WJF Invites Gatto!!!!

[Stephen Brain]

Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/

They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty interesting...

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[erik_jernqvist]

Stephen Brain wrote:
> Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>
> They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
> stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty interesting...

http://www.anthonygatto.com/wjf-invitation.html

[Rory Parle]

erik_jernqvist wrote:
> Stephen Brain wrote:
>
>>Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>>
>>They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
>>stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty interesting...
>
> http://www.anthonygatto.com/wjf-invitation.html

Nothing says professional like a hotmail address.

--
Rory Parle
http://www.soylentred.net/

[Brian Gadomski]

Stephen Brain wrote:
> Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>
> They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
> stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far.

Well, considering that IF Gatto went to the WJF
1: More people would respect the legitmacy of the orginization
2: More jugglers would be motivated to pay to see him compete in Vegas (I
know I'd pay big bucks to
watch Anthony and Vova duke it out in the club competition).
3: More people would watch the tv shows.
The WJF wouldn't really be sacrificing anything by dropping 500 bucks on
his convention expenses.
As if he'd ever take them up on the offer.

> Pretty interesting...
Yep, that's good style. Remember that one kids.
Step 1: Insinuate publicly that a dude's wife is a whore.
Step 2: Ask him to come to your competition.

>_<

[Steven Ragatz]

http://www.stevenragatz.com/anthony.htm

Never to be outdone...

Steven Ragatz

[Adam]

Mr. Ragatz, what can I say? You're awesome.

Adam

[Naomi]

"Rory Parle" <rpa...@soylentred.net.INVALID> wrote in message
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> erik_jernqvist wrote:
>> Stephen Brain wrote:
>>
>>>Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>>>
>>>They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
>>>stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty interesting...
>>
>> http://www.anthonygatto.com/wjf-invitation.html
>
> Nothing says professional like a hotmail address.
>

Well, his website has a rather more professional proforma for making
business contact: see http://www.anthonygatto.com/main.html Not that I see
a hotmail address as a major problem for most people. Microsoft is a fairly
well respected company, and Hotmail certainly has worked fine for me over
the years. Not too many bells and whistles of course, but I don't need them.
It was however an odd, straw clutching way to suggest, if indeed that was
your intent, that hotmail usage implies a lack of professionalism from
Gatto.

But an interesting reply from A.G. He has no need at all to compete of
course, as the general opinion of all ( with the possible exception of
Garfield , who also probably confuses white with black at noon on a
midsummer's day ), is that Gatto reigns supreme as THE technical juggler,
which appears to be what the WJF is about defining. For Gatto to compete
would be a bit like a pro basketball player taking a game against
kindergarten kids seriously. Gatto has nothing to prove, but his addition
as the headline act in the WJF would add a lot to the event.
The WJF as an event is fine, but to even suggest it to be some form of
"world championship" , is never going to work. Garfield's approach to
organising the event, and the misuse of his ego, has been such that Gatto is
never, in my opinion, going to compete, and I don't blame him at all.
There would be ONE major advantage if Gatto should enter: it would at long
last give Garfield something that he would finally have to shut up about.
One of the all time best pokes in the eye with the proverbial sharp sticks.
Run it as an open juggling competition Jason, drop the "World" from the
title, and let the event sit at its own level. Don't over elevate its
importance.

Now, does anyone know where I can get one of those rather nice WTF ( yes WTF
! ) T-shirts that I have seen in the UK recently?

Nao

--
I read a book " Relativity Made Simple."
And simple it was, as long as you could follow easy mathematical concepts
such as:

A=B, B=C, therefore A=D.
.

