Does Anyone Remember Clackers?

I absolutely loved them. Played with them every spare minute - when I wasn't pogo-ing! - then suddenly they disappeared. Thrown away without even a conversation, because someone, somewhere in the world had reputedly lost an eye while playing with them!
Think I moved onto Jacks after that. Much safer for the eyes!

I remember arriving by boat to an idyllic little Greek island only to be spoiled by the sound of the Clackers.

OH yes. I remember bashing my hands silly with them. Also remember some getting tangled around a telephone wire above the road after a friend let go on a rather overenthusiastic up thrust.

Mine were red. My brother bought them for me using his petrol round earnings. After I bashed my wrists a few times he made me ‘wrist protectors’ using a cereal box and sellotape.

I remember them but never had any. They always looked a bit vicious!

My sons had them. I seem to remember bright green with orange string. Definitely remember the bruises on my arms!

Mine were pastel green - and I think I've still got the bruises!

We had the ankle-skip toys too. I used one at my Junior school but we were far too grown-up to have one at high school. It was fun.

It seemed that the boys in our school had them, and the craze for the girls were the ankle skip toys similar to below. At the end was more of a bell shape rather than a ball.

www.walmart.com/ip/Ankle-Ball-Skip-Rope-Jump-Jumping-Skipping-Game-Balls-Sports-Kids-Toys-Exercise-Fitness-Hopper-Kid-Outdoor-It-Ring/1387096942?athbdg=L1700

Oh I remember them! I had a pastel green pair. I also remember the pain when they hit your wrist 🤣

I remember Clackers. My son aged about 7 kept on and on about having them I was busy with a new born so didn’t really know about them but gave him and his pal the money to buy them from the corner shop I soon learned when I heard the noise and then the cry of pain as the swinging ball hit my lad full on the face he had a mighty bruise and the clackers went in the bin. To this day DH doesn’t know the truth of how the black eye really happened !!

Some DGC have asked for them for Christmas. I have asked them to sign an acknowledgement that I won’t be held responsible for any damage.
They are now being marketed as:
Children's and Adults' Pressure reducing Balls, Used for Training Balance Ability, Concentration and stress reducing.

First saw them when on holiday in Italy - I think 1973? The pleasant sounds of the evening passeggiata were drowned out by a cacophony of LOUD clacking wherever we went, happy days

I remember the pain!

I remember that there was something about the shape and even the pastel colours (of the various sets of clackers I had) that my brain associated with those hard, two-coloured Swizzles lollies.
Even now, I am picturing clackers but am 'smelling' and 'tasting' those lollies - I must have a very weird brain!

I loved them.

Yes and I remember the chap who lived two doors down, practising them in the garden. The howl of agony when he banged his wrists with them .

shysal oh no! 🫢

My daughters had them, along with the bruises!
I once had a coupling chain to attach to a dog lead for two dogs. It worked in a similar way in that when I pulled the lead they knocked their heads together!

www.amazon.com/CLACKERS/s?k=CLACKERS&tag=gransnetforum-21

still sell them

Remember hurting my wrist with them, but I was a typical kid, I wasn't going to give up.

Sorry, folks - just having a Fairycakes moment 😜🥴

Banned at my school too.
I seem to remember it was quite easy to get them going, it was stopping that caused the problem!

I've managed to rectify the problem. I had ticked a box for last messages to show at the top, instead of the bottom of the page. Time for a cuppa, I think 😁

I think I must have changed something on the settings bc my post which. Should show at the top of the page, isn't 😜. Still getting used to how to work things 🥴

I wonder how my post ended up down here 😳. Very odd 🤔😀