These days Diabolos come in many different sizes and are normally made from some sort of rubber for extra durability, safety and speed. Diabolos with more weight tend to retain their momentum for longer, whereas small and light diabolos can be thrown higher and are easier to accelerate to high speeds. Rubber diabolos are less prone to breakage!
A huge variety of tricks are possible using a good set of diabolo sticks, string, and various body parts.
Once single diabolo tricks are mastered many jugglers like to go on to multiple manipulation of 2,3,4 diabolo etc.. and for those who like to play after the sun has gone down there are many LED diabolo kit atachments which can easily be fitted on and of cause for the pyromaniacs amongst us there is always the fire diabolos