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 ...

Forget about little kids walking the dog. The 21st-century yo-yo scene features the grim-faced concentration of young men in hoodies and skullcaps slinging yo-yos behind their backs and weaving ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

Welcome to the spin zone! Dozens of high-strung competitors will swing down to Coney Island this weekend for the New York State Yo-Yo Contest. The competition on Dec. 8 will bring together the best yo ...

Federico Urian was an expert at Rock the Cradle, Man on the Flying Trapeze and The Creeper. In his prime, few others in America could Walk the Dog, Skin the Cat, or throw a Forward Pass like he ...

These are not your grandfather's, your father's or even your own yo-yos anymore. Today's yo-yos are "ridiculously amazing," says Joseph Harris, 21, who won second place in last year's national ...

In a stunning display of geometry, finalists of the U.S. National Yo-Yo Championship manipulated string around arms, hands, shoulders and even ears in Children’s Playground on Saturday. The national ...

The Cub Scouts in Pack 295 knew all about the two-dimensional world of the video game Minecraft, but they had never “pulled the puppy by the tail.” Some of them had never even held a yo-yo in their ...