Our thirty new juggling balls came in from jugglingstore.com about a month ago, just in time for our SPLASH classes where we taught fifty middle school and high school students from the area how to juggle, most of whom had never tried before. We also used the juggling balls to hold the first ever joint Stanford Running Club and Down With Gravity event: Joggling! We juggled and ran around campus for about a mile. It is impressive, although perhaps not too surprising, that there is a large overlap in the two clubs; the mentality for both is actually quite similar as they involved a kind of meditation achieved through repetition that is best developed through challenge and practice.
We also got eighteen of the highest quality juggling clubs from the World Juggling Federation's site. The PX3 Deco's are perfectly weighted, and as seen in the teaser video below, they look great as well. The video below is just a small section of the footage we shot a couple of weekends ago. We learned that there are some fantastic places to shoot at around campus, but also that one hour of filming will probably correspond to about one minute of final product. We have a ton of ideas, and are excited to head out for another day of filming and to try out some more ambitious tricks. Enjoy the video below, and there will hopefully be much more material on the way.
