We have reached the point of no return, and after a long process it is finally time to vote for your favorite picture worthy of the first prize of 2 G4 Finesse diabolos by Mr. Babache. The winner will be decided by the general public (60%), a professional potograper (20%), Mr. babache (10%) and the Jugglingequipment.com team (10%).

So a lot of responsibility is now resting on your shoulder! take a last look at the finalist before you make your decision and use your right to vote!

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Hi all,

I just finished my newest tutorial, which is on how to juggle 5 rings. Hopefully it will help you whenever you have trouble with this pattern!

Part one:

Part two:

Later,

Sondre

Great great great new diabolo video.

A group of the French Jongle diabolo forum members collaborated in order to create some innovation.

Super (in a French accent)!

after 3 preliminary rounds we have managed, with your help to select the 10 images for the final. Voting will begin on the 1st of November and will end after exactly 3 days.

In the final round you will be able to vote for one picture only – the one you think is most deserving for the title and the first prize of 2 G4 finesse diabolos by Mister Babache.

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The convention was over.
On the last night there was a mini improvised renegade outside, which was fun.
Our flight was a couple of days later so we used those days to travel in nearby important tourism attractions.

On the first day me and Asaf went to Bilbao, it was a great tour.
We were hiking all over the place starting from the Athletic Bilbao football team’s stadium (which was closed) up to the a-m-a-z-i-n-g Guggenheim art museum.  The city itself is very pretty as it has a magnificent combination of surrounding mountains and nature with modern buildings.
On our way to the museum we found a “subway sandwich” restaurant! the bad part was when we finished our lunch, went out and found out that it was raining…
No rain nor thunder will stop me from getting to that museum! After one minute of walking (without any umbrella!) we got there…
Surprisingly we met in there Bar and his family, among some other EJC jugglers.
The exhibitions were super.. all I need now is to persuade the management to let me film a juggling video in there… one day………..

Asaf is everywhere!

On the next day Raffi, Buyoom and me went to Pamplona. Some of us were a bit afraid,
We got there and the first thing to notice was the colors – we were dressed black while all the rest were just red&white…. that’s how bad tourists we were….
Anyhow, quickly we found out that it was the last day of all the bulls thing so they weren’t running incorrigibly in the narrow streets and killing people.

Bullance

There was a big show of matadors and bulls in the big arena, but we didn’t have any tickets and even if we did we would have lost our last train back to Vitoria…
We still enjoyed the whole atmosphere and this small colorful town (and bought souvenirs…).

Happy and unharmed we got back to our home town -Vitoria. Knowing the streets by heart (mostly Raffi) we got to our hostel, ordered Dominos pizza for the last time and went to sleep……..

Early in the morning we had our flight to Madrid, again, in that little airplane or chopper, and from Madrid back to Israel.

Asta la vista malabarista! See you in Finland!

Ohh, I made a short concluding video….
Enjoy -

From the makers of “Asleep” comes the next big Italian hit!
It’s not really about juggling this time, but a cyr wheel!
In the last EJC there were several people who did it as I saw it for the first time. A very interesting object, no doubt.
Fabio Pinna is making cool stuff (and the video is great, as usual). Check it out -

The third and final round of voting is here and there are again 15 pictures for you to choose from. Please use your voting right and vote for the 3 pictures you think are the best ones of them all. You will only be able to vote once, so make it count!

Voting will end on the 22rd of October.

go ahead and use your right to vote…

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I find it hard to describe 13 days in 1400 words… there are so many details and unbelievable stories that won’t  be told due to length, irrelevance and lack of interest by the wide public.
I’ll try to be as succinct as possible. Part 2 (and the final one), let’s go!

I actually didn’t introduce the other campers… so, here is a brief introduction:

Ukrainian group: Zenia, Igor, and Katia. Zenia and Igor studies juggling and acrobatics in a certain school in Kiev, Katia is their dance teacher.

Polish group: An unknown number of participants that were coming and going all the time. The ones that I remember from most of the time were Joanna, Dominika and Arek. Joanna is from the famous Dembek juggling family (Aneta’s cousin), Dominika is Aneta’s sister, and Arek is a young local juggler.

