# Inspirational Spin Top Videos **URL:** \ **Category:** Spin Tops\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766 "2012-10-09T03:22:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ta0](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ta0/32/702_2.png) [@ta0](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ta0)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/21 "2012-11-11T01:23:09Z")
> [@yophosis](#): > > In 2009 we took a family vacation to Orlando Florida, and we planned it so I could stop by the World Yo-Yo Contest and see what had been going on the last eight years.  My mind was blown, unresponsive play didn’t really exist the last time I threw a yo-yo.  It was actually un-inspiring in a way, the gap between my skill level and everyone else in the room seemed so vast I never even took out a yo-yo.  I have caught up a little since then, but what really grabbed my attention at Worlds 2009 was meeting a guy who calls himself ta0.  That’s T - A - zero, it is his screen name and the name of his website; [ta0.com](http://ta0.com). > > I saw ta0 off in a corner foot starting a top (like snap starting but by stomping the top in the ground).  I was all like WAT.  I approached him and he recognized me immediately from the video above; HTBAP vol 2.  He showed me a couple of tricks that blew me away, including Stariway to Heaven, which is like corkscrew but you walk the top UP your arm.  I joined his spin top forum immediately and I basically live there now. > > ta0 has numerous you-tube videos and many more on his site, so it is hard to pick a video that shows all that is ta0, but let’s try this one.  This was back when S8 came out with it’s second wave of tops. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQA6ipWY\_M](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuQA6ipWY_M) Actually, we had met a couple of days before, at Lucky’s.  I did recognize you from the Duncan video and I asked you to pose for a photograph with my giant top Figaro (under a light rain). Getting you back into tops must be one of my biggest contributions to the hobby/sport.  🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2012, 5:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/22 "2012-11-12T05:04:28Z")
Ta0, you have a knack for correcting people  ;D  Yeah I was giving he abridged version, the full, full version would take all night to type  🙂 So here’s me again.  This one is by request. https://www.youtube.com/embed/KCzcktX6rF0?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=UU2XFfBSVeTWNZtkx1jNNG7w ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/23 "2012-11-15T01:29:36Z")
Bigger tops?  Longer strings?  No nub to keep your string on the tip?  Crowds of people in the streets?  Introducing spinning tops Colombian style: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/d/1/d/d1d98a9e30473648c40ab0ec34b0212443a6af8c.jpeg "colombia Spintop 2006") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5blbG5kfU) I have a couple of Colombian tops and man, learning to throw and handle them is like learning all over again.  The moves are big and people love it. BTW, this video is on Taka’s channel.  I hear he’s a pretty good yo-yo player. ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/24 "2012-11-16T04:56:11Z")
Continuing on the Colombian theme for a moment, there’s THIS GUY who WHIPS like CRAZY. [https://vimeo.com/album/1656099/video/11724753](https://vimeo.com/album/1656099/video/11724753) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/25 "2012-11-23T05:08:33Z")
Oh yeah, here is a Jakub in his video entirely filled with upside down tricks. WAT [https://vimeo.com/album/1656099/video/27142428](https://vimeo.com/album/1656099/video/27142428) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/26 "2012-11-24T03:19:39Z")
This video requires no introduction. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/e/c/4ec3ee52c82901cdd1e2568cb9f1568a9d80b8a0.jpeg "Helitopter by Takeshi") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ta5kmJ9mPg) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/27 "2012-11-26T05:18:05Z")
Play with your rings!  The little white ring that comes with a Duncan Imperial is intended to be tied on one end of the string making it easier for beginners to wind up the top.  This can also be accomplished by tying a loop in the end of the string FYI.  Anyway, you can do tricks with that ring!  The Imperial ring will fit over most S8 crowns (not an accident) and Spintastics crowns.  They are too small for Bearing Kings, but every BK I mod gets trimmed down for the ring.  Anyway here is an example of the tricks you can do: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/9/d/7/9d7a63c06ca3eae2163c2794746091f9ba3c6658.jpeg "Spin Top Trick: ring stuff") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeyzi9T6X-M) ---
**Author:** ![anonyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/28 "2012-11-26T05:44:29Z")
That was so cool how you effortlessly moved from that ring back to the string. I’m so busy trying to improve my yoyo game I haven’t even touched any of my tops in months. I gotta make more yoyo headway right now. I’ve been downloading every single video you’ve shared via this thread. I’ll be watching them and learning from them. All I can do right now is throw them down and get a bit of spin from them, which for now, is more than sufficient for me, but as most palyers go, I’m not satisfied . More please! By the way, seeing your top-down views of the regenerations really made the function of those make a lot of sense. ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 1:38am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/29 "2012-11-28T01:38:59Z")
The overhead view is the way to go for spin top tuts 🙂 Ladies and Gentlemen, once again; David Buhrmester! [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/d/f/9/df9c8d5ddfac3530b4a36b3ea74fa250329fb0a0.jpeg "Fun with Duncan Spintops") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIRj4gSH2Uo) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/30 "2012-11-30T00:52:05Z")
David has tons of videos, check them all out.        David also captured this rare footage of Steve Brown in his natural habitat: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/8/f/e/8fedd4bbe666625ba8ceb4151200b1bb0c8599a4.jpeg "montreal 2000") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crow3ZRDQZc) Steve Brown didn’t inspire me to spin tops, he told me to spin tops.  So I did.  For the record he told me to do other things that I did not do.  Yet. ---
