Темы с участием Chris

Orinoco - 12/29/2016 16:22 - Наверх #

Hi Caitlin, welcome to the Edge.

What sort of skates do you use? I'm an inliner myself, but I've never tried it while on fire.

Also #BathUpChuck2017 tag, you're it.

Caitlin Green - 12/29/2016 18:18 - Наверх #

Thanks :)

Ah nice :D I'm a derby skater, so I've got a set of quads. Unfortunately, I've not combined the fire juggling with the skating juggling, so that could be a fun 2017 goal :P

Orinoco - 12/29/2016 18:36 - Наверх #

& your derby name is...? :)

Note to self: don't mess with Caitlin

Orinoco - 12/26/2016 19:14 - Наверх #

How about we start with these:

Kati Yla-Hokkala (In a kitchen but almost certainly not the one you are thinking of. I think I know the one you mean but can't find it right now.)

https://vimeo.com/114393319

Sam Veale

https://youtu.be/LOYTQKoJ1N8

Ivan Pecel

https://youtu.be/KhGcAbEt20U


Didn't Rod Laver do an advert for Famous Grouse Whiskey or somesuch?

Orinoco - 12/26/2016 19:22 - Наверх #

Also Scott Cain wrote an article for the ezine on more Amercan commercials.

Orinoco - 12/27/2016 11:03 - Наверх #

Hmm, lots of ads I haven't seen before.

Interesting what the advertisers feel need to be faked vs the real stuff they keep. Particularly the 13 club back to back passing in the video with Owen & Sean. I think your average muggle would not be able to distinguish between the faked pattern & what Owen & Sean are capable of doing in real life.

Mike Moore - 12/28/2016 18:33 - Наверх #

Joggling, from the marathon joggling record holder Michal Kapral:

https://youtu.be/YRuU-GeTZ6g

Little Paul - 12/10/2016 19:24 - Наверх #

I think your suggested biscuit to tea ratio is all wrong, also there's no need to invent new notation.

Any 3 ball Siteswap can be used to describe a sequence of tea drinking/biscuit eating events. Say you have 2 biscuits and one cup of tea, that's 3 objects. Instead of describing "throws" have the manipulation events be "bite" or "sip" (as appropriate) and it works out.

For example, 3 would be: biscuit1, biscuit2, tea (repeat)
51 would be: biscuit1, biscuit2, biscuit2, tea, tea, biscuit1 (repeat)

I'll leave 441, 531 and some others for you to work out.

Little Paul - 12/10/2016 19:26 - Наверх #

Any 3 ball Siteswap can be used to describe a sequence of tea drinking/biscuit eating events

Obviously, I meant to say "any siteswap"

Although multiplex or sync siteswaps might get messy.

Little Paul - 12/10/2016 19:42 - Наверх #

#biteswap

7b_wizard - 12/10/2016 21:51 - Наверх #

Hey, don't blame! :-O .. I couldn't  k n o w  that.

So, just try wrappin' a  TIE  'round yer neck .. 't'll instantly make U feel like a banker or broker or Bondjamesbond or "the man" or jus' like a boring clerk. .. But guess 't is maybe okay to be a hippie, i think, dunno, maybe, after all. (So, A'll treat you as right that and won't nerd you anymore ;o]=) )

S'swap is just a walking juggler seen from bird's eye. The ball lands [digits =steps] later .. that's all to it.

Monte - 12/11/2016 00:34 - Наверх #

I'm just bantering with you mate. :)
Site swap away.....

Monte - 12/11/2016 14:32 - Наверх #

Sorry Wiz, I forgot you were German and carry the no sense of humour gene. I was not trying to offend, honest.

7b_wizard - 12/11/2016 15:10 - Наверх #

°W O U O h o h o h o h o o o a h°  .. that's so .. so .. so  m e a n. profoundly. bottomless.

(But thanks for mistakin' me for a native. That was a very nice hidden compliment of yours.)

7b_wizard - 12/11/2016 15:18 - Наверх #

.. jus' wish, your energy would go .. merge .. transpose .. would went into juggling or clowning .. or whatever you do when active, i mean .. instead waisting precious lifetime on ranting in disguise of a troll right.

Howgh.

