[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 Both juggling performances were really excellent...and highlyr recommended for all to see! I think it was improperly named a parody. It should have been named Outdoing Chris Bliss 'cause 5 balls (or was it four?) were used instead of 3. Why did the second guy feel he had to be in competition with Bliss? At least that's the impression I got 'cause he used the same soundtrack...AND the same audience sounds from the Bliss performance...so there was a little tinge of sourgrapes that took away from the second performance. Its mocking the audience that always cheers at the wrong moment. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. The parody of the audience cheering over a bunch of simple tricks put together artfully. --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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. It's a prime example of an old juggler's saying: the audience doesn't know shit about juggling. That's the joke. The parody (or mocking, to be honest) is really of the cheering audience. Mind you, I agree that Chris Bliss did a much more polished performance, and it certainly LOOKED hard, but most of the tricks he did were standard 3-ball juggling tricks. I can do maybe a quarter of them and I'm out of practice. On the other hand, consider the difficulty of the pardody: I've been juggling for decades and still haven't gotten 5-ball juggling down, let alone 5 balls IN ONE HAND!!! OMG. And I bet you yawned at that trick. Bet you yawn at 4 clubs but ooh and ah over 3 burning torches or 3 knives. Same thing: juggling 4 clubs is hard. The torches and knives are always high-end professional equipment (well, my knives are cheapo and only cost me $115 for 3) and are perfectly balanced unlike many clubs so if you can do 3 clubs, of course you can do 3 juggling knives or torches with a little practice to get used to the burning and the nervousness of the blade (which usually isn't a blade, but a piece of flat metal scored to make it reflect like one). I can do 3 burning balls with almost no injuries, even though I don't have access to the best cool-buring oil for the wicks but it looks really cool to have 3 flaming objects in the air, even though its only marginally more difficult than three beanbags. Again: the joke is making fun of the audience that cheered over a bunch of simple 3 ball tricks. Mind you, I thought it was a very good performance also, but the parody would have gotten an audience of jugglers cheering. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 His rhythm isn't as spot on as Chris Bliss's but he's also great to watch :-) Twice as many balls in the air? JohnY 5-ball tricks instead of 3. I can do 3 balls in many of the patterns Chris BLiss used, and occassionally 4. I don't think i've ever managed to do 5 in ANY pattern in my 20+ years of on and off juggling. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. You mean, it's not supposed to be funny, it's more like, Take this, Bliss!--a can-you-top-this kind of thing? Hmm, maybe so. The audio was taken from the Chris Bliss video, complete with audience response. I thought it was something jugglers would find hysterical, but you had to *be* a juggler to know what the joke was! --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 Both juggling performances were really excellent...and highlyr recommended for all to see! I think it was improperly named a parody. It should have been named Outdoing Chris Bliss 'cause 5 balls (or was it four?) were used instead of 3. Yeah, I think that's what gullible fool was suggesting. Why did the second guy feel he had to be in competition with Bliss? At least that's the impression I got 'cause he used the same soundtrack...AND the same audience sounds from the Bliss performance...so there was a little tinge of sourgrapes that took away from the second performance. Oh, gee, I dunno, why shouldn't jugglers compete with one another? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl@ wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. The parody of the audience cheering over a bunch of simple tricks put together artfully. Those were *simple* tricks?? That was the only thing I could think of that would make it an actual parody, but that only jugglers would find funny. But the idea of those routines being *simple* was just too mind-boggling, so I figured that couldn't be it. --- authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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? Must be a don't-be-attached-to-results thing. Maybe juggling is really a technique for enlightenment... That's the joke. The parody (or mocking, to be honest) is really of the cheering audience. Mind you, I agree that Chris Bliss did a much more polished performance, and it certainly LOOKED hard, but most of the tricks he did were standard 3-ball juggling tricks. I can do maybe a quarter of them and I'm out of practice. On the other hand, consider the difficulty of the pardody: I've been juggling for decades and still haven't gotten 5-ball juggling down, let alone 5 balls IN ONE HAND!!! OMG. And I bet you yawned at that trick. Bet you yawn at 4 clubs but ooh and ah over 3 burning torches or 3 knives. Same thing: juggling 4 clubs is hard. The torches and knives are always high-end professional equipment (well, my knives are cheapo and only cost me $115 for 3) and are perfectly balanced unlike many clubs so if you can do 3 clubs, of course you can do 3 juggling knives or torches with a little practice to get used to the burning and the nervousness of the blade (which usually isn't a blade, but a piece of flat metal scored to make it reflect like one). I can do 3 burning balls with almost no injuries, even though I don't have access to the best cool-buring oil for the wicks but it looks really cool to have 3 flaming objects in the air, even though its only marginally more difficult than three beanbags. Again: the joke is making fun of the audience that cheered over a bunch of simple 3 ball tricks. Mind you, I thought it was a very good performance also, but the parody would have gotten an audience of jugglers cheering. