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Thomas Dietz
I think Haavard Hvidsten has done it. Also Lovigin has done 100+ catches
with 9, so just pretend that one of those balls isn't there. Garfield and
Sorenson and most probably Lucas has done 100 catches with 8 rings, which
is cooler anyway.
I don't think it's cooler. Balls are harder.
Lajos Nereus can probably do 100 catches with 8 rings too.
Sorry to say, it looks it. Much more flowing than balls because you dont
need that often strained circular motion to such the extent as you do for
balls.
Balls are softer. Rings are harder....
The Void
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Difficultural
> > I don't think it's cooler. Balls are harder.
> Balls are softer. Rings are harder....
Balls must be warmer then...
I am pretty sure of that too.
Sondre
Clearly you don't juggle Dube stage balls.
Despite that, balls are still harder to juggle...
More spoon, more energy...
Let's look at Gatto's records... In *1989* he could do
1 min 17 sec of 8 rings, and he said he could easily
break this record (maybe he could almost twice it!).
With 8 balls his record is still 1 min 13 sec (2006).
Dan
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but: Beanbags are softer, balls are harder!
If it was so easy to break, why didn't he?
> With 8 balls his record is still 1 min 13 sec (2006).
This is one man, not the majority of jugglers.
For the same reason for which he doesn't break his
records
frequently: he doesn't want/need to...
> This is one man, not the majority of jugglers.
I know, but his skills are quite similar with balls and
rings... It's not the same for the majority of numbers
jugglers (take for example Thomas who started juggling
rings many years later and who's obviously still better
with balls, or Vova who started doing rings few years
ago, or Grigorij (Griša) Lovygin who's fantastic with
9 balls but as far as I know not with rings... and so
on!)
Did he ever practice 8 rings?
Why? If something is easy then why not do it?
His claim is to be the best, and that is an important claim, then he would
want his records to be
higher. He did this with 7 rings before.
some men have harder, some others softer...
Claiming to be the best doesn't necessarily pushing for such records more
so than being the best performer.
I recall him saying that just because a singer can hold a particular note
longer than anyone else, that doesn't make them the best singer.
Fair enough point, I still think if he wanted to stand above the rest even
more (and he does seem to
like that) then he would beat his records that were "easy" to beat.
Ja, why indeed?
And why did Usain look around 10 metres before the finish line?
lemGo
I don't know.
Sondre
Well, he already did, why try to do it again when the records are going to
stand for yet some time? I believe he said he didn't try to make the 8
ball record any longer so that people wouldn't be discouraged from trying
to beat it. He recently said he thinks it is time someone beats some of
his records, and so he has not made them as extreme as he can. Remember
that for instance the 6 club record was his first attempt that day, after
a practice that tired him, and I think he had split a nail or something
like that. I am pretty sure he could go 10 minutes with 6 clubs if he
wanted to, but there is no point.
Sondre
Because he thinks is a waste of time, so he breaks some
records now and then just to remember us all that he's
still the best and he's way better than any other
excellent juggler.
Besides that he has no motivation to break frequently
*his own* records, knowing how far are all the other
jugglers!
And please note that the 7 ring records was made at the
end of his performance, so not for jugglers but just to
let "normal" people know he's so good that he can break
a 7 ring record whenever he wants.
Daniele
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