[Rory Parle]

Naomi wrote:
> "Rory Parle" <rpa...@soylentred.net.INVALID> wrote in message
> news:ee7Me.3899$R5....@news.indigo.ie...
>
>>erik_jernqvist wrote:
>>
>>>Stephen Brain wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>>>>
>>>>They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
>>>>stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty interesting...
>>>
>>>http://www.anthonygatto.com/wjf-invitation.html
>>
>>Nothing says professional like a hotmail address.
>>
>
> Well, his website has a rather more professional proforma for making
> business contact: see http://www.anthonygatto.com/main.html Not that I see
> a hotmail address as a major problem for most people. Microsoft is a fairly
> well respected company, and Hotmail certainly has worked fine for me over
> the years. Not too many bells and whistles of course, but I don't need them.
> It was however an odd, straw clutching way to suggest, if indeed that was
> your intent, that hotmail usage implies a lack of professionalism from
> Gatto.

Oh I know he's very professional, and his site is fine so long as you've
never heard of accessibility, but using a Hotmail address as an official
contact email address for a professional service is about equivalent to
asking people to address snail-mail to the newsagent below your flat. He
has his own domain, so book...@anthonygatto.com, or something similar,
should be under his control.

[Nerd]

Naomi wrote:

> But an interesting reply from A.G. He has no need at all to compete of
> course, as the general opinion of all ( with the possible exception of
> Garfield , who also probably confuses white with black at noon on a
> midsummer's day ), is that Gatto reigns supreme as THE technical juggler,
> which appears to be what the WJF is about defining. For Gatto to compete
> would be a bit like a pro basketball player taking a game against
> kindergarten kids seriously. Gatto has nothing to prove, but his addition
> as the headline act in the WJF would add a lot to the event.

Agreed, and if you add the events lack of professionalism, it actually
makes him look silly. Gatto seems really professional about what he
does, and this event just don't have that edge. Anybody who remember
last years tv-show from this event? Dam I was disappointed about it.
Stage was looking crappy on tv, the juggling was strange (moving feet's
is REALY bad and such crap) and the comments was just way out of line.
In fact the whole production could have been something a few guys put
together a Monday morning with a rented and outworn cam recorder.

> to even suggest it to be some form of
> "world championship" , is never going to work.

Agreed again.

> Garfield's approach to
> organising the event, and the misuse of his ego, has been such that Gatto is
> never, in my opinion, going to compete, and I don't blame him at all.

Agreed, Jason is making him self look really silly indeed.

> Run it as an open juggling competition Jason, drop the "World" from the
> title, and let the event sit at its own level. Don't over elevate its
> importance.

Amen.

[Ronnie Tarver]

yes but a pro basketball player has already played and mastered the
kindergarden game. Gatto has yet to even attempt the WJF game. until he
obliterates everyone at WJF, then he has nothing to prove. but wats the
point of having the competition in the first place if we all hold him to
be the best based off of videos on the internet? nothing on stage at
competition?

yes, he's the best, but for the sake of maintaining meaning of
competition, give him the seat of honor after he wins.

even garfield had to do that for IJA.

but his addition
> as the headline act in the WJF would add a lot to the event.
> The WJF as an event is fine, but to even suggest it to be some form of
> "world championship" , is never going to work. Garfield's approach to
> organising the event, and the misuse of his ego, has been such that Gatto is
> never, in my opinion, going to compete, and I don't blame him at all.
> There would be ONE major advantage if Gatto should enter: it would at long
> last give Garfield something that he would finally have to shut up about.
> One of the all time best pokes in the eye with the proverbial sharp sticks.
> Run it as an open juggling competition Jason, drop the "World" from the
> title, and let the event sit at its own level. Don't over elevate its
> importance.
>
> Now, does anyone know where I can get one of those rather nice WTF ( yes WTF
> ! ) T-shirts that I have seen in the UK recently?
>
> Nao
>
> --
> I read a book " Relativity Made Simple."
> And simple it was, as long as you could follow easy mathematical concepts
> such as:
>
> A=B, B=C, therefore A=D.

> ..

[T]

> yes but a pro basketball player has already played and mastered the
> kindergarden game.

Not necessarily.

> Gatto has yet to even attempt the WJF game. until he
> obliterates everyone at WJF, then he has nothing to prove. but wats the
> point of having the competition in the first place if we all hold him to
> be the best based off of videos on the internet? nothing on stage at
> competition?

