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Contact Juggling
What is Contact Juggling?
Contact Juggling is the skill and art of moving a ball or balls from one place to another while keeping them in contact with your body.
Contact Juggling has several other names as well including, Sphereplay, dynamic manipulation, crystal manipulation. But Contact Juggling has the easiest definition for the average joe, bob ,jane or nancy. Contact Juggling is juggling in which the ball or balls maintain contact with the body.
Contact Juggling consists of 2 main forms
Rolling and Spinning
Often termed Body Rolling and Palm Spinning
By taking out the words body and palm you take away boundries that can be placed there.
So spinning can be done on the back of the hand.
And rolling can be done with a prop.
This site will usually refer to them as Ball Rolling and Ball Spinning to help clarify what is spinning and what is rolling.
There are several elements that are part of Contact Juggling.
They include isolations, curls, holds, flourishes, and stalls.
So you can isolate a spin or isolate a roll. The same would be true of each of the other elements.
Brief History of Contact Juggling
Contact Juggling is a term coined by James Ernest in his book of the same name.
James Ernest credits Michael Moschen with inspiring him to learn Contact Juggling.
Michael Moschen was very upset at this book when it was released.
Mr. Moschen created a routine and was doing a routine. He had no intentions of others learning, expanding, and then teaching other how to do Contact Juggling.
Contact Juggling's roots go back centuries. China has had metal spheres for quite some time. These spheres have been used for spinning for quite some time.
Rolling of a ball has been around for quite some time as well.
One of the best ball rollers of the last century has been Francis Brunn. Mr. Brunn has shown the world his ability to roll the ball from his foot up his leg and back over his shoulder to his hand. Quite an impressive move.
The Harlem Globetrotters have been doing Contact Juggling for years as well in there RazMaTaz section of their show. They do arm rolls, behind the neck rolls and several other moves that are Contact Juggling.
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