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I just copied this from their facebook page! I know i will be making a video for this, Thom will be announcing the prizes just before the start, and they are going to be amazing!...Really AMAZING!!!

Join us in the largest educational event in the juggling world!

The International Jugglers' Association YouTube Tutorial Contest is an annual event that promotes the creation of quality juggling tutorials online, fostering the supportive spirit of the global juggling community.

Entrants submit their tutorial videos between February 1st and March 31st by emailing the URL to tutorials@juggle.org.

Following the two month submission period comes a four day voting period, where jugglers vote for their favorites on a 3rd party voting service. Voting opens on the 1st of April, and closes on the 4th.

The top ten place videos are awarded fantastic prizes! (More on this to come!)

This contest is open to everyone, as it is to all disciplines of object manipulation.

For complete rules and submission guidelines, visit: http://www.juggle.org/youtubecontest/

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact Thom Wall, the event's director, at tutorials@juggle.org

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Los videos no tienen que ser en Ingles. // Es gibt kein Regel, dass die Videos auf Englisch sein muessen.

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Stuck for a topic?

Here are some ideas, suggested by the IJA Facebook community.

- Club passing
- Intermediate/advanced tricks with four and five objects
- Beginning tricks with six and seven balls
- Kendama
- Intermediate tricks with cigar boxes
- Takeouts with clubs
- Leapfrog while juggling
- Scissor theory
- Advanced tricks with three clubs (reverse bxx, lazies, throwing into a balance...)
- Four ball mills mess
- Tricks with hats
- Improv comedy
- Pirouette (360/720/etc) technique for jugglers (by a dancer)
- Posture and body awareness for jugglers
- Alberts and Treblas with clubs
- Tricks in passing

...would you like to suggest a tutorial idea? Post on the Wall below!

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Surely there should be a category for people wanting to learn the side o' side motion of the handerfly?

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The International Jugglers' Association publish Juggle magazine with that poorly written Fushigi article that fosters the supportive spirit pisses all over the the supportive spirit of global contact juggling community, in the name of capitalism.

Take that as a no.

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is attached juggling in the running?

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i agree with Drew.

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Drew I would have to agree with you, but having met the person who is running this contest I know the motivation behind this is pure, and although I agree with you on that subject, I believe that this contest is a great way to help promote the development of new free online lessons for the juggling community.

Yes attached juggling is in the running, they want videos for all types of object manipulation. Plus the prizes this year are amazing, check them out here!
http://www.juggle.org/youtubecontest

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I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker, to ever pluck a mother pheasant.

Hey guys,

Reiterating Grateful's response to måsoncåde's question - yes, all forms of object manipulation tutorials are accepted for this contest. Adding to that, you don't have to be an IJA member to enter.

Thanks for the feedback on the contest. I'm an intermittent reader of this forum, but I'm happy to see that there's been some chatter about this event. I recognize that the IJA has had some (lots?) of negative reviews over the past while. If you've got some pointed questions for me, I'd be happy to give answering them a shot. Ryan and I were going to talk about some IJA stuff at the UVic festival this past weekend, but it seems that we both got a little sidetracked... that whole juggling festival atmosphere, I guess. (Ryan - if you're reading - drop me an email sometime. I'm really curious to hear your thoughts.)

I ran for the Board because I had been running the St Louis Juggling Club and its festival for four years, but was graduating from the university it calls home. I wanted to stay involved with the juggling community on the organizational side, and figured that the IJA BoD would be a natural fit.

This contest is something I had planned since before I ran for the Board of Directors - when I got on, I decided to go ahead and run it under the IJA's name. The IJA's name has weight and makes it easier to get companies to sponsor the event. The bigger the sponsorships/prizes for the contest, the more folks will enter. The more folks who enter, the more tutorials there are online. The more good tutorials there are, the more folks juggle. I'm running this event for the embetterment of the juggling community - that's the long and short of it.

For what it's worth, the IJA actually loses money running this contest. Not a huge amount, mind you, but any one of the prize packages will cost a substantial amount to send out. If all of the winners are in Australia, for example, we're easily looking at over a thousand dollars (US) in shipping alone. If they're all stateside, it won't be quite as much, but it'll certainly put this project in the red. Another good reason for this contest to be run under the IJA's name rather than my doing it privately - I certainly don't have the revenue stream to make something like this feasible on my own.

