>> THIS TIME ON "POINTS NORTH," LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

WE WILL CATCH UP WITH HOCKEY GREAT GUY LAFLEUR AND CHECK OUT HIS LATEST PAST TIME.

THEN MOVE OVER, TRIVIAL PURSUIT.

VERMONT HAS A NEW BOARD GAME.

ONE THAT WILL HAVE YOU BETHUMP'D.

AND WE REVISIT THE WORLD CHAMPION OF YO-YO.

>> WELCOME TO "POINTS NORTH."

I'M ROB MICHALAK.

17 NHL SEASONS, 560 GOALS.

FIVE STANLEY CUPS, AND FOR MUCH OF THE 1970s AND 1980s, GUY LAFLEUR WAS THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE MONTREAL CANADIANS, IN EVERY GAME HE PLAYED WITH PASSION.

SO, WHAT HAS HE BEEN DOING SINCE HE HUNG UP HIS SKATES IN 1991?

HE'S FOUND A NEW PASSION.

>> BACK BEHIND THE NET, AND ROUTE HAS IT.

PAST GUY LAFLEUR, HE WINDS UP AND SHOOTS AND SCORES!

>> HE DOMINATED THE GAME IN HIS TIME.

NO.

10, GUY LAFLEUR, FLEW ON THE ICE.

TODAY, HE IS STILL FLYING, BUT THIS TIME, FROM ABOUT 1,000 FEET OVER THE ICE.

>> IS THE BEGINNING WAS ODD, TO FIND A HOBBY, AND IT'S NOT A HOBBY.

IF IT IS, IT'S A VERY EXPENSIVE HOBBY.

IT'S LIKE DRIVING A MOTORCYCLE THROUGH THE COUNTRY, YOU KNOW.

YOU SMELL THE AIR, YOU SMELL THE BUSH OR THE FARMS, AND YOU SEE THE RIVERS, AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

IT CHANGES THE COLOR IN THE FALL.

AND EVEN IN THE WINTERTIME, IT'S VERY NICE OR IT'S A GREAT FEELING, AND IT'S A FEELING OF FREEDOM, YOU KNOW.

>> A FULLY ACCREDITED COMMERCIAL HELICOPTER PILOT, GUY LAFLEUR FLIES A FEW TIMES A WEEK, AS FAR AS QUEBEC CITY, AND AS FAR SOUTH SIDE AS TEXAS.

>> I REMEMBER MY FIRST FLIGHT INTO THE HELICOPTER, I THINK IT WAS 18 YEARS OLD.

I WAS GOING TO AN EVENT, AN HOUR AND A HALF FROM MONTREAL, AND IT WAS A FIRE DEPARTMENT EVENT, AND THEY HAD TO TRANSPORT ME TO SHOW THE PEOPLE WHAT THE HELICOPTERS WOULD DO IN CASE OF A FOREST FIRE, OR ANY KIND OF AN EMERGENCY, OR I THINK, IT RIDES INTO THE HELICOPTER AND GET TO THE PLACE AND BROUGHT ME BACK AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED.

>> SO IMPRESSED, IT STAYED ON HIS MIND THROUGHOUT HIS PLAYING CAREER.

HE PURSUED THAT DREAM IN RETIREMENT.

MARCEL, ONE OF GUY LAFLEUR'S FORMER INSTRUCTORS, WAS ALSO IMPRESSED BY THE NATURAL ABILITIES.

>> NOW I UNDERSTAND WHERE THOSE ARE SO GOOD.

THEIR FOCUS IS SO INTENSE, AND IT'S THE SAME THING WITH GUY.

>> IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO GET MENTALLY PREPARED TO GO BACK TO CLASSES.

WHEN I WAS BACK, I AM 49 NOW, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 45 YEARS OLD, GOING BACK INTO CLASSES, AND SITTING DOWN WITHOUT MOVING AND PAYING ALL THE ATTENTION TO WHAT THE INSTRUCTOR WAS TALKING ABOUT, WAS TOO MUCH.

>> GUY LAFLEUR FLIES FROM A SMALL AIRPORT LOCATED IN MONTREAL'S SOUTH SHORE.

