Juggling
I started juggling after watching a show in my home city in Japan when I was 8-ish. I mostly learned to juggle from books and videos, with much inspiration from Péter Frankl. After moving to California, in middle school I attended juggling festivals and, for about two years, regularly attended Thursday Night Juggling at LA Valley College.
As I haven't practiced very much since 2004, my current juggling skills (excepting my recent advances with 5 clubs) remain the same from that time. I did start a juggling club at my school with one-hour practice once a week to keep up what I already have. I also attended the juggling club at Caltech once in a while, but juggling isn't very popular at Caltech either.
As of fall, 2004, I could juggle 5 balls solid and 6 balls semi-solid. I was struggling with 7 balls, with a record of 35 catches.
My long term goal in juggling has been to juggle 7 balls, 6 rings, and 5 clubs solid. Since I'm starting to work on my 5 clubs again, I think that's the first of these goals that I will be reach. I still have a long way to go with the other props, though. Juggling is so hard!
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Personal Records
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Festivals Attended
- Damento (Davis/Sacramento) Festival - 2004
- Isla Vista Juggling Festival - 2002, 2003, 2004 (I performed speedcubing and blindfold cubing at the show this year)
- International Juggling Association - 2003 Reno, Nevada
- Lodi Juggling Festival - 2002
- Nomadic Juggling Festival - 2005 at CSU Long Beach
Favorite Juggling Links
- World Juggling Federation
- Juggling Information Service
- JRDb (Juggling Record Database)
- IJDB (Internet Juggling Database)
- Jason Garfield
- Vova and Olga Galchenko
- Thomas Dietz
- Anthony Gatto
- Japan Juggling Association