Non Stop Juggling

We have 5 shows in a row over the coming weeks and with widespread flooding and the most rainfall ever recorded in the UK I am pretty concerned about the weather !

This weekend is Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire, a show run by Living Heritage Craft Shows. I intend to have a concerted effort to flash or juggle five clubs this weekend assuming that the show will not be flooded.

Rain Stops Play

Just had to finish my 4 club session a little early because of the weather. I think I`m going to work on 4 and 5 balls for a while :)

Finesse G2 diabolo with light set :)

Needing some four club inspiration

After keeping up at least 2 hours a day of four club juggling for several weeks I think I need to find a couple of challenging tricks to work on. I`ve made myself a nice large mat to practice over by attaching two roll mats together, the clubs bounce pretty high when they hit it :)

Superb Southwell Folk Festival

Well ! What a crazy weekend !

Our workshop area was full of people from before 10am until after 10pm each day, although the show wasn`t huge we where the only thing for kids to do for the 3 days they where there, so I think we met nearly everyone at the festival.

I enjoyed watching the street performers doing their sets right next to us. Of special note Bruce Airhead has probably the funniest act I`ve ever seen, big respect for anyone who can do such a physical act in painfully hot sunshine.

Vinny The Silent Clown was really good, when he came to do his set we had several loud mouthed and difficult young people in our workshop area. With the most stunning application of simple mimes, he had 10+ kids sat watching him in silence waiting to be prompted to shout out a description of each mime. He was also a really nice guy and master ball spinner so I had to pick his brains on the dark art of ball spinning, he was more than happy to give me several really useful tips.

Lots of great music, plenty of nice people and a selection of over 40 real ales made for one of the best shows we have ever been to, impressive considering it is the events first year !

Four Club Torture

Only spent an hour with my clubs today. I`m noticing it takes 30 mins of juggling before I can get a solid 4 club pattern. Double spins feel almost as natural as single spins now.

Watching Club Juggling In The Park and relaxing, I have a feeling the Southwell Folk Festival this weekend is going to be pretty mad but I`m desperate to get some club passing in.

Long Hot Monday

Juggled 4 clubs in the sun to the point of exhaustion today, I don`t think there are any muscles in my upper body that don`t hurt ! Started thinking more about other 4 club patterns, starts and finishes involving tripple spins.

Watched a couple of vids to cool down ;-)
Club and fish juggling and Really Good Parkour

Club Juggling Is For Fools

Great 2 hour 4 club session today, really enjoyable. Managed to throw lots of tripple spins whilst keep a double spin pattern going. Had a couple of cracks at some siteswap patterns (531,551) with 3 clubs and I`m getting the hang of a box pattern with flat throws which I think looks pretty funky !

I`ve been playing with 2 balls and 1 cigar box, I might try to video some as there are loads of really unique moves and patterns. I`ll just have to prey Jason Garfield never watches it by accident, I personally think he is now doing more harm than good for juggling by being arrogant and unkind to others.

Has the juggling summer finally arrived ?

I really enjoyed todays practice session, the weather was nice and I managed some really nice runs of 4 clubs. I`ve had to alter the grip (for launching) on my left hand as I think I have badly strained something in my left hand which causes considerable amounts of pain every time I start juggling.

Just had it confirmed that we are juggling at a 3 day folk festival. The beer tent has 40+ bears from different microbrewery around the country, so I might struggle to walk in the evenings let alone juggle with anything !