Ridiculous mod of a Chinese swordfighting competition video with animated light-sabers.

Michael Moschen speaks about juggling, motion and rythm from TED. 40min running time: includes bounce juggling, 1&2 sticks, 1-3 tubes (!!!), ball and can, ‘contact juggling’, curved sticks, bendy pich-style batons with balls on the end, :) and a well earned standing ovation from his audience.

Along with the video is a short article on ‘Why you should listen to him‘

Mega-thanks to Thomas Arthur for the Link this morning (which totally threw a curve-ball at my ability to get anything done this morning)

Balls, clubs and diabolo from the Imperfect Cirquel guys.
Thanks to Moon for the edit! Sigalit production rules!

New material from Pich (www.maniballe.net)
Baton/stick isolations and antispin. Pich blew us away with these techniques at the CJC07 in France.

The musician: Aberration Chromatique
Song: ‘Free Drive’
www.nomajormusik.com/#/287
Thanks to Jowze for the link.

An interesting ‘behind the scenes’ clip of the acro-freestyle soccer/footballers TEAM RYOUKO from Fifa’s Street Freestyle clip (originally posted by Drew [link], who believes the video uses CG effects) I’m not convinced; and apparently Aaron Gregg (rec. juggling, world record holding chainsaw juggler and generally nice guy) has met these fellows and can attest to their authenticity.

With an increase in computer-manipulated circus and dance videos arriving on the internet, i wonder what effect this will have on the artists who develop ‘real skills’ over years and years of training. What will happen to the juggling world when a shakey, low quality youtube video featuring a teenage girl juggling 19 balls hits the internet and goes viral? Will the public reject all attempts at 7 and 9 balls as ‘easy’ simply because they’ve been fooled by an elaborate viral campaign? What happens when we cant tell the difference between CG videos and ‘real skill’ videos?

[Thanks to the lovely and talented (as in, real skills) Daydream (of OCCJD fame) for the video link]

Scot Nery (of jugglegood.com) juggles hammers and balances knives in this TV ad.
VIDEO LINK

On his website, Scot states:

This is a national advertisement for the DIY Network’s programming block “Nailed at Nine” Produced by King & Country in Los Angeles. We filmed a bunch of nail juggling and hammer juggling and these were the cuts they liked best.

Tons of people have been seeing this commercial on TV. If you’ve seen it, send me an email and say hi. It’s the best commercial I’ve done so far. Thank you to DIY Network and thank you to TV manufacturers.

Related:
hammer juggling

Either this is a CG trick, or Scot Nery is awesome
(or maybe it could be both..)

Sebastian Berger of Fenfire, and Rob Thorburn went on a little road trip in the scottish highlands, and did some Staff juggling along the way… Pretty.

Staff isolation techniques performed by Fenfire.
www.fenfire.at
youtube Profile with tonnes of great videos

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Ryan visits Fenfire

Dan Osman earns his place on the Ministry by showing that he has skills AND balls.

Via the Marco Piirro Archive:

An Amazing display of ‘Narrow Field’ skills with this beautifully precise Act that relies on just a single pot.

Harlem 07, Good energy, good skills - Sorry, we’ve got no other information.
Anyone fill us in?

Elias Hedlund has announced a new comic strip - THE JUGGLING CRIB, a juggling related comic strip featuring some of his local jugglers in Stockholm, Sweden. The main cast includes jugglers like Elias Hedlund, Wes Peden, Peter Åberg and Jay Gilligan and others.

Pilot episode already posted Next (first) episode is due next Monday.
We’re watching…