Juggling in the dark

Lately I have been studying intensely for a math exam. These study periods really stress me out and in break times between the calculating I have practiced some juggling tricks. In my apartment I have a gigantic sofa that works perfect as a juggling sofa to save the neighbors underneath me from getting crazy from the drops of balls on the floor.

I have been doing my five balls flash, some four ball colums tricks, juggling with arms crossed and finally gotten my head around the Boston mess!

It is becoming darker here in Luleå and I have been looking at different options considering LED or glow juggling balls. I remember my friend ha some nice LED juggling balls that was filled with small silicon pieces, which made them feel almost like beanbags. From my experience of poi and staff LED equipment I think it is a lot of variety in the market, and LED thins then to be stiff or heavy because of the electronics inside.

For me, it is important that they are rechargeable or have rechargeable batteries and that they have a relatively low price.

Here are some of the options I have been looking at after a quick search on the Internet:

Juggling Glow ball Renegade Juggling
Seems like thay are almoste the same as the ones from Oddballs but it is possible to choose a programmable version, and it is tempting but expensive since they want 9 extra dollars for that feature.

Led Glow Ball Single Color Oddballs
Seem quite good and reasonably priced.

Glow Ball K 8 iBall Renegade Juggling
Extremely cool that they are controllably by the remote and can go in all colors. But the price of 75 dollars each or about 500 SEK each is way too much for me.

Various balls from Lightupandjuggle
Impressive variety of different kind of juggling balls.

Lighted Juggling Balls from Dubé
They seem very straight forward but it is very difficult to say how hard or soft the juggling balls are.

Is there any other good LED juggling equpiment on the market that I have missed? Please let me know!

Juggling passing at the party after the final show at Greentop

Strangely I juggle more now because it forces my brain to take a break from studying. At least for me, it is impossible to think about other things while juggling.

Circus update

It has been a while since I last wrote on the blog, so here is an update of what has happened in terms of circus lately.

Since I came back from Greentop this spring, I spent a lot of time writing evaluations of the course and studying for a reexam. During the summer I went back to my previous summer work, and on my spare time I did some poi spinning and took up unicycling again.

The best circus thing during this summer was the visit to the Medieval Week at Visby at the Gotland Island. It is like a medieval themed city festival, and during that week I saw more street and fire shows than I did in total the last five years. It was so inspirational to see them all, and see their different styles.

We also spent a lot of time doing fire at the beach, talking to other people who also liked the flow arts.

As a circus artist I think we spend more time developing and practicing our own material than watching others, as opposed to other art forms where relatively more time are spent at looking at others work. In Luleå where I live at the moment, the scene for circus is very small so it is not very accessible to get to see it. I actually think the student jester group which I am a part of stands for a lot of the circus activity in Luleå.

This Wendsday we tried to do some fire outside the students night club, as it was the first day of the introduction period for the new students and therefore a lot of people waiting outside the club. But after just an hour we couldn't stand the rainstorm so we had to give up.