Yo-yo is one of those annoying toys/sports that is deceptively hard to master. Anyone, and I mean anyone, can do the basic up and down trick, yet doing anything more complicated successfully requires skill and patience.
This guy is clearly someone with a lot of time, patience, and inherent skill. Three things I don’t possess, unfortunately. He makes the yo-yo look simple, when it is in fact amazingly hard to master.
When I was a kid, we had yo-yo champs come to our school to demonstrate tricks. And almost everyone who saw them thought they could do it too and consequently bought a yo-yo. Within a week, most of us had given up, me included.
Amazingly, the yo-yo has been around since at least 500 BC, and they’ve been used as a kids’ toy and hunting weapon ever since.
