Interesting things and people for your attention

 

The Catch-A-Quick Jugglers will make a much shorter trip to the summer convention. This trio and occasionally quartet of jugglers lives just 180 miles from San Jose in Chico, California.

 

Sy Bazis, Lynn Danehy, Daryl Kuster and Michael Taylor have been getting steady work locally for about six years now. Their plan for the summer is to crank up operations into full-time employment. The challenge of marketing their act enough to provide legitimate employment for that many people is a tremendous one. However, hopes are high in Chico.

 

"Things are going well, we're booked almost every weekend this summer," Taylor reported.

 

"We do a lot of things to involve the audience, " Taylor said. There are clowning and skits, as well as juggling of odd objects like eggs, plungers, machetes and lots of torches. One of the most successful for their school assembly programs is lining up youngsters to walk through a club passing pattern.

 

As a spotter holds the line of squealing youngsters back, the passers count "One, two, go!" for the cue to run quickly before the next pass.

The important thing is that the kids love it, and that gets Catch-A-Quick invited back time after time.

 

The walk-through probably won't be included in their act for the Team Championships at the IJA convention though. For that they're planning "club passing and comedy." Be there to see it!

 

About now, the 5-person team "Manic Expressions" is somewhere

in Texas juggling their way to the San Jose convention. This quintet of North Carolinians - Rebel Bailey, Casey Canter, Tommy Gabriel, Mark Lippard and Wally Long - are following their juggling dream down a 4,000-mile, three month road.

 

Is this a case of five starry-eyed jugglers headed out into the wilderness, unaware of the perils in those woods? "Yea, that's pretty much us!" Gabriel replied.

 

Mainly, though, it's a commitment to friendship by five people brought together through their common interest in juggling.

 

Young Joel Heidtman doesn't worry about conforming with the Big

Walnut High School crowd in Westerville, Ohio. This enthusiastic juggler has discovered that cultivating a specialty can lead to notoriety far beyond your actual worth, and he's milking it for all he can!

 

He serves as his own press agent and booking service, and does well at both. Local media have been as taken by his unabashed excitement over juggling as his friends. First it was an article in the high school paper, then a local paper and finally a PM Magazine piece that aired nationwide!

 

He's just about got five clubs licked, but recognizes that he needs to develop a unique act. For this high school band member, that "piece de resistance" is bouncing a ball on his head while he plays tenor saxaphone!