YouTube – Thomas Yuta EJC 2010 Fire Gala.
Thomas & Yuta rocking Poi at EJC 2010 Fire Gala
It’s been great to watch Poi really develop over the last 10-15 years. The skill level, movement and choreography being shown in the top performances nowadays is superb. 
New Diabolo tricks and concepts done with style… take notes!
Poi + Hoop = poi-style hooping Poop
Fellow Bristolian and all round encyclopedia of miscellaneous manipulations Mr Bags sent us though his latest explorations with hoops.
Some idea’s for hoopers that are well worth a look.
Edited with Cinelerra on Ubuntu – open source rules! (Most of MoM are on Ubuntu).
Thank you Sennyo for making this cute animation using xtra-normal. For the rest of the world – Fushigi brand contact juggling balls are being advertised on TV in North America.
While some elements within the contact juggling community are vitriolic in their attack of Zoom TV’s attempt to rebrand the art of Contact Juggling, far more numerous criticisms seem to come from users of Fushigi facebook group complaining that they have been overcharged, and that they are having to wait 4-8 weeks from ordering to receiving delivery of their ball, and that they cannot contact customer services. Further criticism comes from the video blogging kids on youtube who feel that the adverts are misleading, and are dissapointed that their ball doesn’t actually levitate, or even “gravitate”.
If you are looking to get into Contact juggling, we don’t recommend you buy a Fushigi ball. Save yourself time, money and hassle by getting an 85mm Acrylic ball from Home of Poi, you might also want to read MoM’s ball guide.
MoM is currently baking her response to Fushgi. It’s on the cooling rack and will be ready for consumption shortly. It will be quite tasty.
A nice mix of bodyrolling, multiball, hoop and baton isolations from Albert Tröbinger
That felt kinda weird to write my name in the title. writing in the third person is always fun when one tab later you are going to write in the first person but if I wrote
“my ejc solo” you wouldn’t know what it was. but yeah, here is some of the stuff i did in the show.
Also, i don’t know about you guys but when I read about someone who has done really amazing things or worked really hard in their life i get inspired to work harder and be more disciplined in mine. I get that a lot from
He is the one talking in my show and i can really recommend searching him on youtube or reading about him on wiki.
Juggle more! and don’t be embarrassed to listen to late 90′s pop.
love,
/wes
Aragorn Boulanger aka Bishop and Ed Adams of the Ministry have decided to team up to bring you the most in-depth and high level Isolation and Illusions workshops ever given.
Aragorn will be responsible for making the impossible possible as he teaches Animation techniques with the body. He will mostly work on time perceptions and distortions. The stillness, or immobility, will be the first step. But it is to discover laws of the flow. Isolation will be a priory skill of course but we won’t spend much time on this. There will be more focus on global time and living movement awareness. That’s how Aragorn will introduce energy changes and bring pupils to popping, ticking, strobing, rewind, matrix effects, etc…
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We’ve been rather quiet about the European Juggling Convention this year because we’re sad not to be at our favorite juggling and manipulation festival. This year, it has a live stream , by Nathan Rae EJC live: Where the European Juggling Convention comes to you.
For me it’s generally stuttering too much to be watchable, pausing every 3 seconds to buffer 
But I’ll keep trying.
Last night featured Kelvin doing his thing with 1 and 2 acrylics in the open stage, which was amazing.
If there’s nothing live at the moment, there are a bunch of recorded highlights you can watch, my favorite is:
Be sure to stay to the end of the clip for a great ending!
[Edit: updated with Youtube link, cos ustream doesn't work so well: thanks Divus]
Video made by Luminous Fractal (how cool is that. He should have been on stage!!)
Good stuff all around, some great manipulators on stage in this teaser clip from the 2010 Madskillz Gala show.
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?
Ryan’s been making more Isolationist Contact Juggling videos. Yippee*.
He made this one for contactjuggling.org forum moderator IMark, to thank him for a present, a new ball of course.
*a positive focus for some of his frustration with Fushigi
