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Leeds Juggling Convention 2015
Leeds!
I had a lovely time at Leeds. Coffee, doughnuts, friends, juggling (I still can, just about).
Highlights were new and incipient infants; the acro act being very lucky that they asked me to start their music before they appeared, because I was possibly too busy admiring their costuming to have correctly handled a sound cue; Mark's compering and pineapple professionalism; Jon Peat's excellent first go of stage management; and Tiff, whose act was entirely mind boggling, and who is one of the few people on the planet who could even come close to living up to his own high standards. Finally of course, Alice's breakfast.
Low: No Lorri :-(
Thankyou to everyone who came to Leeds. Special thanks to Ron,Lazy Juggler who donated a BJC pass as raffle prize( we set a record for tickets sold) and Butterfingers for trading and donating prizes as well.
We have more people this year than previously so, sorry we ran out of doughnuts.
Thanks to Jon for the show, Jenni for passes and flyers, Alastair ,Tim and Rebecca for running everything and tidying up.
Highs , number of tickets sold, the show(Tiff especially) and having good friends to stay over who did not complain about the lack of pillows or incessant coughing!
Hoping to do it next year ,same time, if the school will have us.
Alice
The Leeds Juggling Convention 2015 Review
Last Saturday was the Leeds Juggling Convention 2015 (UK) held once again in St Marys School, Menston.
First of all, thank you everyone who came to the convention this year! We had bumper numbers and will need to make more passes next year and order even more doughnuts!
Highlights
Having a house full of family and friends who made the whole weekend excellent fun.
I had a really nice custard doughnut, obviously fresh baked that morning. I did do the thing where you check the dates on the packets to see which to open first, then I realised that there wouldn’t be any left anyway!
Ross did a great job organising our workshop timetable and it was nice to see so many varied and good quality workshops. Some took place a little early in the day for most people, we will perhaps look at this for next year.
Enjoyed a lovely fish and chips sit down meal with Jenni and Mark at midday.
Got back in time to run my wrist traps workshop with clubs. I pretty much made the workshop up as I went along (and I think it showed a bit) but I did expose a good number of people to various wrist traps and other miscellanious club tricks. I was pleased when we got onto some of the more interesting variations that a number of people saw what we were doing and came to join the workshop. Overall I think it went down quite well, the problem is that it takes a fair bit of practice to make those sort of tricks look smooth so there were no immediate rewards for the workshop goers but I hope I got some people excited about the possibilities.
I bought a nice selection of games from Lazy Juggler.
The Show! All of the acts were excellent and Mark did a wonderful job holding the whole thing together. (We will forget the small mishap I had with the lighting desk!)
Emily touched upon the subject of some costuming during the show. I missed most of the act in question as I was holding my head in my hands…
Congratulations to Dan Wood for winning the first ever Leeds Juggling Convention Combat Tournament.
My Heroes of the day
Alastair - Directed all of us in the building of the stage, was an excellent games master, did a fine job of getting the raffle done as quickly as possible, helped all the acts by being stage hand and packed everything up at the end of the day.
Emily - So easy to work with and a nice calming influence during the whole show.
Jenni - Supporting me and being my little gofer when setting up the show. All the hours she spent designing and making the passes as well as setting up Mark with his own quote!
Mark - Great company for the entire weekend as well as some excellent compering and a magic performance to boot. We also had a late night magic performance that night and we are still eating up all the Oranges and Melons!
Lows (or things to improve)
Arriving later than planned, turns out Menston is further round the ring road than I thought it was. I did want to help set up everything but Alice and Alastair had everything sorted by the time I arrived.
I’d like to make a bigger fuss about the workshops next year. Perhaps printed timetables of the day would help highlight the workshops which are on offer and also highlight when the show starts.
It would be good if we could find some more toilets somewhere near the show hall that we could make available during the interval as there was a bit of a queue.