WE TAGGED ALONG WITH HIM AS HE PERFORMED HIS DAILY TECHNICAL INSPECTION, SOMETHING THAT HE DOES BEFORE EVERY TAKE-OFF.

>> IT IS VERY CLEAN.

IT IS SOLID.

IT IS OKAY.

PERFECT.

IT DEPENDS ON.

NO PROBLEM.

CHECK THE OIL.

MOVE THE TAIL OVER, NO CHIP INTO THE ROTORS.

CHECK TO SEE IF THERE IS CHIPS IN THE ROTOR.

SOMETIMES A CRACK.

PERFECT.

WE CHECK ALL THE THINGS.

60-PIN.

>> THE EQUIPMENT, HE KNOWS ALL OF THEM, ALL SPECKS AND REALLY IS A GOOD TECHNICAL GUY IN THE HELICOPTERS.

>> HERE, WE MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS ON.

WE CALL THIS THE JESUS MAP.

AND IT'S LOCKED.

WHEN WE FLY THE HELICOPTER, I FEEL SAFE.

THAT'S THE FIRST FEELING THAT I HAVE, AND FEEL VERY SAFE IN THE HELICOPTER.

BUT YOU HAVE TO CONCENTRATE A LOT ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND ABOUT LOOKING OUT FOR OTHER TRAFFIC THAT YOU COULD ENCOUNTER.

>> ALL THE BREAKERS, SWITCHES ARE IN.

PRESSURE, PRESSURE, RIGHT NOW.

SO EVERYTHING IS READY TO START.

>> BUT THE WEATHER PROVES TO BE CHALLENGING.

SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS HAVE MOVED INTO THE AREA.

>> A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE TO FLY ON A WINDY DAY.

JUST EXCEPT FOR THE CRAZY FLYERS.

BUT YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT, ESPECIALLY TODAY, WE HAVE SOME GUSTS, AND THAT THE GUSTS, THE WIND DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, SWING THE HELICOPTER AROUND, SO YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE AND NOT THE MACHINE HAVING CONTROL OF YOU, SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU KEEP IT AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE AND KEEP YOUR NOSE INTO THE WIND.

I FLEW TO BURLINGTON TWICE THE LAST TWO YEARS TO DO SOME PROMOTION FOR THE USA, AND IT'S A 35-MINUTE FLIGHT, SO IT'S GREAT, INSTEAD OF DRIVING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO IN VERMONT IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

THE COUNTRY, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE, SO IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO BE ABLE TO DO IT, AND YOU GET SPOILED BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES I WENT BACK TO BURLINGTON AND I HAVE TO DRIVE, SO IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY, AND YOU ARE STUCK IN TRAFFIC, AND YOU DON'T SEE AS MUCH SCENERY.

YOU SEE A BIT BUT FROM UP THERE AT THE 1,000 FEET YOU SEE A LOT AND ALL THE LAKES, AND IT'S JUST FANTASTIC.

>> TODAY, FLYING HELICOPTERS HAS BECOME MORE THAN JUST AN EXPENSIVE HOBBY FOR HIM.

HE AND HIS FORMER INSTRUCTOR HAVE STARTED HELI CLUB, A CHOPPER SERVICE THAT PICKS UP PEOPLE IN THEIR BACKYARD AND DROPS THEM OFF AT THEIR PLACE OF WORK.

>> THE HELICOPTER MARKET, IS ONLY 4% OF THE MARKET, AND I WOULD BET IT WOULD BE, THE NEXT THREE YEARS WE WILL REACH 10%.

SO I THINK THAT IT WILL BE PART OF IT FOR SURE.

>> I WOULD LOVE TO OWN MY OWN HELICOPTER, BUT LIKE I SAID, I BETTER BE THINKING ABOUT MAKING A, AN NHL COMEBACK BECAUSE IT'S SO EXPENSIVE.

>> TWO ON ONE, SHOOTS, AND SCORES!

GUY LAFLEUR, HAS SCORED HIS 500TH CAREER GOAL!

