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From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon)
Subject: Circus circus circus!!!
Followup-To: rec.juggling
Organization: Three guys in a computer lab
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:34:55 GMT

I had a fabulous time as a juggler, ringmaster, and fire-eater for the
Circus Kingdom on their 1992-93 holiday Florida tour.  The weather was
great for the most part and the crowds were out in full force.  We
performed Dec 28 - Jan 11 under the Phills Bros circus tent in Miami,
Sarasota, Tallahassee, Bradenton, Largo, and a handful of smaller towns. 
The troupe was comprised of mainly college students from around the country
and numbered about 25 bodies, including 14 band members.  The Circus
Kingdom (TCK) is the only circus on the road today that has a live band
that plays old-fashioned circus tunes.  A double-cassette or CD recording
of the band's music is available from the director.

Speaking of TCK's director, David Harris: he is LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD
JUGGLERS for the summer 1993 tour.  Jugglers should be good passers and
soloists, and devil sticks, boxes, unicycling, fire, and other skills are a
plus.  Interested parties should contact David Harris, 951 Perry Highway
#103, Pittsburgh, PA 15237, phone (412) 367-0537.  David will send you info
and application.

At the Sarasota International Circus Festival, I met and juggled with
Tamara Ashton, a performer with Ashton's family circus (an old and very
large circus) from Australia.  She competed in the festival shows, and gave
a nearly flawless performance.  However, neither she nor any of the other
jugglers I saw at the festival would have a chance at an IJA competition. 
Ignatovs and Popoviches aside, most circus jugglers are mediocre at best. 
For example, Tamara was incredibly fast with three clubs and rarely
dropped, but she doesn't do five clubs at all ("stubby fingers" says she)
and nothing spectacular impressed me about her fine act.  Other jugglers I
saw were from Franzen Brothers Circus, and their team act was plagued with
drops and was completely uninspired.  Remember the shows you did when you
had been juggling for only a few months?  Admit it, they sucked.

On the other hand, another collegiate circus, Florida State University's
Flying High Circus, lent three of their jugglers to TCK's Tallahassee show
and they did some nice two-high feed work and triangles passing patterns
and such.  

Missing sunshine and 80 degree weather,
Milo  (J Cannon)
From: naw@planet.bt.co.uk (Ab Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Mill's Mess miscelannia...
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:15:43 GMT
Reply-To: naw@planet.bt.co.uk
Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK.

In article <1isuh3INN40l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder) writes:

   In a previous article, naw@planet.bt.co.uk (Ab Wilson) says:

   >Did anyone see the blind juggling contest (blindfold 3 ball cascade)
   >at the 92 BJC. After Haggis won he continued in Mills Mess.
   >	Ab.
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   I've never been to any conventions...:(  I am interested, however, how long 
   was he juggling for?   (I am just beginning to learn blind juggling, and 
   would be interested in knowing how much anyone else out there can do...

I couldn't say how long exactly, but it was a good few minutes. He had
to be told that he was the only one left in the contest, and then went
into Mills Mess. But bare in mind that we're talking about someone who
performs with 7 balls, and can do 5 above his head.
	Ab.
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From: bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: any names for this one?
Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:10:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


Geez, I feel secluded form other jugglers, I have to keep making up tricks
on my own, knowing that they've most liekly already been done, so, is there
a name for this one, or is to simple to bother with?

It's sorta a shower pattern, but every throw is made underneath the catching 
arm, then the arms uncross, and the ball is caught somewhat high, handed down
to the throwing hand, and then carried back under the catching hand to be 
thrown again....
-- 
--Bradford Linder, the self proclaimed, sudden expert on devilbunnies..--
 (but obviously not on spelling)
From: rob@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Juggling and RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:17:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

I agree there has been some very useful stuff posted in warm ups and
techniques to avoid injuries, any chance of this being archieved onto
moocow in some form or other ?

Rob.
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: gcohen@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Gregory Cohen)
Subject: Re: devil stick tricks
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:21:21 GMT

In article <7110@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk writes:
>In article <04JAN93.14305829.0188@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, LS37@UNB.CA (LS37)
>writes:
>|> For Christmas I gave my daughter a devil stick.  But I'm not really
>|> sure what to do with the thing.  Can someone describe a few simple
>|> tricks she can master (she's eleven years old).  Even better, is
>|> there a volunteer out there who would post something like
>|> devil.stick.help to moocow?  Thanks
>
>Try to get hold of Dave Finnegan's 'The Complete Juggler' - there's a section
>in there on devil sticks. It's written by somebody who has re-worked the
>section into a book called 'The Devil Stick Book'. I can't remember the
>guy's name right now. For starters she should just rest the stick on both
>handsticks and practise throwing it up in the air and catching with both
>handsticks; then adding in 1/2 a turn and then 1 turn (watch the ceiling!)
>so that she won't get too disheartened by dropping the wretched thing.
>
>Also practise tapping the stick from side to side with one end resting on the
>ground - this helps in getting the feel of keeping it in the air whilst
>keeping it reasonably under control.
>-- 
>_____________________________________________________________
>Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre

The Devil Stick Book is by Todd Strong and is available from Dube'. 
It is quite good *(better than Finnegan's and cheeper) The first chapter
was reprinted in the last issue of Jugglers World (or the one before last)

-GReg Cohen 
Another Infinite Illusions tip.
 
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From: marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall)
Subject: Adhesive for sticking a ping pong ball on your nose
Organization: Software Productivity Consortium, Herndon, Virginia
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:59:18 GMT

	Does anyone know what kind of "adhesive" is used to catch
and then balance a ping pong ball on your nose?  I've tried both
Vaseline and peanut butter with no success.

	Thanks in advance.


Eric Marshall                                 ~
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From: dtorok@nynexst.com (David Torok)
Subject: Re: Adhesive for sticking a ping pong ball on your nose
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 19:16:32 GMT

marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) writes:
: 	Does anyone know what kind of "adhesive" is used to catch
: and then balance a ping pong ball on your nose?  I've tried both
: Vaseline and peanut butter with no success.
: 
Rubber cement.  Apply to both surfaces (nose, ping-pong ball) and let dry.

-=$>Dave<$=-
-- 
David Torok, NYNEX Science & Technology, 914-644-2378 Fax: 914-644-2404
500 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10604  "torok@nynexst.com"  Juggle!
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From: BIGIDUZ@apollo.davidson.edu
Subject: Bob Whitcomb on TV
X-Envelope-To: juggling@moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:31 EST
X-Vms-To: IN%"juggling@moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu"

I didn't get to see it, but was informed that Bob Whitcomb, IJA 1992 Bronze
Medal winner, was on the Statler Brothers show on Saturday night, Jan. 9. Did
anyone out there see him? I';d like to hear what he did, hoping it was the
hilarious "cruise ship" act that he did in Montreal.


Bill Giduz
From: pyro@gu.uwa.edu.au (Jay)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Coloured flames
Date: 9 Jan 1993 07:36:29 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
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Keywords: torches flames colour color

  Does anyone know an easy way to colour flames?
  We have some:
	Strontium Chloride, Barium Chloride, Copper Sulphate,
	and Calcium Sulphate.

  Unfortunately, hydrocarbons (eg kerosine/parrafin and lamp oil) are not
solvents for these compounds.  However, some of them are soluble in ethanol
(cf methylated spirits) but the flame is barely coloured.  Since strontium
and barium are supposed to give very bright flames, we were wondering if
anyone had done this before.

  BTW, what's the address of moocow?


pyro
From: bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Mill's Mess miscelannia...
Date: 11 Jan 1993 23:12:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bj871@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bradford J. Linder)
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In a previous article, mohit@eos.ncsu.edu (mohit bhatnagar) says:

>
>wow! and like a dud I assumed my doing rev. cacade blind folded was a
>big deal :-(( what is the record in simple 3-ball cascade blind folded
>(# of catches or time) ??
If it makes you feel any better, I can't quite do the reverse cascade blind, 
yet...:)  (and to everyone else, I honestly posted my questions before
I read Mohit's post.. I didn't know someone else already asked...:)

>mohit
>
>ps: please don't tell me that doing mills mess with backside of hand is
>also no big deal since thta was my goal/resolution  for this year !!  
I also just learned to do Mill's Mess a few days ago altogether... YOu can
always take heart in the fact that, no matter how inqadequit you feel as a 
juggler, there's always someone who's worse than you, but by the same token,
no matter how proud you are of your tricks, someone can do them better..:)

-- 
--Bradford Linder, the self proclaimed, sudden expert on devilbunnies..--
 (but obviously not on spelling)
From: celarier@reed.edu (Stuart Celarier)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Unicycle "Big Wheel" For Sale
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:10:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1993Jan11.201022.18164
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

This is the opportunity you have been waiting for...

     B I G   W H E E L   U N I C Y C L E   F O R   S A L E

This unicycle features a 40 inch "Big Wheel", great for covering a lot of  
ground, tricks, and more!

