The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Friday, July 1, 2011
A feast for the eyes
I've watched this video clip of a juggler performing with rings several times, but I still can't figure out all the moves involved.
That's some amazingly flexible handiwork . . . literally!
If you read the comments and follow some of the links you realize there there's really no trick to it, just a lot of practice.
The first set of rings are separate, and manipulated to give the impression that they are joined together, but it's really "only" fantastic handling of them.
The second set is welded, and when he first handles them he does it so that it's obvious that they are fixed together. The whole point after that is to give the impression that they aren't linked, that one or two of them are moving even though we all know they dont.
If you observe closely, you will see that the first set of rings are actually two sets of two rings which are attached to form a figure eight. He rotates them around the center of the eight to give the illusion of 4 completely separate rings.
As Erik said, a great performance requiring lots of practice.
Thought I was folllowing it well and then all heck breaks lose!
ReplyDeletemagnetic rings?
ReplyDeleteI 'think' the second set is actually welded... the first ones, WOW!
ReplyDeleteIf you read the comments and follow some of the links you realize there there's really no trick to it, just a lot of practice.
ReplyDeleteThe first set of rings are separate, and manipulated to give the impression that they are joined together, but it's really "only" fantastic handling of them.
The second set is welded, and when he first handles them he does it so that it's obvious that they are fixed together. The whole point after that is to give the impression that they aren't linked, that one or two of them are moving even though we all know they dont.
No trick involved, just a great performance.
If you observe closely, you will see that the first set of rings are actually two sets of two rings which are attached to form a figure eight. He rotates them around the center of the eight to give the illusion of 4 completely separate rings.
ReplyDeleteAs Erik said, a great performance requiring lots of practice.
Very well done indeed! And if the first section were 15 seconds longer I'd have thrown up on the keyboard -- I was getting dizzy!
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