it all in focus, doing tricks I can't resist.
The yo-yo in the movies, how I wish that it were me, on every single channel, watching yo-yo on TV. Hey, why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? Why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man?
When it starts to rock and roll, that's when I almost lose control. You rock the baby, walk the dog, spin a fly and toss her through the fog. The Eiffel Tower, the British flag, hey, this guy's got it in the bag.
There's not a trick he doesn't know, just fling the string and go. Go, go, go, go, go.
The yo-yo on the split screen or even in a hundred frames, but he always yo-yo solo, solo yo-yo in this game.
Hey, why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? Why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? Why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man? Why oh, why oh can't I be like the wild yo-yo man?
Duncan Yo-Yos presents Arnie Dixon, world-class yo-yo champion, the official Duncan Yo-Yo Man.
Hi, I'm Arnie Dixon, the wild yo-yo man, here to show you that when it comes to yo-yoing,
you too can become the king of the string. Now I'm going to teach you a number of tricks
on this tape, everything from walk the dog to the chopper cycle. But before you take off and get
too carried away, there's a couple of important basics I need to teach you about your yo-yo.
When you get your yo-yo out of the package, you need to make it your own, customize it. What
you'll find is that the yo-yo string is a little bit longer than it needs to be for you. Let the
yo-yo touch the floor right between your feet and measure just a couple inches above your waist.
Right at that point, fold the string over and treat it like it's one piece of string. I like
to make a loop right around my fingertip and then I'm going to bring the tip of that right through
that hole from underneath. Right there, I pull it right on up. Now I'm going to pull it tight
and cut off that extra string right there. That'll get in the way later unless we cut it.
So there that goes. Now what you have is a solid loop. That could be too big or too small for your
finger and you want it to fit snug. So take any piece of the string and push it through that loop
and when it comes out on the other side, it's a slip loop. And that slip loop goes right between
your first and second knuckle on your right hand, the left hand for your lefties. Snug it up and
you're ready to go. Now I remember when I got my very first yo-yo. I got it all sized up, all ready
to go, all ready to yo. And I'll have you know I gave it a go with my first yo throw like this.
Unfortunately that's all it did. I mean it just stayed down there. It just
yo'd and I'd paid for a yo-yo. I felt ripped off. Since then I've learned a little secret.
Come here and I'll share it with you. It's called a hitch and it's like training wheels on a bike.
Now every good yo-yo does have a loop at the bottom that allows it to spin and do the harder
tricks and that will come in handy in just a minute. But right now let's put on those training
wheels. Pinch your string about two inches above the yo-yo and let your yo-yo untwist. Just pretend
it's a clock. Make the hands go backwards in time and all of a sudden your yo-yo string will
split open just like that. Now at this point you could take the yo-yo off completely from your string
or we can put on the hitch and that's what we want to do. So take one strand and go around once,
twice and now you and your yo-yo are ready to go. It won't stay down anymore but hopefully neither
will you. It'll come up real easy and that'll allow us right off the bat to do five of the most
important basic yo-yo tricks in the world. Make sure you have plenty of room. The first trick is
called the gravity gripper. I love that sound almost as much as I love the trick itself. Let
the yo-yo drop out of your hand. It'll go down and come back up. Now the key on this trick is to make
sure that your hand goes down as the yo-yo travels the first half of the string and as it goes the
rest of the way pull up. That down and up motion is what makes the trick work. So there you have the
gravity gripper. The other variation on this trick is called the overhand gravity gripper.
Same sound effect, just a different hand release. Take the yo-yo and put it in your palm with your
palm up. Now make sure the string wraps over the top of the yo-yo. If your yo-yo is twisted a half
a turn when you go to throw it down it'll either catch on your fingers or it'll come off crooked.
So make sure the string wraps over the top of your yo-yo. Now make a muscle and lick your yo-yo right
in the eye. Release your yo-yo with a nice overhand throw. Be sure that your yo-yo hand is higher than
your waist and turn your palm over to meet the yo-yo when it comes up. This trick is called the
overhand gravity gripper. This trick will come in handy later when we learn the spinner. The next
trick is the flip flop. It starts like the gravity gripper but when it comes up instead of catching
it when the yo-yo is about five inches from your hand right here. Imagine that there's a fly in
front of your yo-yo and swat at it. The yo-yo will flip over your hand and do the flip.
