Sunday, September 07, 2008

Juggling quantities

Please stop asking every juggler you see, "Can you juggle more than that?" Please. First of all, let the juggler do what he or she wants to and can show you. Jugglers will learn what they feel the urge to learn, and it may or may not be higher number juggling.

Second, different numbers of balls (or whatever juggling props) hold the potential for different trick varieties. Therefore, more is not necessarily better. A good example is that there is a much higher, physical limit on the tricks one can do with 7 balls than with 3 or 5 balls. As you go higher up, you can only do so much until you're only performing the one trick of juggling a lot of balls, as opposed to showing the versatility of fewer balls with many more tricks.

It's just like eating the World's Largest Cookie. Yes, it's big and there's tons of it and it's tasty, but in the end, you will likely be bloatedly sick of cookie before you're halfway through it, and you will be missing the days when you just had cookie-sized cookies. More can be but is not always better.

2 comments:

Michael said...

haha, aww. sorry. it's just so exciting to see someone with 10 chainsaws whizzing above their head.

i appreciate your desire to do what you want though. reminds me of science. the most important thing is to ask your own questions and bring something new to the discussion

Jane said...

...emilie autumn is coming to germany this fall...several times

you should go :p
She's supposed to have very entertaining stage shows. And she's an awesome violinist.
She's gonna be in:
Saarbrücken
Augsburg
Berlin
Ludwigsburg
Rüsselsheim
Bochum
Hamburg
...and omg!!!
she's finally coming back to the us!
in nyc!
....I must convert enough people to emilie autumn before that show so I can go!