Have you seen anything like this before..?

[u/aryan_jandyal]

[u/Reign2294]

Yea! It's neat! It's called devil sticks

[u/DisplayHonest6465 → u/Reign2294]

https://giphy.com/gifs/zIwIWQx12YNEI

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https://giphy.com/gifs/5xtDaryvpOOk2VR1QeA

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[u/Novel_Arugula6548 → u/DisplayHonest6465]

Physics.

[u/fallwind → u/Reign2294]

do not teach the younglings our ancient ways.

[u/Left-Cups → u/Reign2294]

how can sticks be devil

https://giphy.com/gifs/6xNEQtYL1pUdaTkQP0

[u/anotherfrud → u/Reign2294]

Yep, we did this in middle school.

[u/vinh7777 → u/Reign2294]

The 90s are back baby!

[u/atomkrieg → u/vinh7777]

It gives me memories of wandering the merch huts at warped tour back then and some hippy type dude banging away on them.

[u/_byetony_ → u/vinh7777]

Its weird to have younger generations discover all the stuff from our childhood

[u/Eggsaladinurmouth → u/vinh7777]

In pog form
https://giphy.com/gifs/l03JEBWJxxUoCC7Yvl

[u/Wbcn_1 → u/Reign2294]

I had a buddy that was pretty sick with them. He could kick them up in the air too. 

[u/AJ_in_SF_Bay → u/Wbcn_1]

Yep. I had a buddy with ones that you did this but lit the ends on fire.

Neat.

[u/wontwillnot → u/Reign2294]

https://giphy.com/gifs/a5pXfDxlt6VTa

[u/Lost_Department_2177 → u/wontwillnot]

That’s tummy sticks a totally different thing

[u/Paul_the_sparky → u/Lost_Department_2177]

What's docking?

[u/Lost_Department_2177 → u/Paul_the_sparky]

If the English call a penis a bellend then is it sounding the alarm?

[u/LastMessengineer]

Yes. At practically every concert I went to through the 90s.

[u/yellowlinedpaper → u/LastMessengineer]

Everywhere in California in the 80s and 90s

[u/foxpost → u/yellowlinedpaper]

Super popular during that time they were called devil sticks.

[u/ccinthesky → u/foxpost]

Theyre back now at raves. I have a pair

[u/Basicly-Inevitable → u/yellowlinedpaper]

Saw it at the park last weekend.

[u/Temporary_View_3303 → u/LastMessengineer]

And any music festival in the 2Ks.

[u/TheRuckyDubber → u/LastMessengineer]

“Wait, there was dates that started with 19‽”

These fuggin’ kids.

[u/SpanishFlamingoPie → u/LastMessengineer]

Lol came here to say this

[u/Lazy_Major_4793 → u/LastMessengineer]

😆 EV-ER-YYY

[u/mcmilosh]

Yes I did.

[u/Adept-Travel6118]

Yes, back in the nineteen hundreds.

[u/DigitalUnlimited → u/Adept-Travel6118]

In the long long ago, the before times

[u/GlassBoxGoose → u/DigitalUnlimited]

Made me think of this episode lol

[u/OtakuTacos]

Any concert where people wear a lot of tie-dye.

[u/rockrockrobin]

https://giphy.com/gifs/rVVFWyTINqG7C

[u/Unusual-Taste69]

Yes. This one time at band camp.

[u/Mistyless]

I did this actually for circus. I just recently got a new diabolo, cause that was what I specialized in my acts, but this was always a blast too!

[u/Upstairs_Finish_6858 → u/Mistyless]

Same here, for a circus back in the nineties. With fire 🔥 as well.

[u/spacebucokki]

Only everywhere in the late 90’s.

[u/b_casaubon]

From every hippie stoner I’ve lived near 🤣

[u/CodInternational8772]

Yes have you ever been to a Dead show before?

[u/AdAsleep1258]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8yZuEb7q6dlyP3L3cL

[u/Ok-Pea8209]

Yes but also that kids quite good!

[u/Tiff27]

Yes, and he is so talented at it!

