Nice to see Eric Girardi throwing. For a while he posted on the old B&S board.
You can bind the top either way, clockwise or counter-clockwise, it makes no difference.
You can bind the top with your right hand while on the left hand or vice-versa. In the first case it will flip away from you, in the second case towards you. This is useful to combine it with a little bit of magic: you can blow on the top or have somebody else blow on the top to give a nice illusion of pushing the top.
It is also possible to make a "neutral" bind of the tip so you make it flip either way by raising one hand or the other.