{"id":13714,"date":"2013-09-17T03:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2013-09-17T03:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T10:46:01","slug":"yoyos-frisbees-and-fringe-sports-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/yoyos-frisbees-and-fringe-sports-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"YoYos, Frisbees and Fringe Sports in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/natyo.jpg\" width=\"920\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>YoYos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each year in October exuberant youth and adults look forward to making the trek to Chico, home of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/chico-yoyo-museum.html\">National YoYo Museum<\/a>, the World&#8217;s Largest YoYo, and National YoYo Contest. The contest takes place in the Chico City Plaza on October 5, 2013. \u00a0The grueling competition isn&#8217;t exactly the same as Monday Night Football, and the stakes (cash prizes) are whole lot smaller. But the audience is mesmerized by high-flying \u00a0YoYo spins, dips and walks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Frisbee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just like the Duncan YoYo which came from California, the Frisbee was invented by another Californian, Walter Fredrick Morrison, who initially sold &#8220;Flyin&#8217; Cake Pans&#8221; on the beaches of Santa Monica.\u00a0During World War II he learned aerodynamics flying his P-47 Thunderbolt in Italy, and transferred that knowledge into the making of the Pluto Platter, the predecessor to today&#8217;s Frisbee. When California inventor Ed Headrick got into the act, he used these new-fangled Frisbees in a spanking-new sport the world loved &#8212; Disc Golf!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pinball:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s love affair with &#8220;fringe&#8221; sports also includes pinball. There&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/alameda-pacific-pinball-museum.html\">pinball museum<\/a> in Alameda and California Xtreme Pinball Contest each summer in Santa Clara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YoYos: Each year in October exuberant youth and adults look forward to making the trek to Chico, home of the\u00a0National YoYo Museum, the World&#8217;s Largest YoYo, and National YoYo Contest. The contest takes place in the Chico City Plaza on October 5, 2013. \u00a0The grueling competition isn&#8217;t exactly the same as Monday Night Football, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}