Flop. It's also a continuous trick and can be done again and again and again with practice.
And so there you have the flip flop. Now if any time during these tricks the yo-yo should flip on
its side it probably means you're not releasing it straight. It's very important to keep it straight
to give it a hard flip. Now our next trick is called the forward pass. It starts out just like
the gravity gripper with the string over the top of the yo-yo but what you'll do is let your hand
drop to your side let your arm swing just like you're walking down the street but when your hand
is back behind you that's when you'll let go the yo-yo and pull your hand forward and the yo-yo will
come with it. Now make sure you catch the yo-yo with your palm up. This will allow you to do the
trick continuously without having to readjust your strength. So there you have the forward pass. Now
our next trick is called loop the loop and it starts just like forward pass but when the yo-yo
comes back instead of catching it you're gonna stop right here about five inches you're gonna
bend your fingers in and you're gonna take the tips of your fingers and make a loop by bringing
them toward your nose and down to your toes and back out and that's the shape of the loop.
When you throw the yo-yo out when it comes back is the time to give it that loop just like that.
You can have one loop or you can have two loops or you can have fruit loops but that's another story.
Now remember all these tricks do take practice and you may have a few oops learning the loops
but once you get it down it's a really impressive trick and the next thing I'd like to show you is
called the three leaf clover. It's the same as loop the loop but you'll make one loop up
one out and one down like this one two and three one two three. Now at this point I would suggest
you may want to go back and review these first five basic tricks that we've learned with the hitch.
They are gravity gripper, flip-flop, forward pass, loop the loop and three leaf clover.
For those of you who are ready to move on we're going to move in to an entirely new dimension
of yo-yoing. We're going to remove those training wheels by taking out the hitch
and we're going to make a freewheeling or spinning yo-yo. To do that simply pinch the yo-yo string
about two inches above the yo-yo and let it untwist counterclockwise like we did before
until the yo-yo string splits apart. Look down inside your yo-yo and remove the hitch one two.
Now at this point you could take the yo-yo off but again keep it on and you have a perfect
freewheeling spinning yo-yo. One of the things you'll notice though at this point is trying to
wind your yo-yo up it'll just slip and slip and slip because it's a freewheeler. So I want to
show you a real easy way to wrap up your string so you don't have to do this all day long.
Simply hold the yo-yo on one side with all five fingers but take one finger and put it over the
yo-yo slot. Now you'll want to wrap over that finger and back into the slot. Lift your finger
up just a hair and wrap under your finger as much as half of your yo-yo string. Take your finger out
of the slot and gently continue to wind the string over the yo-yo loop and that loop will
disappear to wind right into your yo-yo. When you go to throw it down give it a nice hard throw
and it'll spin at the bottom that loop will also come right out.
Magic huh? Your yo-yo is now able to spin and as luck would have it the first trick we're going
to learn without the hitch is called the spinner and it starts out just like the gravity gripper
with an overhand throw. Let it hit gently at the bottom and your yo-yo should spin. This is a
difficult trick especially if you want to do a long spin but give it a tug before it stops turning
and it should come right back up into your hand. At first you'll find you can only do about a two
or three second spin but with practice your spin will become longer and longer. Now sometimes that
yo-yo will just keep popping back up into your hand. It's very frustrating. Well the problem is
your string is just too tight. It's what I call spaghetti string and it looks like this.
The way to get rid of spaghetti string is to let your yo-yo hang and bring your fingers
right down that string and it'll untwist counterclockwise all on its own. Sometimes
you'll have the exact opposite problem where your yo-yo will spin but you can't make it come up.
Well you need to let your yo-yo hang again but this time twist in the opposite direction.
Our next trick is called walk the dog. Throw a nice hard spinner, touch your yo-yo on a hard
floor, let the dog walk and try to give it a tug before it runs out of spin and back he'll come.
Now you can also walk your dog through the hoop.
Here boy. And then of course there's the dog bite. Ouch! There's no extra charge for the variations.
Here's another trick and fortunately here's another yo-yo. It's called rock the baby.
Anyway it goes like this. Step one, two, and three. Once again let your yo-yo hang. It's a good way to
learn a lot of tricks with it. Stop. One, two, three. Rock the baby. And later you can rock
a bye your baby. Bye-bye. Of course if your baby really gets bad you can spank the baby.
