Summary: playing with your balls can be dangerous

@metal-gods

2 жыл бұрын

Especially if you clacking them together like that.

Kids and adults in the Philippines made a resurgence of this toy. The sound it makes is pretty annoying but seeing them in action is amazing.

@noongourfain

6 ай бұрын

Thanks I didn't know

@superbmediacontentcreator

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, whistles and click clacks a children's menace...

Here in PH, this toy is trending today due to Indonesian influence. Filipinos here also called "Latto-Latto". 🇵🇭

@inisipisTV

9 ай бұрын

I've been playing them in the Philippines in the 80's when I was kid.

In around 2015, this got a rebound where I live. Children were playing with it again. From time to time I heard a children yelling when the balls hit their wrists

@hazelanderson1479

Жыл бұрын

My Mum used to wrap bath sponges around my hand and wrist with crepe bandages when I wanted to play with these things! They were lethal!!

@febririyan7776

Жыл бұрын

I came here after theres accident that a child lost his eye after this toy hit his head. This toy so popular again now in my country.

@YB-sf5pj

Жыл бұрын

@@febririyan7776 Indonesia?

It's there also a video about the invention of safety glasses?

@MRCNC1967

2 жыл бұрын

Oh the irony!

@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou

2 жыл бұрын

Doh!

@blakewilliams5627

Жыл бұрын

While watching the video I wondered if they existed in ‘71.

@periel

Жыл бұрын

😆

@johnnielson7676

Жыл бұрын

What do you mean? Peeking through one’s fingers is perfectly adequate eye protection!

It can use to kill vampire.

@oldcowbb

Жыл бұрын

you mean gay Aztec

OMG, my friend's older brother had a pair of large tempered glass ones, imported from the USA in about 1970. One wet lunchtime in a classroom he got them up to a tremendous speed when they suddenly both shattered! Sharp glass shards flew in all directions! We could of all been blinded! I have never laughed so much in my life! 🤣🤣 He was devastated at their sudden demise! Even just recounting the story to my girlfriend had me in stitches... 🤣🤣

@superbmediacontentcreator

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you should have then tried "lawn darts."

@WillN2Go1

7 ай бұрын

I one time interrupted a dentist, his sister, his girlfriend and someone else from playing Jarts over the house. You know, two people stand in the backyard, two in the front. No one really knows when one of them is thrown.... @@superbmediacontentcreator

@noongourfain

6 ай бұрын

In America the balls on the "clackers" were larger and harder, made of very dense bowling ball type plastic. Kids broke their wrists...but that was the extent of the carnage. Besides a little hearing damage from the high decibel noise they made when colliding or "clacking" All part of the excitement!

@noongourfain

6 ай бұрын

@@superbmediacontentcreator Oh! Lawn Darts...just terrible! I'm so sorry for the three or more kids who were killed instantly and the many, many more who were injured. The "Slip n Slide" was a problem also, especially for adults! 2 people were paralyzed and one person died on the "Slip 'n Slide" But I think it could have been many more with both Lawn Darts and Slip n Slide We only know about the people who's families sued the companies... the rest of the injuries were undocumented.

@superbmediacontentcreator

6 ай бұрын

@@noongourfain That was so true but life was totally different and in many ways it made a different sort of person that had a sense of personal responsibility. Now I think a majority of people expect all of life to be "safe" like Disney world and are stunned and helpless to find out it isn't and are completely helpless. On the other hand the dangers today are both more overt and more subtitle like be shot in school or being poisoned by your food or drink. It's also far more socially isolating.

i had a lovely powder blue set! no issues whatsoever, aside from the occasional banged knuckle

They hurt when they hit the wrist, when clacking. Also a common sight of them hanging from street telephone wires.

@fiagamingz_idn

Жыл бұрын

Even my **** ever get hit by them lol, but luckily they don't hit too hard

@lnteIIigence

Жыл бұрын

​@@fiagamingz_idnWell at least if you lose your ****, you can just replace them with some clackers!

@lindajordan6753

6 ай бұрын

@@lnteIIigence make sure they're the glass ones!

But now here in philippines june 7 2023 is famous here everywhere you go you will still hear the sound of clackers by children who playing

This clackers ball is so popular in Indonesia. Wherever I go, I always see the seller who sell this thing 😂. In Indonesia, it's call Latto-Latto, or the “Etek-etek” Sounded Toy

@Mdanimation1234

Жыл бұрын

yes!

Used to have clackers around the age of 8yrs in the 70s 💚

@ClayKirby-sj3zy

9 ай бұрын

Same here I got a rhythm going they were great.

Clackers are now popular in Indonesia

First time I saw these was on a school trip to Boulogne France on a school trip in 1970 from the UK. Lots of kids were fascinated and bought some, but I thought they were rubbish so I spent my money on other things. Kids played with them back at school but I think everyone got bored with them and the craze didn’t seem to last very long.

@bethlehemeisenhour8352

2 жыл бұрын

They got what they wanted and you got what you wanted.

