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Hi Marvin,
Have you considered collating the hashtags used in a month on the forum and showing them in your monthly roundup?
#idea #hashtag
I appreciate it might be a little self-referential with GreenEggsReport hashtag included
Another trivial administrative task that will barely require a fraction of my computing power? It beats cleaning Jon's keyboard I suppose.
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Wow! That's great, Marvin, you are the best thing since sliced-strawberries!
Why does Jon's keyboard need so much cleaning? Has he been doing dirty things on the computer again?
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This is a competition thread which ran from 2023-04-28 to 2023-05-19. View results.
Do you always (try to) stop practise, or a stint within, on a good run or attempt?
This is a competition thread which ran from 2021-09-23 to 2021-09-30. View results.
Sometimes will also redefine what qualifies as a "good run" if time is running out or tea is getting cold.
I said "never" because I always try to confirm a good outstanding run. And as long as I have good arms or still feel fit or feel that something might still go, I'd rather continue the stint. I like to stop when nothing seems to go anymore or I urgently feel like a break or simply doing too bad with really no clue on how to do better again.
Sometimes, though, I do "until" a certain amount of throws or "until" a trick- or bodythrow gotten, and - only if it was hard and a struggle to get - will then refrain from trying to confirm or jumping that bandeaggon for maybe an even better result.
Thx 4 voting everyone! :o)
poll how long since you last juggled or manipulated or did your artistry or kendama or your thing here ?
Thanks for taking part! ( 'confessing' / 'showing off' / .. ;o} )
This is a competition thread which ran from 2021-05-22 to 2021-05-29. View results.
So if I answered earlier today and my answer has now changed, should I answer again? ;)
I've been training for 7 balls these last 4 months. At some point I've got sidetracked by other stuff like 6b, bounce juggling and the long-lasting dream of 5 clubs.
now, the question is:
This is a competition thread which ran from 4th Jun 2018 to 11th Jun 2018. View results.
Try to dedicate 20-30 minutes of each training session (ideally as close to daily as possible) to 7 balls and you will see good (slow) improvement. All the rest of the time could go to anything. IMO learning 7 balls will make almost all other tricks you are practicing more easy and is one of the big milestones (the biggest IMO) to being an advanced juggler.
thanks man! and I totally agree. these days I've been trying this stuff that got me sidetracked, and I was surprised to see that it was easier for me than I thought.
But I also consider 5 clubs to be one of those milestones... I really want that too. haha
But the advice stands. I will save 20-30 minutes each session for my 7b. thanks!
Good luck with it! Be sure to post up your first qualify / 50 catches / 100 catches or whatever you consider a good milestone. IMO 5 clubs will be much faster to learn if you can get 50+ catches of 7 balls.
sure! I'm really close now! the other day got to 13 catches!! (to drop, not collected) but, i'm 1 catch away from qualifying:)
undecided.
[ no advice - just maybe a take-it-or-leave-it helpful aspect here or there: ]
Doing 7b only is consequent and the direct way, at times stomping through the mud with strong will and decision. You can get (fixated and) stuck without knowing why, so getting feedback or asking what might be going bad, surely spares a lot of ``own investigation´´ (if you even notice that a change is necessary). You then get kinda behind with anything else you want to be able to juggle.
I think this is good for pushing when you feel, you're not far away from a next level that you have already felt while doing and gotten great launches or great patterns or smooth patterns kept up or done in an easier way or anything. Good for pushing smaller part time goals that you think lie near to what you can get soon.
Doing also other stuff with less balls or props or genuinely other stuff (e.g. while skating, or whatever) will make you have improvement and get used to the feeling of achieving something. You get an overall feeling for when tricks are ``ripe´´ or still too hard to spend a lot of time on, instead first breaking it down to their easier parts or elements and get that well done first (in a reasonable logical progression). It's simply fun to discover what all else juggling has to offer. ( But 7b was always my n° 1 priority and I spend the hugest time on them. )
I personally feel best with having my 7b priority ( nowadays 9b when I wanna take advantage of good conditions, in winter indoors, it was 5b rev ), but also always try to do a reasonable (minimum) amount of time for other stuff too.