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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... Entertainment is entertainment is entertainment. If some elitist juggling snobs somewhere think what Chris Bliss did was average or amateurish then that's there problem. From what I can tell, Bliss' main profession is as a comedian and the juggling is a sideline. Well, more power to him for taking his comedy audience and entertaining them with what looks to THIS layman's uneducated eyes with great entertainment. I'm sure that in the world of professional banjo players that Steve Martin is just a rank amateur. But the fact that he used to intersperse his comedy act with his banjo-playing and entertained people is all that matters. And, by the way, Bliss did his flawless juggling in front of a live audience. As wonderful as the parody guy's juggling was, he didn't do it in front of a live audience...wonder how flawless it would have been had he been on the same level playing field as Bliss... MUCH more difficult. By an order of magnitude at least. It's a prime example of an old juggler's saying: the audience doesn't know shit about juggling. That's the joke. The parody (or mocking, to be honest) is really of the cheering audience. Mind you, I agree that Chris Bliss did a much more polished performance, and it certainly LOOKED hard, but most of the tricks he did were standard 3-ball juggling tricks. I can do maybe a quarter of them and I'm out of practice. On the other hand, consider the difficulty of the pardody: I've been juggling for decades and still haven't gotten 5-ball juggling down, let alone 5 balls IN ONE HAND!!! OMG. And I bet you yawned at that trick. Bet you yawn at 4 clubs but ooh and ah over 3 burning torches or 3 knives. Same thing: juggling 4 clubs is hard. The torches and knives are always high-end professional equipment (well, my knives are cheapo and only cost me $115 for 3) and are perfectly balanced unlike many clubs so if you can do 3 clubs, of course you can do 3 juggling knives or torches with a little practice to get used to the burning and the nervousness of the blade (which usually isn't a blade, but a piece of flat metal scored to make it reflect like one). I can do 3 burning balls with almost no injuries, even though I don't have access to the best cool-buring oil for the wicks but it looks really cool to have 3 flaming objects in the air, even though its only marginally more difficult than three beanbags. Again: the joke is making fun of the audience that cheered over a bunch of simple 3 ball tricks. Mind you, I thought it was a very good performance also, but the parody would have gotten an audience of jugglers cheering. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
on 3/31/06 2:31 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that in the world of professional banjo players that Steve Martin is just a rank amateur. But the fact that he used to intersperse his comedy act with his banjo-playing and entertained people is all that matters. We in the professional balloon animals union think Steve Martin's a Jerk. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl@ wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. You mean, it's not supposed to be funny, it's more like, Take this, Bliss!--a can-you-top-this kind of thing? Hmm, maybe so. The audio was taken from the Chris Bliss video, complete with audience response. I thought it was something jugglers would find hysterical, but you had to *be* a juggler to know what the joke was! Like I said, the joke is the audience cheering about a bunch of 3- ball tricks artfully strung together. As a *performance*, it's top- notch. As a demonstration of juggling proficiency? It's a professional juggler showing off a bunch of beginning/intermediate tricks in time to music. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl@ wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. You mean, it's not supposed to be funny, it's more like, Take this, Bliss!--a can-you-top-this kind of thing? Hmm, maybe so. The audio was taken from the Chris Bliss video, complete with audience response. I thought it was something jugglers would find hysterical, but you had to *be* a juggler to know what the joke was! Like I said, the joke is the audience cheering about a bunch of 3- ball tricks artfully strung together. As a *performance*, it's top- notch. As a demonstration of juggling proficiency? It's a professional juggler showing off a bunch of beginning/intermediate tricks in time to music. As long as it's entertaining, who gives a flying fuck? Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl@ wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. The parody of the audience cheering over a bunch of simple tricks put together artfully. Those were *simple* tricks?? Virtually all of them are found in the book _Three Ball Digest_ by Dick Franco. From the forward: Three ball juggling is the foundation of all other toss juggling. If you are going to be a juggler, this is the stuff you will need to know. Everything else you go on to learn will be derived from the basics with three balls. Used either as exercises leading up to other varieties of juggling, or as an end in themselves, the three-ball lessons included in this book will provide you with an education as well as entertainment. While many people continue on to explore other numbers or shapes, the simple juggling of three balls is a worthy goal in and of itself. A three ball routine is argueably the purest most elemental form of juggling. As such, the performer using three balls is able to display his personality more effectivelythan while juggling larger items or a greater number of props. The audience can better relate to the performaer as a person when their are fewer objects cluttering up the air between them. Three ball juggling allows for freedom of motion and emotion... -- Alan Howard, Foward to _Three Ball Digest_ Mind you, I thought Chris Bliss's performance was worthy of a standing ovation *as a performance*. However, the audience was clapping and cheering at the simplest of tricks as though they were the greatest thing since sliced bread. That's the mark of a great performer, to be sure. Segovia could play a simple study and bring tears to your eyes but that's his *artistry* not the technical difficulty of what he was doing. That was the only thing I could think of that would make it an actual parody, but that only jugglers would find funny. But the idea of those routines being *simple* was just too mind-boggling, so I figured that couldn't be it. Here's what Dick Franco says in his introduction to the book: The three ball cascade, although the simplest pattern of three object juggling, is quite difficutl to learn without instruction. Most people who try to juggle three balls have no idea what the mechanics of a cascade consist of. Without instruction, most people make little progress and after a few disasterous tries, give up in frustration... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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... Entertainment is entertainment is entertainment. If some elitist juggling snobs somewhere think what Chris Bliss did was average or amateurish then that's there problem. From what I can tell, Bliss' main profession is as a comedian and the juggling is a sideline. Well, more power to him for taking his comedy audience and entertaining them with what looks to THIS layman's uneducated eyes with great entertainment. I'm sure that in the world of professional banjo players that Steve Martin is just a rank amateur. But the fact that he used to intersperse his comedy act with his banjo-playing and entertained people is all that matters. And, by the way, Bliss did his flawless juggling in front of a live audience. As wonderful as the parody guy's juggling was, he didn't do it in front of a live audience...wonder how flawless it would have been had he been on the same level playing field as Bliss... MUCH more difficult. By an order of magnitude at least. It's a prime example of an old juggler's saying: the audience doesn't know shit about juggling. That's the joke. The parody (or mocking, to be honest) is really of the cheering audience. Mind you, I agree that Chris Bliss did a much more polished performance, and it certainly LOOKED hard, but most of the tricks he did were standard 3-ball juggling tricks. I can do maybe a quarter of them and I'm out of practice. On the other hand, consider the difficulty of the pardody: I've been juggling for decades and still haven't gotten 5-ball juggling down, let alone 5 balls IN ONE HAND!!! OMG. And I bet you yawned at that trick. Bet you yawn at 4 clubs but ooh and ah over 3 burning torches or 3 knives. Same thing: juggling 4 clubs is hard. The torches and knives are always high-end professional equipment (well, my knives are cheapo and only cost me $115 for 3) and are perfectly balanced unlike many clubs so if you can do 3 clubs, of course you can do 3 juggling knives or torches with a little practice to get used to the burning and the nervousness of the blade (which usually isn't a blade, but a piece of flat metal scored to make it reflect like one). I can do 3 burning balls with almost no injuries, even though I don't have access to the best cool-buring oil for the wicks but it looks really cool to have 3 flaming objects in the air, even though its only marginally more difficult than three beanbags. Again: the joke is making fun of the audience that cheered over a bunch of simple 3 ball tricks. Mind you, I thought it was a very good performance also, but the parody would have gotten an audience of jugglers cheering. ALl good points. I thought that the performance was excellent, BTW. However, the individual tricks were all beginning level. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool ffl@ wrote: If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. You mean, it's not supposed to be funny, it's more like, Take this, Bliss!--a can-you-top-this kind of thing? Hmm, maybe so. The audio was taken from the Chris Bliss video, complete with audience response. I thought it was something jugglers would find hysterical, but you had to *be* a juggler to know what the joke was! Like I said, the joke is the audience cheering about a bunch of 3- ball tricks artfully strung together. As a *performance*, it's top- notch. As a demonstration of juggling proficiency? It's a professional juggler showing off a bunch of beginning/intermediate tricks in time to music. As long as it's entertaining, who gives a flying fuck? LIke I said, I thought the performance was worthy of a standing ovation. The individual tricks weren't anything to write home about, by juggling standards, however. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- 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. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: snip Like I said, the joke is the audience cheering about a bunch of 3- ball tricks artfully strung together. As a *performance*, it's top-notch. As a demonstration of juggling proficiency? It's a professional juggler showing off a bunch of beginning/intermediate tricks in time to music. As long as it's entertaining, who gives a flying fuck? Nobody said there was anything wrong with it, Shemp. Remember how this started: I was puzzled about the second video being labeled a parody. Lawson's explaining *why* it's a parody. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: [...] 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. I'm the only juggler in Tucson, AZ I've met who can do a 4-ball pyramid. I've heard of others. It is a damn hard trick. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned something new. If you want to see what a REAL contact juggler looks like, check this guy out. He pretty much perfected the art. He and Penn Jillette of Penn Teller were street magicians back when they were kids: http://www.michaelmoschen.com/press.html If you want the background to the parody video, here's the original webiste: http://www.jasongarfield.com/pennradio.html Personally, I think he's a bit harsh in his evaluation of Chris Bliss, but given the difference between 5-ball juggling, and 3-ball juggling, I can understand the frustration with everyone oohing over the three-ball routine and ignoring the top jugglers who have spent decades working on the craft. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned something new. If you want to see what a REAL contact juggler looks like, check this guy out. He pretty much perfected the art. He and Penn Jillette of Penn Teller were street magicians back when they were kids: http://www.michaelmoschen.com/press.html Aah, all his videos are Macromedia Flash, which I haven't installed. Later, maybe. If you want the background to the parody video, here's the original webiste: http://www.jasongarfield.com/pennradio.html Personally, I think he's a bit harsh in his evaluation of Chris Bliss, but given the difference between 5-ball juggling, and 3-ball juggling, I can understand the frustration with everyone oohing over the three-ball routine and ignoring the top jugglers who have spent decades working on the craft. He's quite the crusader, isn't he? I have the sense that he may be missing what it is about juggling that thrills the audience. It's that you can't believe what you're seeing. The thing is, there aren't any *gradations* beyond that. It's either, Oh, I could do that if I worked at it, or, Oh, my God, that's *impossible*, *nobody* can do what he's doing! And once you get beyond the I could do that level to the Nobody can do that level, the layperson isn't going to be any more impressed by the world's best juggler than by Chris Bliss. That's as impressed as s/he can *get*. If Chris Bliss were swaggering around claiming to be the world's best juggler, that would warrant Garfield's scorn, but if he isn't, tough beans. World-class jugglers need to realize they're only working to impress other jugglers. It's just the nature of the beast. Or so it seems to me. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned something new. If you want to see what a REAL contact juggler looks like, check this guy out. He pretty much perfected the art. He and Penn Jillette of Penn Teller were street magicians back when they were kids: http://www.michaelmoschen.com/press.html If you want the background to the parody video, here's the original webiste: http://www.jasongarfield.com/pennradio.html Personally, I think he's a bit harsh in his evaluation of Chris Bliss, but given the difference between 5-ball juggling, and 3-ball juggling, I can understand the frustration with everyone oohing over the three-ball routine and ignoring the top jugglers who have spent decades working on the craft. I was a friend of Michael's sister in the early nineties and got to know how seriously he worked at his art. With that sort of intensity, I had wondered if he would burn out soon so it is nice to see he survived. N. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned something new. If you want to see what a REAL contact juggler looks like, check this guy out. He pretty much perfected the art. He and Penn Jillette of Penn Teller were street magicians back when they were kids: http://www.michaelmoschen.com/press.html Aah, all his videos are Macromedia Flash, which I haven't installed. Later, maybe. I'll see if I can find some QT movies or av's. He's quite a sight. PBS used to use one of his videos for fund-raising I think. If you want the background to the parody video, here's the original webiste: http://www.jasongarfield.com/pennradio.html Personally, I think he's a bit harsh in his evaluation of Chris Bliss, but given the difference between 5-ball juggling, and 3-ball juggling, I can understand the frustration with everyone oohing over the three-ball routine and ignoring the top jugglers who have spent decades working on the craft. He's quite the crusader, isn't he? He's more than a bit arrogant, I agree. He's also the world champion from 2004, which is more than a bit impressive. I have the sense that he may be missing what it is about juggling that thrills the audience. It's that you can't believe what you're seeing. The thing is, there aren't any *gradations* beyond that. It's either, Oh, I could do that if I worked at it, or, Oh, my God, that's *impossible*, *nobody* can do what he's doing! And once you get beyond the I could do that level to the Nobody can do that level, the layperson isn't going to be any more impressed by the world's best juggler than by Chris Bliss. That's as impressed as s/he can *get*. If Chris Bliss were swaggering around claiming to be the world's best juggler, that would warrant Garfield's scorn, but if he isn't, tough beans. World-class jugglers need to realize they're only working to impress other jugglers. It's just the nature of the beast. Or so it seems to me. I think you're right. In _Stranger in a Strange Land_, Valentine Michael puts on a REAL magic show in a carnival, but everyone yawns because he doesnt know how to relate to the audience. I once saw Doug Henning use a $50 magic trick and wow an audience for 15 minutes with his patter at one of the World Peace Assemblies. The difference between a showman and an artiste I guess though Doug was an artiste also. