Now we can often see some gyro lovers in the park in the square, energetic, whipping gyro with a whip. Whenever I saw this, I couldn't help but want to take a few lashes, and it took me back to my childhood.
The gyroscope is a wooden spun out, a cone like a rounded tip on a funnel, with a small steel ball on the tip. In order to look good, you can also put a few circles of ring color on the top, which is very beautiful, and you need to make a whip, that is, use a small wooden stick about two feet long and tie a rope to one end of the stick.
The wooden gyro is shaped like a warhead, with a rope wrapped around the upper part from the pointed foot, and then thrown to the ground with the pointed foot, and the rope is quickly pulled, and the gyroscope will rotate upright. Of course, the spinning will stop. If you use a whip to whip it continuously, the thing will turn faster and faster, more and more joyfully. In our childhood, as long as we use a piece of wood and a kitchen knife, we can cut it into a gyroscope, cut the tip of the pointed foot, hit a scrap steel ball, and a gyroscope is made. Not as delicate as today, not very well balanced, whirlwindly turned around, but all done by yourself. At that time, I was proud to do it myself, some students picked up a discarded iron piece shaped like a mushroom in the garbage heap, wrapped the cylinder part with cloth, and forced it into the bottle mouth of the empty ink bottle, which was also a gyroscope, and the gyroscope was made by itself, with different shapes, and the shape of the rotation was strange and not lively. During recess, around the classroom and on the school playground, there is often laughter. On the way home from school, everyone chased and fought together, in the alley streets, when there were very few cars. The basic skill of playing the gyroscope is the use of the whip, the whip is powerful, the skill is to add the torque of rotation, and the fun is that the gyroscope continues to rotate and never falls.
When we were young, we played gyros in two ways. The first is a horizontal play, while the second is a vertical play. In general, there are two ways for children to play gyroscopes.
The first is called the fractal method, which divides the participants into two groups, and then everyone plays the gyro together to see which group of gyros falls to the ground first. The gyroscope that falls to the ground is called a "dead gyro", and it can only be slaughtered by the other party. The winning side, with its own top, raises its head high, aligns itself at the target, and slams downwards.
The second is the circle drawing method, drawing a circle on the ground, the center of the circle, and then drawing a small circle, each person takes turns to beat his gyro into the circle, so that the gyro can rotate out. If the gyroscope has been fixed at a point to rotate, at this time, it can be circled by a rope, as long as it is still rotating outside the circle, it is not considered to be "dead". If the gyroscope stops in the circle, or does not move as soon as it is pumped, it is considered dead, and it must be placed in the middle of the small circle and punished by others. If the gyroscope that punishes others is also stopped in the circle, it is still placed in a small circle and punished. If you are lucky not to be hit, or to be hit without being broken down, you can take out a gyroscope and use a horizontal play to knock out the gyroscope inside your small circle to die.
The childlike heart is innocent, the childlike heart is lively and lovely, the childhood fun is accompanied by reverie, and the childhood fun is accompanied by joy. Playing gyro, the funny thing of our childhood, today even moved to the classroom, become a project of physical education class, become a square fitness class for the elderly to strengthen their health, prolong their lives, and sigh that the times are developing, society is progressing, and life is rich and colorful!
This article is transferred from Sohu self-media [creative small handicraft]