But there's Haavard Hvidsten who seems to have no plan or doesn't commit to an overall structured practise, but more or less spontaneously takes up props to do whatever he likes in a moment, and it got him to worldclass juggling. And there's that "Gatto practise" doing many tricks a few minutes e-ve-ry sin-gle day. So, there's as many possible approaches to structure or not one's practise, I guess, and you might have to find out what suits you best, what you feel best with.
A'll say "2" .. there's always time for a little ``leisure´´, for playing around with props, or for fast improvement on cool few prop tricks.
For example, at your current level, being pretty comfortable with 6b so far, I'd think, you can maybe improve on those with only little practise time, while I don't think, completely neglecting 7b can make you improve there ( you don't start where last practise stopped, but you have get into it all over again each time). So, staying tuned at least with a minimum amount of practise time for the improtant tricks, can be another helpful way to cope with wanting several tricks.
As usual, you sound wise beyond your years, but I don't really know how old are you, haha.
so, anyway, thanks buddy! I knew this topic was suitable for a long argument, and it could define my next years of practice, that's why I ask, as you say, to spare some "own investigation".
For years i've juggled without a practice "policy", you know, just like you say Haavard Hvidsten does. but only a few hours a week.
Now i'm practicing every day, with a routine. ok, it is allways changing, evolving, thanks to the input of my dear jugglingEdge palls like you :) but i now feel I'm moving towards something, like in one direction.
How many juggling (or artistry, magic, object manipulation, whatever got you here) bookmarks (or: browser "favourites"), text or vid or also to software, anything "juggling", do you have?
.. and including secondary links that you keep for e.g. juggling background only or mainly ( e.g. learning theory, anatomy, history, showbizz, artistry in general, programming of juggling, etc. ).
[ no need to count, a rough estimation will do ]
[ °wow° .. what a parentheses' mess once again lol - sry for that, but tried to make it halfway defined, un-misconceivable, able to nail, to find oneself in it, represent many ]
This is a competition thread which ran from 4th Jun 2018 to 11th Jun 2018. View results.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
146 videos listed under my Youtube playlist "3b juggling ideas" alone, then many of my favourites are juggling. I also have a Mendeley account with a juggling folder for any academic articles on Juggling.
Much of what I do for fitness/nutrition are also for juggling, so I think I'll be in that MORE category!
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
I've just tried to count the juggling videos in my youtube playlists, and estimate them to be around 360... That's definitely the most important source of 'bookmarks'. I don't tend to save written texts on the internet after I've read them (I save them if I want to read them later), as I can nearly always find them again through google using words I remember. Finding videos again is much harder as you search using text to find moving images....
Mike Moore - - Parent #
I save the academic journal articles because they're typically behind paywalls. I have access to them at the moment, but not for too much longer.
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Thanks all for voting!
I said 200, maybe a bit more, but I don't think notably more.
Apart from the examples already mentionned in titlepost, I have - of course - video-links, mostly numbers, then like teaching offers' homepages (even from other sports like tennis as a compare), in several categories, like prop-shops, sewing own balls, siteswaps, records pages, scientific e.g. biokinematics e.g. perception, a mostly empty "going pro" folder with undercategories "ship, street, therapeutic, circus-school, varieté, camp-workshopping, possible sports that juggling is possible compensation or exercise for, and more such mingle-mangle.
hi there fellow jugglers!
I've been training 7b for the last few months. I feel currently at the edge of pulling it off. and I was wondering how long it took other people to get it.
so here, my first poll. hope i make it right...
How long it took you to qualify 7 balls?
This is a competition thread which ran from 6th Mar 2018 to 13th Mar 2018. View results.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
From what reference?
From when I started juggling? From when I started trying 7b?
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Qualifying 7 balls usually takes me about 4.5 seconds..
yeah, i guess i mean time you spent really focused on it.
I've been training allmost exclusevely for 7b this last 2 months, maybe I tried throwing 7 before, but never like this time.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
Combining an old FB video and JE data...