@JulieWallis1963

2 жыл бұрын

Riveting. Absolutely bloody riveting. 🙄🙄🙄

@northernsnow6982

Жыл бұрын

The craze didn't last long, because of news stories like this. Parents aren't going to buy products, that have been publicly shamed. It makes them look like bad parents.

@-pyrosef-

9 ай бұрын

​@@northernsnow6982it lasted like 40 years. These were around in the 50's and faded about 1985. There was a a resurgence recently in the Philippines and some other countries. Temu sells a lot of them.

@northernsnow6982

9 ай бұрын

@@-pyrosef- it didn't last 40 years. It was canceled twice for being too dangerous. The first time they were ceramic balls on string. The second time they were plastic balls on rigid plastic, to make them safer. It was an adaptation of the original, that was brought back. Sure you might have been able to find the toy, at some store in those 40 or so years. That doesn't mean it was a fad for the entire 40 years. Both times it was a fad, it was killed by news horror stories. You see retro toys often become fads again, when he kids grow up and start making forgotten toys from their childhood, as adults. Hence the 40 year gap, between when this was a fad, at two different times. Kinda like how bell-bottom jeans have been a fad a few times now. They haven't been a fad since the 60's, they just keep coming back as a fad. A fad can be trending more than once.

In the 90s we played with these except they had plastic triangular things attaching the balls to the handle

Lol imagine playing this on space, the slow motion starts xD

Sekarang di indonesia mainan ini kembali viral dengan nama lato-lato. Semua orang memainkan ini hingga telinga anda muak mendengarnya

At the 2 minute mark, you can see the high speed camera. It's a Wollensak "Fastax" and they came in 35mm, 16mm and 8mm versions. The frame rate was up to 18,000. That pales into insignificance when compared with today's high speed electronic video cameras. They can film at 5 _trillion_ frames a second.

@andrewtrip8617

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t they make high speed audio copying machines as well ?

I like the 'hands in front of the eyes' protective measure. At least it's a step up from the 'safety squint'.

We use these in the '70s in America and the balls were made out of glass. We would get them going so fast they would just be a blur. Everyone had bruises on their arms from them hitting them. The glass ones were awesome.

I've done that before in the 1980s it's a toy with a ring washer on the string the balls are like marbles that can sound like sparkles smacking together over and over. Thanks for sharing this video BBC Archive.

CLACKA VOLLEY!!!!

2:18 , that testing lab in the '70s, has NO SAFETY glasses ?!?!

@lindajordan6753

6 ай бұрын

@tomservo5007 It was the testing of "clackers" that led to the invention of safety glasses.

I lost both my legs in a clackers accident in 1974.

@jayyrocc6508

Жыл бұрын

How?

TikTok in the Philippines helped revive this for a couple of months. I remember going to the mall and seeing kids playing with these outside.

now this toy was a hit again in southeast asia. last thing i play with this toy was around 2002.

They never tested for Bruised Thumbs. I had many a bruised thumb.

I am looking forward to this game coming into the shops soon, its reassuring that they have been rigorously tested by scientists holding their hands over their eyes. I bought my grandchildren some welding masks to wear whilst enjoying the fun, so much safer than those mercury and lead based toys I had as a child.

@lindajordan6753

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Clackers in indonesia are viral🇮🇩

And now all the children in Indonesia have this

I thought these were gone forever. Thanx for the vid.

At least these are far better than Lawn Darts. I wasn’t present at the incident and thus blameless, but a friend of mine threw one straight up in the air as hard as he could. It came back down and actually penetrated his skull. No brain damage occurred but he obtained a really cool scar.

*L A T T O - L A T T O*

@mwwwwwwwwww

Жыл бұрын

*L A T T O - L A T T O*

these things used to crash down onto the bone in your wrist. really painful.

Came here because this toy has a trend now in my country

Indonesian street sellers and the toy sellers in the mall and in the recreation place be like: 🗿

The ones we played with at this time, in Canada, looked to be clear coloured, hardened glass. They were completely round.

this was oddly fascinating

I remember these in the early 70's, I was in about 1st grade.

This thing is now a trend once again in Indonesia, locally known as "latto latto".

I had clacker balls when I was younger. I'm ok now though.

I remember my sister getting them for her birthday. She was told that she shouldn’t take them outside with her but she did 😆

It's like recalling a tv after finding out that it can't withstand being hit by a wrecking ball.

I used to have clacker balls,they were brilliant,but my word my wrists were always full of bruises...but so worth it if you could clack faster and longer than your friends!!

We had clackers as kids, they were the good old days growing up. ☀️

Well that’s a right kick in the clackers

End 2022 until my comment added this toy viral in Indonesia.

I use to love my clackers 💞

I played with these as did a playground full of kids in the 1970s

Sticks: are the classic children's toys safe? Scientists have been trying to determine whether a stick, from a tree - a classic child's toy - is actually safe. They concluded that only 0.0001% of children, worldwide, were badly injured whilst playing with these toys. The loss of an eye, that your mother would warn you about "You could lose an eye with that!", was the most serious injury, but the least common. Scientists are now moving onto studying cardboard boxes, ponds (in both public parks and nature), dogs, cats, hamsters, playing cards and drainage systems. They are also trying to determine whether wrapping your child in cotton wool, to prevent any mishaps, may itself be dangerous - suffocation for example. One eminent scientist concluded "Life itself is dangerous, perhaps we should consider this in our next study?"

