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Forward Twiddle - Twiddle the hat off the head and back on. It's got comedy potential too! Allegedly.
Use a palm-up fork grip on both sides the hat, and lift it off the head. Remove the ring fingers from the brim and twist the hat between the fore and middle fingers. Stop the spin by gripping the brim between the fore fingers and thumb.
Reverse the process to return the hat to the head.
You can get an easy laugh by getting the return part wrong and pretending to hit yourself in the face.
Jon Lockwood (of Mushy Pea Juggling fame, now working as with "Company of Fools") did lots of hat workshops at juggling conventions in the mid to late 1990's and started Mike and LP out on the hat road. This was often the first trick he taught...so it's Jon and this trick that ultimately led to the creation of this site. Thanks Jon!
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Use a palm-up fork grip at the back of the hat and remove it, straightening the arm. As the arm straightens twist the wrist and take the ring finger off the brim. Spin the hat so that it moves between the middle and forefingers, then transfer the grip to the forefinger and thumb and continue the spin for as far as you can.
Reverse the "twiddle" to place it back on the head.
The main video clip for this trick doesn't show the fingers in any great detail. See the closeup version (120K mpeg) for a better view. For best results you might want to set your video player to loop the clip.
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Steve Rawlings showed me this trick in Birmingham and said that he used to do it in every show, but now that he's older (and a little rounder :-) he can't get it every time any more. Steve uses a china plate for this trick, but it works with hats too which is why it's here! :-)
Take the hat in your right hand, using an inside grip and hold it so that the crown of the hat is facing to the left.
Throw the hat virtically with some spin, and then do the following while the hat is in the air...
Put your right hand between your legs
Take the hand around the back of the right leg
Stand on your left leg and move the right hand & foot behind the left leg
Then, catch the descending hat in your right hand, from that position. Without falling over.
Top Tips: Practice the "tangle yourself up" bit first without the catch. Keep your eye on the hat as it decends, practice loads...
Luke Burrage managed to get this on video within 30 minutes. I've been trying for weeks and can't do it. It's pretty hard.
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This is one of the videos that was filmed for our former site, TricksWithHats, which never went live. So it doesn't have a write-up and is presented here for posterity.
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This is one of the videos that was filmed for our former site, TricksWithHats, which never went live. So it doesn't have a write-up and is presented here for posterity.
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This is a combination of parts of two other tricks, so it would probably help to learn them first. They are the Arm Roll and the Wipe Up
Start with the hat on your head. With the right arm, do the first part of a wipe up, just to the point where the hat comes off your head. However, instead of carrying it out to the side, push the hat back on your head so that the bottom of the brim comes into contact with your shoulder blades.
Use your upper arm to push the hat off and to the left, so that it can roll down your arm as though you were doing an Arm Roll, catching it in you hand as you do so
One variation that Mike is fond of, is to grip the front part of the crown with the crook of the elbow. Mike claims this gives him more options, and more control over where the hat goes. Try it, it may work for you too!
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s still a succession of suggestions on object motions and body languages (same but different).
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This is Johan Wellton's most advanced and lavish stage production ever. With special effects, natural phenomenon and the art of engineering he shoots out for a new and unexplored adventure. All inventiveness and experimental curiosity becomes the framework for a story about our dreams, hope and despair. How far are we willing to go to become loved? To understand ourselves? To find context and a meaning in life?/nSee one of the world’s best jugglers in what may be one of the most complex shows about something as simple as life itself./n“It is totally sensational, mind blowing"
- Expressen/n“Spellbinding chaos”
- Hallandsposten/n“Do not miss it, whatever you do.”
- Västerbottens-kuriren/nTour dates and more at:
http://www.johanwellton.com/en/for-arrangorer/glitch//nGLITCH was produced 2010-2014 and premiered September 2014./n© copyright Johan Wellton - all rights reserved.
johan
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The Willy Catch:
Throw the plate vertically, then reach between your legs from behind and catch the plate in front of your crotch.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Mathias came up with a kendama Eiffel variation, so I thought I'd try some exits from it. See his original at http://juggling.tv/14794
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Short video I made during last weeks practice. I will be running a workshop on the Monday from 5:30 - 6:30. Come along if you want to learn heel kicks or any numbers juggling:-)
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The lower division of the 7 To Spike round at LKO 2015.
