Bungay Balls Up - visit to Orford Ness.
For many years I’ve been thinking about visiting Orford Ness (about half an hour from Bungay).
It’s a natural spit, which is an SSSI nature reserve due to bird breeding grounds, but also has an extensive war time history as much of the UK secret weapons development (including radar and the atomic bomb) was squirrelled away there.
For weekend public visits it costs £14 for the ferry and entrance, and the red walking route (that takes in the publicly accessible war time buildings) is about a 5 mile round trip.
If we had 12-24 people interested, they do private tour groups on weekdays. I believe that would be a guided tour, and on request can take in areas of the war time structures not normally open to the public. I've emailed them to ask for availability and cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orford_Ness
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/suffolk/orford-ness-national-nature-reserve
https://www.drogowskaz.info/sites/default/files/inline-images/Orford_Ness_Map.jpeg
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Phishing attack for juggler dot net emails?
I got an email this morning to my j.n email address purporting to be a security setting update for Cpanel on j.n. It looks extremely suspect. Don’t click if you get one.
Cf. https://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=crmas_sfp&p=cpanel+update+phishing
( first result - how to tell from eMail header, s.o. else also had this a month ago )
Howdy Meshurs!
After it always been a riddle, my start into devilsticks, after s.o. told me to use both sticks for flipping + catching, was surprisingly easy. Not practising it, didn't get further than 10 tictocs yet tho ;-D
https://juggling.tv/ seems down since at least yesterday. I hope it is just a hiccup.
Thank you thevoid for keeping the archive up for so long, after the site went into archive mode.
I hope it is a hiccup as well. And want to thank thevoid as well!
Amazingly some of the videos have seem to made it into the internet archive, so it might still be possible to find some stuff.
It’s been about 4 weeks now, unfortunately. I haven’t been involved with JTV since 2019, so any thanks after then should go solely to Oddballs. (Whom I informed as soon as I found out.)
I don’t know if it’s coming back or not. (RIP The Kendama Forum’s error log, & The Edge’s too, I’d guess).
*sigh*
Cheap juggling equipment Options and learning resources for club.
My YoYo club DMV throwers, partners with our local library in Arlington VA and as we have been expanding the program we have been branching out to other skill toys to attract a larger group. From YoYo, to diabolo, to kendama and spin tops. These are all things I have some experience with and equipment to share with new comers (I have a bag of spare tops, Kens, yoyo, etc that’s stays with the library for the program. )
What I don’t have and think would be neat is juggling stuff and experience with juggling other than very basic stuff. I plan to head to a local juggling group in a few weeks to learn from them in Fairfax Va but in the mean time if anyone has any resources they can point me to for learning and knows of cheap options for club gear to keep on hand for the program that would be super helpful. I’m fairly new to this and not really all that in the know so I’m open to any suggestion even if they seem like no brainers to folks who have been doing this a while.
I’m also open to diy options I’ve made some poi in the past but I don’t know what weights would make sense for juggling if I went this route or what materials make sense.
Thanks for the recommendations in advanced.
I know this may be difficult to justify but I wouldn't go with cheap clubs for learning to juggle. It is a lot less fun and less inviting to learn to juggle with cheap clubs and I think the investment in good clubs is worthwhile.
Currently the most popular brands are Play and Henrys (which are both used by professional jugglers). Which one is preferable is mostly a matter of taste, my own preference is Henrys Pirouette because they have models with wrapped handles which are a bit soft, so easy on the hands but still light and with good control, but you don't got wrong with either Play or Henrys. Play may be more durable for some models (and I would prefer their colors, but the feel of the Henrys is more important to me). If you really have to go cheap, I've heard that the one piece clubs from Play are pretty good - as far as one piece clubs go. Henrys provide phenomenal service in europe (they fixed two of my clubs (>10 years old) with broken body for 5 euro per club) but I don't know how their service is in the USA (they are on the EJC's and some of the bigger juggling conventions in germany and usually fix clubs then but I have no idea if they provide such service if you would sent them in - maybe someone else can comment on that).
I'm not aware of the formerly big names for USA made clubs like Renegade. The company still seems to exist (by name at least) but as they offer clubs from Play and Henrys on their webpage I'm not sure how their own clubs compare. They also seem to service Henrys clubs as well as assembling Play and Henrys clubs to spec.
Oh... rereading your post it might not have been about juggling clubs (as in the long objects to throw in the air) but more generally a club for juggling (i.e. the organization of a group of people around the activity of juggling). Anyway, my club argument stands :)
Brandon J Rogers - - Parent #
Ha. Yeah it’s equipment for a club but your club advice is very helpful regardless. Thank you.
Hooping, with Peachysteve.
A while back, Steve and I made an instructional hula hoop DVD (later an app). The app is no longer available due to the app stores constantly updating their terms and requirements, but the DVD still is. But this isn’t (really) a sales pitch, as we’re putting the videos up on YT for free.
New bite-sized lessons every Tuesday & Friday. Available in both English & Spanish versions. (Subtitles, no voiceover.) Check out the ones already up, at
https://youtube.com/@TheVoidTLMB/playlists
…, and Subscribe to get reminded when each new one comes along. (Yes, that’s the same YT channel I use for the podcast out-takes. You can ignore those when they come along, if you like. ;-P )
You can read the rave reviews, or even order the DVD, via
https://tlmb.net/hoop
Might as well embed the sample here too:
https://youtu.be/qS0JTF1AcsM
Enjoy!
Void (& Peachysteve)
Hey folks, new to the forum here. I have been juggling for a few years but I started a bit past an ideal age 🙄 so it has been slow going. Really still trying to improve basics and learn some 3 club tricks.
It has been very interesting getting started, and fortunately there is a juggling club near me that meets 1 or 2 times a week.
Hope to lurk around the forum some and gain a little momentum now that the weather is warming up (my downstairs neighbors insist I practice outside.)
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Hi, I’m brandon rogers and I’m an avid yoyoer who runs a local yoyo club in DC area DMV throwers. We have slowly partnered with various other yoyo and juggling clubs in our area as the hobby is small and more people can allow us to do more cool things and meet more amazing and supportive people.
In this process I’ve also been slowly learning the very basics of juggling and while I’m still learning to do simply stuff I’m hoping to branch out my skills and engage with the juggling community more.
Welcome, Brandon. Fellow yo-yoer here, but my skills are mostly stuck in the early 2000s. :-) Good luck with your jams.
Brandon J Rogers - - Parent #
That’s fair many of my foundational tricks are from the 90s and the kids now make me scratch my head but in every learning and growing in my skills and abilities.
Brandon J Rogers - - Parent #
I’ve noticed and I’m excited to keep expanding my own skills.
Hello fellow jugglers, my name is Thor and I live in the UK.
I have 4 primary obsessions, juggling balls, contact ball, staff and spinning star.
I might have taken the last one a little too far, lol.
For the last few years I’ve been working on a little project of mine https://ucircus.co.uk/
It's primarily designed as a Wiki for juggling moves but it's still very early days and my web code and back end database are definitely not one of my skills! So it's very cobbled together. Note, it works best on PC atm, as it's not currently optimised for mobile.
The plan is to make this open source once its functionality is better worked out.
And for the community to then contribute moves, name tricks (voted up/down), submit training videos and any other juicy juggling data as this is definitely not a one person project!! lol :D
Great project!
• Appealing design
• comfortable, user-friendly navigation
• great variety of props, disciplines, tricks, skills, moves, (or planned).
I hope it'll fruit!
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