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Games
We Like To Play The
Delaware (Ohio) Hayes Juggling Club plays a game to keep us
amused. We call it juggling football, for lack of a better name. All
you need is a wide hallway, preferably with nothing breakable in it,
and some jugglers who don't get uptight when slammed into the walls.
Teams
are chosen and each juggler gets three beanbags or balls. Boundaries
are the two walls and two "goal lines" on either end of
the hall.
To
begin, a coin toss decides who will be offense and who will be
defense. Each team lines up on the goals facing each other. The team
on offense tries to get across the defense's goal line without
dropping. The defensive players slam themselves into the offense to
make them drop. The offense gets one point for each juggler who
crosses the opposite goal line without dropping. The defense can't
kick, trip or launch kamikaze attacks. Once a player has dropped he
or she must go to the sideline until the round is over.
We
switch offense and defense after each round, and play to 15 points.
Any number can be used, however, depending on the amount of time
you've got to kill! Matt
Carleton - Delaware,Ohio
Memories
of My Club In
the 1920s I taught at a school in a large metropolitan
city. The principal told me "Every teacher is expected to have a
club. Whatever you do with the club is OK, but meet once a week."
I
thought for a few minutes and then replied, "How about a
Juggler's Club, with some magic thrown in?"
So
that is how the Juggler's Club was born. Signs and posters went up on
the wall. But I wasn't quite prepared for the 30 students who came on
that day!
There
were balls of all sizes, and hoops. But the boy who brought the dishes
bothered me. "Don't worry," he said. "They're all
wooden."
The
jugglers went on first, and I'll admit they were good. One using what
looked like baseballs did his routine. The timing was perfect. Then he
let one ball bounce off his head and stopped. That was the soft ball. One
student announced at the next meeting, "I'm going to juggle three
balls and do a card trick at the same time."
I
was asked to sit behind a small table. The juggler's assistant took a
pack of cards and spread them on the table in front of me, faces down.
The juggler said, "The teacher will take a card from the deck,
look
I
took a card and it was the six of diamonds. It went back in the pack,
the balls went up in the air and the juggler said, "Six of
diamonds."
If
there were prizes to be given he certainly would have won the gold
medal. But alas! I later learned how simple it was. Every card in the
pack was a six of diamonds! Dr.
Harold Gluck
From The Art Director Greetings,
fellow jugglers!
This
Spring issue of Juggler's World is a very special one, for me as
a juggler and as a graphic designer.
As
an artist, this is the first publication I have designed and produced on
ALDUS PAGEMAKER. After twenty years with a T-Square and razor in my
hands adjusting to the wiles of computers was long and difficult. I ask
your indulgence with the inaccuracies and bugs in this issue.
As
a juggler, this Spring holds the challenge of preparing for the 42nd
annual IJA Convention. We are certain of success, and hope those of you
reading this will join us for the fun.
Also,
I would urge any other hearty club of jugglers who are considering
throwing a convention to go for it! After all, how often do you get to
throw a party of this size?!
Laura
Green, Chair juggler, |