Anyone got any/had any experience with any, are either of these any good?
Fyrefli fire juggling balls that can be juggled without gloves.
Mr Babache fire juggling balls (fire gloves essential).
Juggling fire is weak.
Can you do five? I would reccomend learning five before working on fire.
Cause juggling fire is boring.
i made some fireballs
tis good fun
but yeah listen to habby cuz i just randomly made them because i as bored:D
Not used any wire frame balls with the flame held internally. I imagine flame size on them will be quite small in order to prevent burns.
Have used the Babache in which a thin cloth to hold the fuel is wrapped around a wooden core. Used them with wet kevlar gloves. The hand protection of the gloves ran out before the flames did. I couldn’t juggle them for very long before they became too hot to handle. There is no way they could be used without gloves.
Even with gloves, getting started is fun. I found it best to have them on a fireproof surface, and pick them up one by one as I started juggling. Picking up two at a time and then starting to juggle just seemed too hot, too risky.
And don’t drop them on a hard surface, it damages the cloth. Don’t replace the cloth with thicker cloth wick. No point, you won’t be able to juggle long enough unless you repeatedly re-wet your gloved hands. And the second time, they start hotter, meaning your juggle will be shorter. A lot more dangerous than torches, but don’t look it to the audience.
Not worth the money, and people can see you have gloves on.
Nao
I’ve juggled with lit fire-lighters, if that counts?
This is only true until the thin kevlar winding on the frame wears slightly, a friend of mine had a set where one was worn and would burn you if you caught it a certain way round, not so good.
Oh I agree, weak, boring. As can be seen by a picture I took at the Diwali Festival recently. For those that know him it’s Zyllan.
fireball?
Never tried Mr Babache, but we had a set of the Firefli ones at the juggling club (the older ones with the nice (flammable) rubber coating on the wire cage). They were fun, but more from a point of view of playing with paraffin and burning yourself than from a point of view of actually juggling. I think the newer ones may be slightly different but these supposedly needed a special one-use wick which you set alight and then placed inside the ball to light the main wick.
Not having the special wick we used to use a match inside each one, and the chances of getting the 3rd one lit before the 1st one went out again were very slim. But that does mean that if you should ever actually manage to get them all going at once the sense of jubilation and pride will be more than enough to make up for the fact that they only have about 30 seconds burn-time:p
Overall I definately wouldn’t mind having a set, but I don’t think i’d want to pay proper money for them, and I’d probably rather have fire clubs.
Oh, and you WILL be burned - even before the rubber on the cage gets incinerated, the ‘ends’ so to speak still get very hot. Hopefully not enough to bllister, depending how thick-skinned you are, but you will end up with lots of funny singed indentations all over your hands 
And those aren’t fire balls, themz torches!
Part of our local fire festivals is when the crazies pull out the roll of fuel soaked toilet paper and start playing “Hot Potato” with it.
They’re disturbed.
Here are the fire Cage juggling balls by firefli Weirder the Better
I would like to take this time to apologize for my earlier post in this thread.
Well, I was going to jump all over your previous statement, but then noticed it was 3 years old.
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I would never juggle flaming balls without gloves. Nooooo way.
When I do feel the urge to participate in such activity, I just soak a set of tennis balls in Coleman fuel and wear a $5 pair of heavy welder’s gloves from Home Depot.
Well, I was going to jump all over your previous statement, but then noticed it was 3 years old.
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I would never juggle flaming balls without gloves. Nooooo way.
When I do feel the urge to participate in such activity, I just soak a set of tennis balls in Coleman fuel and wear a $5 pair of heavy welder’s gloves from Home Depot.
I have in fact actually since juggled fire, only breifly when my mate I discovered how to make flaming fire balls that you can catch and they don’t burn you.
Having been around lots of jugglers, entertainers, professional street performers, I still have one comment to add to all this:
You’re not supposed to juggle the fire part in your hands.
As mentioned above, it doesn’t look any harder to the audience, just dumber. Not to take away from the value of fire to street performing; it’s a very popular attention-grabber to form an audience and many performers would probably consider it essential.
Just not in your hands…
One of my more painful experiments
I was a good torch juggler, and owned a roll of torch wick, used to fix my torches. I decided to make fire balls with some wick.
This entailed unraveling some wick, to make a fireproof thread. I used this to stitch up 3 sorta square looking balls, that I filled with crushed pumice. So far so good. They burned real well and were sorta durable.
I say sorta, because the fanned flame going between the fingers on the up throw heated my welding gloves to blister hot in only a few seconds. So maybe they weren’t all that durable really. They were impossible !
Torches rule, but for balls, maybe look into some of those new LED things. I gave up on the fire balls after getting blisters on the first afternoon. You can’t just tough it out, those things got hot so fast I couldn’t pull the glove off fast enough. Ouch ! LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihwei0jO4Yg&feature=player_profilepage
psh, if you can’t do fire contact-juggling, you’re just weak xP lol, this guy is insane. . . anyway, I’ve seen the fireball springs. I have to ask why, you can get a great set of torches for that much, and they’re more fun, and please the audience.
There are only two reasons I can think of off the top of my head to get fire juggling balls:
1.) you’ve got every other fun juggling prop you want.
or 2.) you can’t juggle clubs (and thus, not torches)
if number 2. . . . DON’T JUGGLE FIRE DUMMY! and go practice : P
3?) you want to tone down a fire act? . . . O.o??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihwei0jO4Yg&feature=player_profilepage
psh, if you can’t do fire contact-juggling, you’re just weak xP lol, this guy is insane. . . anyway, I’ve seen the fireball springs. I have to ask why, you can get a great set of torches for that much, and they’re more fun, and please the audience.
There are only two reasons I can think of off the top of my head to get fire juggling balls:
1.) you’ve got every other fun juggling prop you want.
or 2.) you can’t juggle clubs (and thus, not torches)
if number 2. . . . DON’T JUGGLE FIRE DUMMY! and go practice : P
3?) you want to tone down a fire act? . . . O.o??
When I was busking during the winter months here in Colorado, fire balls was a great way to warm up the hands and gather a crowd before the show.
At the time we just used a heavy canvas beanbag and soaked it in juggler-juice (white-gas), put on some leather gloves and juggled away. We thought we were the only ones doing this. Now I guess it’s common-place.
The smell of burnt hair always reminds me of street performing now…