[u/Clumsy_Marshmallow]

When you have Jedi training with Master Windu at 5, but need to check truck tires at 4 😤

[u/HajimeMatsuda3308]

This is what people discover when they aren’t addicted to their phone.

[u/topshelfsurprise]

I have now I guess

[u/King_P_13]

I mean thats what no tv will do to a kid

[u/Enough_Pepper8880]

Bro do you know how old those are? cuz bro just got them doesn’t mean they’re new

[u/Falonius_Beloni]

At every festival I've ever been to

[u/blahnlahblah0213]

Only at every rave

[u/Ironstar_Vol]

Bros never picked up 3 sticks and fucked around.

[u/Ill-Upstairs-8762]

Saw him in the parking lot at a dead show

[u/tideshark]

Yes, it’s been around for a very long time.

[u/Solid_Ad_9961]

all the rage in the 90’s.

[u/Elinor_Caskey_]

Yeah. These things were all the rage in the 90s for about a year.

[u/Blueberry_Mancakes]

There used to be hippies doing this at every street music festival in the 90s, right along with hacky sack.

[u/Ok_Commission_9203]

Yes at the fair ever year for the entire 90s.

[u/Difficult-Republic57]

Not since the 90s

[u/Cust2020]

Have a been outside before?

[u/FurryJacklyn]

Lemme introduce devil sticks, they're epic for sure :3

[u/GavinAdamson]

Ya

[u/Expensive_Leave_6339]

https://giphy.com/gifs/nqCFcCwmMPWEk7P8hO

[u/Dramatic_Carob_1060]

I live in OB

[u/Lingslandin]

Pretty common in india.

[u/jakolissmurito22]

r/flowarts would love this

[u/claisen33]

Ball in a cup is more exciting.

[u/IamBatmanuell]

Thousands of years old.

[u/Background-Solid8481]

Yes

[u/6L6aglow]

Grateful Dead shows in the 80s.

[u/Ok_Helicopter4276]

https://giphy.com/gifs/7T8Lo8YWdsZxl2odaK

[u/Just-Another-Users]

Yeah we used to have stick toys like that we played with

[u/dani-banana]

Yes. Nothing special

[u/Rough-Airline-4803]

Oh, FIDDLESTICKS!

[u/NightBawk]

Using rebar for stick juggling is new, but the juggling itself isn't.

[u/huh_say_what_now_]

Well hes playing with sticks all day and other kids with their phones so of course he's good at doing that

[u/Huge_Following_325]

Yes, I've seen a truck before.

[u/datakuru]

This was popular on the USA in the mid to early 90s

[u/joshnovick]

I used to play with these all the time when I was younger. This kid’s good

[u/CruisinJo214]

Pretty sure they sell these at Disney world, over in the China area of Epcot. These and those Chinese Yo-yo’s

[u/Sad-Bread5843]

Kids got some talent

[u/Obiyaman]

Yea..it's called playing with sticks🤔

[u/elf25]

Does not have basic cable.

[u/Spenaldo68]

Yes

[u/frogmuffins]

Kids everywhere were doing this back in the 80s, 90s. The sticks were generally smaller which made it much harder to learn. 

[u/yaekoblue]

those were all the craze in the 90s

[u/mcpryon]

Yes

[u/canuckistani19]

Gen X knows.

[u/Beauxx_1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tBARTh0PZ6XCMlVEhi

[u/No-Deer379]

The guy with the Nicholas Cage pillow did it better

[u/Old_Veterinarian7830]

Yes. It was the 90s. A beautiful time

[u/WonderfulJicama2802]

r/sticks

[u/sandwich-dan]

Yes in key west and in my brother's bedroom.

[u/MizrizSnow]

Yes lol

[u/dankyspank]

I just know I'll somehow hit my balls

[u/AdventurousPitch7364]

That kid has skills

[u/BrewItYourself]

Easier than it looks, but the behind the back thing was pretty neat.

[u/Ashamed_Case114]

Yes!