None of the IJA Board Members turn a profit from the organization, either - somehow I feel that some folks on here perceive that we do. The only paid positions are the Bookkeeper, who does it for far below market rate - she's a juggler and puts in crazy hours a week to keep the books maintained, so we can maintain our 501c(3) nonprofit status; and the Fest Director, who has a small salary that's tied to the final attendance/income of the festival which is, even in the best case scenario, hardly anything at all. (I don't have the numbers offhand, but you can find them in meeting minutes from the end of last year. That's on the juggle.org website, should you be interested.) The rest of the volunteers are just that - volunteers. We all love juggling, but many have full-time jobs on top of running the organization. We do have a few projects in the works that haven't been announced yet that address a number of concerns raised on this forum, too. So keep an eye out!

At that, we're always open to hearing suggestions - send me or the whole board an email. If you have ideas on how the organization can improve or expand, think about volunteering some time. While the IJA may sometimes look like an uncaring monolith, you have to step closer and see that it's run by a finite group of people who can only allocate a certain amount of time and energy into it. If you want to see more contact and flow, contact and flow need representatives in the organization's volunteer base. Be the change you want to see in the juggling world, etc, etc.

I do have some comments about the IJA magazine, as well as ideas for more integrations between the IJA and the CJ world. I'll save those for another thread, though... this has already gone from a simple post to a bit of a soapbox. If you guys are down to talk about stuff, let's talk. Drop me an email (wall@juggle.org) or post on here or something.

Time for lunch, then off to rehearse before heading to one of Portland's many fine open mics!

Respectfully submitted,
--Thom

Member, IJA Board of Directors (for better or for worse )

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The Prizes!
2011 IJA Video Tutorial Contest

1.
* IJA Festival Package
* 5x Gballz Elite Series, 2.75" or smaller (www.gballz.com)
* Flowtoys Juggle Kit (http://www.flowtoys.com/product.php?pro ... =60&page=1)
* 5x Sirius All White PX3s (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan FH Zero Yoyo & String Kit
* IJA DVD

2.
* IJA Festival Package
* 5x Gballz Elite Series, 2.75" or smaller (www.gballz.com)
* 3x K8 LED Prophecy_IR Clubs (http://www.k8malabares.com.ar/sitio_en/ ... .php?ID=27)
* 5x Vegas Silver Deco PX3s (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan FH Zero Yoyo & String Kit
* IJA DVD

3.
* IJA Festival Package
* 5x Gballz Elite Series, 2.75" or smaller (www.gballz.com)
* 5x Quantum White PX3s (www.playjuggling.com)
* Jumpfire Backpack (www.jumpfire.net)
* Duncan FH Zero Yoyo & String Kit
* IJA DVD

4.
* 7x Flying Clipper Tossaball Hybrids with pouch (www.flyingclipper.com)
* 5x Vegas Red Deco PX3s (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan FH Zero Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan Spin Top
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife

5.
* 7x Baglady FlannyBags 2.75" 120 gm ultraleather with drawstring bag. (www.thebagladyonline.net)
* 7x Bouncing Balls 65mm Yellow (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan Shirt
* Duncan FH Zero Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan Spinning Top
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife
* Little Wooden Clubs Zipper Pull (www.littlewoodenclubs.com)

6.
* 7x Baglady RagBags 2.5" 100 gm alova suede with drawstring bag. (www.thebagladyonline.net)
* 5x SilX 78mm Blue (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan Shirt
* Duncan Freehand Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan Spinning Top
* Duncan DVD
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife
* Little Wooden Clubs Zipper Pull (www.littlewoodenclubs.com)

7.
* 5x Sport Juggling Company juggling balls (www.sportjugglingco.com)
* 5x SilX Implosion Transparent 78mm (www.playjuggling.com)
* Finesse Diabolo (www.Malabares.com.mx)
* Duncan Freehand Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan DVD
* Duncan Shirt
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife

8.
* 6x 120g 3.25" Brontosaurus Balls (www.brontosaurusballs.com)
* 7x 2 Color Ultrasound-Sealed Rings (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan Shirt
* Duncan Freehand Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan DVD
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife

9.
* Finesse Diabolo (www.Malabares.com.mx)
* 7x New MMX Plus 67mm Pink Flo. (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan Shirt
* Duncan Freehand Yoyo & String Kit
* IJA DVD
* IJA Pocketknife

