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DJ Velveteen



Joined: 28 Nov 2024
Posts: 4
Location: Bellingham, WA

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2024 10:25 pm    Post subject: Not quite Vancouver, not quite Seattle...

Allo all - I'm a contact juggler from Bellingham, WA, the fancified Seattle-Vancouver rest stop. I picked up contact juggling on a whim, and spent the next year at my boring video-arcade job practicing cradles and butterflies with oversized super balls (fun when you drop 'em!).

I'm a fairly accomplished DJ (for Bellingham, haha), so I've got a bunch of friends who insisted that I come out to Summer Meltdown, a local music festival. I ended up flagging down a contact-juggling crush from the area and picking her brain. In response, she lent me her contact ball and showed me a buncha new tricks, which stoked the fire something fierce.

Now I'm juggling for a few hours a week at a local circus's practice space (also studying poi, clubs, and a wee bit of aerial silk). Currently looking to double my amount of practice time during the week, seeing as I no longer consider myself a "beginning" contact juggler and want to spend as little time in the "intermediate" skill level as possible!

I'm up to learning one or two new tricks a week, and letting them settle into my routine the week afterward as I pick up other new stuff. Props to Brinechild, whose vids I regularly scour while looking to polish up my technique.

See y'all out there!
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MoM Mobsta



Joined: 04 Aug 2024
Posts: 745
Location: Vancouver

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2024 12:39 am    Post subject:

wicked!! you're our neighbor! I will look forward to meeting you at the juggling conventions come spring.

Daniel was a very good contact juggler from your 'hood, I wonder when he comes back from traveling?
By now, I'm sure you've met the juggling jollies, whom come and play up our way fairly often!

We're holding a juggling convention March 14 - 16 next spring in Victoria, you simply must join us!



welcome to the board!





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DJ Velveteen



Joined: 28 Nov 2024
Posts: 4
Location: Bellingham, WA

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2024 1:01 am    Post subject:

Sweeeeeet!

Yes, Daniel's spec-fricken-tacular. Word is that he took off to Merseilles by way of Paris, and is now CJing something like 20+ hours per week. I intend to eat his brain upon his return home.

And the Jollies are totally part of aforementioned circus troupe! We share a practice space every Monday. I am sure there will be meetings in the future...
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