On the front page of Youtube at the moment, it’s the first featured Contact Juggling video since Beans.

Soon to be contact juggling’s most viewed video. It’s Mr Fuse* at the Japanese Contact Juggling Convention last year. Very nice. Been watching this clip steadily build momentum in the blogosphere over the last week, I reckon its reached viral critical mass now.

Anyone wanna kick of a game of “which web clips are his influences” in the comments section?

*Edit - thanks Brian

A Ministry favorite, Rodney Mullen talks about the philosophy behind his love of skateboarding.

Thanks to Stefan Paridaen from rec.juggling for the link

Previously Blogged:
411 video LINK
Rodney as a kid
Another young Rodney Mullen video

Once again, popping and illusions rule the day as Philip ‘Pacman’ Chbeeb auditions for ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’

Previous
last years audition

I was sent The new Promo video for Manne Hanke today. We met Manne early in 2007, and immediately tipped him as “one to watch”. Judging by this video, he still is!

Beautiful, original and innovative manipulations of one to three balls by one of our favourite contact jugglers. Now I gotta go juggle.

Previously on MoM

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

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

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!

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]

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

From the Independent - last friday

A Russian tabloid has set the country abuzz with a report that Vladimir Putin is secretly preparing to marry a leggy 24-year-old gymnast, voted the most beautiful woman in Russia.

The little known paper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported a week ago that a reliable source had revealed that plans were underway for a wedding between Mr Putin and Alina Kabayeva, an Olympic gold medallist, which would take place on 15 June, a month after Mr Putin hands the Presidency to his successor, Dmitry Medvedev…

Ms Kabayeva, who was recently voted the most beautiful woman in the country by the readers of a Russian magazine, became a parliamentary deputy late last year after the pro-Putin United Russia party moved to include more young, attractive women in the Duma.

He might have a attitude to foreign policy more questionable even than that of Mr Bush, but we have to admire his taste in skilled ball manipulators. Alina Kabayeva previously on MoM

So many good things…..
11 years ago in London, 3 Contact Jugglers inspired me to start Multiball Contact Juggling: Em, Dimitri and Doug.
Here are 2 new videos from Em… after watching this clip, I think you can understand why.

Em will be running a workshop at the Sardinia Juggling Convention Moon will also be there, it looks like an amazing event - the rest of MoM are sad to miss it.
One more video after the fold.
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