Custom made by The Unicycle Factory, the usual wait for delivery is 6 to 12  
months, but you can get this one right now!

Used, but in very good condition!  Brand new this unicycle would cost you $450  
(plus the wait).  This "Big Wheel" can be yours for only $350 (plus shipping).

* * * * *  Call Chuck Marquette at (619) 670-1348.  * * * * *

(I think that is a Las Vegas, Nevada phone number, since that is where I saw  
him, at Gregory Popovich's show at Circus Circus, among other places, during  
the IJA Winter Festival.)

Please respond directly to Chuck, as that is all I know.  Thanks!
--
Stuart Celarier		"No Problem, Easy Pickup" Portland Jugglers
celarier@reed.edu	PO Box 82842
503/331-1877		Portland, Oregon 97282
From: rick@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Fredrick Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:15:50 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

In article <9301052255.AA13088@usma6.usma.edu> x47377b2@usma6.USMA.EDU (Pritchard Sean CDT) writes:
>     I solved the problem by stretching my wrists (extending my arm and pulling
>the fingers backward to stretch the tendons) and doing some exercises that my
>martial arts instructor told me would help.  The exercises were as follows:
>     rapidly open and close your hand (making a fist) 20 times
>     slowly open and close your fist (10 count for each movement) 2 times
>     make a fist then quickly extend and spread your fingers and thumb as
>widely as possible (this spreads the bones in your wrist apart relieving
>pressure) repeat 20 times.
>

Good suggestions, but for the wrong part of the anatomy to help my case.
I gave myself a form of tendonitis commonly called Tennis Elbow, but
I call it Juggler-Bowler-Boomerang-Thrower Elbow.

80% of the pain goes away once I'm warmed up, but the only effective
way to warm up I've found is to juggle, bowl, throw, which just
agrivates it for awhile.

Does anyone have any low-impact, but effective warmup exercises for
the elbow to share with us?



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From: naw@planet.bt.co.uk (Ab Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: 'Named' patterns
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:37:38 GMT
Reply-To: naw@planet.bt.co.uk
Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK.


Ahh, someone who knows Rubenstein's Revenge. Could you describe it for
me? I can do Burkes Barrage very fluently, and I can do figure of
eights round both balls with both hands (I think this is called the
Weave). Is there a difference between this and Rubensteins Revenge?

About the `what's next after Rubensteins Revenge'. Well if you think
about this progression in terms of site swaps you'll find Mills' Mess
is just 3, Burke's Barrage is 342 (each hand makes two catches before
carrying the ball), Rubensteins revenge is 34242 (I think. Each hand
counts 3, this gives you the extra time to do the extra fiddly bits.)
Therefore it follows that the next pattern in the progression is
3424242 in site swap (each hand counting 4 will even sillier twiddly
bits). So the race is on. Will I invent `Wilson's Wiggle' before you
announce `Mitchell's Mangle'?

Hmm, I've just picked up three balls and I've reallised that the
`Weave' is actually 342424242 in site swap, ie the 4 count pattern
which is next in the progression, so it looks like Wilson's Wiggle
is going to have to be 34242424242. This also implies that 
Weave != Rubenstein's Revenge.

On a different track, one thing that all these paterns have in common
is the crossing of the arms. If you go back to Mills' Mess you'll find
that the complete patern takes 6 catches. ie the arms cross one way
uncross then cross the other way every 6 catches. If instead you slow
down the crossing so that the pattern now takes 12 catches, you get
Boston Mess, or Pistons, which is characterised by having all balls
staying in the same places, with the arms making all the movements.
Now, there should be an equivalent series of patterns derived from
Boston Mess. ie Boston Mess is 3 site swap, so there should be
patterns in 342, 34242 etc. I can do one variation in this series,
though I'm dammed if I can work out what pattern I'm doing, I think
it's the 34242 variation but I wouldn't swear on it.  However what you
end up with is two balls going up and down in columns, with the third
ball being switched from end to end. I'd name this Wilson's Wiggle but
firstly, I didn't invent it, and secondly it isn't very wiggly.

Some other stuff.
Whats the Gillson variation on M/M for those who havn't read Beyond
the Cascade.
And, do you know the Georgian Shuffle?
	Ab.





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From: ehgabp2@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Barry Prescott)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Juggling and RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:15:10 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.


>I've just had a fortnights break from keyboarding (Christmas/New
>year), and have been doing a fair bit of juggling. I notice that I
>still have (occasionally) the slight soreness & tingling in my
>palms and fingers that I associate with too much/bad typing.

