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description: 25 seconds, but working more on tricks than endurance now. Still need to work on that trick at the end./nMusic: Flute Tune by the Barbatuques

description: Two poles of different lengths balanced simultaneously on the head, as well as some other balancing tricks. This is know as a dual or twin inverted pendulum in control systems engineering. In the first 2 clips I use a long pole that is 4 times the length of the short pole. In the 3rd clip the long pole is only 3 times as long and is more difficult. The poles fit together in sections so that I can pack them in my bag. They're made from a cheap Argos wardrobe. The ball on the end of the long pole is mainly there to make the end more visible. I'm using rubber chair leg feet at the bottom end of the poles. Music is 'Heartbeats' by The Knife.

description: Finally reached my goal of 10 seconds with the balance. Also shows how I put the pattern on my balls.

description: Getting closer to my goal of 10 seconds. The images at the start from left to right are Enrico Rastelli (1920s), Leon Rabello (1936) and Paolo Bedini (1943). The machine learning shows a genetic algorithm evolving a multi-layer perceptron neural network controller to perform the balance in 2 dimensions. A 2D rigid-body physics engine was used for the simulation. The performance of each trial was assessed based on the time balanced and the average 'uprightness' of the stack over the duration of the balance. http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36911-machine-learning-balancing-a-stack-of-balls

description: I met up with Alex for a juggling session. We both beat our 11 ball personal bests. Here's what happened at the end of the video: Basically Alex became the first person to juggle 11 balls with 23 catches. I saw the whole thing and it looked amazing (very clean). We thought we'd captured it with both our camcorders but unfortunately one camera wasn't recording and the other had fallen over and was pointing at the sky!

description: A short series of low 4 club tricks viewed from below. flats, 53 on doubles-flats.

description: This is a 6 ball synch siteswap. 3 cycles of the whole thing

description: Some stuff I filmed in my room. The room is a bit lower than 5 club / 7 ball height. Some multiplex stuff, 4 club spin variations, 7 balls with a balance, 10 ball flash.

description: 7 ball quintuplex. Its siteswap is ...777727[22]4[222]5[2222]2[45678]27777...

description: Two consecutive cycles of Ben Beever's difficult siteswap. Notice how it switches sides so on one of the cycles the high throws have to be done with the weak hand. Also notice how the high throws are the same 2 balls.