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The Yonomicon; An Enlightened Tome of Yo-yo Tricks

The Yonomicon; An Enlightened Tome of Yo-yo Tricks

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Topological Yoistics
Review: Do you get a kick out of operator spaces and wacky topology? If so, this is the yo-yo book for you. Coming just shy of an out-and-out mathematical analysis of the yo-yo, McBride lays down the laws of freestyle Yo, defining yo-yo play as a subset of the possible string/hand operations on the topology consisting of the yo, free hand and throw hand. This book will redefine the way you look at yo-yoing. If you have a refined mathematical background, this book could easily start you on the road towards a graduate thesis.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Topological Yoistics
Review: Do you get a kick out of operator spaces and wacky topology? If so, this is the yo-yo book for you. Coming just shy of an out-and-out mathematical analysis of the yo-yo, McBride lays down the laws of freestyle Yo, defining yo-yo play as a subset of the possible string/hand operations on the topology consisting of the yo, free hand and throw hand. This book will redefine the way you look at yo-yoing. If you have a refined mathematical background, this book could easily start you on the road towards a graduate thesis.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Yo yo revolution
Review: I'm an beginner/intermediate yo yo player, and I found this book incredible. The Quantum Yo theory is truly revolutionary, and changed the way I think about yo yo tricks. Just like advertised, it's not a recipe book, but a guide to the underlying theory of how to approach yo yo tricks. I loved the tone of the writing and the inclusion of totem animals, as it just added enjoyment to what could have been a very dry analysis.

Advanced players will be able to see the limitations of a strictly "Quantum Yo" approach, but it may also help them think outside of old routines and expand their freestyle yocabulary. I doubt they've even thought of yo-ing in exactly this way before.

Top notch book, and I've never seen anything else even remotely like it for yo yos.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I LOVE YONOMICON!!
Review: The Yonomicon is a great book, its like a math book full of equations to mix and make tricks. It leaves nothing unexplained, it just takes a littl while to learn to understand how McBride is explaining the tricks. It different, in a better way.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book is a classic to all yoyo lovers.
Review: This book is like a bible to yoyo lovers of all ages. If you've ever wanted to do a yoyo trick and didn't know how you'll have to get this book. But don't take my word for it, read it your self.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST YO-YO BOOK SO FAR!
Review: This book is unbelievable and is the best yo-yo book for the serious yo-yoer so I recommend it to all of you yo-yos and yo-yoers out there wondering what there truly is after the duncan trick book and all those other books well THIS IS IT THE YONOMICON!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Is Not Yo'er Father's Oldsmobile .. or yo-yo book !
Review: This is a breakthrough book. As the publisher of Just Say Yô¿ô, a website dedicated to the yo-yo community, and as a witness and participant in it's recent most incredible growth, I have watched as the combination of yo-yo masters, modern manufacturer and the enthusiasm of 'kids' has created an entirely new game .. a new sport.

Here Mark McBride has created a new language to explain what it has been, and is going to be about. So You Wanna Be the "Yo-Yo Man / Woman." This book will be prominantly displayed on yo'er shelf ..

Read this review, from Captain Yo, Don Watson .. 193? New York City Champion, 1996 3rd Place U.S. Freestyle Champion, Co-Creator of the World Famous Tom Kuhn SBII, and several models of Spintastics Professional Yo-Yos.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not for the new or faint of heart
Review: This is a great book of pretty darn advanced yo-yo tricks. It breaks each trick down into it's parts and expalins it in a physics type manner. It's not that easy to follow, and it reads kind of like a text book, but if you can get through the complex explainations it's got some stuff you've never seen in a yo-yo book before.

If you want to get deeper into some complicated yo-yo tricks, this book is for you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Not for the new or faint of heart
Review: This is a great book of pretty darn advanced yo-yo tricks. It breaks each trick down into it's parts and expalins it in a physics type manner. It's not that easy to follow, and it reads kind of like a text book, but if you can get through the complex explainations it's got some stuff you've never seen in a yo-yo book before.

If you want to get deeper into some complicated yo-yo tricks, this book is for you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Every serious player should have this book.
Review: Ultra-cool. There is no other trick book like the Yonomicon. A must read for every serious yo-yo player. Lucky Meisenheimer M.D. author of "Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos...History and Values"


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