Question 1

How do you use a spinning top with string?

Accepted Answer

A spinning top, trompo in Latin America and the US, peonza in Spain, is a top you throw on a string and catch on its tip. Wind the string around the body, throw it down, and catch the spinning top on the string or your hand.

Question 2

Is a fixed tip harder than a ball bearing tip?

Accepted Answer

A little, at the start. The tip spins with the body, so the top runs shorter and a messy throw shows straight away. That honesty is what teaches control, and the hardest tricks are built on it.

Question 3

Will I outgrow this spin top once I can land tricks?

Accepted Answer

No. The pro tricks on the fixed tip side of the app, like the Roller Coaster and the Collar, run on this same top, so the limit becomes your string control, not the gear.

Question 4

Should I buy this or the Ball Bearing Spin Top?

Accepted Answer

New to spin tops? Start on the Ball Bearing Spin Top: the long spin gives you more time to land a trick. Pick this one for the classic tricks and the control they teach. Same body, same price, and the Starter Spin Top Set has one of each.

Question 5

What size and colours does it come in?

Accepted Answer

55 mm across, 65 mm long and 53 g, in clear, teal or dark teal.

Classic Fixed Spin Top

Fixed tip. Classic tricks.

Spin. Control. Repeat.

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