THERE GUY LAFLEUR HAS FOUND SUCCESS AS BOTH A PLAYER AND A HOHELICOPTER PILOT, AND THERE'S ONE REASON FOR THAT, HIS HARD-WORKING, NEVER-GIVE-UP ATTITUDE.

YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE THAT.

BOARD GAMES HAVE LONG BEEN POPULAR PAST-TIMES FOR ALL AGES.

LOOK AT THE LASTING POWER OF MONOPOLY AND SCRABBLE.

NOW THERE ARE TWO NEW BOARD GAMES IN TOWN THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED RIGHT HERE IN VERMONT.

SO, JUST TO GET YOU WARMED UP, WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX AN ACRONYM FROM THE NAMES OF FIVE DAUGHTERS WITH A PHRASE ONLY SHAKESPEARE COULD LOVE?

ARE YOU FEELING BETHUMP'D?

>> WE READ DICTIONARIES LIKE MOST PEOPLE READ NOVELS.

BOARD GAMES ARE ONES THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER.

>> BEFORE THE END OF THE 20th CENTURY, WHO WAS THE ONLY SITTING HEAD OF STATE TO BE INDICTED FOR WAR CRIMES BY AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL?

>> MILANOVICH.

>> VERY GOOD TO, UNDERSTAND THE STORY OF THIS GAME, FIRST YOU NEED A LITTLE BACKGROUND ABOUT THE CREATORS.

IT'S 1959 AND GLEN AND MARY CAHILLY HONEYMOON IN VERMONT.

THEY LIVE IN NEW YORK WHERE GLEN IS A BIOCHEMIST.

WHETHER IT'S TIME TO RETIRE THEY LED FOR THE MAD RIVER VALLEY.

EVENTUALLY THREE OF THEIR FIVE DAUGHTERS FOLLOW.

SO HOW DID GLEN GO ON TO BECOME A CREATOR OF NATIONALLY ACCLAIMED AND AWARD-WINNING BOARD GAMES?

HERE'S THE REST OF THE STORY.

>> IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTED IN WORDS, WHERE THEY CAME FROM, AND WHEN WE GOT TOGETHER FOR FAMILY DINNERS, IT WAS VERY FREQUENT THAT WE WOULD TALK ABOUT WHERE A WORD CAME, FROM SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD COME ACROSS.

AND IN THE PROCESS REALIZED THAT OUR GRANDCHILDREN WERE YOU REMEMBERING ALL THESE CONVERSATIONS.

AND SO IT OCCURRED TO US AT ONE POINT IN TIME MAYBE WE HAVE GOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE A GOOD LITERACY, TEACHING TOOL.

>> SOON GLEN HAD ROUGH -- ROUGHT A GAME, AND AT THEIR CHRISTMAS GATHERING, WHICH INCLUDED ALL 21 GRAND CHILDREN, THEY GAVE IT A TEST DRIVE BACK IN 1995 WHEN GLEN DECIDED TO GIVE THE COMMERCIAL MARKET A TRY.

>> WE HAD ALL THE IDEAS ABOUT THE MILTON BRADLEY AND THE OTHER COMPANIES THAT THEY ARE GOING TO STEAL OUR IDEA SO WE DID NOT CONTACT THEM, BUT TODAY WE KNOW BETTER.

>> HI.

>> HI.

>> HOW ARE YOU?

>> GOOD, THANKS.

>> HERE'S THE REST OF THE GAMES YOU ORDERED.

>> OKAY.

>> THANKS FOR DROPPING THEM OFF.

>> WHEN DAD CAME TO US WITH THE IDEA OF A BOARD GAME I WAS IN COLLEGE, AND I NOTICED THAT I WOULD COME HOME FOR BREAKS, AND DAD WOULD BE SCRIBBLING ON A PAD OF PAPER AND STUFFING THESE PIECES OF PAPER IN HIS SHIRT POCKET AND WE WOULD, HE HAD MENTION A WORD AND WE WOULD GET OUT THE PAPER AND WRITE IT AGAIN AND RIGHT BEFORE I WAS GOING BACK DOWN TO COLLEGE WE ALL PLAYED THE PROTOTYPE OF THE GAME AND DECIDED THAT WE GOING TO GO INTO THE GAME BUSINESS.

