Page 7 June 1984
TO
ALL THE PROFESSIONAL AND semi-pro jugglers in the USA: I cannot get my
local phone company to create a heading of "Jugglers" in the
Yellow Pages! Yet, "Magicians" exists as do a few other
seemingly specialized headings!
Let's
put pressure on the phone company (Yellow Pages) to get a heading for
jugglers, too. Anyone who has a business line (either primarily for
juggling or for a
There
is some sort of national policy on this problem of creating new
headings, so you may have to really insist that they apply for it. But
it will be worth it if we jugglers can get our deserved place in the
Yellow Pages!
Otherwise,
let's have our feet "do the walking" all over their fingers
in the Yellow Pages! Charlie
Willer CONNECTING
BOOMERANGS AND juggling, I'd suggest 'rangs with a symmetric airfoil.
This enables you to throw the same 'rang with right or left hand. Two
bladers of this type have a range of 10-15 meters (made with the right
wood and well trimmed) - perhaps too much to be practical for a juggler. What
I'd suggest is a small (8-9 inch) pinwheel (six blader) in light wood
with symmetric airfoil. This'll get you: short range
(3-5 meters) accurate return, easy catch, and graceful and fairly slow
flight. With some of those you'd follow a horizontal plane in juggling
instead of vertical.
As
to doing 'rangs in a juggling act, the only people I've heard of to use
them is the Flying Karamazovs. I got the impression, though, that they
juggled them just as you would any bent stick. I never heard of anyone
using boomerangs as boomerangs in a juggling act. Lasse
Camevall CAUGHT
THE ACT OF THE RASPINI Brothers (Barry Freidman and Dan Holzman)
recently with . 'The Flying Three Ring Rainbow" at the Grand Opera
House on Galveston Island.
Barry
and Dan get this reporter's vote for being one of the best duos.
Continuous
Three
lacrosse balls with fancy moves and head rolls. Airline emergency
routine with oxygen mask, paper bag, etc. (hard to describe). Barry does
three torches with lots of fire, then a nose balance with a fourth,
which drops into a good four routine.
Six
torch passing, the five club passing
Three
knife take-aways while eating and exchanging apple and carrot. Put a
stooge Bob
Blau JUST
A NOTE OF INQUIRY FOR A new section in Juggler's World. How about
a section dealing with juggling jokes and gags for all to contribute as
source material to for those comically inclined. Just a thought, see if
it will fly. Franklin
Hargraves
(Ed.
note - Is anyone willing to
contribute? Jokes should be your own, not those heard from others.) |