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TexasJuggling@egroups.com
is a low-traffic email list designed to announce
events of interest to jugglers in the Texas area.
This is the best way a Texas Juggler can keep in touch of festivals
and similar events.
If you wish, you can read the archives.
The list service started as Onelist, but was bought by Egroups,
and then by Yahoo. Eventually, this list will probably be moved off
of those services and I'll handle it myself. The services constantly
changing, and mail (sometimes) not reaching AOL users has convinced
me that the list services aren't worth the trouble.
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Texas Juggling Clubs
If you know of clubs which aren't
listed, send me the url to their home page, and
I'll add a link. If you know of a Texas juggling
club which needs a home page, I'll gladly do
simple pages here, just as I've done with the
others.
For areas which do not have a club which regularly meets,
I'd like to keep a list of contacts (email or phone) that
would let other jugglers looking for someone to play with
know who to contact. If you would like to be listed as a
contact for the area where you live, drop me an email.
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Austin
The Texas Juggling Society meets at UT-Austin, on
Thursdays. Don't miss their annual festival! |
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Dallas
The Dallas Jugglers Association meets Monday nights at Half Price Books.
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Fort Worth
C.A.T.S. (Catch And Throw Society) meets on Fridays. |
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McKinney
McKinney Juggling & Loan juggling club meets
Thursdays, just off of 75/Central in McKinney. |
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San Antonio
Alamo City Jugglers Association.
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Lubbock
Tech Juggling Club meets each Thursday on Texas Tech campus.
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Texas Area Juggling Calender
The 2004 Tejas Juggling Festival in the DFW area takes place
from March 11th through March 14th. Rodney has information on
his website.
Late July, 2004.
The IJA Summer Festival
details not yet released.
Late August,
2004 Dallas. Logan's Ninth Annual Surprise
Birthday Party, Dallas. Exact date and location are unknown.
Surprise!
Jan 1st, 2004
Denton / Lake Dallas area. (Lake Dallas High School,
1:00-4:00 PM) Annual "Throw Up
On New Years" juggling party. Start the year
off right! Throw up at your first opportunity! Contact Rodney
Barton or myself for details.
Early Feb, 2004.
Austin. The Texas Juggling
Society's 10th annual festival
late April, 2004.
Austin.
Eeyore's 41st Annual Birthday Party.
Eeyore's 40th Annual Birthday Party.
Pease Park (between West M.L.K. and West 15th on North Lamar).
This is a free public party held in Austin each
year. The jugglers juggle whatever they want, especially
stuff that's on fire!
June 15, 2004.
Everywhere. World Juggling Day
. The details will be different from previous years, but
Todd Smith will be donating
prizes. I'll update as the information comes in.
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Juggling Links
These are links to various juggling related sites. There
are lots of sites - I just picked some of my favorites.
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The Juggling
Information Service (JIS) is the largest
juggling site on the net. However, the site is no
longer updated with the exception of festival
listings. There is some great information there,
but don't trust the club listings, and be aware
that any web page or email address you get from
there may now be invalid. For club contacts,
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Worldwide Juggling Clubs
has been compiled by Mini, to shore up the JIS pages which
are out of date.
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The International
Juggling Association (IJA) is known
mostly for their annual week-long juggling
festival, and for Juggle magazine. |
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The Christian
Jugglers Association is a
non-denominational, non-profit association meant
to encourage Christian jugglers. |
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Bob Mendelshohn
at Damp Rabbit Graphics. Bob created the animated
juggling graphic shown above. I've written a
juggling screensaver using that animation, in
addition to an animation I created myself. It's
on my downloads page. |
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The Juggling Tutor. has online
lessons to teach basic three ball juggling. They also
sell a CD rom teaching more advanced juggling. (For instance, four
balls, five balls, clubs, devil sticks, and cigar boxes.)
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JugglingHelp Home
Page.. A very nice juggling site. If you
are looking for help in learning a new pattern,
try this site. |
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Matt's Complete Juggling Page..
Contains basic instructions, lots of patterns, and information
about siteswaps. Matt Macauley did a great job here.
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DevilStick.org.
Devilsticks are sort of a specialty item,
practiced by many jugglers. This is a great site
for information about devil sticks. |
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Bowers.Com
has a tutorial on contact juggling, including
.AVI clips so you can see how it should look. |
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ContactJuggling.org.
They have lots of animated gifs, which can take some time
to load, but it's a good way to learn. This is the best
contact juggling site I've seen.
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Juggling
Equipment
There are a number
of companies which supply juggling equipment. The
three most popular (by my estimation) are Dube',
Renegade,and Todd Smith.
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Brian Dube' Juggling
Equipment.. |
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Renegade Juggling
Equipment.. |
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| Todd Smith Juggling
Equipment.. |
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| Goof Proof Juggling
sells various props, and they are based in Austin. In
particular, beginners looking for low cost juggling clubs
just to get started should check them out. They also carry Beard
juggling equipment and a large misc. selection. |
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Aerotech Projects is the company that makes Globalls (as well
as other illuminated equipment.) Globalls are the coolest
juggling prop I've seen in a long time. They are illuminated
balls, with built-in rechargable batteries. They are expensive -
but for professionals and serious amateurs, I think they are worth it.
