Circle City Jugglers

Video: 17 club W at Nora

jmillikan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:15:36 +0000

Here’s a few quick clips of a trick we spent awhile trying to hit on the 22nd at Nora. Thursday meetings continue, 6:30 PM at Nora Christian Fellowship in the back wing. Everyone’s welcome.

The Illini Fest

jmillikan — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:20:44 +0000

…was probably pretty good. No one but Jack made it due to sickness. Thanks to the Illini people for putting it on anyhow – we’ll try to make it next year. Maybe I’ll get around to putting up some of last year’s clips this week.

In the meantime, regular Thursday meetings continue at NCF. We’re also moving back toward (less regular) outside Sunday meetings – check back on Sundays to see if we’ve scheduled something.

January Fun and Continuing Meetings

Wesley Wright — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:11:21 +0000

It’s a bit late in coming, but the Circle City Jugglers would like to throw a huge “Thanks You!” in the direction of Madison Wisconsin. Four of our members had a blast hanging out with all the jugglers at MadFest and would like to thank the MAJ for providing such a wonderful location and show once again. It’s truly one of the best fests in the Midwest, and it’s provided at the low cost of nothing. I don’t think we could recommend it enough.

Contrary to (apparent) popular opinion, we are still meeting regularly, including tonight. We meet every Thursday at NCF, even when we don’t do a good job at updating this site. If for some reason you aren’t sure we’re going to meet, don’t be afraid to contact us. Generally we have a reasonable turn out of 4-8 people every meeting, but we’d love to see more people!

Unfortunately, we have lost our winter location for Sundays until further notice. The building is under repair, and we hadn’t had a good turnout for some time anyway. Should enough interest be shown, we will attempt to arrange Sunday meetings again in the future.

I ATEN’T DED, plus St. Louis 2011 aftermath

jmillikan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 05:28:49 +0000

Following recent business on rec.juggling, I think I should check in here and let you know that the club is, in fact, still active. We unfortunately haven’t kept the web site up to date regarding meeting schedules, but Thursday night meetings have been very regular for about two years with at least five attendees at most meetings.

A small contingent went to St. Louis for all three days of the St. Louis Jugglefest 2011. We apparently missed a good renegade, and the stage show was pretty cool as usual. We also saw lots of familiar faces from Illini, Madison, Chicago and St. Louis itself.

Also, Chris Lareau did some sweet shoulder throws in eight singles. Most seriously, you should have seen it.

-Jesse

Vincent – Year 1 Video

jmillikan — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:37:44 +0000

A nice montage of Vincent’s progress in his first year(ish) of juggling. Happy Juggle… ingth… day, Vincent.

New Video – In The Hallway, 10/31/2010

jmillikan — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:13:43 +0000

We’ve finally managed to squeeze a video out of all of the nonsense that happened on Halloween of 2010. With the town hall unavailable because of a party, we were forced to use Michael’s house. At some point, not content merely to juggle in his eight foot ceilings, we ended up doing what we could in his 36 inch hallway. We got a lot farther than we expected…

Sorry about the sloppy encoding and the sideways bits; expect better editing on the next video.

Look for another video soon with some original tricks and even some tricks that are difficult with high ceilings.

January 20th’s Meeting

Wesley Wright — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:35:15 +0000

Due to the horrible weather, we have decided to meet at Nora anyway. See y’all there!

11 club gorilla video, 10/28-ish

jmillikan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:10:31 +0000

This is a short run of 11-club gorilla between Wesley, Jesse and Vincent. I don’t remember exactly when it was, but Thursday the October 28th seems exceedingly likely.

Thanks to Vincent for uploading this. See you guys after the holidays!

St. Louis Jugglefest Aftermath

jmillikan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:24:07 +0000

Michael, Sara and I (Jesse) went to Jugglefest in St. Louis this past Saturday and Sunday and had an awesome time.
We left early Saturday, arrived sometime Saturday afternoon and did some passing with each other and with Jacob and Aaron from Champaign.
We left to get to the show early thinking the show started at seven. This caused us to wander about the campus trying to find the auditorium until I actually checked for free wi-fi. When we finally got there we got to hang out and juggle with some awesome kids from Circus Harmony at the very front of the line.
The show was awesome. All of the acts were fantastic. I thought Jay Gilligan’s performance in particular was very unusual and very cool.
Sunday involved more passing. I learned 12-count triangle from some awesome couple, 3-man and 5-man Shamrock from some more awesome people, and did two facing weaves and a 4-2-1 Apollo organized by the Madison guy. (Augh, me and names).
We didn’t take a whole lot of video, but here’s a video of a 5-man star and a simple takeout pattern.

Huge thanks to the organizers of the fest, pizza sellers, crashspace providers, the university for hosting, all the people we passed with and the performers at the show. Smaller but highly recommended festival with an incredible public show and lots of awesome local jugglers!

Completely serious Thursday meeting report

jmillikan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:17:42 +0000

With Fearless Leader Meddling Pumpkin absent, we were able to actually get some juggling done. 6 and 7 club ultimates, 9 and 10 club gorillas, 8 club 2-count, and Jesse and Michael ran 5-club 5-count for two passes. (Or maybe it was one.) 8 club qualify between Michael and Vincent, and then later between Michael and Jesse. Andrew won a mill’s mess endurance contest, and Vincent spun vigorously as usual. No pizza.