The Juggling Discussion thread

[ShadenSmith]

Mike knows a thing or two about cubing and juggling

 

[Kxg]

Mike knows a thing or two about cubing and juggling

He sure does.

 

[blakedacuber]

I've been cubing since i last june!I was able to juggle when i was 7 but never practised and justt recently i got a set of juggling balls so now im back juglling!i guess itts partialy because i like to be different and they are both "unusual" hobbies

 

[Stefan]

Does anyone know how popular cubing is among jugglers? Less than the other way around, I guess, as there are probably more jugglers than cubers?

 

[dunpeal2064]

I've known a lot more people that could juggle than cube, and none of those jugglers could cube... some of them were clowns though... I dunno if that changes the statistic

 

[jms_gears1]

I wish i could juggle...
but i can program, know html basics, and php, and mysql
as well as vb c# lsl etc...

somewhat on-topic

i think someone should try to juggle while solving the cube, I dont know if thats possible, but say, while two cubes are in the air make a turn or two and toss that one into the air etc...

 

[Dene]

what is the connection between cubing and juggling?

Both are symptoms of being a geek and being in contact with other geeks.

Hey man, I'm no geek! Maybe a nerd, but not a geek...


But yea I have been able to juggle since I was probably about 10 years old. I probably learnt to solve the cube beforehand, but I didn't speedcube until much later.

 

[irontwig]

Does anyone know how popular cubing is among jugglers? Less than the other way around, I guess, as there are probably more jugglers than cubers?

I would say way more popular than the general population, but that's more based on guessing rather than actual research.

 

[Stefan]

i think someone should try to juggle while solving the cube, I dont know if thats possible, but say, while two cubes are in the air make a turn or two and toss that one into the air etc...

Best I've seen:

 

[Mike Hughey]

Does anyone know how popular cubing is among jugglers? Less than the other way around, I guess, as there are probably more jugglers than cubers?

I have spent some time on rec.juggling, and the question has come up a few times before. In fact, it was a post on rec.juggling that got me started speedcubing 3 years ago! I recall 20 to 30 jugglers there mentioning they had solved the cube, and 10 or 15 were at least somewhat interested in speedcubing. So it did seem like there was some affinity the other way around.

 

[Arendil]

what is the connection between cubing and juggling?

Both are symptoms of being a geek and being in contact with other geeks.

haha agreed.

 

[anythingtwisty]

I juggle. Right now, I can only do three ball+ three ball tricks, but I am working on 4 ball, etc. For me, I can start a solve and get in "the zone" of intense concentration that is very similar to the feeling of concentration in juggling.

 

[Forte]

I juggle. I do mostly 3 ball, because I only had 3 juggling balls, and they were the free crappy kind. I just sorta found it fun.

lol let's try this with the sandbox shuffle

 

[ben1996123]

I can juggle, I think up to 5 balls, but I find it pretty boring and never practise.

Someone at school once asked me to juggle 5 tennis rackets o_O

 

[andyt1992]

I can juggle, I think up to 5 balls, but I find it pretty boring and never practise.

Someone at school once asked me to juggle 5 tennis rackets o_O

I've juggled 3 tennis rackets before but never 5. i used to mainly concentrate on 3 balls. There is one trick that use to amaze me that i could never get, it was called something like factory or conveyor belt or something. it involved doing columns with 2 balls in one hand and dropping the third in and moving one of the original 2 to the other hand over and over again.

 

[EmCube]

I work within the Circus community and have been told so many times "if you you can do that, you should be a juggler" (I'm not, I'm an aerialist).

There is definitely a link in there somewhere - something to do with the mentality of both activities. I would say as a general rule, the majority of professional jugglers I know can solve the cube. There's also a whole bunch of people doing it at the circus school I went to, I've heard it's the same over in Stockholm .....it's mostly jugglers...

 

[Stefan]

Someone at school once asked me to juggle 5 tennis rackets o_O

Throw them at him and say "I guess I need to practice".

 

[miniGOINGS]

Someone at school once asked me to juggle 5 tennis rackets o_O

Throw them at him and say "I guess I need to practice".

Stefan, you are amazing...

 

[Jebediah54]

I started to learn how to juggle when I was probably 9ish, and cubing didn't come until I was 15... Of course, I stopped juggling when I started DDR, which I stopped when I found cup stacking, which I stopped when Guitar Hero 2 came out, which then led to the cube, and then back to juggling passively every once in a while.

I guess for me it's just about weird skills that people don't think about, and if they have colors, all the better!

 

[xXzaKerXx]

wow thanks for all the vids guys! Mike, i kind of see your point. It's satisfying to do something difficult that other people can't do. As for the cubing-juggling connection, there must be some kind of dexterity required for both hobbies, isn't it? maybe that is why most people juggle and cube, i think.