Spinning Tops are Tops

This is a proposed initial outline that I'm working on.

As I get some of this information written, I will be making part of it available here for your early-bird review!

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. Historical Perspective - Where did spinning tops come from?
4. Spinning Top Games
5. Parts of a Spinning Top
6. Spinning The Top
   1. Preparing the String
   2. Beginning Trick #1: Winding the Spinning Top
   3. Beginning Trick #2: The Spinner
7. Basic Top Tricks
   1. Spinning on a platform
   2. Lesson: Precession & Gyroscopics
   3. Basic Trick #1: Target Shoot
   4. Basic Trick #2: Bullseye
   5. Team: Double Target Shoot
   6. Team: Knockout!
8. A Top in the Hand
   1. Basic Trick #3: Big Scoop
   2. String Pick-Up
   3. Toss & Catch (from hand into air, catch)
   4. Team: Toss & Catch
9. Intermediate Tricks
   1. Boomerang
   2. Lesson: Balance vs. Gyroscopics
   3. Team: Shared Boomerang (one toss other catch)
10. Tricks With Strings
    1. Down & Up (Roller Coaster)
    2. Charge
    3. Suspended
    4. Rock the Baby
    5. Tight Rope Walker
    6. Around the World
    7. Inversion
    8. Jacob's Ladder
    9. Team: ???
11. Advanced Top Tricks
    1. Schreiber Special
    2. Spanking the Top
    3. Man on the Flying Trapeze
    4. Out of Thin Air (boomerang & catch)
    5. Aerobics
    6. Team: Rescued Out of Thin Air (one throw other catch)
12. Introductions
    1. Walter Watts
    2. Don Winters
    3. Stan Watson
    4. Dwight Paulson
    5. Fred Mills
    6. Jim Schreiber
    7. Dedication
13. The Future of Top Spinning
    1. Goodies
    2. Watts' Tops
    3. Communication with Top Spinners
    4. International Top Spinners Association
    5. Invention
    6. Hopes and Dreams
14. Catalog

Top Information
International Top Spinners Association
Watts' Tops