What Chinese Diabolo Means

What Chinese Diabolo Means

The diabolo is the spinoff of the Chinese yoyo or bamboo bell, but both work, behave almost the same way, and can be used to play spinning games. The basic and noticeable differences are;

a.        the way they are constructed,

b.      The material used to make them. And

c.       Their shape.

The bamboo bell has it holes drilled at the side of the cone part and this is the reason why it gives very distinct humming sound when it is spun. It is made from bamboo or wood. Diabolo or the modern yoyo on the other hand is made from plastic, rubber or combination of both. Some are even made from metal. The modern yoyos have axles that are narrower than the bamboo bell and this is what makes their strings to be thinner than the string used to spin the bamboo bell.

Nowadays, there are Chinese diaboloapparatus, which are hybrids of both the bamboo bell and the modern yoyo. These hybrids are constructed with more elastic rubber/plastic that prevents them from deforming with age. They also have their holes drilled at similar place like in the bamboo bell and they have wide axles, which make them to use thick strings and elicit snoring sound similar to those of the ancient bamboo bell. However, both can be used to perform all tricks of which some will be briefly described here.

ü  The Trapeze or Stopover trick involves allowing the yoyo to go under a baton while it is touching the spring. This will automatically make the yoyo to rotate along the baton and land back on the rope.

ü  Suicide release, whereby the player will set free one baton by throwing it in the air and later catch it again after it has swung round the yoyo.

ü  The Sun, where the diabolo yoyo is swung around both batons in a circular way and completing the trick with the string twisted twice above the yoyo.

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