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Saturday was a great day to be a juggler. The gym was busy, but not so packed that you couldn’t carve out a spot. Perhaps the result of the economy, but it that had a plus side too; airfare was cheap. Just ask Vova who suprised the crowd by coming to hang out. Cool.
There was one point where I was moving to a new spot for every run. Mind you I was practicing 10 rings and these kids kept finding there way under my feet. I didn’t want to introduce them to the sensation of ring-on-head just yet, even if they did sign the waver. I eventually found a sweet spot and landed 25 catches with 9 rings, and a fancy finish, so that made me happy. Happy enough to try 8 rings over head where I proceded to miss one and catch it with my face. Well, catch is too strong a word since it managed to split my lip. That was my signal that it was time to give up rings for the day.
Later on while nursing my injuries, Dan Holzman came over and completed our “old man corner”. I barely qualified in that group, but pushing 40 is apparently old enough to join.
Note: 2 hours of intense juggling makes you hungry enough to eat peanut butter, dispite the warning of others that it might be poisonous. I’m still here, so I guess that batch was OK.
After the gym it was time for Double Dave’s pizza then off to the public show. Dan MC-ed, so you know it was good. Actually this show rocked. Everything was good, great variety, great great talent. Rick is doing a write up for Juggle magazine so I’ll spare you the details. Highlights: Cate’s act as seen at IJA ‘08, Noah on globe and multipi rolla-bolas, Arsene Dupin was so good my kid could barely catch his breath from laughing, Bronkar Lee taking beat-boxing to a new level, Pezzo closing with style. There was even a dog act, what a show!
I’m now scarfing down a big breakfast to prepare for another knock-out day in the gym. I used my polar R5 watch to estimate the number of calories I burned yesterday. You ready for this? 2214! No wonder I slept like a baby. (and like an infant woke up starving) I burn about 500 on a 3 mile run, so a day of juggling festival is like running a half marathon.
