--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
<snip>
> > No kidding. I sure didn't have a clue. That must be
> > a bit frustrating for top-notch jugglers, no? What
> > motivates them if the audience can't tell the difference?
>
> Why do acters act? They like the audience.
>
> Jugglers say there are several kinds of tricks: those that look
easy
> and are easy. Those that are easy and look hard. Those that are
hard
> and look easier than they are and those that are hard and look hard.
>
> The audience wants to watch the hard-looking tricks. Jugglers give
> the audience what they want, just like any other performaer.
> Occassionally, they throw in stuff to wow other jugglers or to keep
> from getting totally bored, but the audience is paying, not the
other
> jugglers.
>
> > Must be a don't-be-attached-to-results thing. Maybe
> > juggling is really a technique for enlightenment...
>
> Nyah, except that it's a physical skill that requires lots of
> practice and gets quite aerobic when you're learning a new trick
> ("the drop" is the most important trick a juggler ever learns -that
> and the "pick up" which together you practice thousands and
thousands
> of times --old juggler's joke).
>
> Mind you, I can't do all the tricks that Chris Bliss does. Partly
> because I never got THAT into it and partly because my shoulders
> don't work right, or so I keep telling myself. I can't throw from
> behind to front at all. On the other hand, I can take my key ring
> with a bunch of keys on it, and throw it from the front to behind
my
> back and sometimes, at least, catch it by my car key several times
in
> a row, which most jugglers can't do. It's not something an audience
> can see though, so it's not that great a trick though its great for
> bragging rights with jugglers who can do a lot of things I can't.
>
> My best juggling trick is the 4-ball pyramid of contact juggling. I
> can't do it with either hand like this guy does and I can't pass a
> pyramid from hand to hand at all, but I'm working on it. I can do
> most of the other tricks in these contact-juggling videos too, but
> nowhere near as polished. That's where the WORK comes in:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ggkbl
Now, see, if you hadn't made it clear this was difficult,
I would have thought it was pretty easy, much easier than
throwing things in the air and catching them.
Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned
something new.
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