He showed off some of his latest tricks, like Confederate Flag, that his mom says he practices again, and again, and again - sometimes so close to fragile household lamps and glass vases that it makes her nervous. Like a yo-yo itself, spinning up and down and back and forth, the toy from yesteryear is back, though some may say it never left. When the return hit big time during the Christmas season, local stores had trouble keeping enough yo-yos on the shelves. There were even yo-yo training videos and books. Kids buy them up.
Teenagers are the biggest yo-yo fanatics right now.
The craze is biggest with middle school age boys, but girls are spinning into the scene too. I just think it's fun. I can do seven tricks in a row. Schools have reacted somewhat coolly to the yo-yo's resurgence, mostly because flying circular pieces of hard plastic attached to string can cause injuries. But not all schools have banned the toy, and some have even encouraged their use by sponsoring afterschool yo-yo clubs.