YouTube - Shay - AlterEgo

“sigalit production rulez” - moon

Performer: Shay
Camera: Moon
Editing: Mau

Shay is damn cool in his new vid, earning big applause from the contactjuggling.org crew.

YouTube - Crystal Ball Paul

“One Ball” or “Crystal Ball” Paul is a professional contact juggler based out of Amsterdam. This is an old promo, but still lovely to watch.

Aaron Gregg of www.stuntsuperstar.com fame cut together this video of 423 variations with clubs and balls. (beware.. thats a big high-quality .mov… you should just right-click, save-as)

For those who aren’t juggle-geeks, 423 is a simple 3 object pattern which has a lot of ’space’ in it for variations.

In related news, I will be attending the Victoria Juggling Festival this weekend and teaching workshops.

YouTube - Vova’s solo performance, November 2006

After the recent post of Luke Wilson’s 2005 IJA Club Juggling Routine, it was suggested that we should post a video of Vova Galchenko, the sport juggler. This video was shot November 2006, after only 2 days of preparation and 15 days after he survived a car crash. That could make a nice feel-good hollywood movie ending. Just like the karate kid, but with juggling.

YouTube - Road Trip to CJC ‘07 - Part One

Imperistan (contactjuggling.org) is setting out to create a 4 part series of videos detailing his trip to this years CJC in Saint Aubin du Cormier, France. Highlights of this first video, detailing his arrival, include:
- Yannick doing toss
- The multiballers (including Drew)
- Pich’s baton isolation

Ministry Research Labs
In our never ending quest to find the best equipment. We made and tested another ball.
The experiment: Will putting water inside balls help for juggling or contact?
The quick answer: No. This ball sucked and sucked hard.

Experiment #1 - Ball partly filled with water: Forget it, what you get is the slosh factor. The ball wobbles when it rolls or flies, water sloshing around inside. Failed.

Experiment #2 - Ball completely filled with water: Quick answer - it’s no good.
Long answer: Here the difference is more subtle. To throw and catch it is very similar to a solid ball, good weight for contact. It can be arm rolled and butterflied, but its much harder than a regular ball. the significant difference is that while the ball has linear inertia, it has almost zero effective rotational inertia. What this means for a contact juggler: when you roll it down your arm, it’s far more difficult to control, it has less stability. It’s a bit like having a very slippery ball, and slippery tights covering your arms. A solid ball must both rotate sideways and translate sideways in order to fall of your arm, a water filled ball has only to translate sideways, the water inside does not need to rotate. no rotation requires less energy, and so in feeling the ball is more skittish. It can be arm rolled and butterflied, but its much harder than a regular ball.

Conclusion: Don’t fill your balls with water, it won’t help. It reduces rotational inertia and so reduces stability. and what we need for hand rolling, arm rolling and body rolling is a bit more stability/ Coming soon, balls that are better not worse!

Ok… I know we are about 3 years late blogging this clip, but it needs to be in the archive.
More from Kasou Taishou

YouTube - Amazing Choreographed Fight Scene
Wushu - This is one of the competitors in the 10th All China Games that took place Aug. 2006.

Some wicked Chinlone photos from Aaron Huey

Click on “Chinlon” in the top menu.

Oops. I realise that somehow the Chinlone info page has fallen off the Ministry, I’ll get than back up next week.

Smiles
Drew

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3 Club Principia on Juggling.tv 1st place winner of the IJA Individual Prop Competition, Davenport 2005.
Very technical. Very clean. A little bit quirky. Very precise. Very good. Very Luke.
Luke Wilson’s website