Juggling Group

(from top left: Olga & Vova Galchenko 10 Club passing; Fire Poi juggling; Anthony Gatto 5 balls and 5 rings juggling; Scott VanderStouw Light Diabolo Juggling)


Hey everybody,
I'm trying to find some people who would be interested in either learning how to juggle or who can already juggle. We could meet like once or twice a week get together and juggle then. I can teach you all the basics and much more if you are interessted.
My equipment is right now only 9 balls and 5 rings. If you will continue learning then you might consider getting some own balls ;)
But for the first few times to try out or so you don't have to bring anything but a good mood, and well fun :)

Well many of you ask first of all what I mean by juggling. I mean either ball, ring, club, poi or diablo juggling.
You probably think of it as like three ball juggling in only one pattern and how I would just teach that, but no, I mean real sport juggling.
To give you an better idea of what I mean by this here are a few great Videos of some great jugglers:

Alex Duhig a great juggler, and I saw his first video as my first juggling video ever.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pduhig/index.html

3 ball juggling at it's best, it's not only about high numbers ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx5Sp_hoHKM

One of Anthony Gatto's Video's:
http://www.megaupload.com/de/?d=FO21X6NJ

If you want to see more just ask me and I can give you some vids ;)


About myself: I just started juggling this January, up until almost 5 balls I hadn't seen any jugglers, then I found out that there where great juggling Videos on the net and watched and learned from them. Shortly befor I returned to germany I went on a little juggling convention in Springdale where I really did not learn much.
Later then in Germany I went to another Juggling Convention in Ludwigsburg, where I met the second world best juggler Thomas Dietz (German) and a few days later after my birthday I went to a juggling show of the worlds best Juggler Anthony Gatto, who even gave me as a present his newest DVD with the worlds hardest juggling tricks^^ (If you are interested we could watch it sometime.)

-I can do a lot of tricks with three balls and also can juggle three balls with my eyes closed.
-I can do a lot of 4 ball tricks too, and I consider 4 balls as my warming up for my training since three balls kind of is just only little play anymore for me.
-I can do 5 balls the standard pattern and a few tricks a little bit. This is also the thing that I work on right now the most.
-I can do a little bit more that a flash(all balls one after another thrown up in the correct pattern and caught again) with 6 balls (actually 16 catches was my record^^)
-I flashed 7 balls after a good warming up, If you don't believe me just ask my roomate^^
-And I flashed 4 balls in one hand.

-I can juggel 3 rings and do a few tricks with them, thought I never really can practice much with them
-I can juggle 4 rings fairly well
-I flashed 5 rings.
-And I flashed 3 rings in one hand

-I can do 3 clubs without tricks fairly well, but they are in Germany so no practice with them...

Juggling is not only a lot of fun but is also suppose to help you improve your learning^^

So if you are interested than just email me and I hope that we get some people together :)
My email is cramer-m-049 at mssu dot edu.


Maurice