The Juggling Equipment Blog

Team RootBerry using thier free time in the Bahamas to use their cool camera and take some underwater juggling shots.
They could have sent it to National Geographic, or to the Guiness World Records if they have a better run than this guy.

After quite a lot of work we finally have our new T-shirt design ready. All you diabolo players out there will probably like it. It will be the first T-shirt in a new line designed by eLena from TheBlackAndWhiteCat. The theme behind the whole line will be “this juggling equipment could also be”, as is evident in the first diabolo/butterfly T-shirt.
We have still not decided on the final color schemes. And we were hoping you could all help us out. Details will be revealed soon. Very Soon!

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So I was looking for any good video recently and didn’t find anything extraordinary…
Suddenly a strange idea came up to my mind – searching “Juggling Equipment” on YouTube.
The first result was, obviously, Chris Bliss, but the second one (and the more interesting one) was Luke Burrage’s video.

Luke explains how to pack your “average” juggling show equipment into two suitcases. Interesting and useful in deed.

4 months have passed since we first posted about our juggling picture competition and here we are, at the moment of truth to announce the winners of the competition.

But before we do so, we would like to give you an idea about our next competition, titled: “the most creative use for a juggling prop” (other then juggling). we’ll let you know all about it next week.

Back to our recent competition, we had 3 days of voting from the general public, and after the 3 days those were the first 3 pictures that got most of the votes.

Public votes (counting for 60%):

Picture by Fabian Hediger (Switzerland). He managed to get his friends involved and got 39% of the votes.

Picture by Ohad Moran (Israel). with a nice lead after the first day, he had to settle for second place with this cute picture of the future of juggling and 28% of the votes.

Picture by Pau Coll (Spain). Trailing far behind after the first day, we saw a lot of voting for this one afterwards, to bring it to 10% of the votes from the public in the end.

But that is not the end of it, because there are 3 more judges to this competition, each had the right to choose 3 pictures he liked best.

Professional photographer (counting for 20%):

Ben Hopper (photographer) is internationally known for his remarkable captures of scenery, movement and mood. He primarily works with magazines; creating conceptual fashion images, portraits of dancers, circus artists, musicians and more.

Ben Hopper is based in London, UK.

Website: www.THEREALBenHopper.com

Picture by Urs Rohrer (Switzerland). I like the fact that he took those balls all the way to this location to get this picture. The frame is good and the idea is cool.

Picture by Pau Coll (Spain). I just love the light here and the balance between black and white.

Picture by Michael Karas (USA). Great picture, unfortunately the resolution is a little low. But you can see that there is something special about this picture with good and interesting movement.

Mr. Babache (counting for 10%):

Picture by Pau Coll (Spain).

Picture by Pau Coll (Spain).

Picture by Nate Sharpe (USA).

JugglingEquipment.com team (counting for 10%):

Picture by Pau Coll (Spain). We thought this picture had it all, beautiful lightning, juggling skills, and nice black and white balance.

Picture by Michael Karas (USA). It must have taken many shots to get this one right. Interesting props and great movement.

Picture by Nate Sharpe (USA). With a little bit more work on the lightning this picture could have been the winner. The fan trick like you probably haven’t seen before.

So that is the summary of all the voting parties. As you saw, each judge (including the general public) had a different opinion.

So who is the happy winner who will take home the first prize of 2 G4 finesse diabolos and who is placed in 2nd and 3rd place? We have put all of the above into a formula, feed it into our computer, and the answer will be revealed tomorrow!

A new juggling film from the Greek “zaz house productions”.

Caution - Not recommended for children, pregnant women nor epileptic people.