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NOTE FROM WEBMASTER:    Last update: 07/16/03
Getting Started
1. Winding the Top

Spintastics Spin Top
      Contest Level Tricks
Award System Tricks 

Black indicates extension of trick,
not required for patch.
8-Trick Top Award               Championship Trick Ladder  
1. Spinner (shown with Target)       BEGINNER
2. Target 
(shown with Spinner)       1. Spinner (shown with Target)
3. Scoop  
(slow motion)                 2. Target to flying disc (shown with Spinner)
4. Skyrocket                                 3. Skyrocket (one or two hands)
5. Hackey Top 
(and to foot)            4. Boomerang
6. Arm Walker                               5. Wirewalker
7. Merry Go Round                    
   6. Merry Go Round (3)
(shown with Crazy8)
8. Crazy Eight                              7. Arm Walker
(Merry Go Round and                    8. Trapeze (any mount)
Crazy 8 are shown together)
                                                   INTERMEDIATE
16-Trick Top Award              1. Crazy Eights (3) (shown with MerryGoRound)
 9. Boomerang                              2. Wirewalker 2 (fixed tip)
10. Trapeze                                  3. Rock the Baby (3)
(slow motion)
11. Wire Walker                            4. Through the Subway
(also DiveBomber)
12. Rock the Baby
(slow motion)    5. Hop the Fence (slow motion)
13. Subway 
(also DiveBomber)      6. Corkscrew (3 revolutions)
(with Gyro Flop)
14. Texas Cowboy                      7. Rollercoaster to hand (3)
(also to string)
15. Rollercoaster to Hand (3)          8. Around the World (use whole string)

 (also shows to string)                                       (slow motion)
16. Hop the Fence (slow motion)    ADVANCED
                                                   1. Drumbeat (10) (fixed tip)
24-Trick Top Award             
2. Rollercoaster to string (15) (fixed tip)
17. Around the World (slow mo)     3. Lasso from boomerang
18. Wire Walker 2                         4. One hand Trapeze (any mount)
19. Trapeze behind back                5. Whip catch from Trapeze 
20. Blizzard                                   6. Trapeze with somersault
 (also shows Blizzard Maze)           7. Behind the back Trapeze into Lasso
21. Corkscrew                               8. Upside down Crazy Eights (2)
22. Rollercoaster to string (10)                              (from Trapeze)
23.Drumbeat (10)                           OTHER & MORE ADVANCED
24. Lasso                                      1. Boomerang to behind Catch
                                                     2. Mach5 
                                                     3. Bermuda Triangle
DOUBLE TROUBLE TRICKS          4. Horizontal Whip
1. Double SkyRocket                      5. Gyroscopic Flop
2. Goal                                          6. One hand Lasso
3. Split & Catch                              7. Joker Choker
(Slow Motion)
4. Twin Boomerang                          8. Wirewalker to Crazy Eights
      around the Back                        9. Bondage
5. Twin Boomerang                         10. Sun
      with Cap the Bottle                    11. Multiple one hand Trapeze
6. Twin Boomerang                          12. Walking Rollercoaster
      under Leg                                 13. Rollercoaster behind back
7. Twin Merry-Go-Round                  14. Eli Hops

                                                     15. Atom Smasher (slow motion)
 SAMPLE FREESTYLES                 16. Escalator
1. Miguel Correa - bearing                17. Hand Spiral
2. Dave Bazan - easy fixed              18. Sling
3. Dave Bazan - intermediate fixed    19. Side throw Trapeze
(Slow Motion)   
                                                     20.  Trape
ze with Somersault
                                                     21.  Planet Hop (slow motion)
                                                    
22. Upside Down Merry-Go-Round
         

If you have a trick that you'd like to see on this page, email us at mail@spintastics.com.

Thanks to our Video stars:
Dave Bazan - 2002 National and World Spin Top Champion 
Dale Oliver - 2000 2nd Place Spin Top Champion
Valerie Oliver - 2002 National Sport Division Top Champion
Eric Hesterman  Lone Star Spinners
Danika Krantz - Lone Star Spinners
Preston Herman - Lone Star Spinners
MIguel Correa - Lone Star Spinners