Exploring the Past to Improve the Future
By Eilene Lyon
The “From the Vault” series features an artifact or family photo from my collection to illustrate a tale from my distant past.
Here are a couple YouTube videos. The first shows visitors to Antigua demonstrating how not to play capirucho.
I like this one, because he shows how to measure the string and at the end we have a champion at the “hop.”
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Great poem. They are works of art. How are your skills? That last guy is a pro.
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I can still get it on the stick, and a hop or two!
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I’m impressed! It would completely impossible for me.
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Like anything else, there is a specific technique. I think anyone can learn it once shown how, like those 3D wood or metal puzzles.
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I can’t do those 3D puzzles either, even after being shown. (No spatial intelligence.) 🙂
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I hope you use a GPS to get around then. 😉
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Indeed I do. My sister-in-law gave me a GPS after my mother and I held up a family lunch by an hour-and-a-half driving in circles around Arlington, Mass. looking for my cousin’s house. (We had the street address and a map–and we stopped to get directions twice. I finally had to call my cousin to come and lead us to her house.)
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You make me laugh!😂 My aunt seems to have that problem. We waited in vain for her to find us at a restaurant not very far from her home. It was crazy.
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My mother’s sense of direction was even worse than mine, so you put the two of us in a car en route to an unfamiliar place, it’s bad news.
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The skills that stay with us!!
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Like riding a bike. 🙂
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Looks very hard!
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Once you get the move down, it’s easy ever after!
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I remember those toys (not as pretty as these—just plain wood). I was never good at it!
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I don’t recall ever seeing them in the US, but makes sense in such a multicultural place as New York City.
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A poem, Eilene! and a good one!
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Aw shucks, thank you, Jim. Once in a blue moon I give it a try.
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I’ve never played, but it looks fun. Who needs devices and electronics, just good, old-fashioned fun. There used to be a toy catalog for kids called Hearth Song and they specialized in wooden toys, often handmade. Plus we got a poem to boot.
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I do agree with that, Linda. Having fun doesn’t require complicated devices and software. Glad you enjoyed the poem.🙂
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We managed to amuse ourselves with lots of things growing up – Silly Putty comes to mind, not to mention various types of jumping rope in the schoolyard. Simple is better sometimes. I did enjoy the poem – hope you do some more Eileen.
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Thanks, Linda. If the inspiration strikes…
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I am fascinated by this kind of wooden toys; we have baleros in Mexico, and in Japan, there’s a toy with a ball and two cups at the end of the stick (Kendama). I didn’t know about capiruchos, they are so pretty!
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I will need to learn more about the toys you mention. I wonder how many such toys depend on developing eye-hand coordination. Remember paddles with rubber string and ball?
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Yes, so interesting; I might post about the balero and kendama at some point (and now I know about the capirucho, too). I remember those paddles! And something called a “pack-pack”; it was basically two hard balls attached to strings, and you had to swing the strings to make the balls collide repeatedly (they made a “pack” sound, hence the name). Kids got bruised arms and even eyes from the hard balls, and I think the toy was eventually banned, hehe.
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I remember those! I think we called them clackers, but I might be confusing them with a game by that name. They were dangerous, for sure.
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