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Juggling and Object Manipulation
I'm a member of the Madison Area Jugglers and sometimes perform with the
award winning Mad 5 club passing team. I'm working on six and seven ball
juggling, club passing, three ball tricks, one and two diabolos, and the
unicycle.
My main performance props, however, are fire poi, and bullwhip. The poi
are torches securely connected to steel cables, which I swing to music in
patterns around my head and body. With my 4-foot and 8-foot bullwhips, I
can demonstrate many styles of cracks, wrap the whip around a volunteer's
body, and cut a cigarette from a person's mouth. In a workshop session,
I can teach bullwhip handling, which can be a physically satisfying and
confidence building experience.
The Madison Area Jugglers
All about the club, including current
meeting times and locations
Our annual MadFest
festival
The Juggling Information Service, an
unrelated but useful link.
The College for the Easily Amused
The College for the Easily Amused is a group started in the Twin Cities to
promote the exploration of skill toys, such as yo-yos, spinning tops, and
jitter rings, and related skills including juggling, poi swinging, and
unicycle. Although there were already yo-yo clubs, juggling clubs, and
unicycle clubs, the College aimed to bring people together to hang out and
share ideas and knowledge.
The College is now coming to Madison! We are in the process of forming (or
have already formed, depending on how long it's been since I updated this
page) a Madison chapter. Check the
easily-amused website for more information.
Where Do You Come From?
I learned to juggling at Cornell from a guy named Mark Pilgrim, who kept a
large collection of koosh balls in his dorm room. He would juggle a bunch and
we would throw the rest around at each other, but the influence rubbed off on
me. After Cornell I went to Wisconsin where Melonhead taught me to pass clubs.
At Illinois I was the president of the
Illini Juggling and Unicycle
Club, and in Boston I was a member of the
MIT juggling club, a group
composed almost entirely of jugglers not in MIT.
JugIt Virtual Juggler
The JugIt Virtual Juggler is a project I worked on
some time ago - it's a unique blend of graphics and juggling, seasoned with
a good ray tracing (computer graphics) program, some physics simulation,
and a mathematical notation called siteswap for describing juggling patterns.
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