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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.

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Oh yeah, I have to not make jokes about big balls. Ok, so this is a girl doing three of those large gym balls, the squishy ones, that you supposedly use to build up your core strength, but you actually just roll around on. This I assume Russian Ukrainian, has made a whole act out of rolling around on them, in a graceful way. There’s also some ball spinning, behind the head rolls, antipodism, and acrobatics with the big balls.

It’s always nice to see new props being used with innovative manipulation.

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This is mad new style hooping, of yes, awesome. Not quite sure of the name of the girl yet, apart from Jane, been trying to find out if she was supposed to be at the Sydney Juggling Convention.

Anyway, she does mad awesome hooping on a pole, so that you get the low space underneath you, she uses that to great effect, makes the pole do hoop, does pancakes and beautiful juggling transitions and owns some of the old style Bob Branson hoop rolling… Epic, watch it.

This guy has 4 stall points on the top of his head! As well as an interesting hairstyle… to accommodate stalls?

He also has that business of balancing a club on the top of his head.

another great video from faleondeestevan here with clubs.

Wow with a crazy title like that, it makes you wonder who reads this blog.

Great rolling ideas in this video. It seems Ben (that Canadian guy with all the nicknames) , has posted a new video on DotOrg; which is better than his last one. They are both gems, but this one is especially ridiculous.

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Some of my newest tricks and favorite clips from summer/fall 2009.

Music Brewed,Siphoned, and Bottled by Luminous Fractal, with Vocals by Lunar Lorna.
All Media © 2009.

A few very talented people from Humboldt, California USA doing things like 360’s, two connected back-flips, and a flip from a swing onto a line.

For those of you unfamiliar. Slacklining is done with rock climbing webbing and some sort of anchoring on the two ends. Once it is set up it is taut and has the properties of  a trampoline. I  started slacklining a few moths ago at my juggling club, when I got the guts to get up there by myself I found that it feels like your floating. If you have not tried I would highly recommend it. : )
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While doddering around on youtube, I came across this. A perfectly formed marvel. If all circus acts could be this innovative and expressive… wow, the world would be too awesome for me.

Really you should check the youtube page for all the informations. It’s in french, but don’t let that stop you.

I would like to take a moment to recognize what a special video Dawn) made in 2006. OCCJD, or “Obsessive-compulsive-contact-juggling-disorder” has become a common diagnosis on the forums at www.contactjuggling.org and helped many of us feel better about our own inability to put our props down. ever. Pretty soon the word will be in wikipedia. There are plenty of hits on google.

Three cheers Dawn. Your ‘outdoor in the snow shots’ are especially lovely. Come join us under the M.o.M. umbrella, we made you a nice new friend and collaborator page.

Do we have any readers with occjd? I know Ed does

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Youtube says: Video realizzato per l’artista giocoliere Edoardo demontis.

Which I believe means, Video of the Juggling Artist: Edoardo Demontis…? Aka Dodo perhaps? Well all informations are noted in a cute way at the end of the video. Which was 1-4 clubs in it, juggled, contacted, balanced and manipulated… All with smiles and exceptional skill. And the video is absolutely beautiful. Great camera and camera work…

Alessandro Maida

I know this video is long but if you just hang in there and be patient it will pay off with some very interesting  contemporary movements on and around a walking globe, as well as on the ground involving three balls.
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Lewie West, and I hope he used his real name there, contains a nugget of purest awesome. He tours with CIRCA and is part of the CIRCA ensemble and here in this video, he is training in the CIRCA space in Brisbane.

In this and his other videos, which you should also definately check out because they all contain extremely high levels of awesome and epic combined, he is doing a mixture of gymnastics, tricking, breakdance and floorwork which is both graceful and (at least to me) extremely creative.

Another video of heaps awesomeness: YouTube again.

I hope to get to meet him at the CIRCA space soon. I’m going to totally be unable to talk to him.

Thanks to Mark P for the link…