But enough of this baby stuff. It's time to pack our bags and take a trip around the world. It
starts just like forward pass but you're going to stop your hand and aim up a little bit
and let it go all the way around. And when it comes a full revolution give it a tug
and voila. Around the world. See? I even learned a little French as we traveled. Now it's important
on this trick to make sure you have lots of room because you never know what might be out there.
Excuse me. My next trick is called around the corner. Once again it starts out with a hard spin.
Put your elbow in front of the string. Bend your elbow down and pluck the string.
Right above the yo-yo like a violin. And the yo-yo will come right over the top. Now this may look
like a difficult trick but it's really not that hard to learn and it's a real crowd pleaser.
At this point I'd suggest that you take some time to review the 10 tricks that we've already done.
The first five with a hitch and the last five without a hitch. The spinner. Rock the dog.
Rock the baby. Around the world and around the corner. Good job. And now I thought you might
like to learn a little bit about the history of the yo-yo. Long ago in the dim dark ages before
the printed word the toy trademark yo-yo was born in the steaming jungles of the Philippine islands.
Its first use was as a primitive weapon. It was fashioned from a sharp piece of flint like rock
with a long thong tied to it made from the hide of an animal or twisted plant fiber. The cunning
native would hide in the leafy foliage of a tree and wait for his prey to pass underneath. Then he'd
throw the stone and try to stun the animal or enemy and tangle the thong around its neck.
But if his aim was poor he could at least retrieve the weapon. During the 17th and 18th centuries the
yo-yo was a favorite diversion in the royal courts of France and Spain. In the Louvre in Paris is a
painting of a nobleman of that period holding his yo-yo. The toy was given many names in the
civilized world. It was called disc in Greece, in Croile, Bandeleur, and quiz in England, and
l'amigre in France. But the game remained a particularly Philippine one and for as long as
man can remember it's been a national sport there. Most Filipinos make their own yo-yos and they often
spend weeks of their spare time in making very fine specimens, the best of which are carved from
lignum vitae, the wood of life, or from water buffalo horn. Practically every Filipino plays
the game during his childhood and develops considerable skill. The game migrated to the
United States from the Philippine islands in the late 1920s when for the first time it became known
as yo-yo. The man first responsible for the American success of the toy was Donald F Duncan.
The toy traveled around the United States like wildfire and captured the play spirit of the nation.
Americans took hold of the game quickly and showed amazing dexterity with the yo-yo. They
developed new tricks and a scope of playing far beyond anything the world had imagined possible.
With refinements made during this period, the art swiftly traveled to all parts of the world
and the Duncan yo-yo became an internationally known skill toy. Flambeau Corporation purchased
the rights to the Duncan yo-yo in 1968 and has kept up the tradition. As far as my own history
goes, well, contrary to popular belief, I wasn't born with a yo-yo in my hand. No, I learned how to
do tricks just like you by practicing. In fact, back when I was younger, sometimes I got a little
too wrapped up in my tricks, but I stuck with it and nowadays I've traveled all over the world
teaching kids how to yo-yo. I've been on TV shows, in commercials, even the president has invited me
over to pull a few strings at the White House. So don't get frustrated. It does take time,
but if you'll stick with it, you'll get the hang of these. Our first advanced trick is called the
buzz saw. All you need is an empty tissue box and a good spinner. Pull the yo-yo back before it runs
out of gas and you have the buzz saw. Our next trick is called the sleeping beauty. It's where
the yo-yo operates on its side. It makes a small cradle and that's where the beauty sleeps.
The three steps to sleeping beauty are, one, throw the yo-yo at a 45 degree angle across your body.
As the yo-yo hits the bottom, you're going to take your free hand and push it into the string
for step two like this. One, two, and three, pull back with your yo-yo hand and the yo-yo will come
back. Now the real beauty part to the sleeping beauty is that if you throw the yo-yo to the right,
it'll tighten the string, and if you throw it to the left, it'll loosen your string automatically.
Our next trick is called the runaway dog. It's pretty doggone good. It goes like this. Throw a
hard spin, take the yo-yo off your finger, and ow! You might want to be a little careful if you're
working with a video crew on that one. Now you'll have to retrieve your yo-yo, but I'm the wild yo-yo
man, and hey, there are some privileges to being the king of the string. Now that the dogs run away,
it's time to do a trick with a cat. This next trick is called skin the cat. Start with a hard spin,
take your finger up the string. When you throw the yo-yo in the air, it'll catch.
