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I just realised (realized?) 2 minutes too late, it was my anniversary.
3years , 12 hours and 50 minutes ago (I might be a minute or 2 off by the time I post this) I walked out of the top1toys in Aarschot with my first set of juggling balls.
If anyone would have told me then that I would remember that moment in 3 years time I would've declared him crazy.
I want to thank all the jugglers on the web for keeping me motivated in those first 2 years when I didn't know any other jugglers.
You guys are awesome.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I'm always impressed when people can remember when they started juggling with such precision.
I can't even narrow it down to which year I started juggling with any certainty!
The best I can do is, "one Saturday, about 2 weeks before my 14th birthday" (September 1994) which is close.
Dave Cheetham - - Parent #
I couldn't give a year for when I first learnt three balls (probably 1992 to 1994), but I know that I started to get seriously into learning more tricks, more props, and more numbers during the second half of 2002. That's about as accurate as I can be.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I'm fairly sure I learnt to juggle somewhere between 1988 and 1992 (although I remember trying to learn to juggle in a shower pattern many years before that)
I know I learnt Mills Mess some time in the first half of 1993 rather than revising for my GCSEs.
The first juggling related event I can pin down with any degree of certainty is my first juggling convention which was the second Saturday of the 1995 Bristol festival (by my reckoning that would be 23rd Sept 1995) But I know I'd been juggling quite some time by then.
I know I decided to learn 5 balls in the summer of 1997, but I have to work that out based on "what summer jobs did I have when I was at uni?"
In retrospect, I wish I'd made a note of the date or kept a diary or something. It didn't seem important at the time.
I learned to juggle over a long period (about 10 years), but I count from October 2007.
mike.armstrong - - Parent #
Ditto on the precision. I know I got a 'How to Juggle' set of three plastic-filled pyramid beanbags for Christmas one year and learnt over the next few weeks, but which Christmas is a mystery - it's most likely to be 1990, '91 or '92.
It all got "proper" though when I got to uni in 1995 and, amongst others, Colin E showed me how much I'd been missing out on. My first convention was Lancaster '95 and first BJC was Edinburgh '96.
I happen (by accident) to know the exact date I started juggling. It's nearly 20 years ago. I don't know the time though. Probably "just after lunch".
It will be 24 years ago next week that I learnt to juggle. I was meant to be revising for my finals (1988), it was before my birthday (26th May) but not much before. I learnt to do 2 balls in one hand in either hand in the afternoon. I learnt the 3 ball cascade when shown it by a housemate that evening (about 6pm). Blame the book Lord Valentines Castle for me being a juggler.
Nigel
I learnt to Juggle in 1980 after seeing Rob Murray on the Paul Daniels show and hearing someone teaching juggling on the Dave Lee-Travis radio show about the same time.
It was the first of April 1991. We'd just finished making our fimo (coloured clay to bake in the oven)
decorations for our hippy boots and had made 3 x 1.5 inch balls with the leftovers.
At the end of that week we all went down to the Mushy Pea blanket & circus supplies stall in the Corn Exchange.
Steve bought 3 Spotlight 4 panels (£13.50), Chris went for 3 JD Beanbags (£10.50). I only had £10 so went for 3 of the standard thuds (£9.90). They lasted 3 months. I lasted longer.
Not sure when I first learnt what the cascade pattern was but couldn't do it until February 1998, midway through my first year at uni where I was taught how to throw *and catch* three balls.
First convention was Lancaster 1998. I spent the whole day learning 4 balls and remember not believing CJ when she said that my first conventions would be spent doing lots and lots of juggling and not much socialising but that it would gradually swap round so that I'd end up doing not much juggling but lots of socialising. I thought I'd always juggle at conventions. How little did I know!
Wow, I ran your first convention! You must have been juggling for what, all of a year and a bit before being foolhardy enough to sign up for BJC York?
Really? Gosh. Small juggling world. Good convention from what I can remember!
Yep, I hadn't been juggling that long when I did BJC2k but I was keen and blissfully ignorant. Best way sometimes ;)
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