Yo!

This is purportedly the world's largest yo-yo. "Weighing in at 256 pounds, Big-Yo is the world's largest working wooden yo-yo. Designed by Tom Kuhn, the yo-yo now resides in Chico, CA." It makes you have to say "yo!"

I learned about the world's largest working wooden yo-yo on the website of the National Yo-Yo Museum wherein one can also find a brief, but dense history of the yo-yo where I also learned, for example, that the first recorded yo-yo comes to us from Greece, in 500 B.C. Man, this is one old toy!

The most exhaustive and graphically inviting yo-related site has to be that of the Museum of Yo-Yo History, where you can find not just one, but three different histories, and even A Brief History of the YoYo-Top in the USA. YoYo-Top? A combination of a yo-yo and a spin-top? Prexactly!

All in all, these sites (a very small sampling of all the yo-related sites to be found on the Internet) remind us how the humble, and sometimes extremely expensive, often startlingly high-tech Yo-Yo testifies to the power and persistence of play.


Thanks for the inspiration go to Hugh McNally of Streetplay.