My first flash: April 21, 2009. I had been working on it hard since the beginning of that month, and less hard since the beginning of the ~year
My first (maybe?) qualify: Aug 26th, 2009. At least, that's when I have 15 catches logged on the JE records page.
I guess I'll vote for a few months then! I recall that was a pretty juggly summer.
Undecided between 2. and 3. I wasn't juggling regularly at the time, only when the weather was nice in summers and not even always then.
I remember endlessly going for a whole launch \flash, then later being round a few rethrows like upto 11 for a long time, and again a long time to to get all balls not only rethrown once but also caught. I think, 3. comes closest.
I haven't been as fast a learner, as I always thought I were, but being wrong on that kept me going enthusiastically :o) and now I'm looking foreward to knockin' on worldclass'sses door by doing a 7b all up 180° prospectively in a few decades only, you know.
James Hennigan - - Parent #
The gap between my first 7b flash and my first 7b qualify was almost a year (305 days). I wasn't working on it at the time though. All of my attention was on my 6 ball patterns.
I never was that interested in learning 7 balls. I had this idea that I wanted to master a number before going to the next. Mastering, for me, was 500 catches, and I'm not there with 6 yet. :P After a few years I tried flash 7 and got it within not that many tries on a train station, I remember. :P Now I have just below 200 catches with 7 but the qualify took be a few years, I think, since I didn't practice it that much. :)
Do you juggle more than you walk?
This is a competition thread which ran from 17th Feb 2018 to 25th Feb 2018. View results.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
Kneejerk reaction: of course not!
But now that I'm thinking about it...I'm not so sure. If we exclude walks under a couple minutes, then it's very close.
Same... If I count every step as walking, I definitely walk more than I juggle (especially since it is not uncommon to walk while juggling, too).
If I only count outdoor walking it might actually be less than the juggling, even though I walk to work every day. Or maybe about the same amount of time.
Yes - meant walking several steps at least, so also walking around to pick up dropped balls, just as much as walking out of the house anyway. But not tripping single steps to correct one's positon while juggling, and also not taking one-two steps towards a dropped ball to pick it up while already bending down, but just really normally walking upright.
Basically, if one sits or drives a lot and doesn't usually need to walk a lot, AND-OR gets long runs a lot while juggling, not walking around a lot while practising, but rather mostly standing, then there's a great chance that they'd juggle more than they walk.
Does walking while juggling count as both walking and juggling? (For example passing patterns where you are walking... I do those a lot.)
Does walking from the kitchen to the livingroom count, or only walking more than a few steps?
[see answer & distinction two posts above] .. I don't know what made me have that thought, but it struck me that I am actually juggling way more than I walk. Why "walk"? .. well, it's sooo genuinely normal, we think we do it always and forever and it's so omnipresent, it's part of our definition as upright walking humans. Yeah .. wrong! - we don't do it as much as we think .. we have cars, bikes, trams, planes, trains, busses; we have professions and desks where we sit; and for many people, jogging, walking, taking a walk, wandering is an activity that they (have to) take extra time for. Walking is not ``always there´´ as one might easily first think.
So, one juggler might indeed be juggling (notably) more time than doing what seems granted fro a member of the human upright walking species.
( It's a bit analogue to the insight that modern (over)civilized humans don't walk anymore as much as they used to and not walk as much anymore as what they were ``originally meant for´´, but have cars and sit a lot now, instead. Just that now for juggling, and if it's true for you. )
if we take walking as an activity, not just moving yourself through the house, like maria said, then I definetively juggle a LOT more than i walk...
Any walking counts as "human upright walk", no matter where, while what (even while juggling). Just "time walked" versus "time juggled without walking". One-two steps don't count as really "walking upright" (and it's seconds only anyway), but time of indeed really (clearly) "walking while juggling" counts as +-0, and "walking through the house" is "walking" through the house and counts as such. - Anyway - if one's answer should depend on such distinctions and it's not clear, then please choose "3. Not sure." (unclear, not definitely or positively rather "yes", not definitely or with clear tendency towards rather "no")
Little Paul - - Parent #
According to fatbit I walk more than 15k steps every day (which is around 10Km apparently)
There’s no way I juggle that much!
