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PEOPLE,
PICTURES
One
of the most profound philosophical statements of the convention was
found printed across the shirt of a California woman. Latin scholars
will quickly grasp the dignity and majesty of her message - Juglito Ergo
Sum.
Michael
Kass
Lindsey
Morris, winner of the juniors competition, bicycled into Amherst after
two-wheel touring all over the northeast. The trip was a good one, he
said. Making money at the Vermont Banjo Festival and Newport Maritime
Festival made it all the more pleasant. After the convention, he was
pedaling home to Charlottesville, Virginia, to be a computer programmer
again. Lindsey commented, "Life is good when you can freelance on
computers in the winter and take off on your bike during the summer to
make money juggling."
Carlo,
author of The Juggling Book, is helping develop young jugglers
at a local school on Long Island. He confessed at Amherst to juggling
less these days, having been at it for 39 years. "I guess it's sort
of dangerous to say around here, but
I'm a little burned out on juggling," he said. "I've been at
it since I was ten or eleven."
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With
the success of his book, Carlo did promotional tours to college campuses
nationwide. But he settled into
semi-retirement in 1977. "I'm mainly interested now in seeing
people learn to juggle," Carlo stated. "That's really always
been my point though. That's what The Juggling Book was all about."
"Because
everybody should juggle," he said.
"No
they shouldn't!" she shot back.
He
asked, "Alright then, under what conditions shouldn't they?"
"If
they don't enjoy it or are disinterested."
He
was getting frustrated. "How do you find that our then?"
"You
try it, of course," she answered.
Sensing
the advantage, he exclaimed, "Aha! Then everyone should
juggle!"
"No,"
she said calmly. "You stop when you get disinterested and don't
enjoy it anymore." "Alright, "he replied.
Jon
Held moved to Boulder, Colorado, in April to juggle with Barrett Felker.
With four hours of practice daily, and sometimes as much as ten, they
developed a routine worthy of selection for the IJA benefit show at the
Bangs Community Center in Amherst Wednesday afternoon.
Even
with a low ceiling to contend with, the pair pulled off beach ball
juggling, out of synch / synchronized club juggling and an eight-club
pass. Fellow Boulder juggler Alan Streeter has seen them do nine!
Jon
likes performing with a partner. "You communicate more with the
audience," he said. "You've got to talk to them. If one person
stands up there silently juggling by himself they begin to wonder after
a while." He added, "Barrett does most of our talking."
Most
of the city's other performing jugglers, including "Dr. Hot"
(Bill Galvin) and Steve Mock and the Wimbledon Brothers, get together
downstairs in the Carlson Gym on the University of Colorado campus.
Larry
Forsberg of San Francisco wants to start a vegetarian nudist juggling
camp in Hawaii or some other warm place... Until then, he and Ned Van
Alstyne will continue to teach Bay area residents to juggle Sunday
afternoons from noon until dark east of the conservatory. So far, 80
people have signed their student roster.
Empty
soda cans don't juggle too well, but it fills slack time at the factory.
Tom Doyen, a sheet metal worker from Austin, Texas, couldn't find
anything else to manipulate one slow night. The clubs he finally bought
are nicked and taped up from falling to the concrete floor during other
juggling interludes on the job. They certainly suffered no further
damage on the gym floor at the convention though. The tartan surface was
forgiving to dropped items, and an excellent bouncing surface for balls.
The gym floor at North Dakota State in Fargo, site of the 1980
convention, is similarly coated.
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