Evan Nagao of Hawaii won the 2018 World YoYo Contest, held Aug. 9 through 12 in Shanghai, performing to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird." The four-minute performance includes a fast-paced array of string ...

Grayson Rhea, a 9-year-old from Summerville, SC, represented the US at the World Yo-Yo Contest in Prague in the 16 & Under ...

Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...

Brian Melford knows how to handle a yo-yo. The 27-year-old Bronx man has more than 300 of them. Some, he designed himself. By day, he’s an aide to City Councilman Andy King. But in his spare time, ...

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 are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Dana Bennett has won national and world championships for his yo-yo skills.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...