2012 Juggling Year in Review

  Another year has come and gone. The world did not come to an end, but there was plenty of activity going on in the juggling world. Records were broken, festivals took place, and like every year, some individuals picked up their first set of props and discovered juggling for the very first time. Let’s take a look back at …

IRC Brazil Trailer

On November 14, 2012, the national Brazilian juggling and circus convention hosted the first ever IJA Regional Competition (IRC) in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Jugglers from Brazil, Chile, and Peru showed up to compete for the title of IRC Champion. On January 2, 2013, a 45 minute video of the full competition will be released to IJA members through eJuggle. Become …

Juggler’s Scoop – December 20th, 2012

Juggler’s Scoop is a bi-weekly collection of the latest juggling videos and news bits from around the web.  Here’s the latest scoop! –  Bob and Trish get into the holiday spirit, and present a basketball circus. –  Kyle Johnson shows off some Semi-Sweet moves. –  Bronkar Lee beatboxes and bounce juggles his way onto Leno. –  The 2012 Diabolo.ca collaboration …

Karamazov shuffle and variations

mixed feed The Karamazov shuffle is a four person moving pattern created by the Flying Karamazov Brothers. It’s based on a four person mixed feed. Four jugglers stand in a square formation. Alexei and Pavel are facing Dmitri and Zossima. Each juggler passes on two count and four count with the two jugglers facing them.   For Alexei and Zossima …

Natooke Fixed Gear Bike & Juggling Shop

Nestled down in Beijing’s Wudaoying Hutong, not far from the Lama Temple and the Temple of Confucius, is China’s first juggling shop and fixed gear bike shop, Natooke. Founded in 2009 by Ines Brunn and Federico Moro, this shop offers both locals and travelers juggling props and custom made fixed gear bicycles. Ines began her performing career in Germany as …

St Louis Festival Review and Poem

There are few things one can be sure of in life, but one is that the St. Louis Jugglefest is always a rocking good time. And I’m not just saying that as the former festival director – as Wes Peden said, “It was fun.” Well, this year was no exception. St. Louis always attracts a great group of jugglers and …

Be Funnier with Scotty Meltzer: More Corporate Comedy

In my previous column I gave you a method to write inside jokes for corporate clients. I focused on corporate after dinner shows. The steps I suggested were: Ask your client and the attendees lots of questions to try to find inside information. It doesn’t have to be secret information, just information they all share and that will surprise them …

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Interact! Combination Trick Creativity

I just read David Cain’s latest article on Combination Tricks and I was thinking about creativity in these types of tricks. I think that there’s a lot of potential to come up with new skills that aren’t usually done as combination tricks. I actually gave David a couple of the ideas that he added – the yo-yo loops (or around …