im pretty new to spin tops, i have a duncan imperial spin top which is ok i think…ive gotten it to spin like 3 times on the ground but i think its kind of confusing…anyone know any good tutorials that will teach me even though I have a imperial? all the tutorials i see are always like " throw it to the side than pull back and boom! your done"…Help me…
That top is a fine top, but isn’t the super best to learn on. the weight of it is so little it will make it hard to do most of the tricks.
How ever you should be able to get the boomarang throw down.
this is what you do. throw it out in front of you. your throw should be like you are trying to throw it on a flat trajectory away from you. when it starts to get to the end pull back while you still can controll the top.
when you first do this it will fly at you perty hard, or you will pull to late and it will not come back at you at all.
play around till you can hit your hand with the tip. once you can you will have to learn to ballance it on your hand. which is a whole other trick.
Here is a video I made a while ago it has the basics of tops and at the end I boomerang a few different types.The trick to boomeranging is to do it all in one smooth motion. You can also check out itopspin.com there is a lot of info there and if you look around you will find a lot of help. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ltil0LXcd8
This one helped me quite a bit, because he spends more time talking about the very basics of throwing. He throws a bearing tip (Bearing King) top in the video, but everything he does in the video you can do exactly the same way with your Imperial.
“http://www.youtube.com/v/nvD9-t0W6xs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0”
Have Fun,
Java
ya i can do it now
Sweet good job man. 
Welcome from all thz spintop community.