Thanks for the keep vid pointer
I had a plug in for firefox that worked great for a while, then you tube and other sites started blocking it. ^ site worked just fine.
Looking back to juggling in '87, this was pre Gatto and Sarafian, so a 6 ball shower was it. No one was doing 7. Tony Duncan was better at 6 then me, but other then that, I had a very big ego LOL !
It was also pre video, in the sense that few people had access to juggling movies. So for most people in my audience, I was the best juggler they had ever seen. We had movie night at the jugglers conventions.
It was very important to travel to conventions and places to practice with other jugglers, just to see new tricks. I think the biggest edge I had on most of the jugglers of my generation was that I lived in a van and traveled with juggling as a priority. Others had the heart, and practiced a lot, but just got better at the same mediocre things because they didn’t have all the cool teachers that I had. I practiced with Tony Duncan in San Fran in the spring(best shower guy), Barret Folker(clubs) and Peter Davidson(3 ball ) in Boulder in the Summer, with Bruce Sarafian(practice machine) at the convention . I copied those 3 club tricks from Barret, who copied them from a video of Ignatov backstage, warming up for a set when the Moscow circus came to the USA as part of some cold war culture thing. I guess my point is that a lot of jugglers might have learned certain styles, but they never saw them. There was no films to watch, except in rare private collections.
I knew a ton of uni riding jugglers, and even learned to ride in a straight line for a long bit. I wasn’t tempted to get one though. I considered it preferable to rely on a small bag of juggling props, and comedy, rather then have to lug around a unicycle. They were all the high chained uni’s. I considered it a crutch really. Not an insult:) , torches are a crutch also, and I wanted to be the king torch juggler. But the show really rides and falls on how well you played your gimmick. And a gimmick is a crutch to gain attention for a comic. The comics always had the “best” shows, and I was very jealous of that.
So in my video, you can see I chose as my gimmick in this one off situation, how Bounce (off stage MC) was very worried that the evenings production was running to long. So "5 minutes ", became the comic mantra. After “getting in under the 5 minute limit”, I pass a ball over my head and then turn to Bounce and start clarifying the criticality of the 5 min countdown. The coolest part of the show is here. I am imitating Bounce! I didn’t know I mimicked people! At this point I had created a way of making the 6 ball shower important. In general, most people aren’t entertained by the 6 ball shower. But by comic device, I perform the same trick twice (?) and it went over pretty well.
So for me, a super cool find. I’m old and white haired now, but I’ll always have this. And what’s uber cool, is it looks more like a Kris video, in the sense that it is not a collection of one off snippets of the best tricks I have done patched together. I think the new you tube culture is great, and without it, I wouldn’t think there was anything very cool about unicycling.
I don’t really have anything against people that post video’s of themselves nailing tricks in an obviously edited sequence. Like stringing together 10 tricks that you can only do once in 20 tries. 
A real charm of Kris’s videos is how long he’s on the scene. So long that you feel like he could ride the next section just as smoothly.
I made a few mistakes in my video. Two of them deliberately. My perfection of three in one hand had become so boring, that the show worked better by screwing up the first try of three in one hand in the first part of the 6 ball routine. I needed the device of being the scrambling underdog. The dis reveled hippy that might not pull it off. Without an honest doubt in the audience that I could pull it off, there is less entertainment.
Ahh, I can never be young again, but I now have a video.