10.
* 2x Collapsible 1/2" tubing travel hoops - 32" outer diameter & Poi Set(www.thespinsummit.com)
* 7x 67mm Yellow SilX Balls (www.playjuggling.com)
* Duncan Shirt
* Duncan Freehand Yoyo & String Kit
* Duncan Spinning Top
* IJA Pocketknife
* IJA DVD

Juggling.tv Subcontest

* 3x JuggleDream Torches (http://www.oddballs.co.uk/juggle-dream- ... -3198.html)
* 5x PX3s (Richard Kennison)

PLUS - The secret prizes!
Autographed memorabilia from professional jugglers Pavel Evsukevich, Gena Shvartsman, Stefan Sing, Anthony Gatto, and others -- to be included in prize packages at random. What excitement!

Wow after reading more on this, I definitely wanna try and come up with a good tutorial to enter, and mainly just create to help my CJ community

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Hi Thom Wall.
Nice act at the Victoria Juggle-fest this past weekend. I dig your 4ball very much.
Yes we should talk more; perhaps other members of .org have input as well... we could do a Q&A on the site with you and Kevin Axtell and other board members. Seems like the discussion on rec.juggling tends to lean towards the flamey-flamey side of things... I'm sure you'd find a more engaged and supportive audience here. Well, maybe not supportive; as Drew mentioned the recent F-Ball article in Juggle-mag has left a lot of us feeling like we were left out in the cold.

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Hey Ryan,

Thanks for the kind words!

This forum certainly seems more supportive than rec.juggling. I'm sure Kevin Axtell, Erin Stephens, and some others would be interested in doing a Q&A. I'll bring the idea up when I talk to them at the BoD meeting tomorrow night.

I totally see where you guys are coming from with about the Fushigi article. Personally, I'd like to see a response article in the magazine by you guys... I read that Richard Hartnell wrote a letter to the editor (though he took it down before I had a chance to read it.) That's an awesome first step, but I do think that this topic deserves something more than a letter to the editor. I'd encourage the members of .org to submit an in-depth response article to the magazine and see if you can get it in there. If it isn't accepted, I can promise you that I can get run in the IJA's eNewsletter, though that's not as formal a publication as the trade magazine.

Brad Weston, the guy who wrote the Fushigi article, is a variety artist with no affiliation with the magazine - at least, I'm 99% sure he wasn't approached by the mag to write the article. Alan Howard, the magazine's editor, could clear that up. Either way - my understanding is that the magazine is usually created with few articles actively sourced outside of the publishing house, though all outside submissions are read and many are published. Alan is very welcoming to content from the public and articles from the outside are often paid for, if that's any incentive.

Not to be taken as a ditch effort to clear my own name, but I'd like to point out that the IJA Board of Directors as an entity has very little to do with the content of the magazine besides the letter from the Chair. We do sign the contracts for its publication, but that's about it. I believe that outside of the publishing house, it's the Chair and the Communications Director who ever see the magazine pre-production. When I get it in the mail (that is, when I have an address for it to be sent to, haha), the articles are just as much a surprise to me as they are to anyone else.

--Thom

Whoa snap it's Thom on dotorg. 'Sup mang! Careful, hang around here too long and you'll be drilling palm isos before you know it.

Yeah, my F-ball response was pretty mean. I think I might put it back up now that I've had some time to think on it... at first I was like "Aw, I shouldn't have called Kenny a shill" and now I'm looking back on it like "Oh wait, but he actually was." And yeah, Brad's a good guy. I just have no idea how he interviewed all of us at Durango and then didn't leave any of the criticisms of Fushigi in the article.

Still cracking on my tutorial. And by "cracking" I mean "making time to start."

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Thom wrote to me wondering if we wanna do a Q&A here on Dotorg about the IJA.
Anyone interested?

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I don't know what I would ask, but it does seem like a good idea!

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Just a friendly threadbump to say that there's just about two weeks left to enter the contest! If you've got something in mind, go start filming! Current entries can be found at www.juggle.org/youtubecontest

Keep it real!

--Thom

well it is time to go and vote!


Simple version, go here
( http://www.juggle.org/youtubecontest/ytvote.php )
and vote for me, i am the second name on the list!

Thanks for your help!

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I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker, to ever pluck a mother pheasant.