I used to love my 'Clackers' they were pink! From what I can remember from way back when I was 10/11 at the time in the UK the main concern of using Clackers was broken wrists. I don't know of anyone who damaged their wrists. We used to challenge each other to keep them at a fast 'clack'. The simple warnings seem very strange in today's world of TikTok where the young have access to 'challenges' that can potentially cause loss of life, with no public messaging!

@garryleeks4848

Жыл бұрын

I had pink ones 🙄🙄

It's become a trend again in Indonesia nowadays, 2023.

Napadpad ka dito dahil sa lato-lato no? XD

in mexico 🇲🇽 clackers are called triki trakas- and yes i know bc i have one- i dont use them often so - its also a skill trick to clank them together. so yes they are safe if u know how to use them- if u dont how to do the skill part, u know how to get them started- but again, i do use them.

@josemanuelsedamarquez1711

Жыл бұрын

La tuya por si acaso otaku

That's latto latto

Who came here after it trends in Philippines LOL

Can't believe clackers are somehow legal in my country

we didn't look at them as toys, we thought they were nunchucks.

We use to call them Knockers 😂

But can they withstand the force of JoJo's Clacker Volley?

There were awesome! I had a turquoise blue set lol

This thing goes extremely viral in Indonesia. Idk how

I remember when all the girls had these at school. And some lads. I wanted some but I was told they were for girls. Then suddenly they were gone, seemingly after just a couple of months, never to be seen again.

jojo refrence?

Permainan meresahkan

lato lato ngayon kahit saan makikita maririnig mo ngayon nakakatulig na sa tenga haha

There's a 1971 video from Australia about automotive child restraints and the safety standards thereof...it was quite appalling.

me and my sisters loved are clackers but me mam took them away because our knuckles were always bruised when we missed

if you dont have enough money you can make them with tennis balls and shoe laces

i had these in the 70s

... Shoelaces were a great alternative to the String the Clackers Came With

My sister got some of these things back in the 70s and I hated them. All that potential pain for what?

I'm playing with my clackers right now.

@cirrusdenvour1140

Жыл бұрын

Bruh can we keep this kid friendly

It called lato-lato in Indonesia...it's trending there at the moment

who cares, a lot of kids used them and they are still alive to this day when i played with them

what would they do if they play woth balero? you know, the wooden ball on a string that you have to stick on a pin on your hand.

America: the country where clacker balls and kinder eggs are held up to a higher standard than military style weapons

HAMON CLACKER VOLLEY!

Early 70s ninja weapons

Wow, what a flashback. Loved my purple clackers in junior high, even though I occasionally got a goose egg on my forearm and sometimes they would fly out of my hand and hit a classmate, lol. How did I/we ever survive the no seatbelt generation?

American standard? Seriously? What happens in America is your mother sees one of those things and snaps, "You are not getting that piece of junk. Give you a concussion." Later when you ask your father. "If you need a concussion that badly, I'll give you one." Then hanging out with your friends, you figure out, "Hey, let's make our own." It's larger, probably made of pool table balls. (Billiards? Is that a species of duck related to the mallard?) One of your friends gets a black eye, you may have gotten a concussion, but didn't tell anyone and anyway the ringing in your ears and double vision went away in a couple of days. Then a knot comes undone, the #7 ball takes out a street light. You throw it in the creek and hide behind the garage.

I remember the effect they had on my knuckles. Then there were Klonkers...

Ini tuh lato lato digunakan sebagai alat senjata Argentina dan viral pada era jaman dulu hingga jaman sekarang

I hated Nationwide after this, as my Mum and Dad threw mine away! lol

Kids nunchucks, awesome.....

Depressing indeed

Ah yeas the ultimate weapon against Aztec Gods of Fitness

I had a set of these back in the 90's, I'd no idea they were ever considered dangerous.

@JulieWallis1963

2 жыл бұрын

The 90’s ones had a longer, firmer handle which kept the balls further away from the wrist. So yours were similar but not the same.

@ClayKirby-sj3zy

9 ай бұрын

​@@JulieWallis1963early ones were the safest

I always preferred ball in a cup

My Nan brought us those things back from a holiday she went on. I could never get them to do what that girl (who is the about the same age as I was in that video) so got bored with them very quickly.

Lato lato coy

IT'S POPULAR AGAIN IN THE PHILIPPINES

Um, bolas. That is a throwing weapon.

It's so disappointing that this video failed to be in color. We had color in 1971.

In my country the game name is latto latto

Lato-lato; the origin

Today I will be mainly eating a packet of Quavers.

Latto Latto

This thing was popular now in indonesia and it's so ANNOYING

Who is here because of the indonesian trend?