37th European Juggling Convention Millstreet, Ireland HLGCBS

peterbone - 2014-07-29 02:00:31 UTC - Parent #

H: Meeting new people, including some legends. Working on 11 balls with 6 other people. Meeting and talking with Michael Moschen. Watching Poki from the US learning the dual balance.

L: Parts of the Gala show.

G: To juggle a lot and meet new people. Achieved,

C: Elk Fest.

B: Dusty and dark hall. Having limited good space to juggle in. Non-ideal tent pitching surface.

S: Bumping into my step-brother, who I did not recognise.

lukeburrage - 2014-07-31 09:40:47 UTC - Parent #

H: Various parts of the Legends Stage. Landing a near-impossible squeeze scissor catch at the end of my squeeze catches workshop.

L: Putting our tent up in the rain on the first day. We then abandoned the tent, inflated the mattress in the hire car, and slept there for the rest of the convention.

G: Win Fight Night: Fail. Inevitably I lost to Jochen.
Organize Fight Night: Win, but with some issues. This'll be the last time I run it.
Run a juggling workshop: Win. Twice. Squeeze Catches and How To Not Suck At Combat.

C: Viktor Kee on stage too obvious? Patrik Elmnert too.

B: Being in a venue designed and maintained for horses. Next time can we live like humans and not livestock?

S: From those who walked out of the first Gala Show, I was led to understand that it would be utterly awful. It wasn't. I actually quite enjoyed it. It was, however, the slowest and down-tempo-est Gala Show I've ever seen. None of the acts were bad (in the second show) but there was very little variety of tone.

Squibly - 2014-08-03 03:32:48 UTC - Parent #

H: Difficult; it was a GREAT convention. The banana manipulation was a definite feel-good moment though.

L: Samuel Youde. Also much illness on the way home.

G: Practise tapbacks. Achieved, but levered off my nail using stupid non-ball-shaped props.

C: Toilet corridor violin guy.

B: My sandy dusty throat.

S: Darragh McLoughlin's whistle piece - I surprised myself by how much I enjoyed this considering how little juggling there really was in it.
Also the campsite. That ground was pretty surprising...

niallkelly - 2014-08-04 10:20:44 UTC - Parent #

H: Attending a lock-in in the bar that included Viktor Kee and Marco Paoletti with lots of drinking, singing and banging of tables!

L: Sam's act and Mathias telling everyone to get the f*** out before the interval (He wasn't speaking for the organisers).

G: Catch up with friends, volunteer, and watch some good acts. Check.

C: Michael Moschen's workshop. I only caught the last 40 minutes but it was quite interesting to hear his opinion on various things.

B: Continuously failing to get out of my tent before the sun hit it.

S: Steve Mills.

Monte - 2014-09-01 03:53:05 UTC - Parent #

H: Ireland what a great country with such friendly people. Winning trophy for coming third in the Millstreet soap box race.

L: Noel C Duggan (site owner) deliberately driving into my brand new awning and bending the struts.He was a complete nightmare and eventually the organisers had to call the police after he knocked one of them over with his forklift and tried to steal the rented generator.

G: Get my kitchen, staff and several tons of kit safely back to Hulver Farm after a journey of over 1000 miles. Succeed
Win soapbox race. Fail (came third)

C: Barry from the smoked meat stall.He took a day off after the convention to show me around Kinsale and Cork including a trip to Charlesfort.I love a good castle.
Also Tony O'Brien the local butcher who bent over backwards to deliver meat and veg to me on site. He also organised the soapbox race and found a kart for me to race with.

B: Bloody American tourists at Blarney castle who queued for 2 hours to kiss the stone but took absolutely no interest in seeing the rest of the castle. I even had to tell one off for throwing his litter on the floor.

S: High cost of many foodstuffs in Ireland. By the time I got home I had barely broken even.