How to select the best quality of Acrylic Balls and care for acrylic balls.
A new addition to the Ministry’s articles library a 2 page PDF extract from appendix 1 of Multiball Contact online for the first time, which explains how you can select the best quality acrylic balls and care for acrylic.
Not all acrylic balls are created equal.
Japanese contact juggler Metra blew us away with the release of his recent multiball video Free Drive and is leading the way for the new generation of isolation-heavy ‘popping and gliding’ contact juggling.
MINISTRY: Where do you live?
METRA: I live in Tokyo, Japan.MINISTRY: Is there a community of contact jugglers where you are?
METRA: Yes, There is. Yoyogi park is a mecca for Japanese contact jugglers. Contact juggling conventions and meetings (gallery link) are held periodically there.MINISTRY: How would you describe contact juggling?
METRA: Contact juggling is a lens of the contact juggler (in a figurative sense). I mean, we must project ourselves onto a spectator. The leading part is contact juggler, balls and moves are nothing but an instrumental.MINISTRY: Why do you contact juggle?
METRA: Contact juggling is a spontaneous action for me. It is as natural as breathing or walking.MINISTRY: What is the best piece of contact juggling that you’ve ever seen?
METRA: Tony Duncan. I started contact juggling under the influence of him.MINISTRY: What is the future of contact juggling?
METRA: It is not fixed. Therefore, almost everything we can imagine will be possible.MINISTRY: What do you think about when you are contact juggling?
METRA: I do not think anything, but I feel. Mostly I feel the weight of balls, and the sense of acrylics.MINISTRY: Anything else you’d like to say to our MoM audience?
METRA: The world of contact juggling is full of glory. Go for it!
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Thanks.
Marco has incredible skills, and is such a fun and bouncy person to juggle with. This video shows quite a lot of Marco’s diversity. Looking at the youtube title of this video, he has a new DVD coming out soon as well…
This promo video is well produced, filmed and edited, as well as the amazing manipulations. Although 8 minutes long, a joy to watch, apart the moments of pure disbelief accompanied with ‘OMG he didn’t just do what I think he did!?’
Thanks Splinter for pointing me to this one 
Fausses Notes et Chutes de Balles. Excellent juggling and contact juggling by Adrien Mondot in 2003.
Previously on MoM: 3 ball juggling
Interesting approach to antipodiatry… antipodism… Antipo…Foot juggling. Interesting props and some nice moves too.
Friday Fun: Undressing a Woman Using a Large Digging Machine: Crazy Construction Worker Foreplay
SFW
JCB Manipulation??1?
Bellisimo!
Nimi can usually be found in Barcelona, busking as his Tree character. Nice presentation, good character, and some awesome skills. check out his one (!!!) finger balance.
Thanks to the Silver Man for the video.
Metra dropped an unbelievable multiball video onto youtube.
2:41 made me go ‘oooooooooooooh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah oooooooooooohhh’
Once again.
Previous Metra videos: Busker, Techno, Metrart, More popping.
See any similarity?
Ryan
First video in the new series; shot on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada
Ryan Mellors and Daydream will be running a series of contact juggling workshops across Canada this summer. The aim of the workshop is to give students a foundation in contact juggling technique as well as introduce them to many of the concepts that form the basis of modern contact & manipulation. The unique workshop is divided into five parts, and will be structured as follows:
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Staff [Manipulation] DVD just published by Meghan MCP and Steve “NX” Wilson*.
MoM’s got a review copy, we’ll put together a detailed review soon, in the meantime. They’ve done the decent thing and put 4 clips, and loads of info on their site so you can decide for yourself.
Order it on their site, the tax is £16:99 if you live in UK and £17:99 if you live in International.
Short Version above Longer version: Juggling and a bit of magic // Current
Profile of contact juggling street performer - Nimi Ben Shalom
Produced by Elizabeth Wood.
Yea yea. we know - we’ve been pushing the contact juggling videos a lot recently - normal diverse service will return to MoM shortly
