# 1998 VHS • Yomega Zone Yo-Yo Training 60 FPS

Yomega Zone is an instructional video produced by Yomega Corporation of Fall River, Massachusetts, covering the care, maintenance, and trick performance of Yomega high-performance yo-yos. Demonstrators include 1998 world yo-yo champion Jennifer Baybrook, Guinness World Record holder Chris Yosick, and up-and-coming performer Eric Mitz. The program opens with a brief history of the yo-yo, tracing the origin of the word to the Philippine language Tagalog, noting the first modern American yo-yo was introduced around 1928 by Pedro Flores in San Francisco, and covering Yomega's introduction of the centrifugal clutch Brain model in 1984 and the ball-bearing Raider in 1991. Care and maintenance sections cover string length adjustment, slip knot formation, disassembly, string replacement using double-twist and single-loop methods, and lubrication using Yomega Brain Lube. The tricks curriculum is organized from basic through advanced across eight workstation levels. Basic tricks include the sleeper, the creeper, walk the dog, rock the baby, around the corner, forward pass, around the world, loop the loop, sleeping beauty, the breakaway, rattlesnake, Confederate flag, dizzy baby, and baseball. Intermediate tricks cover eating spaghetti, elevator, hop the fence, and Eiffel Tower, followed by buzzsaw, run the dog, man on the flying trapeze, and motorcycles. Advanced tricks demonstrated by Jennifer Baybrook include the tidal wave, barrel roll, lariat, lariat tour, warp drive, brain…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1998
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-YomegaZoneYoYoTraining)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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