Does anyone here contact juggle. I just started and i suck at it. If u do, do u know of any good sites or videos.
CONTACT JUGGLING PART 1 DVD With Greg Maldonado and Owen Edson
Excellent video, probably the best.
Found here:
http://renegadejuggling.com/Web_store/rev3k/index.html
(scroll down)
I’ve seen it’ and it’s really cool. However, I’ve never tried it.
which balls should i get and how many?
HERE s some info about balls. They seem to usually be 2"-3", or some sell as 73mm.
I plan on getting some 2 1/2" clear balls, or clear with some sort of tint.
Re: Contact Juggling?
be prepared to suck at if for quite some time to come
contact is one of the least rewarding of the ‘object manipulation’ skills in terms of time invested vs perceived improvement
u have to be very patient and practise dilligently
and when u do, u’ll get so good at it that u’ll make it look so easy that no-one will be impressed
contact juggling is a gloriously solo pursuit, for the most part
i’ve never seen contact jugglers passing
(but i might mess with that at the club tonight;) )
what kind of ball to get?
one that u feel comfortable with
try a variety of sizes and go for the one that feels good
a lighter ball makes learning even more difficult, but u learn better control and tricks u’ve learnt with your ‘practise ball’ will be easier to do with a heavier ‘performance ball’
get one of those see-thru balls, they look gloriously crystally
they’re also now available in a variety of tints
or join us in petitioning Aerotech to make a 100mm glo ball
and once u get contact under control, u have to try it on a giraffe uni
yoyoguy.com has some cheap acrilic balls that are good I recomend getting a 3" or 3.5" for learning people seem to take to the bigger size a bit more weight a little easier.
Another option if you are worried about breaking an acrilic (they are hard to break most of the time) or they are out of your price range are 3" stage juggling balls I buy mine at Renegadejuggling.com they have a nice weight and are nice to mess around with. (note its a bit harder to do multiple ball stuff with them)
I still can do all the basic moves fairly smoothly but I’m out of pratice. Good luck with it.
mmm contact’s luuuuverly. It’s the type of manipulation I do most now. And is definitely the most relaxing. Although nearly all my juggling practise has gone out of the window recently with working too much and unicycling.
It’s quite cool to start with a stage ball in the early days of learning coz when you mess up the ball tends to ping off in various directions with little warning. I’ve got a cracked window in my kitchen due to contact (and another one due to club swinging). I find it’s the type of juggling non-jugglers are most impressed with as fewer people have seen it.
Make sure you remember to keep the ball out of direct sunlight. My bro set fire to his coat not long ago when he left his contact ball out in the sun…Ooooh how we laughed.
I’d also recommend contact as one of the best stop smoking aids there are takes your mind off things like nothing else.
Kit
Ive got some of the basics down. I personaly like the 3/3.5 inch acrylics. If you do start out with them, get 1 for practice and one for performance, seeing as the practice one wont be very pretty aftera ll the falls and scratches. thesilverman.co.uk used to have some really really good vids, but i cant seem to navigate the new site very well. also try contactjuggling.org
Joseph
For those of u that contact juggle do u have a AIM sn and what is it?I checked your profiles and u either dont have one or it isn’t in your profile.
juggles(at)hotmail(dot)com
yeah, how’re u doing with that?
goood…But then slightly not so. I managed a month, but had slight lapse at the weekend. But off them again now. Three 12 hour shifts in a row, a fairly heroic amount of booze and a near fisty-cuffs experience broke me and I fell back into sweet lady nicotine’s embrace for a couple of days…In short: “must try harder”.
Kit
nah, just try again
it doesn’t allways ‘take’ the first time
just don’t have a cig for the next 24 hours
just for today…
I just you a lacrosse ball for contact juggling. It’s 3" in diameter, pretty heavy, and kind of grippy so it rolls well. Practicing contact juggling is like meditiating. Very relaxing.
Whats the difference between contact juggling and…regular juggling?
Wow I’m totally going to start doing this. I dont care if it impresses anyone else it all for the fun of it. I dont unicycle to impress but to give me something fun to do. Whats the idle hands thing something about the devil?
Today I was doing my butterfly to an under-elbow escape, and this one girl told me it was a “nerd trick”…
Howver, I was able to work on my butterfly and some stalls today, Im progressing quite quickly, and am ordering a nice acrylic ball soon.
The devil makes work for idle hands. I’ts good that he helps the unemployed keep busy, eh.
Kit
in regular juggling, u work with more objects than u have hands and u throw the props and catch them again
in contact juggling u (typically but not always) work with one ball and that ball remains in contact with your body all the time
u roll it around your hands and up and down your arms and around your head and across your back
google for contact juggling and check out some of the videos
there were a couple of kewl links pasted earlier
caveat: i realise that i dealt in very over-simplified definitions of both juggling and contact juggling in my explanation above
it was intended to be a short answer to a potentially complicated question and i’m not interested in engaging in debate with juggling purists who take offence
