Toy Skills: The Skill Toys Hub
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Toy Skills Overview
This site exists for the sole purpose of compiling and producing only the highest quality skill toy content.
It exists to showcase how awesome people are throughout the huge spectrum of toy crafts that exist and which people invest themselves into everyday.
We do our best to layout and categorize everything into a simple and easy to use format. For each skill hobby section there is an about page, a learning tutorials page, and a TV/video edits/documentaries page.
We want you to have easy access to the best tutorials and media so that you too can learn about whats out there in the skill toy world.
Our goal is that you can use this site as a resource allowing you to perfect the skill base that you already have, or learn something completely new through the tutorials sections under each category.
A large portion of this website is dedicated towards hyping up other awesome skill toy niches that you might end up developing an interest for and ultimately pursuing later on. Toyskills.com is a place for all types of hobby toy enthusiasts to learn and grow their knowledge base.
Kendama
The kendama toy is one of the most popular skill toys in the space today and is becoming increasingly more popular every day. It is a simple Japanese toy that is made up of a handle that leads to a spike with two cups on either side and a ball with a hole in it that is tied to the handle by a thin string. Tranditionally, People play the game by trying to catch the ball on the cups, the bottom of the handle, or spike the end of the handle into the ball.
Slacklining is another sport/activity that is skyrocketing in popularity and has a variety of different aspects to it. Slacklining has several main categories that it could be broken down into but the edges between each or very grey area. These most noteworthy categories include but aren't limited to Highlining, longlining, and freestyle...More
A balisong, also referred to as a fan knife or a butterfly knife, is a type of knife where, when closed, the blade is concealed inside of the handle. The handle splits into two separate handles to allow the blade to go from the open position to the closed position. Handling a Balisong by spinning it around from the open to closed states has become a unique craft and...More
Contact Juggling is the artful manipulation of an inanimate orb such as the Fushigi skill toy for the purpose of making the object appear to defy certain laws of physics. The craft is done by staying in contact with the object at all times but making it seem as though the object moves with a mind of its own. The gravity ball is utilized with many technical tricks as the juggler shifts the orb in ways to baffle viewers.
A Buugeng is a type of s-staff and is a technique and art that involves the manipulation, isolation, and spinning of an "S" shaped skill toy or staff in a way that results in very unique visual performances. The craft of Buugeng could be added to the category of juggling or contact juggling but is highly differentiated and is more like a distant cousin..More
Gloving is a performance art or dance by use of rave gloves where one or more people creatively and systematically move their hands and individual, LED lit, fingers to make impressive patterns in the air giving an almost hypnotic like sensation to the onlooker. A huge influence of the craft comes from finger tutting as many..More
Hacky Sack, also called footbag by many, is a game that is played with one or more people where the main goal is to juggle a small sack without the use of your hands and primarily with your feet for the purpose of keeping the bag from falling onto the ground. This classic toy has been around for a long time which has allowed many enthusiasts to..More