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Same rules as usual - 90 minutes, see what we get, two different venues this time. ('cause we planned it badly...) Enjoy.
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Some people on the forum were saying they wanted to watch a game of K.E.N., so me, Rob & Adam recorded this for them.
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Home sweet home
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21-02-2015
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Juggling with pink balls between the columns of a bridge in the sun below the sea level.
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So we did some ring passing the other day, and I am really happy with the result, considering that I hardly ever do this. Big thanks to Daniel for being an awesome passer and friend.
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![[FIREMAGIC.HU] - Wedding firedance show](https://juggling.tv/thumb/0_14733.jpg)
Firemagic Production - "Because no fire without magic..."
Fire juggler, firedance team
https://www.firemagic.hu/
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Une petite retrospective en image de mes anciennes folles recherches au diabolo...En duo avec Colin au Violoncelle(2006),en trio avec la cie Avisto (2004) et en solo à mes touts débuts !(2002)
Différentes formes de ce numéro ont été jouées avec la Cie Avisto, la Cie du Caillou Fou et il se joue encore avec la Cie du Filet d'air dans "Le cirque au coin de la rue".
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This is a collection of video I shot over the years as I developed a routine around the tennis ball and can./nHere's my recollection of the history of 3 tennis balls and a tennis can: On easter of 1989 I was bored and picked up a can of tennis balls thinking, "I can probably throw all of the balls out of the can and then go into a 4 pattern that includes the can." I quickly discovered some of the centrifugal properties of the can and began developing a routine at the Celebration Barn with people like Fritz Grobe and Steven Ragatz helping to critique my idea. At the same time in another part of the world, Scott Slesnick had discovered the same prop, but was doing different things with it. Neither of us knew of the other for years, but when we met at an IJA convention in Vegas one year, we pieced together the rumors we had heard of each other and decided that we had both come up with it independently and had been spreading it around the world over the years.
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Hold the hat by the brim with your left hand so that the crown of the hat is facing away from you. Take the stick in your right hand.
With a flick of your wrist, throw the hat up slightly so that it starts spinning anti-clockwise. As the hat descends, hit the brim with the stick slightly to the right of center, such that the stick curves slightly upwards and outwards. This will cause the hat to spin as it rises into the air. As it descends again, repeat the hitting action.
The idea of the basic spin is to keep the hat in the air by hitting it repeatedly with the stick in this manner. I find it helps if you look at the top portion of the inside of the hat.
Adjusting the spin rate and direction:
Hitting the hat nearer the center will give you a slower spin and more height, nearer the edge will give you a faster spin but less height. Obviously striking the left side of the brim will reverse the spin and cause the hat to go clockwise.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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The hatstand made its debut at chocfest 7, where I was compering. After a period of prototyping and refining, I built the version that worked. I demoed this a couple of times then it broke. I replaced the elastic and set it up for the big day, used it on stage and it worked, then broke next time I used it.
Be prepared to spend significant tinkering time in between uses, and for frequent breakdowns. That said, it's never let me down when I've needed it.
All in all I've found it a great way to get chicks[1], if you don't count the long evenings spent honing the design and strewing the house with geeky construction equipment, and the fact you'll be laughed out of most nightclubs if you go in wearing a topper. But on stage it works, and it has drawn admiring glances from fellow jugglers and even won us a bag full of croissants on one occasion.
Sweavo, June 2003
[1] facts may vary
From the TricksWithHats archive
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This is my first video here, there's some older stuff but I hope it is still entertaining! Enjoy the music as well. The song is Swinging from the Castle- Awolnation
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CLUB LOVE!
Juggler Kevin Axtell gettin down at various events.
Torch and Glow Club manipulation
Also featuring Erin Stephens and Jeremiah Johnston
Music: "This Is How We Do" by Katy Perry
With Video footage by:
Give Props Documentary
Jeremiah Johnston
and Brendan O'Neal/
Including footage from
LUCIDITY
MOPS
PHASES OF THE MOON
and my living room
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