Advanced Yo-Yo Tricks [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

I've read many yo yo books and they all taught me the same tricks. Here's a book which at long last has some new tricks. Some of the tricks are pretty hard, this book is definitely not for beginners. If you have read a couple other trick books and are ready to move on, you should read this book.

For the tricks in this book, I recommend a Yomega Fireball yo-yo. They sleep really well. If you are a beginner, you should read Awesome Yo-Yo tricks.

It seems that YO-YO's hit a big craze about every 10 years or so.The last one was at the end of the 90's and what an advancement we saw in the techonology of yo-yos,tricks being performed,books available and a profusion of stuff on the "net".
This was the second book by Bruce Weber and it is excellent,both for a beginner and for someone wanting to add to their repetoire of tricks.His first book "You Can YO-YO Too!" was also excellent;especially for beginners.
In the late 1990's there was an explosion in yo-yo's and everything to go along with them.I bought dozens of them and for "a kid of 64" at that time,it was fun to find the latest for sale ,and have enough "coin" in my pocket to buy anything I saw.
My first purchase,a Yomega Fireball,was an unbelievable advance over anything I had played with in my youth.It seemed that each time I went into a store,I found something new.I really liked everything Yomega came up with.Spintastics also had awsome yo-yos.Another one of my favorites was the aluminium "Zombie",which I bought in all colors.There were excellent wood ones around,such as the "Rainbow" I bought so many different ones,I soon had a collection which included just about everything imaginable.One of the strangest I came across,and never encountered again was "Turbo Sparkler"made by Da Mert Co,San Leandro,Ca,in 1989.It had mylar tassels like on an Indian jacket,and was as eye-catching as a Go-Go dancer.Lots of show effect,but short on ability to do tricks.Then there were all the fancy bearings,trans-axel,Butterfly,auto-return,electronic with lights and even built in counters.We even had our local champion in Toronto with his own brand of excellent yo-yo's ,"Fast Eddy" McDonald.There was even the start a magazine,and it was a super magazine,128 pages,in color,including tricks ,yo-yo's ,personalities, glossy, filled with everything.It was called "YO-YO World" .The Premier Issue came out in 1999,and was to be a Bi-Monthly.As far as I know,there was only one issue.
Then the "Craze" started to pass.Stores slashed prices drastically and for a while there were unbelievable buys to be had. Now there are a few around,but not many and not much different.I went into a store one day and found the most expensive yo-yo I'd ever come across.It was Tom Kuhn's ,ball-bearing "Roller Wood","The World's Best!",claiming to be "the World's Longest Spinning Wooden Y0-Yo's".It came in a box and had a price of [...]. It had been reduced to [...],and further discounted by 70%.I got it for [...] The craze was over--for now, anyway!
I was at the Canadian National Expedition this summer and saw two young boys about 12 or so doing some pretty good tricks.It just goes to show you that Y0-Yoing abates for a while ;but will return again,bigger and better.I can only imagine,after what advancements were made in the late 90's;what is in store for us in a few years.