**Author:** ![Daveid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Daveid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Daveid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/31 "2012-11-30T03:48:35Z")
[quote=“yophosis,post:30,topic:43766”] if by “captured” you mean “downloaded off of a website before youtube was popular and then put it on youtube when i realized it wasn’t there already” then yes, that is what i did. several years ago that video was more inspiring to me than probably any other pure-spintop video i’ve seen (aside from how to be a player volume 2), Mr. Brown shows what can be done, and how it’s done, and the regenerations with oversized tops in particular really helped me alot to fine tune what i’d learned from ta0’s website (ta0’s website [www.ta0.com](http://www.ta0.com) is the single greatest resource for topspinning i’ve had the pleasure of visiting on the internet, i remember the written explanations of the regeneration tricks made my life much happier). ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/32 "2012-12-02T05:28:00Z")
[quote=“Daveid,post:31,topic:43766”] > [@yophosis](#): > > if by “captured” you mean “downloaded off of a website before youtube was popular and then put it on youtube when i realized it wasn’t there already” then yes, that is what i did. That is exactly what I mean.  Exactly. Who got you spinning tops?  For me it was Jon Gates.  When we were in Hawaii at THP camp, he showed me some tricks with a red Duncan Imperial spin top.  The tricks were cool, but what hooked me is he showed me how to balance one so it spins smoother.  Being able to tune the thing made me feel much more in control.  Jon Gates everybody: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/7/b/27b180e78c6e6994ee5d477e51a5ce521ee336c0.jpeg "2007 Nat'l Spintop Contest 1st Jon Gates") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dkaki46ITk) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/33 "2012-12-05T00:10:53Z")
And now for something completely different; LARGE TOP IN SLOW MO!!! (this video loads slow for some reason, give it a minute and it will start) [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/a/c/1/ac121a6aa03b49fb56985a2d8c54c4118017c66f.jpeg "Biggest Spintop throw by Eric.w footage from 2008 yoyo world contest") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8d9_yAL98k) Eric Wolff is like the Elrond of yo-yo’s and spin tops, and his mods liken that of the elves. ---
**Author:** ![Daveid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Daveid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Daveid)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/34 "2012-12-06T04:01:23Z")
> [@yophosis](#): > > Who got you spinning tops? my roommate was really into yoyos, and there was this video that duncan put out called “how to be a player volume one” for yoyos and there was a volume two, which was for tops (i do believe that one’s linked in this thread), and he got that to, so i guess it was my roommate technically but really, it was Steve Brown and some skinny dude… oh wait, i mean… it was Mr. Brown, and YOU Mr. Neff. ;D ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/35 "2012-12-07T02:52:49Z")
> [@Daveid](#): > > …and YOU Mr. Neff. I am so blushing! Sticking to the big tops theme for a moment, following is the largest boomerang-able top I’ve seen.  It was made by Alan Gray, the guy in the first video.  Alan is a master craftsman rivaled only by Eric Wolff (my opinion of course), also a very skilled player. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/f/8/2/f828e0bed104f51f148e9a453fd043dcdbb830a4.jpeg "Alan Gray with "Fuego"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ertorvfyXSw) Second video is the owner of Fuego, Eric Girardi! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFZVROKm_9E) ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/36 "2012-12-11T03:43:23Z")
There are many inspirational spin top players, the trouble is finding them.  They lurk in dark basements and other undesirable places.  You have to wait for them to come out to some obscure juggling festival where they squint their eyes saying it’s to bright and their skin glows and stuff.  The next best thing is to find a video of them, which can sometimes be just as difficult, you have to search dark corners of the internet.  Our friend David Buhrmester was on such a quest, trying to find footage of Felix Avellana, member of Duncan Crew Worldwide and 2009 World Spin Top Contest Bearing Division 1st Place winner.  This evening I got a message from David, it went like this: I FOUND IT I FOUNT IT I FOUND IT!!! [http://vimeo.com/5682810](http://vimeo.com/5682810) Warning:  also contains yo yo tricks, Steve Brown, and Patrick Mitchell  ;D ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/37 "2012-12-14T03:36:23Z")
First trick here is BOSS. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/5/6/256a8f59c3c7891d66be034c8f8dc49a005e8306.jpeg "Truco trompo Peonza: Atomos con Salvador de la Rosa") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43OF3cFQWU) Second one ain’t so bad either.  Snap start to a boatload of barrel rolls.  Boring for some, Everest for others. ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/38 "2012-12-16T00:32:21Z")
That was Salvador de la Rosa.  This is Salvador Martinez: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/4/d/54dcd389e4c6650bb644927d2f5cf7409ea0c8ba.jpeg "trompo cuerdas ut") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr24Q8o8YEw) This is on Jon Gates’ you tube channel, but I don’t think this is the original upload.  Anyway at the time Salvador Martinez was a street performer in Mexico.  Like seriously, in the STREET while the cars were stopped at a red light.  This guy has created many extremely difficult regeneration variations, and is now on the Cometa team touring in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/39 "2012-12-19T04:54:21Z")
I have not mastered this yet but it is not as hard as it looks: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/d/a/cdacaad0c2e3806422007fc530e341b0845227e8.jpeg "KAMIKASE-TROMPOS COMETA | PEONZA, TROTTOLE, SPIN TOP, PEONZADALL|") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDmOMslG_v8) LEARN IT!!! ---
**Author:** ![Neff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/neff/32/359_2.png) [@Neff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neff)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766/40 "2012-12-22T04:33:30Z")
Got it?  Good.  Now learn this one and teach it to me. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hafcFeWGTGk) [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/inspirational-spin-top-videos/43766.md?page=3)