Any Jugglers here?

[pwd72s]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGxvcsLbDY

[mattdavis11]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing Paul.

[ckissick]

Cool. I used to do a lot of juggling. I could keep five balls up in the air for a short while and would pass clubs with other jugglers. It was a lot of fun. Then I stopped for years. I got my old clubs out a couple years ago and found out that juggling is not like riding a bike.

[pavulon]

was hoping for jigglers...

[stevej37]

I've watched this video a few times....amazing!
Thanks for posting.

[pwd72s]

The bonus is that it IS okay to try this at home. No animals or humans were harmed...

[stevej37]

When watching the video that Paul linked...it led to this one next on youtube. He varies his speed while juggling...very talented!

[pwd72s]

One thing I noticed is when he "throws" the balls to the cushions, he rolls them straight..like they'd roll with a cue if hit with the tip just above center. If you insert any left or right spin to the balls, they wouldn't roll true off the cushions. Essentially making 1 and 2 cushion bank shots to pull this off.

Tommy Kennedy is a skilled pool player...he understands english well. So, sort of a combination of pool and juggling skills. Had to take a lot of practice to perfect this.

[Nostril Cheese]

Was hoping to see him actually throwing them in the air.

Fail.

[ckissick]

How about 11 rings in the air?

https://youtu.be/3eC4qvalETA

[dafischer]

Don't try this at home...

[flatbutt]

I've juggled gf's. Obviously not successfully.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by ckissick

I used to do a lot of juggling. I could keep five balls up in the air for a short while and would pass clubs with other jugglers. It was a lot of fun. Then I stopped for years. I got my old clubs out a couple years ago and found out that juggling is not like riding a bike.

I could never do five, but got good in college with 3/4 and different ways of juggling.

I became fairly decent and passing clubs with one of my roommates. That is a stupid amount of fun.

It has been many, many years

[stevej37]

I think TK looks a lot like William Fichtner...from the tv show 'Mom'

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

I could never do five, but got good in college with 3/4 and different ways of juggling.

I became fairly decent and passing clubs with one of my roommates. That is a stupid amount of fun.

It has been many, many years

Passing clubs is great fun. I used to do it with three others in a box pattern. Both pairs would pass at the same time but the clubs would rarely hit each other if it was timed perfectly. That was wild.

I learned a lot from my college neighbor, who was so good he had been on TV. He did his routine for a bunch of us in the dorm quad at UCSB. While bowing to the audience at the end, we had an earthquake. Best finale ever!

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Passing clubs is great fun. I used to do it with three others in a box pattern. Both pairs would pass at the same time but the clubs would rarely hit each other if it was timed perfectly. That was wild.

That is awesome! I would have loved to have tried that!

I can't imagine the visual overload

Gary, the roommate, and I were the only jugglers we knew so it was just us. I remember the first time we got it right with clubs, maybe five passes before a drop...you'd of thought we had landed on the moon.

In flight school I'd juggle three balls (I used wooden polo balls at the times since I had worked for a polo player in HS) while memorizing emergency procedures, know cold stuff, maneuvers, etc.

It really helped.

Thanks for this thread, Paul. I had not thought about my sordid juggling past for years.

[Nostril Cheese]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

Thanks for this thread, Paul. I had not thought about my sordid juggling past for years.

That made me laugh hard...

y'know.. it makes sense that a helicopter pilot would be a juggler.