AND I WAS A LITTLE WEARY AT THE TIME.

>> WELL, OF COURSE, HOW DOES ONE BREAK INTO THE GAME BUSINESS?

IT CERTAINLY IS NOT A CLASS YOU CAN TAKE IN COLLEGE.

BUT MARKETING IS, AND REBECCA CAHILLY, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF GLEN AND MARY, WAS READY TO BEGIN.

>> WE WANTED TO CREATE GAMES, AND IF YOU ARE CHALLENGED THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE WE ARE COMPLETELY CHALLENGED, AND THAT'S WHY WE SAY, WE ARE BETHUMP'D.

>> OKAY, STOP RIGHT THERE.

JUST WHAT IS BETHUMP'D?

>> BETHUMP'D IS A LINE FROM SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY, "KING JOHN."

IT'S ONE OF HIS LESSER KNOWN PLAYS, AND THE PHRASED THAT IT COMES FROM IS A CHARACTER TALKING, COMPLAINING ABOUT THE VERBOSENESS OF ANOTHER CHARACTER, AND HE SAYS, SOUNDS, I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO BETHUMP'D WITH WORDS SINCE I FIRST CALLED MY BROTHER'S FATHER DAD.

AND WE ENDED UP GETTING A REGISTERED TRADEMARK ON THAT PHRASE, AND IT WAS OVER 400 YEARS OLD, SO THANK YOU, SHAKESPEARE.

>> THEY LOVED THE BETHUMP'D TITLE AND/OR GIN SO MUCH, THAT THEY DECIDED TO MAKE ALL THEIR GAMES BETHUMP'D.

NEXT, THIS COMPANY NEEDED A NAME.

A NAME THAT WOULD REALLY GRAB THOSE WORD NERDS OUT THERE.

>> IT WAS FROM ALL DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS, AND WE SAID WILL ALL THE DAUGHTERS BE THE KEY TO THE BUSINESS GETTING STARTED.

IT SHOULD BE THEIR NAMES, AND WE TRIED THAT OUT AND CAME OUT WITH A LONG NAME THAT EVERYONE THINKS IS A FRENCH WORD, BUT IT IS AN >> THE COMPANY'S NAME IS AN ACRONYM MADE UP OF THE FIRST TWO LETTERS OF EACH OF GLEN AND MARY'S DAUGHTERS NAMES.

MARY, MONICA, PATRICIA, LINDA AND REBECCA.

MAMOPLIE, WORD NERDS, INDEED.

AND NOW, BACK TO THE GAME.

>> THE QUESTIONS IN THE GAME WERE INTEGRATED SO WE CAN READ EVERY QUESTION IN THE GAME, YOU WOULD BE LITERALLY TAKING A COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE IN LINGUISTICS, IN THE HISTORY AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

>> WITH THE HELP OF A FEW GAME DEVELOPERS, THE CAHILLIES LEARNED WHERE TO GO FOR PRINTING AND PACKAGING.

AND THE GAMES HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP THAT VERMONT INTEGRITY TO THEM WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS PRODUCED BY LOCAL ARTISTS, JIM BRISEN FOR THE WORDS GAME AND MIKE MAONE FOR THE HISTORY GAME.

THEY LEARNED HOW TO COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK THEIR OWN PRODUCT.

IT WAS AN ENLIGHTENING PROCESS FOR EVERYONE.

>> IN THE BEGINNING WE DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS A COMPANY THAT HAD THE TOTAL FULFILLMENT OF A GAME.

WE DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS A CARD COLLATOR, AND SO, AND WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WHEN YOU TAKE A THOUSAND CARDS OVER A THOUSAND GAMES, THAT ADDS UP TO A MILLION.

SO WE BOUGHT THE CARDS, A BIG STACK OF THE SAME CASHED, AND A THOUSAND CARDS, AND WE COLLATED IT BY HAND.

IT TOOK A MONTH TO PUT TOGETHER A THOUSAND GAMES.

