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I'd really love to know how to do that "walking the dog trick"....
Help please?!?

Hi there.

The trick is simply to:

1. Have the yo-yo-string quite loosely fit, so that the free spin is possible to achieve. If the yo-yo is not good enough and the string yo-yo can't spin freely, you won't be able to walk the dog.

2. Hand up, throw the yo-yo towards the floor, quite hard, make it form a low arc forward (i.e., don't throw it _straight_ to the floor). When the yo-yo reaches the floor, make sure it lands sofly, i.e, don't make the handtwist you usually do to get the friend spinning back towards you. If done correctly, the yo-yo should spin in the end of the string. Lightly, you should even be able to touch the floor, thus making "the dog walk".

3. Before the yo-yo looses all of it's spinning energy, with a light twitch of the wrist, the yo-yo should return to your hand again.

/WoC

Cool, I'll give that a try tonight!!

Good, you do that.

I'm thinking about learning "the cradle"...it's quite hard...

/WoC