Monte - 12/11/2016 16:01 - Наверх #

You may have forgotten me but I was the one who supported you on your appalling posting style back in the poor Ethan thread,
Oh well..... not as memorable as I think I am.

7b_wizard - 12/12/2016 13:29 - Наверх #

Serious? - I normally know you as serious.
But is it irony? - Can't be all sure.
So I'll just take it as is, plainly spoken.

However .. it was my humour at stake. And I know for sure he was still there that morning at the office. Yet came late and slammed a health insurance vouch onto my desk. Murmured something of ripped ``diaphragm´´, his laughing muscles overstressed the day before, or something. Can't rely on that bunch a rascals anymore these days. His doctor suggested hot water bottles and avoid any fun the next days, else he sould see him again and he'd get a funkiller injection.   Why, so we just had to work without him that day. :o|

Monte - 12/12/2016 15:13 - Наверх #

No Mikes not serious, he enjoys a good laugh. The forum is too serious these days, that's all.

7b_wizard - 12/12/2016 17:27 - Наверх #

You make me feel so useless and empty. How do you do that? .. And .. for christ's sake ..  W H Y  ?   A neve' did ye no harm, did 'e?

Well then again, thankyou, Monte, my big sustainer in the most funny Ethan thread sometimes in dim and distant past, --> "feeling empty" is jus' great for some serious nerdy juggling.   (Not that hippie-"watch how good I can flow, did you like it, do you want to talk about it, what did it do with you"-stuff)

Monte - 12/12/2016 18:55 - Наверх #

Flow? You trying to trigger a 10 page rant out of me now? Fetch me the rope, there's room enough on the lamp posts next to the clowns for the flow artists.

7b_wizard - 12/15/2016 13:56 - Наверх #

sure, i c .. sry 4 doubting at all ;o]

It's Him - 11/20/2016 22:23 - Наверх #

I also went to this convention and would like to add a few thoughts about it.

Myself and my son Peter took the 3 hour car journey to Leeds and this made me appreciate the people who travel that sort of distance to go to the Milton Keynes Convention. It was fairly good weather on the way up but got worse as we approached Leeds itself and by the time we had reached the convention site it was fairly grim. Not actually raining when we got out of the car but looking like it would do and fairly cold. That the venue is a large sports hall meant it took quite a while to feel warm and I had to do some juggling to achieve this. Something I generally avoid at conventions.

Most of the workshops were beginners this or that which didn't really appeal, so the only one I attended was Jon Peat talking about performing. Jon approaches acts in a slightly different way to myself (his acts tend to be set to particular music, mine tend to have no music or not choreographed to the music) so I knew that his way of looking at performing would be different and therefore interesting. It was very well prepared, with Jon having his laptop set up so that he could refer to his notes and also play music to make a point when needed. Many of those attending were performers who wanted to chip in but Jon was able to keep to his path without over running more than a few minutes. I did think it was a shame that there wasn't a room other than the tea room (which also doubled as a board games room) which could be used for discussion type workshops like this (and also similarly non-energetic workshops e.g. magic, balloons etc.).

After the workshop I met back up with my son and after lunch we decided to play games. We ended up playing OK, Jaipur, Star Fluxx (which I had to buy from Lazy Juggler in order to play this with someone who wanted to try new games suitable for a 10 year old) and Guillotine. They were all fun in different ways, I didn't win any of them.

We then collected our things from the hall and went for food, which turned out to be from Subway as I gave my son the choice.

We were in the hall for the show at 7pm and then had to wait for 30 mins for it to start. This delay seemed unnecessary.

The first half Mark describes very well in his review above. I would add that the compere was also very rushed when he announced the names of the acts so that half the time I didn't know their name and therefore am glad that Mark did such a great job of listing them. With the Tiff and Mike act, that the whole routine hinged around one trick which took about 10 minutes and 30 attempts or so to land made it so much less pleasing than it would have been if that one trick could have been landed quickly.

There were a few things that I would add to the second half acts. Mostly these thoughts came because of the workshop earlier in the day.

John and Steph, partner poi: Nice slick act, used glow poi with John having blue and Steph using pink. I did wonder if the choice of colours was something other than an aesthetic one.

Brook and Becky, club passing: This was my show highlight. Good technical skills but the presentation and humour were what made it. That they kept the characters all the way through the act and even to the final curtain showed how much they had thought about the act.