I had an absolutely fantastic time at Leeds Juggling Convention this year!
I have always enjoyed LJC as an attendee but this was my first year as part of the organising team.
It was a delight and a pleasure, I hope to be involved again next year and I really look forward to seeing you all there!
Cheers, Jon
#conventionreview
This read like a good (and more interesting than most) reflective log that those of us who have been through any form of teacher training (primary, secondary or tertiary) will be familiar with.
Perhaps this is something to be encouraged for convention organisers. I may need to route out some of my old ones to figure out a good structure. ... something like a records section.
I must get to Leeds juggling convention some year: I only need a compatible teaching timetable to make it feasible.
^ This with knobs on. Goes hand in hand with the recent discussion about articles for the IJA ezine. More personal experiences please!
Regarding workshop timetables Jon, I've put some work into a timetable system on the Edge (go to an event for which you a member of High Command the click create new timetable), I think it should make handling timetables easier & provides a number of formats to play with but I've not had anyone do anything other than play with it yet. I don't know if that is because it is too hard to use or that it doesn't do the job it needs to do. Here's a mock up showing what you can do, & there's lots of discussion about timetables that might be useful too.
Leeds was good as always but at the end of a 60 hour week with a 4-5 hour commute I was perhaps too fatigued to make the best of it. Most of the usual suspects were there and it was wonderful to see them again as well as a few from further afield. The attendance was higher than usual, but there was still plenty of space we just ran out of free doughnuts earlier.
I misremembered a conversation with Alice about bringing extra spare mugs, but thank you to Alan for bringing them.
There were plenty of workshops but they needed to be better highlighted, there was a whiteboard beyond the boardgames area with the timetable, but I didn't find this till the afternoon. With all the distractions at a juggling convention it is nice to have announcements for workshops as it is easy to lose to lose track of time. Luckily we noticed when we were about to start passing a lot of people facing Jon trying wrist-traps and realised his workshop was on (I had seen on the facebook event he was giving a workshop and had been looking forward to it) and it was a really enjoyable workshop.
The show was good, Tiff's act was amazing, the venue penalises you for accepting a lift to the pub before the show from a driver who goes in the wrong direction - by giving you a seat near the back with limited view of anything below the performer waist. So any rola-bola'ing, etc., might as well be mimed. Jon's trick with the stage lights was very entertaining.
The maze through the school to get to the sports hall was well signed except for the one junction where there was a 50% chance of going the wrong way and I accepted those odds and took it.
Much to Alastair's disbelief I won a raffle prize; with nothing I wanted to win available, I picked up something to give to the local juggling club, but managed to sell it before I left the show venue to someone who wanted a hoop more than me.
The toilets are a bit dire at the school, but I suppose it is oop north so we should be grateful they are indoors.
Lou Duncan - #
I'm actually itching to get to Leeds this weekend, me and a couple of mates decided to go last week. Has anyone got any advice for it? I've been looking for my sonic the hedgehog mug so that's just about all the prep I need!
Bring some money so you can pre-reg for BJC Perth while you are at Leeds Juggling Convention (the cashpoint is not very close to the school) before the pre-reg price goes up at the end of the month.
Hopefully the website should tell you anything you need to know. www.juggler.net/leeds
Lou Duncan - - Parent #
Excellent advice I just hope I've got the money to buy it:)
Little Paul - - Parent #
Take a mug to drink tea from and something to snack on while you're trying to herd your juggler friends into making a decision about where to go for food...
But most importantly, say hi to people outside your group of mates, make new friends and have a lot of fun :)
Lou Duncan - - Parent #
Absolutely will do, I can't keep to myself at events, it just defeats the purpose for me! I've got a mug looked out too. Should be a right laugh :)
Hi I'm new to this forum I'm from Merseyside, I have been a professional Flair bartender for the last 7 years and I'm getting tired of the alcohol trade. I have been really getting back to juggling and transferring skills between the two. I'm currently working on getting five balls consistent. I'm looking to share my knowledge and learn as many new skills as I can.
