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[johnm]

This looks like a segment from a TV show perhaps.
Zumbayllu

Some kids in the street enjoying themselves.


And some battling in a style similar to some we've seen before.  One player has an interesting slap strike of scooped top.

[topper777]

very interesting to watch. the kids playing was the best part.

[poptop]

Wood tops I've seen from Chile have the same style and appearance as these from Peru.

I like the kids' scoop-drop battle style. Where else did we see this?

[johnm]

I like the kids' scoop-drop battle style. Where else did we see this?

The scoop-drop style of pushing a target around was discussed in this thread link=link which contains some street games from Colombia.  I think we've seen this other places as well but I haven't found the other references.

[ta0]

The scoop-throw is used in many countries, like Venezuela and Ecuador. Sometimes it gives you a second (or third) crack at the target top after the initial throw.  In other games it is used to push the "puck" towards the goal. There was an article on Sport Illustrated about how in Ecuador they push the puck for kilometers on a road between villages in competitions.

[johnm]

This video might be of the manufacturing of some of the tops featured in the TV show above.

[Larry D.]

Scary to watch that opening! 
That guy's hand comes really close to that spinning blade! 

[lincolnrick]

Yeah they wear a face mask to guard against a kickback, but expose their fingers and hands to such an exposed blade.

[czyoyo]

  WOW!!! There's a better chance of him loosing a finger than getting hit in the face! quite scary!

[johnm]

Peru has talent

[the Earl of Whirl]

Did he get four x's?

[ta0]

Did he get four x's?

No. At the end the man asks one of the women for her verdict and she says "yes".  You can hear a second woman saying "me too" and then he congratulates the top spinner by saying "you are in."  Looks perhaps like a first qualifying round.

[ta0]

The man shown on this TV show between 2:15 and 4:45, Jose Miguel Sosa (another Rey del Trompo  ), does some tricks using a traditional top. I think the most interesting are the kind of one-hand trapezes he does at 3:30.  He calls them mete y saca [put-in and take-out].



The video was probably filmed in Lima. He mentions that on TV they show rock-the-baby using Diamante tops, but he dismisses the modern top and prefers the traditional one. But I would say his profession, preparing documents on a typewriter on the street, is the real flash back!

EDIT: The video with the crowd seems to be taken in Lima at the Gamarra shopping district.  But the phone number for Sosa is from Huánaco, in Central Peru (population 170,000), and probably where he works with the typewriter.
I think this is the first time I see a bounce trapeze using a solid wooden top.

[jim in paris]

very fun documentary !!
how to block a street with trompos and a microphone
it's crazy how people participate and enjoy the time

and as you mentioned , Jorge, the typewriter is a food for thoughts

jim

[Watts' Tops]

The open blade is common in Mexico as well.  Scary at best.  Love the tops however.

[ta0]

My wife was in Cusco, Peru, two weeks ago (to visit Machu Pichu). Of course, I asked her to be in the look out for tops. She found one the day before leaving at a market for the locals (not tourists):



The little trompo plays quite well (I could even do a wire walker). The women selling it asked Beatriz how much string did she want before cutting it from a spool but it ended up the perfect length 

At the Museo de Arte Popular in Cusco, she found this display showing tops and a top making lathe. It is labeled as an old Inca lathe, but I bet it was introduced by the Spaniards.

[Jack]

ur a lucky cookie to have such a spintop devoted cookie wife!!!
im now seriously considering splashing paint on my qsh..........