Do a loop-de-loop, and you have skin the cat. Sounds kind of creepy, I know, but hey, our next
trick is the creeper. Throw a good spin, and let the yo-yo rock out in front of you to the end of
its string. And that's the creeper. While we're down here, why don't we work on shoot the moon?
This is a difficult and dangerous trick. If you're a beginner, it's best to probably wear a helmet.
This is also a nice trick to do out of doors. It starts like forward pass, but instead of catching
the yo-yo, we're going to flip it right up. One, two, just like that. And that's shoot the moon.
Now, let's learn breakaway. Instead of throwing the yo-yo straight ahead as we have been,
make a muscle and throw the yo-yo to your side. When the yo-yo hits the bottom, let it swing
across your body with a little bit of spin, and there you have the breakaway. The breakaway also
nicely flows into trapeze, but, of course, we haven't really learned how to do that yet.
By now, you've probably worked up quite an appetite learning all these tricks. The good
news is, it's time for eating spaghetti. The bad news is, it's just the name of our next trick.
Throw a good spin, get the string bunched up on your fingers, put on some salt and pepper, and
eatin' spaghetti. Hey, check this out. This is part of my yo-yo collection. I thought you might like
to see it. It's something a lot of people often ask me about. You see, I've been collecting for
over 20 years, and it's another fun part of yo-yoing. Who knows, maybe someday you'll start your own
collection. Now, another thing I'm often asked about is how do I start the yo-yo when it's at a
complete stop at the bottom. I split my fingers like this, I go down the string and give it a nice,
hard push. And, up it comes, ready to go. Now, I want to show you five really great tricks. They're
picture tricks, and the best way to learn these is with your string just like that. Later, you can
add the spin. The first one is called the Eiffel Tower. Make a V with your hand so you have a
slingshot. Now, I'm going to show you how to do that, and I'm going to show you how to do that.
Take your hand so you have a slingshot. Now, you have a slingshot, but you don't have a sling,
so listen to me, the king of the string, and make your string into the sling by pulling it back just
like that. One other problem is you don't have a thing to sling, so reach right on through and
grab this string and pull it up. We'll make that the rock. When you pull it up like that, you're
just about done with the tower. The last part's the hardest. You're going to bend your thumb and
pivot right there, and you're going to put this part of the string right underneath your yo-yo
finger just like that from here to there, and there you have the Eiffel Tower. Hey, that tower's an
Eiffel. Now, the next step is the Chopper Cycle. It's very close to the Eiffel Tower. Make the V,
pull the string back, reach through for the rock, and pull it to the side instead of up. Close your
right hand and your left hand, and you're ready to go with the Chopper Cycle. The third picture
is called the Bow Tie. Again, make the V, pull the string back, reach through for the rock, and at
this point, you've got two pointer fingers and two little spots for them to go in. One is right here,
the other one's here. Push down with your thumb and shape that, and you've got your bow tie.
Trick number four is called Yo. Start just like we did before, pull the string back, and this time
we're going to make the Eiffel Tower. Reach through for the rock, make your Eiffel Tower, but take it
and turn it over just like that, and if you'll notice, the Y and the O spells Yo. If you have
a buddy, you can spell Yo-Yo. The next trick is called the Star. It's made the same way that you
could take a piece of chalk and draw a star on the chalkboard without lifting the chalk.
All you have to do is take your thumb and push out, go to your ring finger and dip, go to your
pointer finger and lift, to your pinky finger and dip, and finally to your middle finger. Bend over
everything you've done and lift up, and there you have the star. Hey, come on in here. There's
something I want to show you. Welcome to the Yo-Yo Hall of Fame. You'll notice there's quite
an array of Yo-Yos here. You'll also notice them in my cool outfit because I'm going to teach you
some cool tricks with each of these Yo-Yos, starting with this one right here, the Duncan
Imperial. This one's a classic. Its shape has been around since 1929 when the Duncan Yo-Yo Company
started, and it fits right into your palm like this, so it lends itself nicely to beginning
players and younger players, but it'll also do the more advanced tricks. Here's a couple variations
on rock the baby from around the world. Rock the baby in the Chinese cradle, and I'm sure you'd like
to see that up close, so I'm going to show it to you one more time in Yo-Yo slow-mo. Here's how it's
done. Take the string up like this, over your thumb, turn down, grab through, off your pinky,
one more time through, open up the little cradle, and rock it through. Here's a little something
called rock the baby down south. They rock them with one arm, keep them cool with the other.
