'Top 40 Jugglers' has me looking back over all the great juggling I've seen during the year, trying to decide my favorite ten videos. Out of a great bunch I managed to narrow it down to just one video. I picked Wes Peden's Salt. I think that was the one that wowzerd me the most this year.
lukeburrage - - Parent #
Strangely enough, live shows usually trump videos for me, unless there is something truly remarkable.
Here are my considerations that I recorded on my phone throughout the year, with the final rough long list. I'll have to watch through some of the videos again to make sure of the final order and who is dropped:
Top 40 Jugglers of 2015 considerations
Tony Pezzo for JOI show and Fight Night.
Wes for 7 club backcrosses as Top 40 win thanks.
Jackson Ford for big video.
Jay for Paganini
Tony again for his devil stick video section.
Wes again for Salt
Matthias Romir for his solo show
Kouta Oohashi for ball video
John Witte for Galactic Pocket
Neta Oren and Eric Longequel for their pieces in All The Fun and the Open Stage in the Living Room
Israel Frutos for IJA video "Niño Topo"
Tony again for nets and balls
Ali Haikonen for Confused video
Guillaume for living room show
Eric and Guillaume again for Flaque.
Jonglissimo team for EJC and NJF extremeness.
Jimmy Gonzales for clay juggling live.
Idriss Roca for La Jonglerie est un Sport de Combat
Ameron Rosvall for Plastic Mind
Long list:
Eric
Guillaume
Tony
Ameron Rosvall
Matthias
Neta
Jimmy
Wes
Jonglissimo
Israel
Aki
Idriss
Jay
Jackson
Kouta
John Witte
I might have to put Ofek Snir in there too, just for breaking an Anthony Gatto record that I thought would stand for years yet.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Ofek Snir - Epic record
Julius New - Because I like his name (and his vids were cool too, and meeting long time ago was cool too, and he looks cool too and)
Ameron Rosvall - PLASTIC MIND EXPLODED MY MIND
Jay Gilligan - Because.. Juggling for the sake of juggling, at an epic level in so many directions
Wes Peden - I slowly start to enjoy his work.. took a couple of years for Wes to arrive at my list
Jochen Pfeiffer - Combat is cool, and Jochen is the hero
Idriss Roca - Seeing him life was as good as seeing his video "La Jonglerie est un Sport de Combat"
Taras Podzniakov - Fresh acts from Kiev keep coming, and Taras is behind them
Sean Gandini - The godfather
Nikolay Gerasimov - If he would try to beat some world records, I bet he could own them all
It seems to get harder to find 10 names every year... In my first years I always had too many!
Julius New - Because I like his name (and his vids were cool too, and meeting long time ago was cool too, and he looks cool too and)
:D i like you too. missed you on ejc this year, i hope ill be there next year; also i have vague plans on going to glühwein.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Next year I'll be there for 100% sure. Gluhwein is not yet on my calendar, but I live relatively close at the moment so good chances :)
Seems appropriate to include this:
https://youtu.be/KA4vHKFXhqE
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
ah, I should have included bad1dobby too.... :/
Why thank you sirs! Considering I haven't really juggled anything for about 15 years, I guess that makes me the 'conceptual' candidate...
Ameron Rosvall - - Parent #
Okay, I've been kinda out of it for most of this year, so I have probably missed a lot of "new hotness". I feel all jaded and out of the loop.
Okay so, for sure these 3 are 100% for me.
Emil Dahl
Jay Gilligan
Erik Åberg
I'm most grateful that they continue to take the time to listen to my ideas and give feedback, good advice and support! I would not be the same without them.
Wes Peden
One of the best jugglers of all time!!! Works hard for his juggling and he's super positive and fun, I think he's a major trend setter and influence for at least the internet juggling community.
Andreas
I've been watching his videos since 2009, and I realized right away that he was/would become amazing. He's terrifying!!! To the point where he almost DEmotivates me to juggle, because I felt that he did/easily could do everything I wanted to do much better than I could do it!
Jackson Ford
Very curious juggler, his recent big video was full of wicked sequences with unorthodox props. Clearly going places!
Bruno Delgado
I actually did stumble upon his nicely shot club video from earlier this year, and was really impressed by the skills. Little did I know that he was inspired by my juggling!?
Idriss Roca
La Jonglerie est un Sport de Combat didn't escape me, feels like juggling has come a long way.
Onni Toivonen
Yeah he is a pretty good club juggler. Clubbed to Death is a very nice video!
Luke Burrage
He does this big vote thing every year which is highly appreciated by the community, freshly squeezed was really good, and he was a big inspiration for me back in the day, and I've been doing a lot of reminiscing lately!
Honorable mentions
Tony Pezzo (devilstick video and general awesomeness)
Jorge Vilchis (kept posting these really neat short videos all the time, if only he made a big video?)
David Cain (for caring about the community and doing a LOT for juggling and jugglers!)
Lewis Kennedy (I keep saying that you're gonna make me learn headbouncing one of these days!)
Lauri Koskinen (lots of nice tutorials for the community, also is pretty good with combo tricks and clubs)
Komei Aoki (he had a really cool club act in JJF)
Aleksi Niittyvuopio (syys was quite good, 4 clubs are particularly neat)
Willy Colombaioni (because it makes my silly "world records" feel more legitimate when I beat a 9 club WR holder to take them? ;))
Thanks for mentioning me in the honorable mentions. I'll never make the list, as I was already past my prime when they were started, but I really appreciate what you said about me.
