The Juggling Equipment Blog

One of the most unique videos this year and previous years for sure.

Jordaan presents some of his unreal club balancing skills.

By the way, he’s the brother of Sander.. I wonder if there is another hidden brother!

ok, and here’s another video for you balancing people, not even 1 club in this one:

3 students from Danshögskolan circus program in stockholm in a battle for a bottle of wine.
Wes Peden, Patrik Elmnert and Ron Beeri together with an amazing live music creates epicness.

To know more about how this epicness was created, check out Wes’s explanation, as written at rec.juggling:
“A lady we know was hired to direct circus acts to match the music that was going to be performed by Carmina Burana. She said the lyrics of the song are talking about drinking and how everyone does it so she said to use a bottle. we though it would be more fun with chairs and a table so we suggested that and she was fine with it.

The show was quite soon and we were having juggling class the whole days so we only had 4 rehearsals of two hours each to make the piece.

I’ll give you the break down.

- We started by making a short sequence because it was fun and give us an idea of what the objects could do.

- We then listened to the whole song a bunch of times to try and see when we needed big stuff and small stuff and to get inspired by the music.

- We proceeded to go through the song bit by bit trying to make manipulation that fit the music.

Since we all have done manipulation before it was not so so hard to find things to do with the object that would flow together.

The main things we went for was a feeling of importance to the bottle, a build up of the intensity in the piece, and for the things we did no not be so complex that a non juggler couldn’t appreciate
them.

since we had such a short time i don’t think there was so much we made that we didn’t use. maybe a few tricks but no full sequence that we could b-side to you unfortunately.”

/wes

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!!

The Italian juggler Moon has started releasing daily videos of his new research – cubes manipulation.

The cubes’ opacity and and texture gives it some kind of a crystal ball appearance.

Apparently using them for body contact is a bit hard, so Moon is building and breaking structures. Interesting…

Right now there are 4 videos, this is the first one -

Check out Moon’s YouTube page for all the other cubes videos and his other cool videos.