In this episode of Obsessed, Gentry Stein shows off the wild tricks that helped him become a world yo-yo champion. so yo-yoing was just kind of one of those things. [Host] And it's an easy hobby to ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

LOS ANGELES — He doesn’t have to put a spin on what he does. Alex Hattori’s hobby does that automatically. At age 15, the Torrance, Calif., youth has become the yo-yo king. He has his own sponsor, ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

About two years ago, Perry Taga tried his hand at a new sport. He couldn’t stop. He carried a yo-yo wherever he went. Summers and weekends, he spent up to five hours a day spinning and twisting and ...

One of the great all-time yo-yo men, Bernard Akers, died last week at the age of 80, a loss that, although it did not go unreported, went undiscussed. I want to correct that. A yo-yo man is a guy who ...

Yo-yo aficionados and fans converged on Orlando last weekend for the World Yo-Yo Contest, an annual competition designed to showcase the world's best yo-yoers and "support and cultivate the ...

SHERWOOD -- Colin Leland can't remember the last time he went an entire day without using a yo-yo. The 26-year-old Tualatin native figures it was sometime in 2001. That's when he first started ...

The Cub Scouts in Pack 295 knew all about the two-dimensional world of the video game Minecraft, but they had never “pulled the puppy by the tail.” Some of them had never even held a yo-yo in their ...