>> TODAY THEY ARE WORKING WITH A COMPANY THAT MANUFACTURES EVERYTHING.

THE GAMES ARE THEN SHIPPED TO THEIR WAREHOUSE IN WARREN, WHERE EACH GAME IS INDIVIDUALLY CHECKED AND SENT TO CATALOG COMPANIES OR RETAIL STORES.

TO THINK THIS ALL STARTED WITH ONE SIMPLE BOARD.

>> IS -- THIS IS THE ORIGINAL OF THE BETHUMP'D WITH WORDS GAME BOARD.

THIS WAS MOM'S PUZZLE BOARD.

SHE HAS NOT SEEN IT SINCE, AND SHE IS AN AVID PUZZLE-MAKER SO THIS IS A SORE SPOT WITH HER.

THE GAME WE CAME OUT WITH IS PRETTY CLOSE TO THE ORIGINAL.

>> AND THE REVIEWS ARE IN.

BETHUMP'D WITH WORDS HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR GIFTED CHILDREN, VOTED BEST NEW WORD GAME OF 1997 BY GAMES MAGAZINE, AND A TOP TEN GAME BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, JUST TO NAME A FEW, AND THEY ARE ALSO JUNIOR AND BOOK EDITIONS WITH SUPPLEMENTS COMING SOON.

THE GAME EVEN MADE IT ONTO THE TELEVISION NETWORK, QVC, WHERE 750 GAMES SOLD IN, GET THIS, TWO MINUTES FLAT.

THE NEWEST GAME, BETHUMP'D WITH HISTORY, IS A GAME THAT CAHILLIES DEDICATED TO THE CIVILIZERS OF CIVILIZATION, AND AGAIN, THE UNIQUE IDEA HAS PAID OFF.

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE RECENTLY NAMED THIS GAME A TOP TEN GAME FOR THE YEAR 2000.

>> WHEN WE STARTED PUTTING TOGETHER A GAME ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION, WE FOUND IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO GENDER BALANCE THIS GAME.

AND TO REALLY GIVE WOMEN THE CREDIT THAT THEY ARE DUE, SO THE UNIQUE ASPECT OF OUR HISTORY GAME IS THAT IT IS A GENDER BALANCED PRESENTATION OF HISTORY.

>> TO MAKE THE GAME ENTICING FOR ALL AGES, QUESTIONS ARE ARRANGED BY LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY.

KIDS IN THE FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES CAN HANDLE LEVELS 1-3.

WITH ADULTS ANSWERING THE HIGHER LEVELS.

>> WHEN WE PLAY TOGETHER AS A FAMILY YOU HAVE A SHARED EXPERIENCE WHERE THE PARENTS HANDLE THE TOUGH ONES, AND TIMES THE KIDS CAN DO AS WELL ON THE TOUGH ONES AS THE PARENTS, BUT -- >> THE GAMES ARE SOLD NATION-WIDE AND ARE USED TO TEACH ENGLISH IN NORWAY AND KOREA.% AND THEY ARE BEING USED AS A TEACHING TOOL IN 30 VERMONT SCHOOLS.

>> WE SELL MOSTLY TO THE HIGH END SPECIALTY STORES, AND ACTUALLY, MOST OF THE BOOKSTORES HAVE BEEN FAVORABLE.

THEY HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THE GAME.

ESPECIALLY THE WORD GAME BECAUSE YOU CAN PUT A WORD GAME IN WITH PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES WORD NERDS IN A BOOKSTORE, AND IT'S A GREAT FIT.

>> SO THE NEXT TIME YOU ARE BETHUMP'D WITHOUT A WORD, TRY THIS HOMOPHONE.

>> I LOVE THE ONE ABOUT THE MISS MUFFETT.

IF SHE HAD HER WAY AND ATE ALL HER CURDS AND WHEY, SHE MIGHT WEIGH ENOUGH TO MATCH HER TOUGHETTE.

>> THERE ARE MANY WORDS IN ENGLISH, AND WE DEALT WITH 6,000 OF THEM.