Lithuanian group: Laurinas and Janeta. Laurinas is a young juggler and Janeta was a circus teacher for about 30 years!

Romanian group: Todi, Costi and Moni. They all are part of “The Serious Road Trip” humanitarian organization. They had some cool sweatshirts of it.

“German” group: Agnieszka (Polish), Triffin (Breton), Sorrizo a.k.a Hercules (Brazilian) and Manu (Hungarian). Except Hercules, they were all working in the German kids circus school “Shake!”.

Countries nights quick review -

Ukrainian: Nice traditional dance. Viktor Kee rulezzz!
Polish: Lots of history.
Lithuanian: Looks like one amazing country.
Romanian: Great food. Did you know that Dracula was not a vampire??
“German”: Interesting circus information. Tasty Brazilian drinks.

I’ve got to say that all the countries presentations were much more impressive than ours… maybe because they made some lessons from it.. or not…

Workshops -

As I said, every day we had one 6 hours workshop.
The wide variety included pantomime, drumming, dancing, juggling and magic.
I guess the funnest one was the drumming because we had the most activity.  That workshop happened one day after the drumming group’s great show.
As I mentioned on the previous post, the language difficulties wasted half of the workshop’s time on translation. A thing that slowed it all down and personally got me quite tired after a while… I must admit I rarely attended the whole workshop.. I’d rather practice or shooting some juggling tricks for future projects….

Occasionally (too little in my opinion) we were taken out of our farmville to get our minds refreshed in one of the nearby Lego look alike towns. When I say nearby it usually means a couple of hours drive, but driving can be very refreshing as well.
So the other day we went to Nicolaus Copernicus‘ birth place – Toruń. We took a couple of basic tourists photos next to his statue and moved on to our (mine) main goal – internet. I have to say it went pretty fast and soon we found a local internet cafe.

The biggest pizza in the world. Find out what ingredients are in it and win bonus points!

It was like refuelling myself in a way.. good 40 minutes those were…
Not only that, the lucky lady was very generous and the pizza place was right next to the internet cafe!!
I think they had the largest pizza plate I have ever seen… yet, there is no such thing as large enough.
More city sighting and going back our farmville (there were some lost cows over there)…

Another nice visit was in the small town of Lipinki near our camp (really near, like 10 minutes driving).
This time we had to teach the small native school kids juggling. It was really fun although I didn’t understand a word they say beside “dwa”. The kids were really cute and already knew how the basics, so that was much nicer then I expected.

Cute little diabolo kid twisting his hand

Back to our camp -

All the workshops were about to end and we were offered to make some kind of a show to ourselves.
We were thinking about some kind of a renegade, emceed by no other than Hercules.
It went fine as there were many beers, but unfortunately  just about half of the campers did something on the stage…
The Ukrainians dance was very entertaining for me, Arek’s unicycle number was great, Aaron&Neta did their tictonic/juggling dance after Aaron’s extremely surprising extreme unicycle number, Triffin sang in Hebrew while balancing a flute,  Todi was precisely shooting light bulbs and then restored them as brand new glow balls,  and I did my famous diabolo/birthday routine.
All of the acts got standing ovation. Woo hoo!

After everything was over we had another 4 and a half hours training session back to Warsaw. We stayed there for two days with the Romanian group.
To make a long story short – walking, night club, army museum, pizza, walking, internet, goodbyes, airport, home.

When Todi met Warsaw

In conclusion – It was nice, but still a bit unclear for me.

Big thanks again to Aneta and Michał.
See y’all, and don’t forget to harvest!
Ori

The second round of voting is here and there are again 15 pictures for you to choose from.

Please use your voting right and vote for the 3 pictures you think are the best ones of them all. You will only be able to vote once, so make it count!

Voting will end on the 18th of October.

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This week we have an amazing show by the German juggler, Manne Hanke.

His show is composed out of three different routines – 3 balls manipulations, 1 ball manipulations, and 3 balls manipulations and toss juggling.
All along those routines he combines his great body movement and acrobatic skills to create some truly unique and spectacular moves.
No wonder it’s called Ball(man)nepulation… Check it out!!