Communication channels during large (and long) juggling conventions
Its been quite a while since I've been active on here, but I was browsing through some posts regarding modes of communication, and having alternatives to Meta run options.
As part of quite a long feed forward document that I've been creating (feedback is essentially pointless for an EJC team!) I've been thinking about how to communicate urgently with convention goers for emerging situations such as bad weather.
This year, messages were sent via a WhatsApp channel and via email to all who had provided an email address to register. However, some of those emails went to spam, and others went through low priority filters, so people did not receive a notification regarding the email message.
Do people have a suggested alternative, or would this still be considered sufficient as it does provide an alternative to Meta.
Would offering to have comms channels on both Signal and WhatsApp provide sufficient coverage (in addition to email) - as both of these platforms have the option to have a "broadcast only" group - so that only messages from admins can be posted (avoiding overload). Only offering Signal (over WhatsApp) would mean that many would have to download another app, and one that they are not familiar with.
reasons to get stuck
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• doing at your limit with very and too hard pattern
, , , ( years for little to no progress, even stagnating )
• to stubborn to change unyielding learning strategy
• missing a crucial clue
• being succumbed to a misconception
• having a (serious) bad habit unaware of
• having a mental psychological block
, , , ( like when always blundering when getting near your daily or recent best, but on a large timescale )
• .. ? [anything else? objections?]
Do you have or can you think of examples?
Just a quick hello…
I’m a former pro juggler who is now Pastor and just started a new juggling club in Milwaukee this past week.
Right note I’m discovering how all of my stashed props have survived and getting my pick up muscles in shape.
I’m working on getting my club to send a group to Madfest in Madison in January.
PS
Here are all the links posted during August 2026:
The following hashtags were used:
hey Jonothan! I saw that you got 13 catches of 11 balls.
That is insane! how long have you been juggling for? and if you
could I was wondering how old are you? (I have been juggling for 3 years)
Origin of Duals?
I noticed the juggle wiki page on dual siteswaps doesn’t note any origin for the idea. Does anyone know who might have come up with/developed the concept?
Joseph the juggler - - Parent #
What do you mean by duals?
RustyJuggling - - Parent #
It’s when one siteswap kind of fills the contours of another; one goes high where the other one goes low. For example 441 and 522 are duals to each other.
You get the dual by subtracting a siteswap from its period times 2, and then flipping it backwards. So for 504, you would subtract each throw from 6, making the dual 261. Patterns can also be their own dual, like 531.
Hi there, my name's Jenny and I only started juggling a few months ago. I'm from Germany but live in Denmark at the moment. I currently mostly practice juggling clubs and I would absolutely love to find people in denmark to meet up for some club passing
Hey Jenny,
My name is Jenny too, and coincidentally I am as well living in Denmark and are originally from Germany :D
Where in Denmark are you based? I am based in Copenhagen and we have a super nice juggling meetup from our club "Mind Your Head" every Tuesday from 20-22 near Blågårdsplads :)
#Camvention2026
Greetings jugglers!
A bit of a late announcement, but Camvention (the Cambridge Juggling and Circus Convention) will again be back this year on Saturday 3th October! Same place, same times, same Thai van ;)
Details on Facebook and on the website.
Hope to see you all there :)
Mark
MartinD561 - #
Hello, Buenas noches, Salut.
Thanks for receiving me in this awesome community! My name is Martin,from Argentina.
Aguante el malabar
There is https://jugglingmap.org/ which was filled with circus during the EJC. I like the feature of jugglingedge to get an email reminder so that information stays up to date.
Also another project has been started to have an alternative for the events of jugglingedge. I do not remember the site. But I do prefer information in a text representation like it is on this site.
jugglingmap.org reminds me of the old globe applet from the IJDb! As you suggest though they need to implement an automated system to prompt updates coupled with a way that flags old data like we use on the Edge. Link rot is a huge problem in the club space.
As for the other project are you thinking of https://juggling-convention.com? I noticed this site earlier in the year. It looks nice, has a lot more features than the Edge such as built in sitemaps, programs, place to organise carpooling etc. Looks like a chap named Pierre from France has built the site using Claude Code.
Does anyone know what the AFJ token payments is about? Seems to be significant enough to be included as a search parameter but only used for a few festivals. Hoping it's not some cryptocurrency scheme entering the festival circuit.
Nothing to find about 'token' on the French Juggling Association's site, https://afj.asso.fr/ afai could see.
I prefer lists like jugglingedge does. I did not know about the site you were linking that site I found was also a globe. But I do not remember and have browsing history turned off.
I do not know about the tokens from french conventions. Those I participated in normally use helloasso to register and pay for the conventions.
I am happy that many conventions nowadays use pretix developped by ccc people as it is mature software that you can host yourself. However we in Hamburg still use a system we coded in 2014/2015 without AI.
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