SO WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF MATERIAL FOR THE GAME.

H.

>> CAN YOU YO-YO?

OBVIOUSLY, I CAN'T.

BUT THERE IS A I DON'T MEAN IN ST.

ALBANS WHO IN 1998 ROCKED THE YO-YO WORLD BY ROCKING THE BABY ALL THE WAY TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.

SHE STILL IS BOOKING DEMONSTRATION AND IS ACTIVE IN THE YO-YO WORLD.

BUT LET'S TAKE YOU BACK TO HER CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON.

SHE'S THE WORLD CHAMPION.

THE YOUNGEST WORLD CHAMPION AND THE FIRST FEMALE WORLD CHAMPION.

WHEN IT COMES TO THROWING A FORWARD PASS, LOOPING THE LOOP, OR REACHING FOR THE MOON, JENNIFER BAYBROOK HAS DONE ALL OF THAT AND MORE IN THE WORLD OF ZINGING THAT DISC ON A STRING.

>> WHEN I WAS 6.5, I SAW A YO-YO DEMONSTRATOR.

HE DEMONSTRATED THE YO-YO, HE WAS TEACHING THE YO-YO LESSONS AT THIS CAMPGROUND WHERE I WAS, I GOT INVOLVED AND I JUST REALLY KNEW HOW TO THROW A YO-YO.

I PICKED IT UP AND WAS ABLE TO DO IT.

I HAD A NATURAL ABILITY WITH IT, AND IT STARTED TEACHING ME MORE AND MORE.

>> SHE KEPT WITH IT ENOUGH TO CAPTURE THE ATTENTION OF BIG NAMES IN SHOW BUSINESS, INCLUDING REGIS PHILBIN, AND MRS BROTHERS WHO PUT HER IN FRONT OF THE FOOT LIGHTS.

>> IT WAS MY FIRST ACTUAL STAGE EXPERIENCE.

THERE WAS A COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE.

I THINK THAT I JUST REMEMBERED THINKING THAT I COULDN'T REALLY SEE BECAUSE OF THE SPOTLIGHTS BUT I KNEW THAT I HAD TO DO MY TRICKS, AND SMILE.

SO I WAS UP THERE DOING MY STUFF.

IT WAS IS A THRILL FOR ME.

>> PLEASE WELCOME THE 1998 WORLD YO-YO CHAMPION JENNIFER BAYBROOK!

[APPLAUSE] >> BUT AFTER YEARS OF DOING HER TRICKS IN FRONT OF AUDIENCES, FOR THE APPLAUSE AND CHEERS, THE THOUGHT OF DOING HER TRICKS IN FRONT OF JUDGES FOR THE PRIZE INTRIGUED JENNIFER.

>> I HAD BEEN PLAYING FOR 12 YEARS NOW, AND COMPETITIONS HAVE BEEN GOING ON ALL THESE YEARS.

BUT I STARTED COMPETE ANYTHING 1992 WAS MY FIRST COMPETITION.

AND I HAVE ONLY BEEN ACTUALLY IN SIX COMPETITIONS.

BUT IT WAS JUST HEY, THIS IS AS COMPETITION.

I WANT TO TRY AND SEE WHAT I CAN DO, AND MAYBE I WILL WIN.

>> MAYBE.

BY THE AGE OF 17, JENNIFER'S TROPHY SHELF WAS FILLING UP.

INCLUDING THE 1997 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE.

NEXT UP, THE 1998 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN PRIMA DONNA, NEVADA.

>> IT WAS ALMOST PERFECT.

YOU VISUALIZE THE AUDIENCE'S REACTIONS, AND THEN YOU DO IT.

IT WAS JUST AS I VISUALIZED IT.

I WAS TOLD IN IT.

EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON AROUND ME, I DIDN'T KNOW.

AND YOU CAN SEE IT WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME WHEN I AM UP THERE.

I AM SO FOCUSED, I DON'T REALLY SEE WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON, JUST THINKING YO-YO.

>> THE LIFE OF A WORLD YO-YO COMMON IS EXCITING.