He's won IJA gold. He won a Golden Clown. He's competed plenty, in
competitions way bigger and more important than Garfield's extended joke.

[Joyce Howard]

Anthony won a coveted PHIL trophy for "Most Spectacular" at the Atlanta
Groundhog Day Jugglers Festival in 1982. Jason doesn't have one of those!

Joyce

http://www.atlantajugglers.org/festhist.htm

[Nerd]

We all know it, Gatto is the best juggler there is, and that ever has
walked the face of the planet. Jason knows this as well. Jason even
knows deep down in his hart that he wont ever get close to the skils
gatto has. The only thing Jason doesn't seem to realise, is the fact
that his "prove it in a competition" bitching isn't really funny at all.
It might be ment in a funny way, but it just make him look more and
more like a dork. And his "I can do 720's, and I can do back crosses"
just make me sad for him.

[popstar_dave]

Brian Gadomski wrote:

> Well, considering that IF Gatto went to the WJF

> 3: More people would watch the tv shows.

Not sure if I'm with you on this. Jugglers are so excited to see juggling
on TV that they'll watch no matter who's competing. Non-jugglers have no
idea who Gatto is, and will be no more likely to watch than if he wasn't
competing.

My 2c,
Dave

[millsroadtrip]

Anthony, take up Steve on the offer, The Morocan Resturant is awesome!
They use the most expensive spice in the world on many of their dishes!
Steve treated our whole family and gave us three stage light racks for a
going away present!

love you Steve! Thanks again for a great visit! We love the lights!!!!

steve Mills

[JugglerPeter]

After last year's competition, despite all of the negatives (which for
those of you about to post a follow up and list them are many), I thought
it was a very good thing for juggling. TV exposure, and a sports oriented
competition that drew more world class jugglers than any other juggling
competition in recent memory (feel free to tell me that I'm wrong here,
this isn't the point of my post anyway). But the WWF attitude the WJF is
taking is getting ridiculous. Why the obsession with Gatto? Why not make
the most of the jugglers that will / did attend?

Most importantly, why not offer personal invitations to the other "best
jugglers in the world". Where is the invitiation to Albert Lucas who,
according to JISCON, has juggled more objects than anyone else in history?
Where is the invitation to Françoise Rochais, the best female juggler in
the world? What about the other world record holders? Bruce Sarafian
juggles more balls than Gatto, why isn't he invited?

I think that despite all the flaws the WJF could be a great organization
if they could only act like legitimate sporting organizations and stop
acting like the WWF. They should Stop obsessing over Gatto and try to get
talented jugglers who might actually show up (starting with my list
above). Then if the WJF proves (in several years time) that they are a
legitimate world class juggling competition the best jugglers will want to
come. If not they'd better sell as many videos as they can before the new
bankruptcy laws go into effect.

Peter

[Gregory@Gballz]

Sorry, I couldn't resist! heh!
http://www.gballz.com/anthony_gato.htm

Gregory

[shadow link]

What about Thomas, Toby and Peter, are they going to be there?

[Roger Light]

Naomi wrote:

> Now, does anyone know where I can get one of those rather nice WTF ( yes WTF
> ! ) T-shirts that I have seen in the UK recently?

They are nice!

I think Little Paul was selling them at Crawley so you could try asking him.

Cheers,

Roger

[Rory Parle]

(I've trimmed some signatures and ads, and fixed the top-posting)

Gregory@Gballz wrote:

> Steven Ragatz wrote:
>
>> Stephen Brain wrote:
>>
>>> Check it out: http://www.thewjf.com/
>>>
>>> They really want him to come I guess; it doesn't seem like a publicity
>>> stunt. If it was they wouldn't need to go this far. Pretty
>>> interesting...
>>

>> http://www.stevenragatz.com/anthony.htm
>>
>> Never to be outdone...
>

> Sorry, I couldn't resist! heh!
> http://www.gballz.com/anthony_gato.htm

Is that a bandwagon I see? I wonder where it's going?
<http://www.soylentred.net/archive/entries/373>

[Brian Gadomski]

Perhaps you're right. I was thinking that Gatto competing in the WJF
would be big enough for even the diehard WJF haters to want to watch. Oh
well, its completly hypothetical anyway.

