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Inspired by the juggletween videos, I made a video with Matt, Donald and a silly script. Hope you enjoy "not just the tricks".

I've only been playing kendama seriously for 5.5 years, so it's obviously rather early for me to be releasing a solo video, so I apologise for my hastiness. However, I hope you enjoy it, including some of the original tricks therein. If your playback device can manage it, please watch in HD/fullscreen to ensure the tricks hit your eyes with full force. Some tricks inspired by: Donald Grant, Neil Smith, K.Cima. SPOILERS! Trick list SPOILERS! | | | | | | v -[fail] -Dead Body > UFO -Big Cup Fishing > Earth Turn -Elbow Stall > Spike > Elbow Stall > Penguin Base Cup > Spike > Grip Change > UFO -Small Cup Fishing -Slip-on-Stick > Tornado Spinning Top -Slip Grip Fishing -Side Parting > Swing In -Base Cup Fishing -Horizontal Half-Swirl Aeroplane -Hanging Slip-Grip Special > Spike -Banking > Wingwalker > Spike -Spike Fishing -Swing to Base Cup > Fast Hand Candle > Fast Hand Stab -Spacewalk x 10 in a row -C-Whip > Aeroplane -[refreshment interlude] -3-Swirl Aeroplane > Jumping Stick -Bamboo Trap > Fast Hand Stab -Scoop Spike > Fast Hand Earth Turn -Stab > Fast Hand Centrifuge > Fast Hand Base Cup > Stab -Gunslinger > 2-Turn Jumping Stick -Big Cup Banking > Small Cup Banking -Tap-Tornado Scoop Spike -Scissor-delayed Aeroplane > Scissor-delayed 2-Turn Jumping Stick -Everest > Fast Hand Aeroplane -Bucket In The Well -Screwdriver

BKA in Newbury featuring: The Void Matt Nix Guy Heathcote Sam Bradley

An experiment with a Sunrise Performer kendama and my trusty melodeon.

More silly tricks with a Japanese cup-and-ball toy

Onstage shenanigans from the renegade and open stages at the BJC in Doncaster, 2008.

Highlights from the 2009 British Kendama Open, including the semi-finals and the epic final of the Speed Trick Challenge. Tune by The Residents.

Arron Sparks on Le Plus Grand Cabaret Du Monde. This is a cut down version of his act 'Keeping it Really Real'.

This is just a montage of a few unused offcuts taken from another project, originally put together back in 2007.

An short yo-yo video made back in 2006, for an online competition. It used the (as-then) new aNy Miroc yo-yo, one of the first production models to use what are now known as hubstacks. The video got first place and has since been cited as the inspiration for Yoyofactory's adoption of hubstacks on their own models.

The original set of wooden "Guy Heathcote Ball Sticks", as used at, I think, the Cambridge juggling convention in 1996. The routine in this form was only performed on very few occasions, so this is something of a rarity. Taken from old VHS, so video quality isn't great.

I can't remember the full story behind this, and it contains no juggling, but it still amuses me.

Gloucester Yo-yo Contest 2006. 50fps version.

All the kendama video action from the BJC & BKC at Doncaster 2008.

TeamKD hardening the core, pre-BKC. Careful, folks - it's windy out there.

TeamKD get competitive with their kendamas at BoB juggling convention.

A selection of kendama tricks, some conventional, others perhaps less so.

This was my entry into the 2007 SRC yo-yo competition - the first time I've tried a counter-weight based routine. Unfortunately, the silver backdrop makes some of the action rather difficult to see.

The tricklist for the 2008 British Kendama Championships, which was held at the BJC in March 2008. (#8 should be called "Maeuchi", not "Kajiya". "Kajiya" means to tap to the base cup. Thanks to asidematoi for the correction.)

Some time ago, a Disney cartoon called 'Recess' featured a yo-yo trick called 'Invisible Man'. As such, yo-yo players are often asked if they can do the trick. Unfortunately, the trick - which involves shuffling a pair of shoes with two yo-yos, doesn't actually work. However, the comment did give me an idea....

Not one of my better days...