Giant Wooden Spinning Top

[Aquaticedge]

It is not a Dreidle but it's still pretty damned awesome Giant wooden spinning top. [VIDEO]

[catmandoo62]

da man got skills!

[sjh]

I think the tops doing most of the work.

It's a fun video but I wouldn't be surprised it you or I could do it in a little bit.

Gyroscopes you know. Pretty amazing devices.

[The Clk Man]

Well that just took all the fun out of this thread. Not everything needs to be analyzed.

[crs82]

How did I know that's what that dude would look like? It's almost like a uniform they wear.

[R Leo]

You know what's really funny about that?

The other dude just strolling along through the background like he sees some guy doing fancy-assed tricks with a giant top on a string every day of the week.

[G-Benz]

Originally Posted by R Leo

You know what's really funny about that?

The other dude just strolling along through the background like he sees some guy doing fancy-assed tricks with a giant top on a string every day of the week.

That was funny to me too!

[TMAllison]

Originally Posted by sjh

I think the tops doing most of the work.

It's a fun video but I wouldn't be surprised it you or I could do it in a little bit.

Gyroscopes you know. Pretty amazing devices.

Isn't it centrifical force? I expect you'd have to practice quite a bit to be able to launch and spin it, let alone play with it up off the ground.....he obviously has more free time on his hands than you or I.

[sjh]

The physics of gyros is tricky.

Conservation of rotational momentum, cross products, etc.

The result is a spinning body has remarkable stability.