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Contact Juggling

Post by Bregan » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:55 pm

http://www.break.com/index/contact-juggling.html
http://www.break.com/index/another-amaz ... ggler.html

second video starts off a little bit slow, but then he does stuff. about 50 seconds of slow.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Hell_Tempest » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:35 pm

Epic. Just epic.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Bregan » Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:58 pm

its really too bad that 1 acrylic ball costs around $15 - $20.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Mundaine » Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:43 pm

so what is the point of contact juggling. I mean, sure some of the things they did were amazing, but other things looked like he just held onto the ball and circled his wrists. I must be missing something here so perhaps you guys can clarify...

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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Loki » Sat Jul 12, 2008 6:58 pm

What is there to clarify?
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Mundaine » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:56 pm

well you guys say he's super amazing but I just see a guy dancing around with a clear acryllic ball, holding onto it and moving his hands around in awkward fashion. Unless that's the point, I'm missing something here..

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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Loki » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:40 am

You obviously need to use wiki. lol
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Mundaine » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:45 pm

Yes, I understand the obvious point that he has to keep contact with the ball, but merely holding it, like, literally just holding it in his hand, is nothing short of unimpressive any way you look at it. That portion doesn't even seem skillful at all, hell anyone could do some of those things (the balancing tricks make more sense to demonstrate the difficulty of this art; that requires skill and patience, etc etc all that jazz, but the waving your hands with the ball gripped in your hand is nonsense)

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Post by Rising_Dusk » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:58 pm

Maybe you couldn't tell from the videos, but in both of those videos, the ball never stops rolling except when he rested it on a part of the body (Like the elbow). It's also all about the fluidity of motion in how they 'juggle' the ball.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Hell_Tempest » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:03 pm

If you paid close attention, you would see that he was rolling the ball even when it looked like it was still.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Mundaine » Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:20 am

Perhaps it might be the bad picture, or the fact that they are acrylic, but that did not seem to be the case. The balls looked stationary, and I couldn't tell they were in motion when they looked to be clasped in his hands...

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Post by Loki » Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:12 am

That's the part of contact juggling.
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Re: Contact Juggling

Post by Bregan » Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:22 pm

its also about the aesthetics of the dance and presentation.
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