The title is descriptive enough. Ball size: 2.25″

Lovely, peaceful video of Moon, made by Sigalit Productions.

Lovely editing, camera work, manipulations… You really feel as if you can get to know Moon in this video as he shows how calm and methodical he is. Nice to have such a well made manipulation video with a personality.

Stunning work. More videos like this please!

When you are on Youtube late at night and you are searching through the latest contact juggling uploads (searching for unknown gold), there is nothing more exciting than stumbling onto a bootleg clip of Okotanpe. Shot by some random guy visiting Japan, he thought this ‘crystal ball thing’ was pretty rad and so he filmed it and put the clip on Youtube for everyone to enjoy. I hope he left a nice tip.

Okotanpe’s isolations are tight, and the multiball progression from 2-6 balls is clean with quick changes. Respect to the random tourist in Japan too; he has a steady shot and even manages some nice close-ups.

Tony Duncan is the father of contact juggling in Japan. He was teaching and performing these techniques in the country before most people had even heard of Michael Moschen. He won an IJA Gold medal with a one ball contact juggling act in 1994, which included an over-the-head roll and other bodyrolling/butterfly techniques which he had been working on since the late 70’s. Dawn recently returned from TurboFest in Quebec, and she brought back this great clip of his uniquely excellent palmspinning style.

When I joined the forums @ contactjuggling.org in 2001, there was a collection of user submitted videos from the ‘early days of contact juggling…’ back when people were still trying to figure out minor variations on Moschen’s crystal ball routine. But amongst the collection of clips was a collection of 5 files from a Japanese user named Aotaku. I compiled the clips and released them HERE. The Aotaku videos showed some highly advanced multiball techniques using 2.5mm silicon balls, including separated 3ball palmspinning and other variations that were far more technically advanced than anything else available on the site at the time. Aotaku dissapeared completely, and there was no way to get more info on this rare and beautiful palmspinning style. All we had was 5 clips, and each file was named “palmspinning4tonyduncan1.mpg, palmspinning4tonyduncan2.mpg, etc…
Now it makes sense.

My contribution to this years DotOrg Xmas Tree. Manipulation of 1-6 acrylic balls; a few new tricks in there Enjoy, and happy holidays to all the contact jugglers and manipulation people all over the world!

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New show! New video goodness! New cool manipulation with arms! New win! New video love!

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Some REALLY good isolations, bodyrolling and multiball contact from Yorgos/George in Greece.

Hello Ministry!
This is an old video we made (Spring ‘07) but it’s the only one we ever did. I now got the courage to make my first upload on youtube and send a link to you in case you like it and post it.
With much appreciation,
George Serafimidis

A forum thread loving this video over on CJ.org.
Enjoy.

Dawn and I spent some time this summer busking at the lovely Vancouver Chinatown Night Market. Good people, good food and good contact juggling.

A clip of Kelvin totally rocking the contact balls at Fame Nightclub in Zimmern, Germany. See how I embedded it so you don’t have to watch the first two minutes of the video? Aren’t you lucky? I just saved you having to watch 2 boring minutes of people drinking and dancing.

Another Kelvin video after the jump…
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More contact juggling from Colombia.
Sent to us by Daniel Valderrama; his stuff will be featured all week on www.ministryofmanipulation.com

Lovely new Multiball Contact Video by Moon, which I am sure he will be too modest to post here himself.
Awww. Thanks Moon.

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3 Japanese Jugglers? In one place? Can the world take such awesomeness? Well… Yes. Wait for a little while in this video and you are treated to some amazing bounce juggling and passing and some beautiful box patterns between them. There may even be contact juggling in it…