Our condolences goes out to his family.
The Cirque issued a statement Saturday saying Oleksandr Zhurov, a Ukrainian in his 20s, had died. The accident happened during a regular training session at a Montreal facility where the international troupe rehearses for shows.
Guten tag ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jonathan E.o.S, also known as Captain E.o.S. I’m going to be a new writer for this most outstanding juggling site. You’ll be seeing nifty videos I find, interesting prop reviews and rants about object manipulation from me. If you have any questions or find something you want me to talk about, shoot me over an email. Till next we meet.
An old vid but this is the first time I’m seeing this. Very amused I am.
I like airports and the feelings it invokes. There’s the joy and excitement of being able to head off for vacation, yet you keep it sort of restrained because you don’t want to be hauled off by security for some offense you don’t quite intend – like carrying bomb-shaped juggling balls for instance.
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte has become the seventh paying visitor to space. The cost? A cool $35 million.
Unlike most other visitors though, there’s a series of cirque-related festivities lined up and next week, Laliberte will be hosting “Moving Stars and Earth for Water”, a show with a water conservation theme from the orbiting lab.
This is way cooler than the Segway for ‘personal mobility’, as Honda puts it (we don’t know what it means either). The press have dubbed this an electric unicycle although it moves in all directions and not just back and forth. I’d have compared this to a moveable office chair but that’s just me.
Like the Segway, you move by adjusting your body weight – leaning in a direction makes it move with you. I can see this being a less space-consuming method of moving around than with an electric scooter but really, without handlebars, I doubt if many will want to try these on slopes. After all, we’ve heard the excuses people give for declining to try out unicycling haven’t we?
A video of the device at work here -
Kudos to the playpoi crew for their efforts. This is certainly the most systematic approach to learning the poi if the trailer is anything to judge by. Other than being a very good visual tutorial, there’s plenty of personal tidbits and tips too from the pros.
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Best Catches is a sifter for the unplugged, the lazy, and the busy. It’s a weekly roundup of the freshest juggling videos, forum topics, and blog posts – in short, it does a lot of work so you don’t have to.
:: Wes gets the top nod this week for “Counting Escalator Steps,” a Sakari-inspired (maybe?) mostly three-club video with some complex combinations and inspired body moving. Perhaps further off the radar is this video of Wes and Patrik Elmnert performing for the king and queen of Sweden in July.
:: There are so many editing styles I dislike in the final HOF “Juggler Hero,” that I’m almost deterred from recommending it. But the ball tricks included are unprecedented, so half-shield your eyes for Ori Roth and Bar Mualem.
:: “Das model,” a pole manipulation routine performed by Elena Shapoval (Ukraine) and directed by Taras Pozdnyakov is generating a lot of buzz at the forum. Other Pozdnyakov videos of note are here.
:: Ben Thompson juggles and balances like mad. Christof Buch, too. Whose tricks do you prefer?
:: Agency Franko has a slew of new videos up, perhaps most interestingly is a solid giant-triangles routine.
:: Gandini jugglers throw illuminated clubs.
:: CircusPrincess, an annual competition for female circus performers, is still accepting and posting routines. Nata Galkina’s anti-podist routine is now up, for example.
:: Does juggling cause back problems? I say yes. FORUM.
Reuters has an article about joggling.
“The advantage of joggling is on the side of people who started out as jugglers alone,” he said. “Joggling adds a level of aerobic fitness to juggling.”
On a related note, I joggled for the first time early this week and I have to say it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. I had to slow to almost 3/4 of my regular speed and strangely enough, after almost 3km, it didn’t feel tiring at all. I had expected the arm motions to wear me out faster despite the more leisurely pace.
Read the full Reuters article here.
It’s never too early to plan your vacations for next year. Mark your calendars for the 18th New Zealand Juggling Convention and hang out with circus folk and jugglers from New Zealand and the world over. The event takes place in Levin and a rural theme is planned to match the location – expect lots of open spaces.
If you’re looking to spend some time wandering New Zealand, you might want to catch the International Unicycling Convention that’s also taking place in the country, in Wellington, from 28th December to 7th January. A double bill sounds enticing, no?
Links here:
New Zealand Juggling Convention
