The Juggling Equipment Blog

We left our story of the EJC at the first day of the convention. That morning while people were waiting in the info tent to enter the event we were busy looking at the other traders setting up their stalls and thinking how nice it would have been if the customs would have released our juggling equipment in time. With nothing better to do that day we got into the car and headed to Bilbao, about an hour away from Vitoria to take 5 packages of Taibolos that were waiting there for us.

The ride was beautiful, the green and lush surrounding of northern Spain filled our hearts with joy. I was looking forward to have some equipment in my hands and more then that to get a glimpse on the architectural masterpiece of the city – the Guggenheim museum created by the architect Frank O. Gehry. With the taibolos safely tucked in the back of the car and after a stop in the local grocery store we headed of in search of the museum.

Just to be sure we stopped and asked a local person to get the direction, he was thinking about it for about a minute and trying to think of the best way to get there – and then he said: “Hm… well, the best way is to take the first right you have and then straight all the way and then you’re there”. Hm…, I wonder what he was thinking about all that minute to get to the complex description he just gave us.

We got to the museum, took the must have picture of been there done that in a special juggler style. Asaf Bar sela, as seen here doing the handstand and me went briefly into the museum since time was of the essence and then we drove back to the convention site.

Once there we met Dekel Azulay, one of the most interesting diabolo players around today, and the only one I know who can do a decent 3 diabolo shuffle. He helped us to assemble the taibolos, a simple task overall, but still a little time consuming if you need to assemble 100 of them… We made it a real assembly line, each one of us doing some of the work and after a couple of hours we got them all.

Here we are – Dekel and ofir “buyoom” sela (manufacturer of our favourite juggling balls – the Orka cubes), and me behind the camera…

So enough work for the day, a jump to the bar for a drink and day one as well as chapter 2  is over. in the next chapter – Ori roth goes to the opening show.

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