Tom Black is a yo-yo pioneer who has won the World Yo-Yo Contest twice. He passed a Cirque du Soleil circus audition with the yo-yo. [Note: We want you to see these talks exactly as they happened! The archive footage might be a little rougher than the usual TED.com talk.]
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