Steve the Magic Ball Man, contact juggling: This act was technically very competent but left me flat. Contact juggling is meant to mesmerise and amaze. I spent half of Steves act thinking about how he moved his feet and how difficult some of his tricks were.

Laura, hula hoop: Another strong technical act, the one hoop stuff was particularly good. For me I'd like Laura to have had a more defined character in her act. In general she looked very solemn as she performed (enhanced by her wearing an all black outfit). However when something went wrong you good see that there was a warm personality underneath and perhaps that could have come more to the fore.

My only other comment was that they ran out of doughnuts so I had to buy some myself, not a tragedy.

Nigel

Mïark - 11/21/2016 00:52 - Наверх #

Leeds Juggling Convention

Managed to get a lift to harbour from a friendly ex-policeman with a most curious sense of humour. The sea was not too choppy and I then walked to railway station, station master was most apologetic about price of train tickets, but I assured him I didn't take it personally and certainly didn't blame him. The ticket collector on train was less chatty, and had to google from her phone to answer some of my train questions, the Traincare Presentation Team were no more knowledgeable but much friendlier. There was space for 3 bicycles and two wheelchairs, but I had neglected to bring either of these with me. I was amused that all the lasses getting on at Paisley had paisley-patterned leggings, perhaps such legwear is obligatory in that town?

Glasgow's winter lights made the streets appear a little sparkly, rather than just cold and wet; though they were let down by the ones in George Square which sadly looked a little christmassy. It was reassuring to see the Wellington statue in Glasgow wears a traffic cone just like the one in Edinburgh. The recycling bins in Glasgow Queens Street were optimistically labelled as half-full, though confusingly the milepost indicated that Platform 2 was 14 miles from Glasgow. There were a pair of lasses from Tracsis conducting a survey on the train but the questions left little room for interesting answers and the train tannoy regularly reminded of the mantra “See it, Say it, Sorted”

I had twenty minutes to spare between trains at Edinburgh so decided to do a bit of sightseeing, up Princess Street and back down Royal Mile. The 7' penguins on the roof of station are a new addition, and I discovered were fairly securely fenced in. There was a D'arcy Thompson exhibition at the Art Centre. Found another pen at Edinburgh station, with a sparkly pink butterfly which was surprising for the time of year and a quote by Walter Scott "I have rarely if ever found anyone out of whom I could not extract amusement or edification".

Olly and Harry, two Durham students who had skipped classes on Friday to go drinking in Edinburgh, were not daunted in the least by being in the quiet carriage and happily recounted their exploits on ski trips and at college balls this term with volume and gusto. I was anxious to finish reading my book left behind by a foreign student about a Scotsman's travels in Kyrgyzstan, so I could swap it with Jon Peat for another book to read on the way back.

Broke journey in York where I joined my friends for a very nice vegan chili. My sleep was disturbed by a smoke alarm that wouldn't stop, I couldn't isolate power source so managed to smother it with enough clutter to block most of the sound and (after a cursory look for any fire) went back to sleep. It seems there has been a spate of post code inspired graffiti in York, writing post codes on peoples doors in 3' high green spray-paint. The locals seemed to be leave it for a day or two in case they came back to write more address details, before painting over it

Wasn't tempted by the boil-in-the-bag “All Day Vegetarian Breakfast” so I had a very nice bowl of porridge instead.

Then we drove to Leeds, leaving the blue skies and autumnal colours of North Yorkshire to the more wintry climate of West Yorkshire. It wasn't clear if the under-dressed Xmas Vintage Fair lady in Huby was waving frenetically to keep warm or just very eager to greet passing motorists. We saw ten cyclists on the way mostly in the Wharfe Valley.

I arrived, found new entrance, swapped my money for a Rainbow Dash My Little Pony card with a length of wool attached. Passed clubs, drank tea, passed clubs, met jugglers, passed clubs, and ate doughnuts.
Went to a EJC 2019 meeting, which is all looking very promising. The BJC 2016 and EJC 2016 posters were still on the maths classroom wall (used as a tea room by the convention) from last year, someone suggested the posters had helped the school achieve its outstanding Ofsted inspection.

