Hi all,
Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
it back into the pattern?

That would be cool :)

Steve

From:	slammin
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	20 Jan 2005 13:12:25 GMT

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
> catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
> it back into the pattern?
>
> That would be cool :)
>
> Steve

Here is one way:

4 club fountain.
Throw a slow single from the right.
Catch that single in a balance on your foot and at the same time,
transition to a 3 club cascade.

To go back up, you can either just flick/push-kick the club on your foot
in the balance into a four club fountain. Or you can flip the club on
your foot 3/4 so that you can catch it with your foot an kick it back up
in a 4 club fountain.

Slammin'

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From:	FreeJuggler
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	19 Jan 2005 22:47:14 GMT

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
> catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
> it back into the pattern?

I don't know. I've never seen anyone
doing it, but then what do I know?

I once played around with a foot
balance and it seems doable, though very
difficult. I could only get short balances.
I'm sure there are Chinese acrobats
that are very good at foot balances.

> That would be cool :)

Yes, but I wonder if the
audience would realize
how difficult it is?

FreeJuggler

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From:	David Cain
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	19 Jan 2005 20:25:28 -0800

I can also catch a club balanced on my foot out of a three club cascade
fairly well. This is one of many tricks that will be on my next video
which, in the fine tradition of Thomas' videos, will have the very
original title of David Cain Video # 1. I will include the tricks
currently on my website and many others I'm currently filming. I've
never tried catching a club balanced on my foot from 4 clubs and don't
imagine I'd have any success at it, but I can juggler four gold balls
while balancing a golf club on my foot.
David Cain
www.christianjuggler.com

From:	Brian Fahs
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2005 02:33:36 GMT

"David Cain" wrote in message
news:1106195128.657545.300510@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>I can also catch a club balanced on my foot out of a three club cascade
> fairly well. This is one of many tricks that will be on my next video
> which, in the fine tradition of Thomas' videos, will have the very
> original title of David Cain Video # 1. I will include the tricks
> currently on my website and many others I'm currently filming. I've
> never tried catching a club balanced on my foot from 4 clubs and don't
> imagine I'd have any success at it, but I can juggler four gold balls
> while balancing a golf club on my foot.
> David Cain
> www.christianjuggler.com
>

Gold balls must be ridicuously expensive....

Brian Fahs
Aurora.IL

From:	Guy G
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:39:13 +0000

David Cain wrote:
> I can also catch a club balanced on my foot out of a three club cascade
> fairly well. This is one of many tricks that will be on my next video
> which, in the fine tradition of Thomas' videos, will have the very
> original title of David Cain Video # 1. I will include the tricks
> currently on my website and many others I'm currently filming. I've
> never tried catching a club balanced on my foot from 4 clubs and don't
> imagine I'd have any success at it, but I can juggler four gold balls
> while balancing a golf club on my foot.
> David Cain
> www.christianjuggler.com

Look, I'm sure you're a great juggler. I've seen some of your videos
and you seem to be very good. But you won't make any friends by showing
off how rich you are. Most of the jugglers here would find it a bit (or
a lot) of a stretch buying a set of silicone balls, let alone a set of
gold balls. Such blatent flaunting of your wealth is rather
inconsiderate, and in my opinion, rude. Next you'll be telling us about
your set of platinum coated clubs.
Tch!

Guy

From:	Luke Burrage
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	20 Jan 2005 00:42:02 GMT

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
> catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
> it back into the pattern?

I can juggle 3 clubs, throw one low, catch it on my foot in a balance,
then kick it back into a 3 club cascade. I can't do it from 4 clubs...
well, I have never tried but I will bet any ammount of money that I can't
do it.

Another good way of getting into a foot balance from the 3 clu cascade
(that I learnt first) is to catch a club in a balance on a club held in
your hand. Once it is steady, drop the hand away and let it drop down,
vertically, and land on your foot in a balance. Much easier.

Finally, a trick which I can get once in every 20 tries or so, balance the
club on your chin or nose, and drop it from there onto your foot. Much
harder.

>
> That would be cool :)

It is a cool trick! Sometimes I have it solid, enough to get it 10 times
in a row without a drop... other times I can hardly get it at all... oh
well...

Luke Burrage

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From:	HomeMade
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	19 Jan 2005 19:24:18 -0800

Am I the only one who suspects that LukeB is one of the best jugglers
alive? Who else does all the stuff he does, or any of it? He seems to
be too busy doing another something else to establish "records" other
than his very generous videos.

Of course, not having to really work for a living makes such things
easier....

From:	Luke Burrage
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	20 Jan 2005 13:32:12 GMT

HomeMade wrote:
> Am I the only one who suspects that LukeB is one of the best jugglers
> alive? Who else does all the stuff he does, or any of it? He seems to
> be too busy doing another something else to establish "records" other
> than his very generous videos.

I'm ok.

> Of course, not having to really work for a living makes such things
> easier....

True.

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From:	Itsik Orr
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:19:59 +0200

HomeMade wrote :
> Luke Burrage wrote:
>> Finally, a trick which I can get once in every 20 tries or so, balance
>> the club on your chin or nose, and drop it from there onto your foot.
>> Much harder.
>
> Am I the only one who suspects that LukeB is one of the best jugglers
> alive? Who else does all the stuff he does, or any of it?

Not that Luke isn't a good juggler, but specifically to the point in
question, last year at the Israel juggling festival Tony Duncan performed
(note - performed, in the public show, as in 20 out of 20 tries, not 1 out
of 20) a short club routine, a small part of which ran as follows:
- Drop the club down from a chin balance to a foot balance
- Kick it back up without spin straight to a chin balance (@#!@#!?)
- Transfer from a chin balance to a nose balance without using hands
- Transfer from a nose balance to a forehead balance without using hands
- Drop it backwards to a blind kick flying back forward over the head and
resuming non-chalante juggling.
He seemed to be fairly cool about it as well...
__________________
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From:	staticjuggler
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	20 Jan 2005 00:15:22 GMT

I recall Tom Derrick once telling me that he can balance a club on his
foot easily, but I
don't think he can out of 4 clubs then into a cascade with a balance. Just
from a 3 club
cascade he can I think.

Static

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
> catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
> it back into the pattern?
>
> That would be cool :)
>
> Steve

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From:	Itsik Orr
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:38:23 +0200

Steve Bennett asked:
> Can anyone throw a club out of a pattern (eg 4c fountain) and
> catch/balance it on the end of their foot and keep juggling? Then kick
> it back into the pattern?

A fairly famous juggler (or at least, used to be famous) here in Israel does
that trick (or at least, used to do it) - Michael Staroseletski. He
performed a very strong balls and clubs routine (although not this specific
trick) as the headliner of the '99 EJC public show.
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From:	Steve Bennett
Subject:	Re: Club to foot balance?
Date:	19 Jan 2005 21:09:40 -0800

Cool - I would have thought the foot catch bit would be the easy bit
though. I found it wasn't that hard just to flip a club once and land
the handle on your toe - can't balance it though.

Luke, are you going to take requests for another "January difficult
tricks" or whatever video? I really liked the ones I've seen...