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Enter the Yo Zone [VHS]

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The director of the piece of cinematic [garbage] clearly is of bad stock. Trying to capture the passion and magic of the art of yo'ing in one 46 minute volume is fruitless to the point of fruitacity, dare I say fruiticiousness. I've shot better odes to the Yo with my super 8, but I must never show them to anyone. The one saving grace is being available on VHS as opposed to DVD. VHS is clearly the format of choice of future film makers and bratty snobs like myself. DVD is simply inferior to even the simplest VCR that has been meticulously calibrated over course of several Summers alone staring at my knife collection. I must leave now, as I am the verge of crying.

It's about 45 min of these three people doing some cool yo-yo tricks to pretty bad music. They don't really expalin any tricks so basically it gets boring after about 2 minutes. Don't buy this tape if you are a beginner or intermediate and want to learn tricks. I think that maybe advanced yo-yo'ers might pick-up some ideas but in spite of not because of this tape.

I have read all the yo-yo books and they all showed the same tricks. I was beginning to wonder if that was all you could do with a yo-yo. This video inspired me to try new things and improve my yo-yo skills. I can now play with two hands! The video also had fun facts about yo-yos and trivia questions which was interesting. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes yo-yos.

This video is hardly worth the tape it's recorded on. It consists of shots of three yo-yo'ers desperately trying to be "cool" while trudging through an idiotic script geared towards 8-year-olds. Here are a few of its major flaws:

1) The yo-ers do almost nothing but two-handed looping patterns. Now, I realize this takes practice, but it doesn't need a 45 minute viedo dedicated to it.

2) Fast-forwarding through most of the viedo, I only saw two tricks demonstrated: split-the-atom, and man-on-the-trapeze. I expect an "advanced" video to contain at least a dozen tricks, all of which are explained in step-by-step detail.

3) The performers were also very obviously bored with this pedestrian display of yo-yo mastery. It was painful to watch.

4) The video quality is horribly sub-par, and appears to have been filmed with a HandyCam on tape that had already been used a dozen times, and the sound track tries too hard to be "hip".

I have seen far better demonstration videos than this tripe. Avoid this one unless you have nothing better to do with your cash than set it on fire.

This video had some really cool yo-yo ideas. The video could have been better and the music should have been better (whoever thinks that Roxy girl sounds good has no taste.) But if you pay attention to the moves you will learn alot. I think kids would like this video but it might be too hard for anyone under ten years. I have showed alot of my friends the stuff I've learned and they thought it was really cool.