So, for example... like adjustments in speed and agression with the stick and adjustments in your dance or

like crossing the hand sticks, and playing with the side of the hand stick that is close to you, and buzz-saw patterns and tosses?

I would love to hear some more detail about the palace of knowledge in your mind about the sticks. I break the stick tree of knowledge into the motion of the stick and the motion of my body and the interaction of the two.

The motion of the stick I see as being two part. It can move vertically or horizontally. In both you can either allow it to continue moving in the same direction or stop it and move it in the opposite direction. The motion of my body is it's own explanation. The interaction is a really fun thing to play with... for example doing a one handed tic-toc, where the baton makes half a turn before being caught, you could do with your elbow and the hand stick, or your foot and the hand stick. So the motion of the baton is the same or possibly changing hieghts but the interaction is changing.

I would just like to make it clear that it is not a true gyroscope and you don't have to be a professor to be knowledgable about how the phenomena in the world works, we are all studying it through our play.

It is a spinning object and you can make it go faster, I agree. In the definition you posted it mentions that the gyroscope is mounted on a base so that its axis can turn freely. The stick is not mounted to a base. The reason gyroscopes have become useful is that they help people guide ships of different sorts. The gyro is usually restricted on some access so that the axis of rotation (in mathematics: the angular momentum vector) can adjust to match some other axis of rotation, like the Earth's. So you could, for example, tell what your latitude is.

If the stick became a true gyroscope then you would have to do something to it to notice and to truly make it float in the air without you pushing it away from the Earth. It would need to be moving extremely fast in some translational motion (center of stick moving relative to the Earth) or you could put some torque on it, changing its angular momentum vector's direction. Then you would notice you need to put a relatively small amount of effort in to get it moving away from the Earth.

You can call it whatever you like, and you know that, and you will. But calling it a gyroscope is misleading and suggesting that it exhibits behavior that is similar to something it is not.

I apologize for giving you a hard time about it. Language and science have developed hand-in-hand and when words misrepresent what is being expressed communication through it is useless. I am sure people understand what you mean when you say that the surgically tubed sticks cannot move as fast as your sticks but I am sure there is a better way to express it: "Unfortunately, anyone using surgical tubing based sticks can not have the full range of devil stick motion and will be completely unable to translate the motion of the center stick into fast movements, one of the foundations of my dancing style."

My style is based largely on moving the stick as slowly as I can. I love having the time to observe and experience the stick flow within a few inches past my back or leg keeping the direction of the stick tangent to the curve of my body. I also love the tubing because I can flow into and out of contact motions without it sliding all over the place, useless I'm all sweaty.

Question to all: Can you rotate your hand stick while doing a propellor so that the hand stick rotation and baton rotation perfectly match each other and the stick carves out a large circle with it's center? If this question is not clear, I could post a video with the motion I am speaking of. I watched a bunch of devil stick players, not flower stick players this summer and didn't see any devil stickers performing this motion. Please mention what sticks your playing with: Devil, Flower (tubed or not tubed).