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Rolling Thunder -
Eclectic Metalwork. If you've been
trying to find jewelry desgigned for jugglers,
then this is the place! Heather has a variety of
patterns, and most can be done as earrings,
earcuffs, or necklaces. (Site was 404 at last check.
I'm leaving this for now, and I'll ask Heather
whether she has a new page.) |
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The Compleat Gamester
sells juggling equipment, darts supplies,
ping-pong stuff, and more. |
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Infinite Illusions.
Yo-yo's are their mainstay, but they sell a
variety of juggling equipment, tops, and similar
items. They also have a "how to"
section with instructions for juggling,
devil-sticking, etc. |
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Unicycle, fournisseur
des Arts du Cirque. As you might guess,
they sell unicycles. They also sell a wide
variety of circus arts items. Their web page is
navigable in French or English, but the english
version is a bit wanting. Still, they are the
only supplier I know for some of the items they
carry. They carry walking globes, stilts,
rola-bolas, tight wire equipment, trapeze
equipment, and much more. |
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VIPA. A
relatively new company, based in England, selling
a wide variety of juggling equipment, along with
some odds and ends. (Site was 404 at last check.) |
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I've seen a
number of people ask how they can make their own
juggling equipment. I've never seen homemade
clubs which I would be happy with, so I recommend
purchasing from one of the companies above. But
for beanbags, there are a number of patterns that
work very well. Eventually, I'll put together the
pattern I usually use, which makes simple (and
easy to make) square beanbags. The pages below
will show how to make fancier (and harder to
make) round beanbags. |
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The Coulee Region
Jugglers beanbags page has instructions
on making your own beanbags. |
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Vete's Juggling Page
has info for making a number of props including
beanbags, rola-bolas and cigar boxes. |
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Juggling Books
and Videos
Naturally, many of
the venders such as Dube', Renegade, and Todd Smith carry books and videos, but there
are others as well.
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Alan Plotkin Festival
Video Productions has a number of
video's available for sale. Juggling, clowining,
unicycling, street performing, and yo-yoing are
some of the categories. |
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Charlie Dancey
has written books on the subject.
"Encyclopedia of Ball Juggling",
"Compendium of Club Juggling", and
"How to Ride Your Unicycle".
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Cheap Ass Games
carries the book "Contact Juggling" by
James Ernest. |
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Performers - Texas
If you would like to hire jugglers in Texas, this might help.
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The Flaming Idiots
started performing in the Dallas area. They were
regulars at Scarborough Ren Faire until 1999.
They've left the renfaire circuit for bigger
things, such as off-broadway. Pyro, Gyro, and
Walter - Best Wishes! They are currently based
in Austin, but spend much of their time traveling.
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The Side Street
Circus. Magic, music, mime, juggling,
and a friend of mine, Rodney Barton! |
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Walkabout Productions is
Connie Leaverton's homepage. Based in Austin, Connie
performs all around (and outside of) the country. Her
comedy, juggling, and unicycling are all top-notch.
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The Magical Juggling of Jason Christensen
. Jason is a Dallas area juggler, performing a wide
variety of acts.
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Performers - Well known
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The Flying Karamazov
Brothers!. The Karamazov's are possibly
the funniest and best known jugglers in the
country. They tour, and the schedule (among other
things) is available on their home page. Whether
you juggle or not, don't miss them!
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The Flaming Idiots
are a Texas troupe, but they also fall into the well-known
category, which gets them an extra listing!
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Anthony Gatoo is simply
amazing. I believe most of his performances are in Vegas.
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Juggling
Related Software |
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Juggle Saver
is a screensaver for Windows NT/95/98. It uses
OpenGL to handle the graphics, and does a great
job. This is the screensaver I use personally. A
demo is available, but for all the bells and
whistles, you have to register - a mere $10 and
well worth it. This handles site swaps, and can
juggle balls, clubs, rings, or a combination.
Warning: The author seems to have dropped
from site. Emails to him bounce back. I recommend
not sending registration money unless you've
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The Juggling Hands
screen saver is freeware, written by Stephen
Whitis. (Hey, that name sounds familiar?) It
has two different animations. One shows an
invisible juggler with two white-gloved hands
juggling three red balls in a basic cascade. (The
invisible juggler was the easy part!) The second
is a beautiful animation of three blue clubs, as
seen at the top of this page. The clubs animation
was created by Bob Mendelsohn.
The
Juggling Hands screen saver was written in Delphi
1, and will work on Win3.1, Win/95, or Win/NT
systems.
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JugglePro is
a software package designed to show visual
simulations of site swaps. (Site swaps are a
mathematical method of describing a juggling
pattern.) Written by Ed Carstens. |
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JONGL is a
software package originally designed for Linux.
Windows and Amiga versions are now available,
also. Jongl is the beginning of the german word
for juggling: Jonglieren. This software uses
real-time OpenGL, in combination with offline
Ray-Tracing to draw the juggling graphics. |
Juggling has been a hobby for almost as
long as computers. Back when the computers were slower, I
used to get to practice while I waited for the darn thing
to compile. Now, I have to set aside time!