GIVING DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE U.S., JAPAN, HONG KONG, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, AND SWITZERLAND, BUT JENNIFER HASN'T FORGOTTEN THE HOMETOWN FANS, NOR THE YO-YO FANATICS THAT POPULATE HER YO-YO CLUB.

>> I AM GOING TO BRING UP SOME KIDS FROM MY MY -- FROM MY YO-YO SCHOOL.

THEY ALL HAVE DREAMS, IT MAY NOT TO BE A YO-YO PLAYER BUT THEY ARE HERE DOING THE YO-YO, AND THEY ARE GOING TO SHOW YOU WHAT THEY LEARNED.

>> THEY COME IN EVERY LIKE SATURDAY AFTERNOON OR MONDAY EVENING, AND LEARN YO-YO TRICKS AND PLAY AND PERFECT THE ONES THAT THEY HAVE LEARNED.

>> SO, WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW IF YOU WANT TO YO?

JENNIFER SHOWS US THE BASICS.

>> I THINK THAT ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT YOU USUALLY LEARN IS THE SLEEPER, AND THAT WAS -- IT LOOKS LIKE THIS.

THAT WAS MINE, SO I LEARNED STUFF LIKE THAT, AND JUST LIKE ROCK THE BABY.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE SCARY TRICKS YOU LEARN.

>> ONCE YOU HAVE THOSE DOWN YOU CAN BREAK INTO SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE ADVANCED.

>> THIS IS THE FIRST TRICK THAT YOU LEARN WHETHER IT COMES TO TWO-HANDED, CALLED TWO-HANDED LIZ, YOU GET INTO THE CROSSOVERS, AND WHICH IS MORE DIFFICULT, AND EACH TRICK, THIS ONE HERE WOULD SCORE A COUPLE OF POINTS AND THEN DO A CROSSOVER WOULD SCORE ANOTHER, AND GOING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE WITH YOUR YO-YOS.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE THAT, SCORE MORE POINTS, AND TRANSITION, AND GOING FROM ONE TRICK TO THE NEXT, SO CATCHING, SCORES MORE POINTS.

>> A YO-YO PRO SINCE SEGMENT YEARS OLD, JENNIFER HAS BEEN FULL-TIME AT IT SINCE SHE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN JUNE OF 1998.

IT'S A TOUGH SCHEDULE OF FOUR WEEKS OUT ON THE ROAD FOR EVERY ONE WEEK BACK HOME.

IT'S A SCHEDULE THAT JENNIFER THOROUGHLY ENJOYS.

>> I LOVED TRAVEL AND TO SEE THE EXPERIENCES OF THE CULTURE, SO SUGGEST TIRED FROM TRAVELING, AND AFTER MAYBE A THREE-WEEK TOUR WE ARE TIRED, LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING HOME BUT WE LOVE IT.

YOU HAVE TO LOVE WHAT YOU ARE DOING, TO DO THIS JOB.

DEFINITELY NEVER GETS BORING.

>> GUYS COMING WITH ME GET YOUR COATS ON.

>> JEN IF WE ARE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO DEFENDING HER TITLE, GOING TO COLLEGE, AND BEING A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY GIRLS WHO WANT TO COMPETE.

>> I LOVE TO SEE OTHER GIRLS GETTING INTO IT.

IT HAS BEEN MOSTLY A BOY'S SPORT.

IT'S GREAT TO GO OUT THERE AND TO SCHOOLS OR SOMETHING AND THE GIRLS SEE YOU, AND THEN THEY ARE LIKE WELL, IF SHE CAN DO IT, I CAN DO IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST A BOY'S THING, AND THEY GET UP THERE AND DO IT.

>> WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT JENNIFER CAN KNOCK A QUARTER OFF YOUR EAR WITH HER YO-YO, AND EVEN THOUGH WE DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO SEE THAT, FROM WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, WE KNOW THAT SHE IS RIGHT ON THE MONEY AS A YO-YO PRO.

JOIN US NEXT TIME.LL BE SURE TO- UNTIL THEN, FOR ALL OF US AT "POINTS NORTH," I'M ROB MICHALAK.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

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