--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640
> > > >
> > > > Four-minute Google video of Chris Bliss
> > > > (be sure your speakers are on)
> > >
> > > OK. On the same Google page there's a link to
> > > a "Chris Bliss Juggling Parody" video.
> > >
> > > This must really be inside-juggling. It looks
> > > almost as impressive to me as Chris Bliss. Why
> > > is this a parody, anybody have any idea?
> > >
> > > Here's the link:
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/pw6f6
> >
> > Actually, the joke is on you (and all of Chris Bliss's cheering
> > fans): the "parody juggling" was a much more difficult act...
> >
> > MUCH more difficult. By an order of magnitude at least.
>
> Ah, OK, I got it now! That makes sense.
>
> Now that I look, the "parody" juggler is described
> in the little blurb as a "juggling enthusiast," so
> he's apparently not a big star in the juggling world.
>
> > It's a prime example of an old juggler's saying: the audience
> > doesn't know shit about juggling.
>
> 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
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