The Ministry of Manipulation

Stefan Sing – “pigeon, why do you scare me?”

March 9th, 2010

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Masterful juggling from one of the best. I held my breath through most of this, and am without words to describe how deeply this inspires. It is a masterpiece of expressive juggling, with a constant play between the various emotional states and a huge depth and range of techniques. I’m feeling it; Stefan is awesome.

Bravo!!!! and a standing ovation for bringing this to youtube in 1080p.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Youtube:

extracts from my performance at the festival “feux d’hiver” in calais (31.12.09)…. music from the album “rossz csillag allat született” by venetian snares … www.stefansing.com

Moon – Moogeng training

March 2nd, 2010
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Hi everybody :)
after acrylic party in bruxelles, I’ve studied a little these “Moogeng”. They are acrylic made S sticks, quite similar to Buugeng.
this is a little vid of me training with them. Sorry if I’m not so clean, but they very hard to use in my opinion and I haven’t studied them so much.
hope you like it :)

hugs from italy

New Dance and Acrobatics Videos

March 2nd, 2010

Seems like nowadays all my inspiration comes from dance and acrobatic videos… and whatever Wes Peden posts…

Lewie West made a new video:
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Seems like everytime he posts a new video, I’ll have to blog it. Sweet.

Ronan showed me a very old video of an amazing dancer and he just popped back onto the internet with a new collaboration video:

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And the video that Ronan showed me which is still amazing: YouTube Link And thou the above video may contain some weirdness, this one contains pretty much just awesomeness and a lot of titles.

Finally, a man blogged on this blog before, Olivier Mathieu and his friend:Thierno Thioune. Doing some dance that even Ryan will think is amazing:
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Going off to dance now… :D

Were is Kliff (!!!!!!!!!!)

February 28th, 2010

Two friends of mine went to Kiev to train juggling with the crazy kids there. I talked to one of them (Petter) the other day and he said that they would be posting a video of some stuff they had been doing there along with some of what the ukranian guys are working on.

HOLY SHIT! I got so excited watching this! I’m not going to spoil the surprises for you but it’s an amazing video with incredible  technique and super new one ball and three ring work by the swedish representatives.

Make sure you check out Petters other video and subscribe to his account. He’s one of the coolest smartest jugglers I know and for sure someone to keep an eye on if you like awesome things.

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Teku Contact – Ball on Ring / Club / Body

February 24th, 2010
Juggling video hosted @ Juggling.tv

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Some pretty sweet new shenanigans with ball contact on other props. I like it.

(cheesy) Ice Dance – Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir

February 22nd, 2010
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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are awesome ice dancers from Canada. They are competing tonight here in Vancouver as top contenders for Olympic gold, and I’m all caught up in the excitement in my hometown.
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Vertical Palm Spinning

February 20th, 2010

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The title is descriptive enough. Ball size: 2.25″

Friday fun: Ball Contact, Ouch!!

February 19th, 2010

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Sports Science: “World Record Kick to the Groin”
“How much punishment can the human body withstand? Sports Science explores Combat Ki with the help of Rod Sacharnoski and American Gladiator Justice.”
Brings a whole *new* meaning to Ball Contact.
Warning to our gentlemen readers: Cannot be unseen.

Furet – Step right up

February 18th, 2010
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last (inspiring) research with hoop and stick isolations by Nicolas Longuechaud.
Very nice work! :)

thanks to Sa for the link ;)

Mark O’Sullivan – Unlimited

February 17th, 2010
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A recent video showcasing Mark’s practice sessions at the Katakomben in Berlin.

Mark doesn’t perform his juggling, so isn’t so well known to the masses, but I think he should be brought to more people’s attention.

The Best Skillz. innit.

More videos can be found on Stephen McGinley’s Youtube Profile. I highly recommend the 5 ball video, and eagerly await the four and three ball edits…

Costa Rica Flow: Poi in Paradise

February 15th, 2010

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Don’t watch the clip above! go to youtube and watch it at 720p or fullscreen!
A long-awaited video from Costa Rica featuring Burning Dan, Alien Jon, Baz, and Nick Playpoi spinning to the music of Reza Moosavi. Amazingly high quality cinematography and video editing skills by Matthew Boyd :) If Baraka were a poi video, it would look like this :)

Sa – Harmony

February 15th, 2010
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Sa is an italian poi manipulator. He’s 20 and started his juggling path all alone only 3 years ago; after meeting Ronan he has decided to study and find new poi and contact manipulation forms. He lives in Milan.

This is his youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Santiagopoi

if you want to write to Sa:
xcomeics at hotmail . it

Glad to see more researchers with poi. :)