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those freaks with their barbelly stooliabolos http://juggling.tv/16756 ( not brandnew, 2016, but I saw it for the first time )
Is there a future for these stools? should they be a bit or much smaller and lighter? more conic, convex? better to be gripped on the rim?
This is a competition thread which ran from 31st Jan 2018 to 13th Feb 2018. View results.
Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Sporthockers are the right size, any smaller and they wouldn't work as a hocker (stool) any more...
Is there a future for sporshockers? Of course! That's why they have been around for so many years now! But maybe not within the juggling community.
>"not work as a hocker anymore, if they were smaller"
.. yes, but maybe work better for juggling. I fancy sitting on the hocker only shortly as the finish for every move or trick would still be possible on smaller ones too. They don't look perfect for juggling to me, so maybe there could be a version adapted for juggling, optimized for easier juggling with them. Or a kind of diabolo shaped prop for juggling with hands, arms, knees, legs, .. more conic and with easier grip then.
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Did you ever - as far as you're aware, of course - dream that you toss*-juggle?
*"toss" - or fly and catch a diabolo, or run a devilstick, or foot- or knee-juggle a soccer ball, headbounces, or also scarve-juggling, .. anything where you lose physical contact to your prop. And catching, or at least the intention to catch, should be included. - So, I'd like contact-juggling, contact-staff, spinning, twirling, balancing and alike to be excluded.
This is a competition thread which ran from 19th Nov 2017 to 26th Nov 2017. View results.
I'm 7. Would love to improve over night, though. Also forgot to include the choice "Constantly, it's unnerving, I wake up from it everytime I drop." lol
I can - not while dreaming, but when awake - visualize throws (and then upto where they fly until I do the next throw to focus on, which is about to their apex), but then don't know where the balls are for catching (they sort of fade or vanish in a still life from where I last pictured them), .. so, when visualizing more rounds after launch, I have to take the catches for granted (and from seeing balls at launch before my mind's eye, I go over to instead feeling my handmovement + thrust + aiming or so). [ #dream #visualize ]
Scott Seltzer - - Parent #
I think I've only ever dreamt of juggling once. I dream of juggling conventions fairly often. There frequently isn't any juggling in the juggling convention dreams, but I know I'm at a juggling convention. I'll give myself a 7.
Okay. Sounds more like "maybe, rather yes" to me(?). Then maybe 3. or 4, (both definite "yes"), if you're sure, you did, or 6. if you're you're not all sure, but positively think you did, would fit better? - 7. was really more meant as an "almost, but definitely not" .. everything is ready and setup to juggle, but you don't or can't or don't know how (the emphasis is not on the surroundings-story, but just to elude on "nearly could and should've but it didn't happen"). Actually, I meant the poll to find out how many are even able to juggle while dreaming. (But, hey, whatever you think! I'm happy about everyone who finds a choice that fits him.)
It's not all clear: does "you think" in "I think I've only ever dreamt of juggling once."
refer to "dreamt of juggling" or to "ever only once"? Do or do you not have a memory of indeed yourself juggling?
Scott Seltzer - - Parent #
I've definitely dreamt about juggling conventions. I may have dreamt about actual juggling. I don't usually remember my dreams well nor conversations about them. I slightly remember discussing having a juggling dream that wasn't the usual so I think I may have been juggling in it. Or perhaps I actually saw juggling (as the convention dreams don't usually (or ever?) have juggling in them. It's all a bit hazy for sure. I'm a definite 7 and maybe a 4 but I won't commit to that.
I have dreamt I was passing clubs at least twice. I don't remember details (like what pattern or passing partners) but I think I remembered a bit more right after I woke up. I believe I woke up in the middle of the pattern, not after dropping. Good dreams. :)
I'll put that as a 4.
Have definitely dreamt of juggling conventions a few times, too. At least more times than about actual juggling... As far as I can remember, of course.
