Archive for 2008

Hoop Isolation duet - Ryan and Anna

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Short clip of hoop isolations that i performed with Anna at the Sziget festival in 2006.

Top 10 Jackie Chan Stunts

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Continuing a theme. The master at work. Wow #2.

Note: This video is not for the squeamish, - this is a man who has suffered for his art.

Top 10 Jackie Chan Fight Scenes

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

The master in action. Wow.

Mr Om @ Australia’s got Talent

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

The legendary Mr. Om appears on Australia’s got Talent, leaving the judges amazed. I cant wait for round two…

Related Posts:
Nirvadhi
Stage routine
In Isolation

Hoola Hoop La La

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Camp-disco-fame-hula-hoop-superstars - Jessie, Crag and Tiina, take Britains got Talent by storm as Hoop La La.

Thanks to Arron Sparks who posted it over on rec.juggling

Friday Fun - Lightsaber Gymnasts

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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

Michael Moschen @ Ted.com

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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)

Sigalit - ‘Stepz’ juggling video

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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

Pich - Baton Isolations

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

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.

Parkour Soccer - behind the scenes

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

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 - Hammer and Nail ad

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Scot neryScot 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..)

Glenelg Fire

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

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.