It was nice to see a full workshop timetable, though only the Improvising Passing workshop appealed to me. Unfortunately it was very hard to hear what Brook (who with Becky was leading the workshop) was saying due to the music machine nearby – apparently “twelve-time” can help slow down juggling passing patterns. Went to turn down music, but by time I returned Brook had finished speaking.

Did some more passing and tea drinking. Missed the games as I was too busy passing, but it was nice they didn't totally take over the hall as they do at other conventions.

The toilets had been renovated and no longer had the sign “Jesus is watching over you, please be aware images are being recorded” and the ceiling camera had been covered in toilet paper. There were none of the xmas signs like “Tis the reason for the season”, etc, we had enjoyed seeing in previous years, but being a church school they had made sure whatever direction you looked there would be a crucifix, bible quotation or slogan such as “Mercifully like my father”.

Didn't get my clubs (or my packed lunch out of my bag all day) as once I had put bag down by the wall, it got surrounded and less retrievable, but luckily there are always plenty of clubs at a convention. Tried to swap a sock for some fish, but Mark didn't have fish, so I just gave him the sock.

The food at the Hare and Hounds was quite unremarkable and not even very quick. People came out to find many car's windscreens had frozen up in the time it had taken for them to get their meals.

The show started promptly 30 minutes after the advertised start time, Alistaire was a great compare not spending more time than necessary on stage. The 18” space between rows provided sufficient leg room. And Chocfest flyers strewn over seats made useful projectile material. Sadly the stage at Leeds is only 11” high so any activity below the performers waist height is missed by anyone not in the front two rows.

The first half of the show had ring juggling by Kathrin Pancakes, diaboling by Graham and a very enjoyable ball spinning routine by Matthew Tiffany and Mike Parker to the Dukas's L'apprenti sorcier?, doing some of the tricks I had seen in their balluSpinnus video including attempting a three ball stack. After 25 minutes of first half it was time for interval and raffle featuring the pineapple star prize.

The 14 minutes of raffle gave an opportunity to chat and catch up with people I'd not seen during day, having had my raffle win last year disbelieved, it probably wasn't worth claiming any prizes this year

The second half had partner poi by Jon & Steph, contact juggling by Magicball Steve, hoops by Laura and an amazing club passing routine by Becky and Brook with humour, choreography and dedication to character as well as high skill level – their act was the definite highlight of the show for me, the only weakness was the introduction, but I would love to see it again.

After 30 minutes of second half the performers did their bowing whatevers and the show was over, everyone went outside to see how frozen their windscreens were, before disappearing into the wintry fog.

On the way back, train broke down as well as signalling near Darlington not working, adding another couple of hours to an already long journey.

A wonderful convention, many thanks to all the organisers and everyone who helped make it so special – looking forward to Chocfest in a couple of months time.


High 650 foot above sea level

Low sea level

Crush – the train on the way back where passengers from the two broken trains were squashed into a third train that was still working and then the signals failed

Goal – as a Hullabaloo aluminarté I hoped to volunteer more, but failed to find anything useful to do, as usual wished I could more club passing
Bane – smoke alarms that won't stop
Surprise – dropping in on some old friends on the way back from the convention (well two of them weren't that old) and enjoying a very pleasant cup of tea or two


#LJC2016

peterbone - 9/22/2016 08:17 - Наверх #

I believe the trick is to delay turning of your head and then whip it around quickly back to the same position. Practice by looking at a particular point and looking back at it after the pirouette with as little time in between as possible.

vazonun - 9/22/2016 15:37 - Наверх #

Tried this technique today, at first I felt even more dizzy, I guess it must be because I am even less used to it. I'll keep working on it!

7b_wizard - 9/22/2016 15:01 - Наверх #

Wouldn't that - by yet adding another dimension(s) - make you double-dizzy?

barnesy - 5/6/2016 09:08 - Наверх #

That sounds very much like how the club was hanging on to life about ten years ago! We'd regularly go through the 'shit, who knows a student?' rigmarole until it finally just couldn't keep going. Then it came back when Jubb and a few others brought it back unwittingly almost identical to its old form!

It was always so hard to recruit, especially when newbies spotted the hungry look in the eyes of the people who wanted to lump all the guild related stuff on them! Here's hoping it'll rise from the ashes again!

barnesy - 5/6/2016 09:12 - Наверх #

One other thing: I'm pretty sure that a bank account and some kit went AWOL last time the club died. Maybe make sure stuff like that is suitably emptied!