...and shortly after I wrote that answer I slept and dreamed about working out new take-out passing patterns (on paper and by walking through the moves) together with another passer that I know from conventions. I know who the other juggler was but not what pattern we were working on. No actual juggling in that dream, though.
Mike Moore - - Parent #
Double yes:
First without effort, and second when I was learning to lucid dream.
(I don't bother with lucid dreaming anymore)
Awesome. Can you still recall that ´´film´´, can you remember the pattern(s) and if you juggled same that you juggle when you really juggle (awake) or better and harder pattern(s), did it feel like real juggling with you controlling, acting & reacting, or did it somehow ´´hover´´, go all by itself, with you being able to watch like your own audience, was it °-.,~°happy°~.,.-°, did you ´´upgrade´´ first step to superhuman juggler, did it impact on your real juggling or did it rather seem as a fulfilment of your real juggling, a confirmation, a validation, a corroboration burnt by and into subconsciousness as affirmation?
Mike Moore - - Parent #
The first time I dreamt about juggling was the most memorable. Myself and many friends were lined up to enter jail cells (for some unknown reason, but we were all resigned to it). I was among the first group locked away, but at the time (when awake), I'd often vaguely fantasized about going to jail and juggling all day, every day. I juggled a 3b cascade while sitting on some riser (a crate?). I dropped, the ball went off my foot and rolled out of the cell to a yet-to-be restrained friend of mine. They shot me such a nasty look that it woke me up.
When I was practicing lucid dreaming, I dreamt of practicing 7b cascade (probably half a dozen times or so). I didn't find that it helped, and found that I woke less rested than usual when this happened, so I stopped. Maaaybe this helped me "feel" what it was like to run it, but I doubt it had any real benefit. I was able to slow things down, see things from a third party point of view, etc.
fantasized about going to jail and juggling all day, every day.
I - when awake - sometimes have that martial arts movie-picture ("The snake in the shadow of the Eagle" or sth) of Jackie Chan training (barehanded) in a desert in my mind's eye, or that guy with his nunchucks-like three-parts-staff practising.
Nice story!
Sobers me up a bit that it shouldn't have any practise effect as I imagined. I'd still do it, though :o) (°gee° slomo, zoom at will, third party view - sounds sooo cool!)
Jan Poolen - - Parent #
Yes, fun question. I remember it vividly.
First time I dreamed of flashing 7 clubs under the low ceilling at the place where I used to take breaks while juggling at the squash courts.
Second time I dreamed doing exactly 50 catches of 9 balls and being really content about my achievment(maybe one day I will really do it, and be satisfied in real life )
Third time, I did 5 connected db97531's with balls while sitting down on a chair.
Sweet dreams
So cool! Amazing. Did you also feel the juggling in your hands or just rather like watched yourself do it?
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Daniel Simu - - Parent #
Yeah Marvin, you did the thing!
[ #dreaming #visualizing ]
Had one clear dream now too: with 4 or 5 big green bell peppers [ surely due to a current fruit-prop thread on reddit and me recently buying much bigger than usual single unpacked big green peppers (not three of mixed colors, packed) ].
[Makes my vote for "7", now a "3", makes it overall 6 in 11 Dreamers, 2 Maybies, 3 Non-Dreamers].
I could remember it clearly right after I woke up during it, and clearly reminisc parts of it. But alas already can't remember it well anymore, now.
Mostly snapped-in fluent pattern, little to no correcting, no effort felt. Not sure anymore if it felt overwhelming (maybe that a bit too) or rather like a normal thing to do (rather that). Now, which pattern? - memory is mixed now: I think a clear rather big clean 5b cascade. But also I have some gaps or holds and 4b juggling in mind, maybe a 4b-7707700 [inspired by Giuli's 1-7 ball Sevens?] or 552. Those veggies didn't handle clunkily as they should've with their stems and not round, but always just the way you usually grasp them, or near like how I imagine larger stage balls would too [I've been wanting to use larger balls for 7b for a while].
Again very dim memory only of where it took place, I think on some lawn in a park with people around.
Nice mind-candy, more than welcome.
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