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.

I thought this week would be tough to pick the first BC listing. Japanese Jugglers 3 made it easy.

:: Japanese Jugglers 3, filmed in May in Tokyo, shows how little the rest of the world has left to offer to the Japanese juggling culture. Of course, you’d never get that attitude from these jugglers, as they are always gung ho to share. This video is a great snapshot — obviously recorded in just a few sessions — of these jugglers.

:: Greetings from Germany features 30 diabolists from Germany, Austria and Italy. And the video features the ultimate one-hit wonder song, “Your Woman,” by White Town. The album is so terrible, but that song is so good. The only proof that the album ever sold was that I found a copy at a used CD store, which I bought before learning of its atrociousness. For more information on the video visit diabolotreff.de.

Do you ever get the sense that the art vs. sport distinction is silly if applied to diabolo? Every time I see a diabolist these days, he’s jamming pretty and technical.

:: Ofek Shilton shows a few gnarly diabolo tricks.

:: In case you missed him, Eric Bates is the best living box juggler. If not the best ever.

:: If you like watching Steve and Leif pass clubs, here’s some more.

:: Pavel Evsukevich #5.

:: Emile Carey & Marie-Claude Chamberland are promoting a new show. I won’t say much, but Emile isn’t rocking many tricks we haven’t seen before.