Ian F - 5/8/2016 21:40 - Наверх #

You would of course be very welcome at Northwich! The more people who come, the cheaper it gets. Sadly we can do nothing about the fuel cost or travel time but we make a cracking brew! Check in on the Northwich Juggling Club page for the occasional closure.

The Void - 5/8/2016 22:38 - Наверх #

#NJC

Ian F - 5/9/2016 10:21 - Наверх #

Thanks Void.:-)

Little Paul - 2/26/2016 11:48 - Наверх #

Hi Liam, welcome aboard!

As a diver of a knackered old minibus (well, it was a minibus until I got my hands on it, ripped out all the seats and fitted a bed/kitchen) I can sympathise about the challenges an unhealthy minibus faces :)

Indeed, I'm so worried about my bus (named BOV) that I'm not even going to attempt to drive it Bristol->Perth... we've rented a replacement

Little Paul - 2/28/2016 18:14 - Наверх #

It's more of a backronym... The letters appear on the number plate, but it now stands for Buggered Old Van

Little Paul - 1/14/2016 21:59 - Наверх #

by 21 minutes, I appear to mean 23 mins 25 seconds.

I think I was looking at the time on my phone, not the how far through the video I'd paused it.

Cedric Lackpot - 1/15/2016 01:01 - Наверх #

Somewhere in the deep and dark recesses of my mind I seem to remember dear old Ewano turning up somewhere or other - Liverpool con perhaps? - with a tray, four cups, and four spoons. I tried it; I failed; I gave up.

I'm looking forward to the next Broxford, in the hope that Ewan and Beccy will stop by again.

Little Paul - 1/18/2016 09:47 - Наверх #

I've been meaning to get in touch with you too, but I tend to remember to try and phone you at thoroughly unsociable hours of the day!

All lines to Bristol are engaged because I had to move my phone exchange out of the lounge to redecorate. I checked it this morning and it seems to have developed a fault in the process which I didn't spot (because it's now in a room I don't go in all that often, so I didn't see the alarm lamp) and has now managed to run its batteries into the floor.

In addition to that fault, sipgate decided to stop talking to me some time over the weekend - which is why you got the number not recognised message. It also means that the siteswaphone is offline!

So that sounds like my evening taken care of tonight then.

There is a 90% chance I'll be at chocfest on Saturday[1], if you're around then I'll see you there - if not I'll try and call you from a filthy modern phone.

I want to talk to you about lighting wood burners upside down...

[1] which reminds me, what do people do about accommodation these days? It's been so long since I've been to a CF that I'm not sure if people aim for crash space or have grown up and now get hotel rooms ;)

Little Paul - 1/18/2016 10:50 - Наверх #

The fire.

The Void - 12/16/2015 15:58 - Наверх #

Why is this a poll? It makes no sense as such.

Orinoco - 12/16/2015 18:33 - Наверх #

I'd guess Mats1 was going for a survey.

We don't have a survey option!

I'm still voting for number 6 though.

Little Paul - 12/16/2015 20:07 - Наверх #

But 6 isn't even prime!

7b_wizard - 12/16/2015 17:04 - Наверх #

Maybe radio button "Most votes wins" does that (instead "Poll"), but I haven't used that yet.

7b_wizard - 12/16/2015 17:08 - Наверх #

But you might then be able to vote for the whole set of proposed patterns (5-8 jugglers) only, not distinct patterns for different numbers of jugglers.

7b_wizard - 12/16/2015 17:49 - Наверх #

Haha
I expected this answer from The Void.
And vice versa.
What happened?

7b_wizard - 12/17/2015 12:04 - Наверх #

Huh? .. Aren't 4 and 9 also nice? Are they?

The Void - 1/16/2016 10:38 - Наверх #

There seems to be a superfluous line break there, Marvin. Tsk.
Oh, and could you stir this coffee for me, please?

Marvin - 1/16/2016 12:56 - Наверх #

Clockwise or anti-clockwise?

The Void - 1/16/2016 12:59 - Наверх #

Yes.

Daniel Simu - 12/9/2015 01:38 - Наверх #

Whaaahaaa, that is super clever and well done!