# Tommy Smothers Throw

**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [September 14, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195 "2013-09-14T19:27:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![Crayfish54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Crayfish54](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Crayfish54)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/1 "2013-09-14T19:27:28Z")

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What old school yo did Tommy use? Had to have had a bearing. Maybe custom?

My brother has always been jealous of me. He is always saying, “Mom loves you best.”

Sorry a little Smother’s brothers humor.

Crayfish

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### Author: ![skitrz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/skitrz/32/849_2.png) [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/2 "2013-09-14T20:17:50Z")

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[http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/skitrz/photo%20exp/th\_IMG\_0076.jpg](http://s262.photobucket.com/user/skitrz/media/photo%20exp/IMG_0076.jpg.html)[http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/skitrz/photo%20exp/th\_IMG\_0075.jpg](http://s262.photobucket.com/user/skitrz/media/photo%20exp/IMG_0075.jpg.html)

Is this what you’re talking about?

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### Author: ![Adhuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Adhuck](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Adhuck)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/3 "2013-09-14T20:24:39Z")

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> [@skitrz](#):
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> [http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/skitrz/photo%20exp/th\_IMG\_0076.jpg](http://s262.photobucket.com/user/skitrz/media/photo%20exp/IMG_0076.jpg.html)[http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/skitrz/photo%20exp/th\_IMG\_0075.jpg](http://s262.photobucket.com/user/skitrz/media/photo%20exp/IMG_0075.jpg.html)
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> Is this what you’re talking about?

:o

You got Tommy Smothers to autograph that? I heard he almost never gives out his signature.

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### Author: ![saintrobyn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/saintrobyn/32/54_2.png) [@saintrobyn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/saintrobyn)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/4 "2013-09-14T20:28:14Z")

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Here is a better shot of one of the blue ones.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/b/7/4/b74c7ee9011614695cfd02206473172896101d72.jpeg)

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### Author: ![CaliBuddha](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/calibuddha/32/156_2.png) [@CaliBuddha](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/CaliBuddha)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/5 "2013-09-14T21:26:39Z")

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^^^ I have a red one just like that

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### Author: ![Schnayke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Schnayke](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Schnayke)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/6 "2013-09-14T21:37:38Z")

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He personally gave me one when I met him. he was really nice and showed me some tricks.  
He got a tom kuhn bearingized yoyo at one point but most of what you seen him do is on a fixed.

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### Author: ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tommy-smothers-throw/59195/7 "2013-09-14T21:47:19Z")

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he used a lot of yo-yo’s, including duncans, hummingbirds by brad countryman, and a model that tom kuhn made for him.

> **[yo-yo #40: tom kuhn "smo-bro"](http://kinopah.blogspot.com/2009/04/yo-yo-40-tom-kuhn-smo-bro.html)**
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> "what is the fundamental truth of yo-yoing?" i was assailed by that question today on a yo-yo board. sounds like "what's the sound of one ha...

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/e/4/7/e47dbd95b456b0397af70a7de279c471248c91e8.jpeg)  
most of those kodak/hummingbird/smothers woodies were recreations which he mainly used/sold after his tv career had wound down.