[rpa...@gmail.com]

The jugglingdb seems to be linking that URL wrongly, so I'm getting a
lot of erroneous requests. Cut the closing angle-bracket off the end of
the URL to visit the right page. Maybe someone could look into fixing
the auto-linking code in jugglingdb?

[Félix]

I just finished eating, yet you make me hungry with the enthusiastic
description of the Morocan food you enjoyed in Steven's town. It really
sounds to me like something one wouldn't wanna miss.

Yam!

Félix, who loves eating good stuff.

[Jay Linn]

Rory Parle wrote:

> Is that a bandwagon I see? I wonder where it's going?

This is so unfair. Jason needs loving too, you know.

As a paid up member of the WTF(I have the shirt to prove it), I
officially invite Jason Garfield to Leicester, UK, to juggle, hang out,
play DDR at the local bowling alley, and to have lunch on me at Bobby's,
regarded as one of the finest vegetarian Indian restaurants on the planet.

There is, however, one caveat upon which I shall insist when Jason
takes up my generous and selfless offer - under no circumstances, and
upon pain of clown-themed death, must Jason attempt in any manner to
compose or recite anything as mincingly, buttock clenchingly naff as a
rap about Tony Cake.

--
Jay Linn

Plenty of space left on this here wagon - hop aboard!

[Little Paul]

On 2005-08-16, Jay Linn <J...@jay-linn.co.uk> wrote:
> I officially invite Jason Garfield to Leicester, UK, to juggle, hang out,
> play DDR at the local bowling alley, and to have lunch on me at Bobby's,
> regarded as one of the finest vegetarian Indian restaurants on the planet.

Call that a night out?

I officially invite Jason Garfield, and Anthony Gatto to Bristol, UK, to
hang out at my local bowling alley, play DDR, drink alcopops, be sick in
the bushes and then have a fight in the carpark on the way back to my
mates bezzed up nova (it's got dead classy underlighting and blue washer
jets) after which we can doughnut round the carpark, get well lairy at
the birds in maccy d's drive through and then go pull some munters in
Ritzys.

Seems about their level afterall.

-Paul

[scot_nery]

I would take up Steve on his offer too. No way of losing. Go for it,
Gatto. If you're man enough, go out to dinner. Otherwise, you're just
proving to the world that you don't eat human food.

[G-Ballz]

Jason already got his free ballz.. : )

Gregory

[Brian Campbell]

LP says:
> I officially invite Jason Garfield, and Anthony Gatto ...

I'll see your two excellent technical jugglers, and raise you *any
juggler at all*!

http://dartblogs.com/lambda/archives/003057.html

-- Brian, feeling like the bandwagon is getting crowded.

[juggle...@hotmail.com]

What's a munter? Anything to do with Neddy's or Senga's? I believe
those were the terms I learned from folks at the Scottish Festival.
What a great night of drinking and cross-cultural communication that
was!!!

How do I get invited to Bristol?!? lol

Matt Hall

[Brian Fahs]

I seem to remember that Anthony used to own a lawn care business. Perhaps
you can compare Steve Mills' mowing with Anthony's?

Brian

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[Jared Davis]

> Where is the invitiation to Albert Lucas who,
> according to JISCON, has juggled more objects than anyone else in history?

I may be wrong, but I remember Albert Lucas being on the website of the
WJF last year. Anyone?

> Bruce Sarafian
> juggles more balls than Gatto, why isn't he invited?

He has flashed more balls than Gatto...not juggled.

[David Cain]

Sarafian has demonstrated that he can qualify ten balls and do a flash
and a half of 11. Gatto has demonstrated neither.

David Cain