Poll for Jugglers

Off-topic
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If you juggle and have a few minutes to spare, I’d much appreciate your answers to these -

  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
  • Suede
  • Vinyl
  • Leather-like material
  • Reversed leather (the fuzzy side)
  1. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
  • Millet
  • Plastic granules
  • Liquid Silicon
  • No preference – I’m more concerned about weight

  1. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?

  2. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?

  • Yes
  • No

  1. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go?

  2. Where do you usually get your juggling props from?

  3. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?

  • Yes
  • No

  1. What sort of juggling do you do?

  2. Is there any other equipment you’d like to purchase that is harder to find / more expensive than you’d like?

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I go with suede, mixed fill (hybrid), $10-15 for a good ball is reasonable if you are really serious, I buy however many I need, I buy them from here --> http://www.flyingclipper.com/home/fly/smartlist_134/tossaballreg.html because they are the best.

My stage balls are 400mm babache matte contact balls, but those flying clipper balls are way better to juggle - just not high vis.

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1.) Denim
2.) Millet
3.) I make my own juggling balls, but I would pay up to 7€ for a beanbag.
5.) I don’t buy them
6.) There is an online shop in Slovenia
7.) I rather don’t, but I don’t have an option here
8.) Balls, clubs
9.) I would try a slackline and a rolabola (I could make one aswell, but can’t find a way to make the tube sturdier)

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Making a Rolabola is easy. It’s just a 6" diameter pipe (or 8", 10", whatever) of PVC and a piece of plywood.

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  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
  • Leather-like material
  1. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
  • No preference – I’m more concerned about weight

  1. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?
    10-15

  2. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?
    -No

  3. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go?
    8-11

  4. Where do you usually get your juggling props from?
    Gballz, SportCo, Play, Dube

  5. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?

  • Yes

  1. What sort of juggling do you do?
    The kind I like at that certain moment when I’m doing it, sometimes I perform.

  2. Is there any other equipment you’d like to purchase that is harder to find / more expensive than you’d like?
    No, the internet has everything, you can work for a little bit and get plenty enough money for any juggling stuff.

What is this for?
Better to post this on rec.juggling

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It seemed easy, I agree. But for the life of me, I can’t find a suitable pipe. They only have the soft ones.

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  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
  • Leather-like material
  1. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
  • Millet or something similar that is going to break down to help break in the juggling ball. weight is also really important though

  1. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?
    10-15

  2. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?

  • No, but looks are worth something

  1. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go?
    depends, if i’ve used them before i’ll buy however many i need. if it’s a new type then i’ll buy one to start and if i like it then i’ll get a full set.

  2. Where do you usually get your juggling props from?
    juggling store, higgins brothers, gballz

  3. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?

  • Yes

  1. What sort of juggling do you do?
    a little of everything. i like sport juggling but performances and simple artistic stuff is also lots of fun

  2. Is there any other equipment you’d like to purchase that is harder to find / more expensive than you’d like?
    stilts, simple peg stilts like these http://www.firetoys.co.uk/juggling/voltige_peg_stilts.html are almost impossible to find in the US for a reasonable price.

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Reversed Leather.
Mix, though it’s all I have used.
For me, up to 20$.
No.
6.
Flying clipper.
Yes.
Casual.
Nope.

Mine might be skewed, as I only got real beanbags this summer, before that I took dollar store knit footbags and put a plastic liner in and filled with rice. Sadly, I’m pretty much done juggling it seems. Not something very fun for me to do alone as it was, I can still get an alright 5b cascade going. I really slowed down after learning 5, I started to learn some tricks a while ago, but kind of fell out of the loop. For a while there I listed to juggling podcasts daily at my summer job and practiced a few hours a week.

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  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
  • Suede
  • Leather-like material
  • Reversed leather (the fuzzy side)
  1. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
  • No preference – I’m more concerned about weight

  1. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?

  2. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?

  • Yes
  • No

  1. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go? Brian Dube is reasonably priced. Have you seen his new catalogue??! It’s fantastic!!

  2. Where do you usually get your juggling props from? Brian Dube’s shop in SoHo. I even got y unicycles there before UDC existed.

  3. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?

  • Yes, but only if Brian Dube wasn’t so near.

  1. What sort of juggling do you do? ball, club, poi, swords, devil sticks, cigar boxes, plate spinning & balancing.

  2. Is there any other equipment you’d like to purchase that is harder to find / more expensive than you’d like? No

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Thanks for the answers folks. habbywall - yes, the topic’s better suited for rec.juggling but I camp here more often and I’m more familiar with you guys :slight_smile:

What you guys say is quite fascinating though - I’ve never owned any expensive juggling balls and the ones I have are the cheap, cube-ish ones with plastic pellets in them and hardly enough weight. My favorite juggling balls for 3 ball tricks are lacrosse balls and that’s always of some interest to people because of their weight, how they don’t land ‘dead’ and how they’re harder to grip/larger than beanbags.

Among my friends, I’ve differing opinions about the optimal beanbag to use for numbers and regular juggling.

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  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
    Leather-like material
  2. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
    Millet
  3. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?
    I’d have to see one to be sure but around $10 I guess.
  4. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?
    Yes
  5. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go?
    between 6 and 9
  6. Where do you usually get your juggling props from?
    Gballz.com
    Jugglingstore.com
  7. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?
    Yes, only if it had recomendations from those I trusted
  8. What sort of juggling do you do?
    Recreational: 5 ball, 4 club, 5 ring, 7 club passing
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If you juggle and have a few minutes to spare, I’d much appreciate your answers to these -

  1. What’s your favorite material for beanbags
  • Suede
  1. What’s your favorite beanbag filling?
  • No preference – I’m more concerned about weight
  1. How much do you think is reasonable to pay for a juggling beanbag?
    $5-10
  2. Would you spend more on a prettier beanbag?
  • Yes

  1. How many beanbags do you purchase at a go?
    3

  2. Where do you usually get your juggling props from?
    don’t have a regular spot

  3. Would you buy juggling equipment from online if you can’t try it out first?

  • No

  1. What sort of juggling do you do?
    occasional recreational. I can only do 3 balls (or 2 ball one hand either hand) I made some 5 and 10lb balls with lead shot which were sort of fun

  2. Is there any other equipment you’d like to purchase that is harder to find / more expensive than you’d like?
    None that I want right now.