Greatest toy that has ever been confiscated from me in school. I i would have been allowed to play with my yo-yo in my eighth grade classes, I probably would have been a national champion, and still be at the same intellectual level that I'm at today.
i like to play with them for awhile, but I don't work on it enough to be good at all the cool tricks. I do have a trick yo yo, but it is about the cheapest one you can get that can do tricks.
I like yo yos. That is, I like playing with yo yos when I actually have a good yo yo and not one of those cheap ones you have to re-wind every few seconds.
I dont use the yo yos that you are thinking of, but I do use a "chinesse yo yo" which is also called a diabolo.
It is pretty fun to use and not too hard to get started on, tricks also vary greatly from easy to very hard since some require alot of experience of knowing where your diabolo is gonna go exactly.
lol i was at an arcade just the other day and i was marveling at the fact that they dont have any of the old school prizes anymore like yoyos, fake mustaches, and the like.