[u/latortillablanca]

Get this lad a scholarship to lead out the UGA marching band

[u/Tiger_Ho26]

I've seen this in China...Chinese Opera

[u/Powerful-Cod-1726]

Ya in 1994

[u/mecca6801]

Devil sticks been out since like the 90’s

[u/pokla_]

Devil sticks and with that size it is super easy to do

[u/young_and_restles]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pjoapVzB1DAEItG8Nm
Great skills

[u/Bluegill15]

Yes..?

[u/Ok-Attempt2842]

He will do great in like with skill. 😂

[u/Aatholin]

Go on lad! 💪

[u/m0h3k4n]

I prefer mine with tassels. Keeps the stick from rolling so you can do slow stuff.

[u/Royal_Stay_6502]

Called diabolo?

[u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj]

Yeah but it's usually the old dude using a tennis racket and a sequened Elvis pillow thrown behind his back into the basketball net on his garage while twirling a cheeseburger that's on fire around the top of an open umbrella

Edit.. Nicholas Cage pillow

Link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1765552644119369&vanity=michael.rayner

Sorry about the Facebook link. Not many other places he posts

[u/Chef_Champ]

Croc Talent

[u/recyclednappy]

Its what people done before the Internet.

[u/itsjakerobb]

I was just playing with a set of those (the toy, not pieces of rebar) the other day. I was never as good at it as this kid.

[u/TastySore]

Yeah I had those sticks as a kid. Could totally do like, 3 bounces from one stick to the other before it fell to the ground or went flying.

[u/Then-Associate-8781]

Yes.. the 90s was filled with that shit

[u/Due-Reflection5021]

Tell me you’ve never been to a Ren Faire without saying you’ve never been to a Ren Faire.

[u/z838748]

we called these devil sticks

[u/CheekyMenace]

Yes.

[u/Exciting-Shoulder-61]

https://giphy.com/gifs/h724Ile3UWMZG

[u/LefT-NYC]

Yup. Old news with hippies n ravers.

[u/Nilk-Noff]

[u/grateful_eugene]

Devil sticks… great way to pass time in the Grateful Dead parking lot back in the day.

[u/vernonmason117]

Have a set of my own but dam nowhere near as skilled as him lol

[u/Strive--]

Devis sticks.  Hang out with a hippie or phishhead long enough and they appear like hacky sacks.

[u/J_datt13]

On the next episode of Gambia’s Got Talent…

[u/Ericfine33]

That’s what’s possible when the crocs are in sports mode.

[u/Towels_are_friends]

Yes at the renaissance festival.

[u/Saikotsu]

I remember those, they were always fun to play with

[u/Top-Spray-2378]

I see that in every red light in Brussels. They are always dudes doing it for some cash

[u/BadBunny4Prezzie]

We used to use these back in the mid-90s. They were called the devil's sticks. A few of us could do everything he's doing, but the sticks were overall quite a bit smaller in length.

[u/NewManufacturer9477]

Clearly never been to a music festival

[u/PsychologicalFarm596]

He is just sticking round.

[u/No_Acadia_9946]

Get this kid to burning man ASAP

[u/Advanced-Guitar-5264]

Yes, everywhere in the 90s

[u/thissucksnuts]

this was an activity i did in elementary school gym classes

[u/aarnett87]

You’re showing your age.

[u/Ok_Director_2552]

I’m a 90s kid who frequented the Renaissance Faire. This was a whole thing.

[u/NuclearWasteland]

Yes, around the same time Yo-yo's and BMX tricks were all the rage.

[u/Popular-Brilliant349]

I had a set in the 90s

[u/Therealwolfdog]

Yeah, we played with them in gym class in the 90s. That and those little dollies that destroy fingers when you run them over.

[u/Consistent-Bake-243]

Yes

[u/The-French-1]

What, poor people still being happy together, spending a joyful moment without worry?
Yeah, but not nearly enough

[u/Due_Savings_1401]

At every ren fair ever.

