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HAMILTON
FLOYD WRITES (2/26/71)
A
perusal of the World Juggling Championships issue of the IJA Newsletter
has me looking forward to a fine convention. Your plans look
great.
The
list of events looks good. But I don't expect to compete. To have
a chance, I'd probably have to make up my own event. Yet I believe I can
make an important contribution to a successful convention.
If
it can be scheduled, I can demonstrate some completely new and original
juggling tricks. Here's what I mean:
1.
Juggling combined with lariat spinning. With my headgear and
vigorous head motion, I spin the lariat around myself.
Simultaneously, I juggle with enough variations to indicate that there
are lots of possibilities.
2.
Juggling combined with magic. The effect is that the balls
change color while you juggle them. The apparatus includes a disposer,
to get rid of the ball, and a producer, to give you a new ball with
the new color. The big problems have been solved, so now it's a
matter of combining things for a well coordinated operation.
3.
The brightest glow possible. I want a lot more flash or glow than is
now possible on juggling clubs. Florescence is not new,. so it
won't be that. I am experimenting with reflectorized coatings and
electro-luminescence.
The
convention can be a place where the jugglers can get up to
date on new tricks, and also be encouraged to create and develop new
ideas. If the inventors can get the reactions of other jugglers, they
can make a better decision on whether to produce the item.
Please
let me know if this can be put on the program. I'll need to
plan ahead for it.
Best
wishes for the greatest convention of jugglers ever. I
hope to see you and the others who have built up the IJA.
Sincerely,
"Ham" Floyd
(Ed.
note: We'll be looking forward to seeing you in
Hartford
during the Fourth of July Convention, Ham, and by all means bring your
ideas. I'll guarantee you'll have plenty of opportunity to show them off.)
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MARIO WRITES FROM
GERMANY
(3/28/71)
Please
write in the Newsletter that the lines about Rudy Sarno are not correct. I
have not written that Sarno juggles
7 rings while balancing the doll at the same time. This is a
mistake of translation.
(Ed.
notes Marit is referring to the Nov. 1970 Newsletter. He wrote an article
about the Rastelli Festival. Sarno did a mouthstick routine with a small
teddy bear.)
Please
send me address of where I can obtain spinning balls.
Ich
danke
Mit
freundlichen Grussen, Mario.
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