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The specific origin of the yo-yo is uncertain. Early versions of the toy have been placed in China, Greece, and the Philippines. The National Museum of Athens houses several vases dating from around 500 B.C. depicting young Greeks playing with discs tethered to a cord. The word yo-yo means come come in the native Philippine language, Tagalog, and yo-yos have been hand-carved in that country for thousands of years.
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Duncan was not the inventor of the yo-yo; they have been around for over twenty-five hundred years. In fact the yo-yo is considered the second oldest toy in history, the oldest being the doll. In ancient Greece, the toy was made of wood, metal and terra cotta. The Greeks decorated the two halves of the yo-y with pictures of their gods. As a right of passage into adulthood Greek children often gave up their toys and placed them on the family alter to pay homage.
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The yo-yo has enjoyed many periods of popularity throughout world history and may be the second oldest toy in the world (after dolls). There are ancient Greek yo-yos made of terra cotta in museums in Athens and yo-yos are pictured on the walls of Egyptian temples. The Yo-Yo is known to have been popular with such important warriors as Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington. First patented in 1866 by James L. Haven and Charles Hettrich, the Yo-Yo has enjoyed periods of popularity for generations with kids from 1 - 100.
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The finished yo-yo is now placed on a table with a spool of string and a cutter at one end and an upright, with several notches in it at the other. The distance between the cutter and the upright is exactly the length of the manufacturer's desired length of string for each yo-yo. The string is pulled down from the spool through the notch in the upright, where it is looped around the axle of the yo-yo. Then it is pulled back to the cutter, cut, and tied. The yo-yo is then allowed to hang from its string, held by the notch in the upright, to twist onto the axle.
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The Duncan FH Zero Clear yo-yo takes the freehand yo-yo to a new level. Features include: ball bearing axle, friction sticker return system, wide adjustable gap with a take apart butterfly design, and polycarbonate body for durability. In the freehand style of yo-yo play, the string is not tied to your finger, but is attached to a small counterweight instead. This counterweight can then be thrown in the air, revolving with the string and yo-yo extended, allowing for many new ways to catch the counterweight or the middle of the string. Comes with three different counterweights (call for choices to collect all six).
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A yo-yo string is simply one long string folded in half and twisted up. Remove the old string by untwisting it until you can slip the yo-yo out. To put one loop on a yo-yo, untwist the new string at the bottom (the end without the knot) until you have opened up a loop large enough to slip over the yo-yo. Slip this loop over the yo-yo and into the string gap. Now allow the string to retwist while keeping tension on it to avoid kinks, and you're done!
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