Five and a half years after starting MoM, we have; 1 book, 2 weddings, several MoM workshops, and over 1 000 000 unique visitors (according to our stats counter).
And this is MoM’s 1000th blog post.
Phew.
Thanks for reading, and here’s to the next 5 years.
The above image is from theFlickr acrylic balls pool. by Maido of Japan.
Smiles
Drew

Youtube Link

Yowsa! This was the first guy I ever saw do Fei-Cha in an old Internet Video called “Janitors”. In the interim he appears to have gone to Circus School in Montreal and has gotten some pretty sweet tricks nailed in his act. He also does slick combined hat manipulation and has a cute goofy ending. Win.

i found this video via Lewie Wests’ favourates. Why isn’t he a blogger yet anyway?

Swinging, Spinning, and Juggling by

Valery, Raphael, Maxime, Jonas, Florent, Damien, and Yannick

You should watch this.

Thanks to James for Suggesting this Link!

It’s great to come home from an awesome first Madskillz Juggling Festival to a newly found video with great style and new ideas.

Around the time of the Firedrums Festival in Santa Cruz, California, The Vulcan in Oakland, California was flooded with visitors from all around the world. There were even more people at the Vulcan than seen in this video.  So you should watch for the next one —> here

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You could get hurt trying this! Do not try at home… unless you want to be awesome.

They’re doing it on the streets too! –> here

Drew mentioned this in a link from years ago, but I think it deserves it’s own post (since i can probably account for about a thousand of it’s current 2,800 views.)

Nowhere on the internet have I even seen such an amazing approach to box manipulation, such a radical difference from the normal style of this rare juggling prop. Eloi did some good research; he is pulling ideas from tonnes of other juggling disciplines and creating his own unique set of rules for manipulation.

High five to the box jugglers out there!

Hat, cane and cigar manipulation with some awesome ‘Kris Kremo’ style multi-object kickups and an intense ‘cup of water inside a ring’ section.
This was recorded on 07/03/92 during the Paul Daniels magic show.

Thanks to Lawrens Godon for the link.

CAP
Addicted to Ball in the head!
Esteven writes:

Hello people.
I’m trying to spread on the Internet… the production of videos involving the Cucuruto, the stall point on the top of head.
Which I think is the evolution of balance, by independent of vision and develop the touch and proprioception.
This is very popular in Brazil and in Latin America, but I do not see the rest of the world so interested. And I think the ministry of manipulation is the most influential Internet website to spread the activism of this idea of balance. Can you help?

Yes we can, and we love this video Thanks
Great music, what is it?
Smiles
Drew
In other bad news, MoM got hacked for the 2nd time, sorry for all the (hidden) links to porn sites – now deleted. We’re trying to deal with it. Drew

This may sound like i am tooting my own horn. That’s because i am : )

Check out the new video!

hej guys!

Title: Plaid

Creator: Wes Peden

Length: 30 minutes

Bonus: 18 minutes of B-side material!

Price: $12

You can check out the contents and buy the video at http://www.wespeden.com

hope you guys like it!

/wes

JTV Link

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

Circomedia students Ben Smith and Dan Liddiard’s professional/action showreel for 2010. Big up the Bristol Crew! via suggest a link.