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Friday, September 17, 2010

History of YOYO.


You know the game yoyo. Many people who enjoy playing yoyo as exciting and challenging. That's what makes yoyo favored not only by kids like us but also adults.

Yoyo game has been around since the first. Well, if you know the origin of yo-yo? Yoyo that we often play now comes from China. Yoyo can be made of wood, iron or clay that are colored.

Initially, the yo-yo consists of two discs connected by a small stick. Then there are small strings that tied hard on his staff and other string players is held by fingers. The dish that can go up and down if the strings are controlled by the player.

From China yoyo taken to the European continent. It was known from the paintings in the reign of King Louis XVII of France in 1789. The painting was shown a four-year-old boy playing yo-yo. At that time his name is not yo-yo but incroyable and emigrette.

Then in 1791, yoyo game spread to the UK. In England the game was called bandalore yoyo. Previous archaeological experts to find children's toys from Ancient Greece is a small coil that fitted the strings. Toys were also found in several countries including Egypt.

Yoyo own name given by the Filipinos. In 1920, a citizen of the Philippines, Pedro Flores, a toy company in California, USA. Then in 1928 Pedro companies producing children's toys and then he called yo-yo

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