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] Thanks, Lawson, very interesting stuff. I learned something new. If you want to see what a REAL contact juggler looks like, check this guy out. He pretty much perfected the art. He and Penn Jillette of Penn Teller were street magicians back when they were kids: http://www.michaelmoschen.com/press.html Aah, all his videos are Macromedia Flash, which I haven't installed. Later, maybe. I'll see if I can find some QT movies or av's. Anything but Qucktime. I won't have it on my system. He's quite a sight. PBS used to use one of his videos for fund-raising I think. Love to see it if you could find an mpg or something. snip I have the sense that he may be missing what it is about juggling that thrills the audience. It's that you can't believe what you're seeing. The thing is, there aren't any *gradations* beyond that. It's either, Oh, I could do that if I worked at it, or, Oh, my God, that's *impossible*, *nobody* can do what he's doing! And once you get beyond the I could do that level to the Nobody can do that level, the layperson isn't going to be any more impressed by the world's best juggler than by Chris Bliss. That's as impressed as s/he can *get*. If Chris Bliss were swaggering around claiming to be the world's best juggler, that would warrant Garfield's scorn, but if he isn't, tough beans. World-class jugglers need to realize they're only working to impress other jugglers. It's just the nature of the beast. Or so it seems to me. I think you're right. In _Stranger in a Strange Land_, Valentine Michael puts on a REAL magic show in a carnival, but everyone yawns because he doesnt know how to relate to the audience. I once saw Doug Henning use a $50 magic trick and wow an audience for 15 minutes with his patter at one of the World Peace Assemblies. The difference between a showman and an artiste I guess though Doug was an artiste also. I don't even think it's the showmanship, although that certainly helps. It's just that you look at the balls or whatever and don't believe it's humanly possible to throw and catch them like that. Somebody with no showmanship whatsoever could stand there and do what Chris Bliss did and I'd be totally snowed. In that sense, juggling is easier than it looks. But at Bliss's level of skill, to the layperson, it looks impossible--and there just aren't any further levels of difficulty than impossible. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In that sense, juggling is easier than it looks. But at Bliss's level of skill, to the layperson, it looks impossible--and there just aren't any further levels of difficulty than impossible. 3 balls is so easy that even a computer can do it ;-) Here's a website that has a special java program that demonstrates many of the common three ball patterns http://www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/index.php/CategoryThreeBallPattern To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: [...] In that sense, juggling is easier than it looks. But at Bliss's level of skill, to the layperson, it looks impossible--and there just aren't any further levels of difficulty than impossible. 3 balls is so easy that even a computer can do it ;-) Here's a website that has a special java program that demonstrates many of the common three ball patterns http://www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/index.php/CategoryThreeBallPattern I'm silly. That is a 3D program. Drag the mouse around inside any of the boxes to see the juggler from a different angle. A great instructional tool, I suspect. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
If you click on the blue all near the top right, it implies that it is the juggler's use of five balls instead of three that is the parody. It seems like they just have a different interpretation of the world parody. --- authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 Both juggling performances were really excellent...and highlyr recommended for all to see! I think it was improperly named a parody. It should have been named Outdoing Chris Bliss 'cause 5 balls (or was it four?) were used instead of 3. Why did the second guy feel he had to be in competition with Bliss? At least that's the impression I got 'cause he used the same soundtrack...AND the same audience sounds from the Bliss performance...so there was a little tinge of sourgrapes that took away from the second performance. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM ~- To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Juggling Siddhi
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, 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 His rhythm isn't as spot on as Chris Bliss's but he's also great to watch :-) Twice as many balls in the air? JohnY To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
