Tiffi wants to learn more about yo-yos

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Tiffi gets off the phone, checks her phone for text messages to see if the players need her help. Nope! Time to do some googling!

Tiffi has no clue what to search for so she just types yo-yo toy. She is quite surprised to see so many things about yo-yos. She clicks on the first title and finds a definition along with images.

When she goes back to the first page she notices that Wikipedia has some information. Since they are usually so reliable she clicks on their link.

‘A yo-yo (also spelled yoyo) is a toy consisting of an axle connected to two disks, and a string looped around the axle, similar to a spool. It is an ancient toy with proof of existence since 500 BCE. It was called bandalore in the 17th century.

It is played by holding the free end of the string known as the handle (by inserting one finger—usually the middle or index finger—into a slip knot), allowing gravity (or the force of a throw and gravity) to spin the yo-yo and unwind the string (similar to how a pullstring works). The player then allows the yo-yo to wind itself back to the player's hand, exploiting its spin (and the associated rotational energy). This is often called "yo-yoing".

In the simplest play, the string is intended to be wound on the spool by hand; the yo-yo is thrown downward, hits the end of the string then winds up the string toward the hand, and finally the yo-yo is grabbed, ready to be thrown again. One of the most basic tricks is called the sleeper, where the yo-yo spins at the end of the string for a noticeable amount of time before returning to the hand.

In 1928, Pedro Flores, a male Filipino immigrant to the United States, opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.[3] The business started with a dozen handmade toys; by November 1929, Flores was operating two additional factories in Los Angeles and Hollywood, which all together employed 600 workers and produced 300,000 units daily.’ (Source)

Let’s continue - History of the yo-yo

Start at the beginning – Let’s learn how to use a yo-yo