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Can you juggle?

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blakedacuber said:
Ok im gunna buy some new equipment tonight.... So new balls( lol) , rings or clubs? Iv never tried rings or clubs btw... If somethings left over ill buy a diabalo;D
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Rings are not that big of a difference - if you want a new challenge, you should get clubs. They're quite a change. I didn't try clubs at all during my first 30 years as a juggler, and I can assure you it's a pretty big deal to get used to clubs for the first time. But it's fun. (I can finally run 4 clubs pretty well - it took several years for me to work up to that; I still can't do 5 at all, though.)
 
macky said:
Check out Matt Wise and my WhyNot juggling tutorial, our entry to the 2012 IJA tutorial contest: YouTube, Juggling.tv.

Some of my heffs suck because I'd never done a 4 (four-handed siteswap) in passing.
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will do:).....
oh I got my clubs today:) they are soooooo fun:D I've gotten 5 catches although I find it really hard to catch 2 in one hand:/ but they are so much more fun than balls or bean bags
 
While you're at it check out my Factory tutorial! =D.

I'm getting loads better at juggling now =]. I've got heaps of 3 ball tricks, 4 balls and starting 5 balls.
Also I've got 3 clubs and 3 rings down =].

blakedacuber said:
will do:).....
oh I got my clubs today:) they are soooooo fun:D I've gotten 5 catches although I find it really hard to catch 2 in one hand:/ but they are so much more fun than balls or bean bags
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That's one thing that takes a little practice, just practice holding 3 clubs, then throwing the first club back and forth until you can catch it in both hands easily, it really won't take long =].
 
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Any of my fellow juggling cubers happen to live in the Richmond, VA area? I really miss having other people to juggle with to help push me to learn new tricks. I'm trying to find an indoor practice space that I could use to start up a juggling club and it would be great if I had somebody else to help me out in the process.
 
Matt and I made a video tutorial of the passing pattern WhyNot and its variation NotWhy for the IJA Tutorial Contest 2012. They've opened up voting for People's Choice Award, which could win us cool prizes!

Our video:

Other submissions: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F2A1B007CCA00AF
If you think our video deserves the vote, please cast one by going to
http://ezine.juggle.org/2012/04/03/peoples-choice-award-video-tutorial-contest-2012/
Ctrl+F for "vote now", click on the second blue square.

Thanks!
macky
 
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Alex Barron has just broken the world record for the most balls juggled by qualifying 11 balls (23 catches). Amazing video. He recorded at 120 frames per second so the slo-mo looks amazing.
 
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peterbone said:
Alex Barron has just broken the world record for the most balls juggled by qualifying 11 balls (23 catches). Amazing video. He recorded at 120 frames per second so the slo-mo looks amazing.
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Wow - it was finally done! And it's just so clean - amazing! (Of course, I guess it seems like it would almost have to be that clean to succeed, since even the slightest mis-throw makes it so much harder.) So sorry, Peter, that you couldn't be the one to do it. Did you put "2 years of pain" yourself into it (like Alex mentioned it took him) back when you were trying to do it? I know that for a really long time everyone assumed you would be the first person to do it.

Also, what do you think is the limit - do you think someone will ever qualify 13? 15? (Somehow I can't help believing that if an odd number is possible, the next higher even number is also possible, and besides, the patterns are so different, so that's why I'm focusing on odd numbers.)
 
Mike Hughey said:
Wow - it was finally done! And it's just so clean - amazing! (Of course, I guess it seems like it would almost have to be that clean to succeed, since even the slightest mis-throw makes it so much harder.) So sorry, Peter, that you couldn't be the one to do it. Did you put "2 years of pain" yourself into it (like Alex mentioned it took him) back when you were trying to do it? I know that for a really long time everyone assumed you would be the first person to do it.

Also, what do you think is the limit - do you think someone will ever qualify 13? 15? (Somehow I can't help believing that if an odd number is possible, the next higher even number is also possible, and besides, the patterns are so different, so that's why I'm focusing on odd numbers.)
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Hi Mike. Sorry for the late reply. Yes, I also trained a lot on 11 for the past 2 years during the warmer months (since I juggle outside). My closest effort was 22 throws and 1 drop. I will still work on it.
I believe that no-one will ever qualify 13 or flash 15. This is not the same as saying it's impossible. The difference between 11 and 13 is huge. A 12 ball qualify may just about be doable. A 14 ball flash is definitely doable and I don't think it will be long before we see that.
 
A low-gravity environment seems plausible for setting a juggling record, although I have a feeling they would disallow the attempt :p (Has anyone tried serious numbers juggling at very high altitudes -> slightly lower gravity and significantly lower air resistance?)
 
Stefan said:
What if you try it on the moon?

Or become a juggle cyborg.
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Stefan, your post reminded me of this paper, which I vaguely remembered reading years ago. I also thought I remembered something else I read that talked specifically about the moon, but I can't find it anywhere. (Probably it was just a post on rec.juggling.)
 
Btw, a few days ago I watched this which at 1:30 says "To keep nine balls moving separately, Anthony has to vary the speed as well as the height of each throw". Is that true? Why? I always thought it's perfect if every throw is exactly the same (except left/right mirrored, of course).
 
Stefan said:
Btw, a few days ago I watched this which at 1:30 says "To keep nine balls moving separately, Anthony has to vary the speed as well as the height of each throw". Is that true? Why? I always thought it's perfect if every throw is exactly the same (except left/right mirrored, of course).
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I think it's pretty safe to say that he doesn't "have to" vary the speed as well as the height of each throw. If he could actually throw them all exactly the same (well, all the same from a given hand - you know what I mean), it would work perfect. But we all know that even Anthony actually does vary the throws, although Anthony's throws vary much less than pretty much anyone else's in the world. I wonder a little if the misinformation that led to that faulty quote might be due to the fact that when they program robots to juggle, I think I read that some of them actually do vary the height and speed of each throw to compensate for previous mistakes; then perhaps whoever did the voiceover here assumed a human would have to do the same. Anthony's pattern is so perfect that I'm sure there's never a need to compensate by throwing differently - he has plenty of room in the pattern to be able to make all his corrections in the catching part of it, if he wants.

Interestingly, Anthony does vary at least one of his throws - he always starts by throwing the first ball a little higher than the rest. Apparently a habit going back to when he was a kid.
 
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