After that, I like to do the itsy bitsy baby. It's a little tiny trick, but I think I'm going
to need the whole screen to show it, guys. Thank you. Here it is. Now, in order to show it to you,
I'm just going to let the Yo-Yo string come all the way down and hang with the Yo-Yo stop,
and here's how you do it. Take three fingers on your alternate hand and pull into the string,
just like a taffy maker. You're going to go around one, two, and on the third time,
open up your pointer and your thumb, those two fingers, and let the baby rock through.
That's how it's done. After the itsy bitsy, I like to do the Izzy Dizzy.
Izzy Dizzy? I don't know about him, but I sure am. For the next trick, we need to be in the black,
so I'm going to grab the midnight special, because our next trick is called the bank deposit.
My banker's jacket, please. Thank you.
Now, to get this trick to work, once again, you have to have a good spin on your Yo-Yo.
Spread your legs just a bit and give the Yo-Yo a throw. Make sure it spins at the bottom.
Keep the change.
Get that thing dry cleaned for me, will you? And now we're going to move on to yet another
style of Imperial Yo-Yo. This bright and colorful model is the Dunkin' Neo.
And with it, I want to show you the pinwheel. It starts like breakaway and goes all the way out
and forms a pinwheel. Check it out again in Yo-Yo Slow Mo. As the Yo-Yo comes around,
let it hit your pointer finger, pinch it off with your middle finger, and support it with your thumb,
and then bring it back. Our next trick is called jail bars, and for good reason. Check it out.
Let me out of here! Now watch it again in Yo-Yo Slow Mo, and pay close attention to the fingerwork.
Start with your pointer finger on your Yo-Yo hand, and then just weave back and forth to each of the
fingers working your way down your hands. Now that we're out of jail, I'd like to introduce you to
another style of Imperial Yo-Yo here in the Hall of Fame. It's called the Dunkin' Gold Award.
I'd like to use this one to show you one of my favorite tricks, the rocket in the pocket.
My rocket scientist jacket, please. Good help's hard to find, I guess.
And so is a good fit. Here it is, the rocket in the pocket. Three, two, one.
I bet you'd like to witness that again in Yo-Yo Slow Mo. Here it is. Take it off your Yo-Yo finger
at the top, give it a little lift, and away you go. That's all for the Dunkin' Gold Award, and that's
all for my rocket scientist jacket. Stick it on a hanger, all the way around, and you're good to go.
That's all for the Dunkin' Gold Award, and that's all for my rocket scientist jacket. Stick it on a hanger, all dry clean it.
Now we're going to move on to the Dunkin' Butterfly. It kind of looks like a butterfly if you
use your imagination. The story is told that it was originally a mistake when some Yo-Yo took the
two pieces of a regular Yo-Yo and cut them backwards. I'm surprised they didn't call it the Oy-Oy,
but it actually turned out to be a good design with several great play characteristics.
For instance, if you throw it down a little bit to the side, it's very forgiving
because of the rounded sidewalls. Another great advantage to the butterfly because it has a wide gap
is doing string tricks. You can almost always hit your mark. Now I'd like to teach you a trick
that takes advantage of all those great characteristics. It's called the roller
coaster. Believe me, it drives them wild.
See what I mean? But in order to teach you the roller coaster, I need to teach you
several other tricks that are each a part of it, starting with the man on the flying trapeze.
Easy, guys. I need to be able to keep my balance here in order to teach the trick.
We start with the breakaway that we learned earlier. Then you put your finger right in the
way of the string and let the Yo-Yo come over the top and flop onto the string. It's important to
put your hands together just a little bit to cushion the fall and bring it down. When you're
ready for the Yo-Yo to come back, pull your hands apart. It'll pop the Yo-Yo up in the sky
and it'll come into your hands. You can control whether the Yo-Yo will hit the string by how far
out your right and left hand is, like this. If for some reason the Yo-Yo shouldn't hit the string,
you can do this. If it goes over the outside, put your middle finger out, let the Yo-Yo drop and
flop it over the top. If it should happen to come off on the inside, you can do the same thing.
