söndag 16 november 2014

My first flower stick and LED juggling balls

The snow has come to Luleå these last days. I have spent a lot of time indoors playing with my new equipment: A glow in the dark flower stick and some LED juggling balls.

This flower stick is my first flower stick ever and I am so happy with it! I did some devil sticks years ago, but then I didn't now how to continue. But since the club at uni got some members who dd flower sticks I have been so inspired! I found out that flower sticks are easier to "experiment" and invent things with due to that the flower stick also have this silicone surface.

For me, I feel that I have a pretty good basic technique from my devil sticks practice. The learning curve is definitely not as steep for those staring directly with flower sticks, but starting with deviel sticks force you to get a correct tick-tock fast and to get a good control of the devil stick. So when I went from devil stick to flower stick I suddenly saw a lot of potential in many of my old tricks.




For the LED juggling balls, I went for 4 green ones and 2 white ones. The are quite big and hard, but I don't get annoyed by the fact that you can feel the switch when juggling.

When I juggle with the LED balls I get another strange feeling of flow juggling that I have had a really hard time to find. I guess I get it because they remember me of poi spinning. I also realized that just moving the balls in unexpected patterns also make an effect, so now I am watching all the LED juggling videos I can on Youtube.


I think I have most of the props that I would like to, so now maybe I need to find some kind of prop stand, because all my apartment is filled with scattered juggling things. It is very nice.