David Cain
Mike Moore - - Parent #
I don't vote for you because I think you will be on the list, I vote for you before I think you should be on the list. You've been in my top 5 for the last two years, no doubt.
jamesfrancis - - Parent #
Wow. I completely missed Idriss Roca. Completely awesome! I had also never heard of Jackson Ford who put together some very nice ideas in his big video and had forgotten how good the Bruno Delgado video was so thank you very much for posting.
With regards to Andreas do you mean Andreas Kebele aka andReas423ele? If so this guy is one of the most amazing club jugglers I know. A lot of people always want to vote for him, but never do because no one knows his surname. I only found it from a Tony Pezzo post a while back. I highly recommend everyone watch some of his videos though. The consistency of his tricks is scary.
https://www.youtube.com/user/andReas423ele?
lukeburrage - - Parent #
I have heard Andreas Kebele and andReas423ele are not the same person. Turns out, my opinion on this matters a lot. If someone has any more than hearsay one way or another, I'd like to know.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
As long as all people mean the same person, it doesn't matter much if Kebele is his real name, right?
Googling for "andreas Kebele" always seems to point to the same person (andreas425ele)
lukeburrage - - Parent #
Yeah, of course, but I don't like messing names up in any results video or anything like that. After a bit of research of my own, it seems like they are the same person. Rumors are weird.
Ameron Rosvall - - Parent #
Yeah, I wasn't sure if Kebele is his actual last name, and I saw most others writing just Andreas, so I went with that. He's actually easy to contact, but I guess he doesn't want to share too much personal info.
He's pretty much the overall best 3-4 club juggler ever from what I've seen.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
My video of the year is Plastic Mind. Mind you, my mental years are normally only a few months long, so there may be some gems early on that I forgot to consider. My list right now looks like:
Definitely:
Lewis Kennedy
So charming, and his videos this year have been insane.
Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse
I always enjoy his videos, and it was fun seeing him at SkillCon
Delaney Bayles
Similar reasons as Jonah. Delaney's also really nice about helping me out with technique.
Kouta Ohashi
My favourite low numbers ball juggler right now. I like his short videos, LOVE his long videos.
Kohei Take
Outrageously good, put out a lot of videos this year.
David Cain
Huge contributions to the juggling community through his articles and museum. Looking forward to the book.
Ameron Rosvall
I usually have issues voting for people who've only posted one or two public videos...but the insanity that was Plastic Mind can't be ignored.
Some maybes:
Ofek Snir - Definitely didn't expect the 7b record to fall so soon. If I cared more about spins, he'd be a definite vote.
Jay Gilligan - Posting a few interesting videos, starting Object Episodes
Wes - I feel like he did a bunch of great stuff early this year...Salt and 7c backcrosses.
Havaard - With a few aspects of my juggling, Havaard is the juggler I want to be. Animals was great (thanks to Sydney for reminding me about it)
Julius new - Again, if he put out another video or two he'd be a definite vote, but he still gets on the short list because of how crazy this year's video was.
Andrew Olson - So many patterns, and there's so much good stuff in them. If I were better able to categorize and understand them, I think I'd enjoy them even more and the vote would lock in.
Quinn Lewis - Lots of great stuff this year posted to jugglingrock, wish he'd make a full video!
Shawn Livingston - Has been doing tons for the community recently. If he continues through next year, he'll definitely be on the list.
I'm flattered that people actually want to vote for me.
I'm trying your famous box trick a bit and I wanted to make a short video for you showing my attempts at it, but I'm not sure if this will happen this year.
Making videos is very inconvenient for me, also my camera is not that good. Maybe I'll get a better camera next year and try to film more, but I'm also always struggling to find interesting stuff to film.
I've never seen much point in voting at the top40, although I very much enjoy following it and reading for who other people vote.
My favorite jugglers are (although maybe well known in the german juggling community) not well known on the internet.
Maybe I'll take a vote on my favorite internet jugglers this time though, I'll definitely like it if Lewis takes one of the top spots; his headbouncing juggling is the most creative and inspiring to me.
Also Ameron needs to be on #1, since he's been my favorite internet club juggler for many years, especially this year.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
Are you referring to high low around inverted box? I'm kind of scared of people finding it easy, after I bashed my head against it for so long. I guess that's the price of being the first (one you know of) to do something. I think you'd have a good shot at getting it, so I'd be happy to hear about your thoughts on learning it.
I don't know if your friends would be similar, but last year I was very motivated after receiving a couple votes. As such, I don't vote only for people who I think have a chance at making it. Looking at the vote counts right now, Lewis is doing well! I'm happy about that too, I've found Lewis's videos (tricks and personality) to be motivating this year.
Willy has a shot, for sure...
Although it seems unlikely, I would enjoy if Willy would make it to the list. Because I guess Luke wouldn't enjoy it and I would love to hear his commentary :D.
lukeburrage - - Parent #
As of right now, Willy is in the top 40. I don't have anything interesting to say about it. He's an amazing juggler, so I'm not surprised he got a few votes!
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