Middle finger out, let it drop off your pointer finger, flip it back over the top.
And there he is, the man on the flying trapeze. While we're on the trapeze wire,
let me show you how to rock the baby on the trapeze. Get the trapeze, take your right hand
and push it into the string. The left hand comes back and right there, at that point,
put your thumb in next to your pointer finger and open a cradle. You can flop the Yo-Yo back
over the top and you're out of it. So that's rock the baby on the trapeze. You can also do the
somersault on the trapeze and that looks like this. Same thing as rock the baby, but when you
come over, just flip the Yo-Yo over. Continue to make flips as many as you want, as long as the
string doesn't run out. Flop, flop, flop. That's the somersault. You can also somersault in the
other direction too. This way we've learned and the other way. Now that you've got all that together,
it's time to move on to something called double or nothing. How do they do that stuff? Here's how
it's done. I'm going to let you look at that in Yo-Yo slow-mo from the top. Keep the Yo-Yo string
close to the base of your finger on the first two passes and on the final pass, hook it on the end
of your finger. If you want to get from double or nothing back to trapeze, that's a trick called
dismount. It looks like this. Bring it onto the trapeze and drop with your pointer finger on your
right hand. Pull down with your right hand. It'll flip the Yo-Yo over the top and bring it on home.
And here it is again.
Now I'd like to take all those tricks and put them together for the roller coaster. I'm going to add
one last little bit at the end. Watch closely and you'll see it. Here it is. Trapeze, transition,
double or nothing, dismount, somersault, and exit out the back. Now I'd like to teach you two other
great picture tricks with the butterfly. The first one is called the four leaf clover. It's a great
trick. I'd like to teach you two other great picture tricks with the butterfly. The first one is called the four leaf clover.
And I bet you'd like to see that again a little slower. Here it is. Take your pointer finger on
your right hand and dip under the string. Dip with your two fingers on your left, back to your right,
to your left, finally the original two, and swing the Yo-Yo from the inside up and out and over.
And there you have it. The next trick is called Haley's Comet. It's the combination of two that
we already know. The man on the trapeze and the star. Let's watch it again in Yo-Yo slow-mo.
Remember the real Haley's Comet is a rare one. It comes around once in a lifetime.
So as you're learning the trick, take it slow. The real Haley's Comet is in no big hurry
and you shouldn't be either. Our next Yo-Yo in the Hall of Fame collection is called the Duncan
Professional. It was named after me. Super! Just kidding. But actually it is a great Yo-Yo.
In fact I like it so much I always carry a spare. Right now I want to show you some tricks with it
but let me just say that it's a great Yo-Yo for looping tricks because the high sidewalls
keep it from wobbling off center. Something that we all have a tendency to do from time to time.
We're going to move into a mode that I call Stereo Yo-Yos a Go-Go. Actually I just call it Stereo Yo.
Okay these tricks when you're doing with both hands they're double the trouble but twice as
nice. Tricks like double gravity gripper, double forward pass. What I would recommend is that you
learn the first four tricks on this tape with your alternate hand. The hand that you don't normally
Yo-Yo with. Then you can put them together and do double tricks like double gravity gripper or
double forward pass. Here's a neat one. It's called the double dog walk.
It's a little noisier than the regular walk the dog and a tad bit more difficult. For our next
trick we're going to do milk in the cow. It's the same thing as flip-flop only the Yo-Yo goes continuous
in one direction and you do it with both hands. It looks like this. Now I know you'd like to see
that again so here it is in slow motion. And here's milk in the cow sideways. Just kidding.
But it is our next trick. It's called the whirly bird and it's the same thing as loop the loop but
continuously and in both hands. Now it's very important not to let anybody get too close on this
trick or get between the Yo-Yos because if they do it instantly becomes the haircut. I'm not kidding.
Check this kid out. He's the last kid who thought I was joking. If he got a little too close to the
whirly bird it became the haircut. Hey look at him now. Now if you take the Yo-Yo in your right hand
and go to the left and the Yo-Yo in your left hand and go to the right at the same time it's
the world famous double-handed crossover loop the loop. Say that again. Okay it's the world
famous double-handed crossover loop the loop one of the most difficult tricks known to mankind
but you probably don't want to see that.
You do? Oh yeah. All right it starts like this with the Yo-Yo straight. This could be fun.