I too haven't typed for a fortnight. Before my Christmas holiday, the tendons
in my right wrist were hurting. Now they seem to be better despite a heavy
increase in my juggling (I got 3 clubs for Christmas :-).

I can still feel pain if I juggle for too long, but nothing like when I was
typing at a keyboard for hours.

My conclusion: Juggling is not bad for you! Give up WORK instead!

Barry

P.S. Is anyone au-fait with the New EC legislation on conditions at work for
keyboarders?

SIGNAL: WRONGNEWSGRP (core dumped)
-- 
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INTERNET: bp@cs.hull.ac.uk, ehgabp2@uts.mcc.ac.uk,    | The University, 
    bprescot@nyx.cs.du.edu    Phone: +44 482 465016   | Hull, HU6 7RX,
UUCP:	  ..!uknet!hu-cs!bp   Fax: +44 482 466666     | United Kingdom
From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Who's planning a cruise? Where and When?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 23:46:11 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.cs.brown.edu

In article <1993Jan6.125418.9043@pdn.paradyne.com> larry@pdn.paradyne.com (Larry Swift) writes:
>In article <1id472INNhcn@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes) writes:
>>Now a question for others: suppose you are making 
>>a 40 hour passage with a crew
>>of 4 or 5. How do you arrange your watch schedule. 

>>What time of day or night do
>>you choose to depart (if you can choose)? 

>Leaving for less familiar destinations:  I plan to arrive
>around 10 AM.  If I'm early (pre-dawn) I lay offshore til
>sunrise; if late, I've still got plenty of sunlight to
>pick my way through hazards.

This has generally been my plan, too, but remaining offshore waiting
for dawn can be pretty tough---after 40 hours, a harbor and a chance to 
shower/swim/sleep looks *awfully* tempting. 

>Returning home:  since it doesn't matter when I arrive
>(because I know the waters), I just make sure I leave
>in plenty of time to reach open water before dark.

The notion that one "knows" one's home waters can be misleading.
It sure was to me a year ago September. Sailed back towards Woods
Hole at about 3:30 - 4 AM, and couldn't figure out where the new suspension
bridge West of Woods Hole had come from....turns out it was a set of very
neatly aligned masthead lights on a bunch of boats in the outer harbor of
Hadley Harbor, where I keep my boat. But they looked *so* organized that
I felt certain that I was seeing lights on the land in Woods Hole, and
that my *compass* must therefore be in error (although it had just gotten
me from Maine to Massachusetts, of course...) Shows what a lack of sleep
combined with unusual circs can do to you.

-John
From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: Re: Oil Tanker Grounding
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:20:19 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

In article <1ii4r6INNf6t@morrow.stanford.edu>, francis@oas.stanford.edu (Francis Muir) writes:
> 
> .... Third, the captain and his
> fellow chickens left the ship at the first opportunity, and did not wait
> to allow a tug to get lines onto the ship.   .....
>
  Nice quick, concise, precise, and (I assume) fact-based "analysis".

  
  greg pavlov
  pavlov@fstrf.org

  (hey, we ALL ride out hurricane-force storms all the time.  No sweat.)
From: jfh@cs.brown.edu (John F. Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.boats
Subject: (was) Slatting
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:13:48 GMT
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.cs.brown.edu

>The worst thing that I can think of is, when in sufficiently cold
>weather, your wet suit freezes so solidly to the boat that you can't
>budge without tearing the suit to pieces.  
> 
>Is this "slatting," or is there something even worse that can
>befall me while sailing?

Well, we got out iceboating yesterday. Drove from here up past Boston, where the was 
wind and ice, up to Lake Wentworth, NH, where there was ice, but no wind at all. Actually,
there was enough to make the boat keep moving on its own for a little while, but not enough
to tak or jibe. The nice thing about doing the equivalent of "slatting" in an iceboat
is that you just set the brake, ease the sheet, and walk back to your car to get warm and 
have a cup of tea. 

   As is so often the case, the person on the "water" who seemed to be having the most fun
was about 5 years old. She was skating around, and talking to her dad (who was tinkering
with his iceboat, and with a very cute mini-iceboat, rigged with what I think was a Snark
rig (big daisy on a small sunfish-like sail). It's interesting that even during the winter, 
boaters do the same thing when there's no wind: they tinker, talk about boats, socialize,
look *really* hard toward the last place that the wind came from to see if there might be
any more... (this is harder in winter---you have to look closely at the evergreens). 

   Anyhow, midwinter "slatting" turn out to be not-so-bad. 

Happy new year!

-John

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