[blindza] Re: Somewhat OT: Playing with a yoyo
- From: "Andre Neethling" <ANeethling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:09:37 +0200
WOW!!!
I can still remember when I was in school, I would never play with any Yoyo if
it was not a Coca-Cola Yoyo.
And do you remember those once with the whistle in it.
All the tricks we did with them.
Doing the doggy walk, round the world and the spinning racer.
I got a hit or two on the head when practising, ore getting to close to someone
ells doing it.
André Neethling
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From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carl de Campos
Sent: 13 January 2012 11:01 AM
To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blindza] Re: Somewhat OT: Playing with a yoyo
You must get a Hardly Abelson Yoyo, problem is it may get stuck on the way up.
Thanks / Regards
Carl de Campos
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From: blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindza-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 10:03 AM
To: BlindZA
Subject: [blindza] Somewhat OT: Playing with a yoyo
Something had been thinking about for a little while - dunno why - but got
around to it the other day, and popped round a toy shop, and got hold of a yoyo
toy.
Either way, while it's one of those that can spin without moving up and down at
the bottom, unless you sort of time movement of your hand just right, the main
thing is sort of timing the movement, etc. via touch/feeling of it moving,
since it can move at different speeds, etc., and this is sort of why went
looking for one again, since for some or other reason, I was wondering how
accurately I would be able to use/manipulate it's actions.
Anyway, what it comes down to is that initially it wasn't all that simple/easy
to get it right all the time in terms of timing the lifting of the hand to
bring it up again as it hit the bottom of the travelling distance, and also
wasn't necessarily all that easy to initially, anyway, catch it just as it
reached the top of the string again, but, funny enough, it's one of those
things that you sort of exponentially/suddenly start getting it right, most of
the time anyway, and, yes, must look/seem quite funny to think of a long
haired, tattooed biker type playing with a yoyo, but, from my side, it actually
seems quite fun...<smile>
Anyway, what it comes down to, and why thought might as well mention it here is
that aside from listening to it travelling, with a bit of a spinning sound, it
also comes down to feeling the vibration changes as the string gets
longer/shorter, since think it most likely also spins at different speeds, at
least partly due to the increase in winding diameter as the string rolls up on
itself, etc. etc., and this means you can sort of try to time the up and down
motions based on both sound and feeling, but anyway.
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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