Yeah it's going to be fun but you might want to back up from your set a little bit on this one.
Even though I am a trained professional and I have done this for 20 years I haven't made them.
Okay now remember the Yo-Yos are going to start straight and they're slowly going to cross.
You whatever you do don't look at the strip with your eyes crossed
or it'll just look straight. All right here we go. You can clap now. When? Now. Now? Yes now.
Thank you. Here's another great trick you can do with two Yo-Yos. It's called loop the loop and
shoot the moon. With my right hand I'm going to do shoot the moon and with my left hand I'm going
to do loop the loop. It looks like this. Now when you first learn that trick it's often a good idea
to use a butterfly for shoot the moon because that particular model is the best model and the
easiest one to use for that particular trick. Now before we go on I want to show you a trick
that I thought was almost impossible but I practiced it. Well here it is. It's called
rocking the twins. Take the Yo-Yo from your alternate hand. Snug it up on your index
fingers so both Yo-Yos rest side by side and give it a throw.
Rocking the twins. Let's do that again Arnie. All right here you go.
Wow. So you like that? We sure do. Rocking the twins while talking to twins. Kind of fun but now
it's time to say goodbye to the twins. Goodbye. Bye but before you go here's a Yo-Yo for each of you.
Gee thanks Arnie. You're welcome. Now that we've said goodbye to the twins let's say hello to the
Duncan wheel. It's like the butterfly but it's a little bit wider and it's made out of a heavier
plastic. Also there's more weight toward the rim and a neat design inside the hub.
And now as Pat Sajak would say let's give the wheel a spin.
Where's Vanna when you need her? Anyway our next trick is a scientific wonder. It's called
split the atom. Check it out. Now that was the basic form of split the atom and I'm going to
try to teach it to you but the way to do that is to teach you three other tricks that are each
building blocks to split the atom and here they are. The first one I've already shown on the tape
earlier it's called skin the cat. It looks like this. Then from there you go to the barrel rolls
very similar to skin the cat but instead of letting the cat go off the tip right here where
you normally would as it's spinning you do this. Take your yo-yo hand wrap underneath the yo-yo
and bring your hand up. Roll the yo-yo off the end and grab it and as with skin the cat you want
to put a little loop the loop at the end like that. So here's the barrel roll.
Now there's another way to do the barrel roll. It looks like this.
You just immediately wrap the yo-yo right around your finger and back onto the string.
Let it off and do the loop. The third trick is called the brain twister. It starts out like
barrel roll but once you get it here you switch the heights of your hands pull your yo-yo finger
into the string and do a somersault just like you did on trapeze. And here's brain twister
with both the forward and the reverse loop. Now here's a little extra goodie you can put on there.
It's called rock the baby on the brain twister. Bring the string up over the top, down open it
up, and somersault the baby out and you're out of the trick just like that. Once you've got these
three tricks down, skin the cat, barrel roll, and the brain twister, you've developed the skill
level necessary to take the quantum leap to attempting split the atom. Here's split the atom
in its fullest form. I'm going to add to what I previously did a mount. We'll do split the atom,
rock the baby, and end it with shoot the moon. Now that's pretty impressive but the basic form
looks like this. Split the atom. Now we're going to take it a little bit slower. Watch carefully.
One other visually impressive trick is a combination of rock the baby and the Eiffel Tower
and it's cleverly named, you guessed it, rock the baby in the Eiffel Tower. You gotta love it. Here it is.
And now it's time to get out from behind the wheel because up next I've got two Duncan yoyos
that you can actually use to do tricks with in the dark. Starting with this one right here,
the Duncan glow in the dark. Hit it boys. No, not music. I meant the lights.
Now if you like that you're going to love this. This next one is called the Duncan satellite.
It's got a little light inside and when you give it the spin it has a little switch that pops on
and it actually lights up. Hit it boys. The lights.
Nifty, huh? Our last yoyo in the Hall of Fame collection is a pleasure for both the eyes and
the ears. It's called the Duncan Melody. Really? Clever, huh? I just call them Mel for short.
This yoyo really is a lot of fun. Listen.
Well that tune tells me it's time to go. As you're learning these tricks, just do the best you can
and have fun. And as I said at the start of the tape, if you work really hard at it and practice,
someday you too can become the king of the string.
If it isn't a Duncan, it isn't a yoyo.
That's great.