Looking across the gym at the most recent IJA Festival, a sizable proportion of the jugglers are women. This hasn’t always been the case. In the first forty years of the IJA’s existence, female performers were a fairly rare sight. However, female jugglers have an incredible and very important history in our art form. The earliest depiction of juggling we …
Open Call for IJA Officers!
Founders of the IJA – 1947 Above, you can see the faces of the men that did us all a favor, by founding the IJA back in 1947. Now, we have the opportunity to be a part of the next step of the IJA’s history. For the next few weeks – the IJA board of directors will be accepting “Letters …
A History of the Plastic Toy Bowling Pin Juggling Club
If you’re like most jugglers, you cringe every time you hear someone refer to juggling clubs as bowling pins. Even worse is when you hear another juggler call them pins, which, thankfully, happens only very rarely. As creator Casey Rentmeester so comically pointed out in the meme below, the two really don’t look that much alike. It is true that …
It Won’t Happen Again Film by Tony Pezzo
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It Won't Happen Again, is a 15 minute video featuring Tony Pezzo, filmed by Wes Peden in perhaps the juggling capital of the world. The video features Tony's latest and greatest club juggling techniques, and is divided into 3 main sections: Magnetic Clubs, Club Party, and Five Club. Magnetic Clubs is a section inspired by Ameron Rosvall, and has some maneuvers that are insurmountable with normal clubs. Club Party is a 3 club trick section, about getting outside before it starts snowing again. Five Club displays symmetry, spin crossover, scissor transition, and other fanciful things.
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Tricks of the month July 2013 by Conejo Lunar
Este mes los trucos estan enfocados principalmente al equilibrio de clavas en sus diferentes formas. Tuvimos como invitado a Julius de “Circo Desertico” que nos mostro una buena variacion en equilibrios. Jafet se enfoco en los trucos con las piernas y Jorge trabajo en secuencias con un tiro por detras de su cabeza en agarre pingüino. Hay un around about …
Mark Stampfle – IJA Tricks of the Month – July
This week Mark got his computer working again, and edited together a mishmash of ring tricks.
IJA Challenge – Shoulder Balance Endurance
Congratulations to Adam Kapilow for winning last month’s challenge for the most Kendama/Ball in a cups in one minute, getting a total of 57 cups. You can view his winning video entry here. As the winner he will be receiving a full one year IJA Membership and $40 in IJA store credit! Congratulations Adam and well done! Thanks as well …
Be Funnier With Scotty Meltzer: Structure? Genius!
Whenever my old partner Rich Ross and I came up with a joke that was based solely on structure, usually a call back or a denial capper, we would throw our arms in the air and yell, “Structure? Genius!” We even did it when watching other people’s shows. This taught us a lot about the power of structure and it …
IJA Fest FAQ
Below are answers to some important questions that you may have about the upcoming IJA fest. 1. Numbers will be early in the week. When can I sign up for preliminaries? Numbers Competitors: Because Numbers finals are on Wednesday at 1pm, you must attempt to qualify for Numbers on Monday or Tuesday. Sign up for preliminaries, either at the Numbers …