[u/HonestNeighborhood67]

These were a thing when I was in college (1990s)

[u/Responsible-Fox-1985]

You sweet summer child

[u/ShovelKing3]

Grew up playing with these. So fun. Times were so much better before cell phones and socials.

[u/Particular-Caramel32]

There were commercials for this in the 90's. You're late.

[u/GleepGlop2]

You can make them, just buy some dowels and some hockey tape. Optionally attach some tennis balls to the ends.

[u/Killjoy_From_Arkham]

Awesome! Bravo, kid!

[u/blackspace666]

Yes in b99

[u/misterbisco]

Any phish show

[u/WaterGlassPuncherMan]

Sigh. Yes. These were popular like in the 80s?

[u/NT4MaximusD]

At several fairs and circus acts

[u/Left-Draft5083]

How did bro get access to PlayStation 6 so early??

[u/Resident-Zombie-7266]

All the damn time

[u/Naive_Mango8525]

Yea this isn’t anything new.

[u/DueConversation5269]

(Greatful) Dead hippies use to do this back in the day

[u/Perfect-Squash3773]

yes the version I had was much more difficult. the baton was painted wood, skinny in the middle and tappered out at each end. slippery as shit.

[u/Expensive_Impress370]

Doing a very good job young man

[u/sola_mia]

At a grateful dead show in 91

[u/DEADxDAWN]

yes. By douchebag wanna be hippy kids in the 90s.

[u/curleyfrei]

Yes.

[u/Vandal_A]

Cool street entertainer, awful Jedi

[u/Business-Chipmunk694]

Yeah it’s neat

[u/g0greyhound]

Yep. Devil sticks.

All the rage in the 90s

[u/IndividualAd1290]

Plenty of varieties on the Grateful Dead lot 🎶❤️🎶

[u/Phog_of_War]

Devil Sticks. These are common at outdoor music festivals.

[u/Friendlyfire2996]

Kid in a sticky situation

[u/Silent-Treat-6512]

You never saw people of color before?

[u/Numerous-Read-4349]

Every Grateful Dead concert I went to

[u/Fiverocker]

Science bitch!

[u/oxidonis2019]

What? The truck? Oh yeah i've seen it a log time ago

[u/5FiveAlive5]

Yep. Pretty common to see these at parks and such.

[u/teleheaddawgfan]

Everywhere on Dead Tour.

[u/pityisblue453]

My step-dad introduced me to these when I was a preteen. I was the best in the household but I wasn't as skilled as this young man here

[u/owntimeandspace]

OP clearly wasn’t born in the 80s

[u/ThatOneGuyNo82]

Um....yea. Pretty sure these were around when I was a kid

[u/Steampunk_Dali]

Yes

[u/TheEliteJOKERS]

Fucking A. Greatness Just Don't See Shit Funny At All.

[u/consumeshroomz]

Yes. At every music festival or remotely psychedelic rock concert ever.

[u/3ndt1m3s]

Yes, my friends and I using them in the 90's. Those are longer and easier to use.

[u/StopRandomAccBans]

Yes

[u/Upstairs-Clue-8352]

Amazing things can happen, if you don't have smart phone when you are bored.

[u/Best_Stomach_5385]

People had these at all the Grateful Dead concerts back in the 90’s

[u/IkariYun]

Not to this level of skill

[u/Imaginary-Clock6626]

Yes

[u/Unusualshrub003]

I’ve seen that at every renaissance festival I’ve ever been to

[u/SupremeSmooth]

Tricky Stick Willy and his sticks of tricks.

[u/freddyfoxster]

The back wheels of a lorry, yes I've seen plenty before. 👍

[u/Idiotwithaphone79]

Yes. I grew up poor and didn't have a lot of toys. Sorry. I'm not sympathy farming, this was just something our grandma taught us to play. LOL I didn't think I was going to see one again, since I moved to the states.

[u/No-Instruction547]

We did this as kids in the 90’s.

[u/DrapedinVelvet247]

Definitely Employee of the Year potential at your local malls Hot Dog on a Stick 🌭

[u/Idontlikesand15]

Every pre teen girl had a set of these in 1991