Little Paul - - Parent #
Hi! Welcome!
If you've spent 7 years doing Flair professionally - you've probably got the skills to learn this routine, which you really don't see performed any more (I'm aware of one performer who does it)
http://juggling.tv/15315
that's really cool using a pate instead of a tin, this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for new ideas with new objects. thanks =]
Hi & welcome!
In your vids, you seem to be mostly really one with the props .. you got the `flow´! .. I like that handback-skipping the bottle .. Also like, including a few fails - it brings up that "Will he get this one?"-suspense. Great you're into Five! Also tricks with 5b .. did you fancy a first trick to try with 5b yet?
Cheers, getting into making videos loads at the minute really helping my practice and form. I have been playing with 5 ball multiplexes and getting 5 ball cascades to have a longer duration. What's a good starting point as far as tricks go?
Guess, doing single reverse throws, .. maybe try claw one, or tennis. But I really found the splits very easy more than anything else with 5b (once, I got the horizontal spread well), yet - being multiplex - they don't convey the feeling of doing a 5b-trick.
A mastered cascade opens all the doors to what you do with 3 balls :o) Shouldn't be hard for you to get there!
I think I'm just going to up the practice time with 5 balls, getting to grips with it more lately so trying to introduce simple tricks should help with coordination and form, cheers Wizard =]
Welcome to the Edge Tom, & thanks for joining in. Can you do half showers with 5? That's probably the easiest first trick.
A nice easy trick that I don't see anyone else doing that I think is pretty cool is juggle five balls & start collecting in one hand but keep hrowing with the other hand, once you've collected 3 balls make the last throw with the other hand, pass the 3 balls across then resume the cascade as if starting from scratch. Siteswap should be something like this:
5555525[22]5[111][522]5[52]555555
(You can turn siteswap highlighting on under settings, if you have java available on your machine you will be able to click that pattern to open it up in JugglingLab to see what it looks like)
Got the half shower with 4 pretty comfortable so cant imagine 5 been that much harder. I'll give it a bash when I practice later
Think I know what you mean with the Siteswaps I'll check it out.
To be honest 5 cascade past 20 catches is annoying me at the minute, I'm seeing gradual improvement every day just need to keep pushing forward =]
I'll check the Siteswap highlighter out thanks Orinoco thanks.
The Liverpool uni juggling society will start back up soon when term starts. There are no other flair people, and not all that many toss jugglers, but it's better than nothing
I was going fairly regular at the start of last year but I work on that night now :( Over the last few sessions I went there was a few people starting to use flair more I hope that kept up =]
Thinking about going the Leeds convention this year at the moment if I can get the night off.
I hope you will be able to come to Leeds Juggling Convention it will great!
Do you want to lead a bar flair workshop/skillshare to make sure more bar flair happens?
#LJC2015
That's not to bad at all, I haven't been to a convention before If I can get the night off work i will be definitely be coming to the Leeds convention =]
The "How to get there" should all be up to date (unless they've changed the buses again) - have you found a mistake?
Stephen Meschke - - Parent #
There is a link to airplane pollution in the 'How to get there.' I have lost more than one good juggling pattern to a glimmering wide body airplane high up against a blue sky. They are very distracting, even for the greatest jugglers (7b. world record).
Am I reading too much into this, or is that article linked because airplanes negatively impact the juggling environment there?
Take it as a rare extra challenge and `catch´the aeroplane on top of your pattern ..
I'm really gonna try to make it down.
I am happy holding a flair workshop I don't have many flair props at the min tho...
Cool. If you need to give your work loads of notice to get a night off there is a really good convention in January in York called Chocfest. There are usually quite a few jugglers from Liverpool coming to it.
There is normally a juggling convention in Manchester in October, but it sounds like it might not happen this year due to problems with the venue.
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