Nitro Circus crew strapping themselves to a human sized Duncan Butterfly
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wow! Reminds me of the 250 pound No Jive yoyo at the National yoyo museum!
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The only thing I can think is…they would be the ones to do this.
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@twitch77 needs to see this.
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Proof positive that green yoyos are the biggest, coolest, and most badass yoyos!
You don’t yoyo green yoyos.
Green yoyos, yoyo you!
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Yo.
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Not a real functioning yo-yo.
Notice when the guy is on the way down, the yo-yo is spinning one direction.
But when the yo-yo hits the bottom of ‘travel’ as the yo-yo winds back up, the guy is still spinning in the same direction.
The guy should be spinning in reverse on the way up.
Unless that yo-yo has free spinning side caps?
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Finally! A yoyo for the Iron Giant! 
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There riding with spinners Doc.
Woulda been cooler if it did roll proper though.
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Yoyos typically continue spin in the same direction unless they’re stopped or gyro flopped. Conservation of angular momentum and all that. That’s why they wind up on the opposite side of the string on the way back.
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Do you guys know those rollercoaster rides that take you straight up and then drop you? I like throwing yo-yos but I don’t like being the yoyo.
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Exception to that rule>
Usually with very large yoyos; they peg the cord to the axle. Because the chances of getting the yo-yo to catch on a standard ‘loop’ are slim to none. The big yo-yo just goes to the bottom and sleeps till dead(which doesn’t take long)
With the cord locked on to the axle; when the yo-yo hits the bottom of the travel; it immediately reverses direction on the way back up.
That’s why I said what I said.
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Did you guys see the one where they recreated Jensen Kimmitt’s 2010 world’s freestyle?
The yoyo maintains its spin direction even when the cord is pegged to the axle. In order to change the direction of the spin you must first stop it from spinning in the first direction, but if you do this, you’ve removed all of the energy from the yoyo and it cannot wind back up.
Feel free to try it out - if you throw a breakaway with a pegged cord on a yoyo (or, maybe just a regular yoyo with a gnarly axle knot) it’ll be spinning clockwise (if you’re right handed). The yoyo will still be spinning clockwise when it returns to your hand.
It’s easier to see with larger, slower yoyos.
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I really doubt that this yoyo is going up and down because it’s actually responding on the string.
I’m sure that a crane is making it go up and down and the yoyo is just designed to freely rotate to give the impression.
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I did an experiment and I understand what you are saying.
I just wasn’t explaining what the heck I was talking about, lol.
Every other roll down, the yoyo travel direction changes opposite.
So… you roll the yoyo down clockwise and it rebounds clockwise( exactly as you said).
On the next roll down, the yoyo is spinning counterclockwise, and rebounds counterclockwise(again, as you said).
And that is without letting the yoyo rotate 180 degrees.
I taped a whit half moon of paper on one half of the yoyo.
During my little experiment, I kept the half with the paper marker on the same side.
So, if that Big yoyo could actually go up and down that giant cord of a string, 4 times. That little guy on the side would go down twice clockwise and twice counterclockwise.
I now understand what you mean about the effect being easier to see on large slow yoyos.
Thanks, I learned something I hadn’t really given much thought to.
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