After seeing my prowess with a Yo-Yo in my Fan Shroud Tech post I was inundated with requests on how to do the fabled 'Star Manouvre'... well OK... two guys said something... and they're mates... but what the heck eh! Step 1: Make sure you are wearing appropriate safety gear. This can go horribly wrong if you're not careful Step 2: Choose your weapon. If this had've been 25 years ago I would have had a selection of Coke, Fanta and whatever else was laying around. As it's 2005 all I could find was this ****-ola freebie give-away piece of junk. Step 3: Hey! I'm lookin' at you. Pay attention! Notice I have the string attached to the middle finger of my right hand. That is the CORRECT finger to attach a Yo-Yo to. If you put it on your index finger you're a **** and people will straight away know that you're not serious about your Yo-Yo. Roll the Yo-Yo out and get the ****er spinning. Grab the string with inside of your left thumb... Step 4: You then grab it with the third finger on your right hand Step 5: You then scoop your left hand down and pick up the string with the index finger of your left hand Step 6: Come around from behind the string and pick it up with the back of your right thumb (the hairy bit) Just a couple more...
Step 7: The last step is to flip the 'Star' upside down and using the same finger that the string is attached to pick up the final point of the star Step 8: ...and Hey Presto! You have yourself one bithcin' star made out of string... with a Yo-Yo hanging off it. Now get practising kids!
WTF are you doin dude, get back on the job at hand of write'n that article about my car!!!! Sheeesh, no wonder you aint got no full time job
Sprung!!! Sorry mate, needed a break from thinking... Finished the story anyway. Wanna see it? Here 'tis... It's green It's loud It's Jamie's T-Bucket! Whaddaya reckon?
Well that bout sums it up mate, job well done. At that rate you could pump out a full issue in about 1/2 hour.
Go HERE and HERE and ALL will be revealed. So it's not really going, but it's getting somewhere... if you know what I'm sayin...
It'll look better once it's got some paint on it, hopefully this weekend. It won't be completely done, but it should be running.
awesome i might try and rope my parents into taking me to the nostalgia drags,hopefully i can see it in person. good luck with it
Damn, I'm so freakin uncoordinated, I can't even yo much less yo! This would cause me great bodily harm, and a trip to the ER for sure!-MIKE
That's awesome, I could never do that. I'm still trying to figure out the up and down motion, I'm no good at the yo-yo. I tell you what though, I used to be the king of clackers in grammar school.
For the youngin's.... Clackers Mine were red, and were used like nun chuks on my brother. They eventually got thrown over a telephone line. don't know how long it took the string to disintegrate, but there were still hanging there when we leff for FL in '77.
Once again, the High-Tech, mind-blowing Do-It-Yourself articles on this forum have amazed me. You rock man.
See, Mike knows, you young 'uns gotta be learnt sometimes. I believe that the largest manufacturer of clackers was right here in Orlando. Nothing hurts more than clackers in your knackers.
That's why my brother has a facial tic when I'm around. They were called Ker-bangers (Fat Hack, am I wrong?) where I'm from... but it still applies. Nothing hurts more than Ker-bangers to the hangers
Boris, what can I say, **** you are a funny *******. I nearly had tears reading that. Still cant work out whats funnier though, the serious look on your face (the don't **** with me Yo-yo guru look) or that fact you actually did a yo-yo tech. I tip my hate to ya.....Top Notch tech
KOOL POST Brootal!!! I don't think I ever got that star made fast enough for the Yo yo to still be spinning.... Don't they make a (per) version of those clackers for older girls... but with more balls on them?
Man, I used to love those things. If I remember correctly, they took those off the market because they would shatter. According to my Mom "usually directly in front of a kid's face" LOL But if you made them more shatterproof, they probably wouldn't have made that oh-so-satisfying clacking noise. I think it was a few years later, that I graduated from clackers to my first Duncan Imperial (string on the middle finger). Great tech post! -murph
Yeah... sometimes I wonder where this **** comes from. I'm just waiting for Ryan to pull the plug on this whole post, but if people understand the HISTORY of this post and WHY it was done, then I'm sure it'll be OK.
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