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 ...

About two years ago, Perry Taga tried his hand at a new sport. He couldn’t stop. He carried a yo-yo wherever he went. Summers and weekends, he spent up to five hours a day spinning and twisting and ...

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 ...

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 ...