Juggling club

The club belongs next ball and ring to the classic juggling equipment. Typically, a juggling club is caught by the handle and used to throw juggling, since the late 20th century, numerous jugglers also deal with other techniques and explore every possibility to manipulate lobes. So also increasingly forms of contact juggling with clubs develop.

From the physical properties torches and juggling knives are very similar. - Tricks where lobes are caught by the handle, are usually possible with these devices. They are therefore mainly of street artists often used as they make a big impression with the audience, even without outstanding skills.

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Cone shapes

Each Juggling Club has a thin and a thick end of the handle and the body. Beyond the grip, the lobe is again thicker; for this head of the English term is used mostly knob under jugglers. Also for the end of the leg on the body side of the English term is used: top. Culling are usually about 50 cm long, the diameter of the body is between 5 and 10 cm. Multipart clubs have in the transition between handle and body a tape that also is often the edge of the tops protected by another strip.

Early lobes

Until well into the 20th century, juggling clubs differed little from the lobes are still in use in Rhythmic Gymnastics. They were made of solid wood and were in many cases made by the artists themselves. These legs were heavy, and catching high throws quite painful, also were broken Clubs hardly to repair.

Modern clubs

Nowadays, there are countless amateur jugglers and a corresponding demand for juggling clubs, so that different manufacturers offer products. The cheapest lobes are hollow, one-piece plastic legs. You are highly recommended and easy even for beginners only partly because few jugglers find fun to juggle with them. Besides the price speaks for these clubs that they are virtually indestructible and waterproof.

High quality clubs today consist of at least two hollow plastic parts for handle and body, which are put on a central rod. The bars are almost exclusively made ​​of wood, the company Play from Italy has brought a juggling club with plastic rod on the market at the beginning of the 21st century. Body end and Knob modern juggling clubs made ​​of shock-absorbing materials such as rubber, in order to increase the life of the rod. Cancels this but once, it can be replaced with different levels of effort in all lobes. Handle and body are much more durable than the bar generally. The most elaborate clubs have taken a hard plastic tube as a handle a wound from plastic or fabric ribbon handle which is again softer than a one-piece plastic handle and so the capture makes it even more comfortable.

Other forms

In addition to the classic body shape that has the largest diameter is about 3 /4 of the leg length and tapers to the beam center and towards the end, some manufacturers have experimented with alternative forms, which some enthusiastic supporters, but only limited distribution found in part. Such forms include the teardrop-shaped Fathead lobes from American manufacturers Renegade or the radical fish, whose special feature is a thickening in the middle of an otherwise slender body.

Decoration

Juggling clubs are manufactured in all possible color combinations. In legs with colorful body completely white juggling clubs are by far the most common variant. Such monochrome, but especially the white lobes are known as training clubs. In addition, many jugglers use legs with different colored decor, which is glued to the body or even melted some of the plastic. Apart from his own creations, there are two variants: Circus lobes have about thumb- wide strips parallel to the axis of the body. It is almost always silver stripes on a colored body. As a " Euro " or European decoration are called two wide strips around the ends of the body. You can only free the thickest third of the body, as in the picture above.

Zirkusdeko is now almost only on slender legs, European decoration especially on thicker lobes. In addition, jugglers have the opportunity to work with different colored tapes, knobs and tops to buy their very own club or to decorate themselves, so as to have a unique device.

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Throw juggling

Many art pieces are equally possible with balls, clubs and rings. Clubs take more space in the air, as rings and balls, making it easier collisions occur. Moreover, they are no longer spherically symmetric, but just need to point the handle at hand, so they can be collected. For these two reasons are often more difficult tricks with clubs. This can be seen also that the object number of world records is significantly lower:

Records

• 9 rods 9 times caught ( for the first time by Bruce Tiemann 1996)
• 8 legs 16 times caught by Anthony Gatto in 2006
• 7 lobes over 4 minutes also by Anthony Gatto in 2006

Lobe -specific tricks

Many club tricks can not be transferred or difficult to balls and rings. For a long time are poised clubs and other bars. It is often juggles while balancing the Club with other objects.

Some tricks with clubs much easier than with other objects, these include in particular throwing behind the back and through the legs. The additional freedom to influence the number or direction of rotation of the leg, allowing many tricks that are conceivable, but not visible with rings and balls. The throw a club without rotation is referred to as in English than flat. Using the potential only at clubs leverage, it is possible to catapult legs with his foot in the air. Also the roles of the club over the body, especially on the head, very own club- specific tricks are possible.

Especially recently, the peculiarities of different juggling objects of modern, creative jugglers were explored. Since then, as the pinching of maces between the forearm and another club, in the elbow, knee or under the arm are enjoying with clubs, some new sets of tricks increasingly popular, so. Even the conscious undertaking of the lobe on the body is now one of many creative juggling, while it was previously perceived as errors.

Fit

Under Adjust one understands the juggling of multiple, with the jugglers mutually throw objects. While this is possible with all objects, but legs are a bit more popular than other objects.

Volleyclub

Volleyclub is a common on juggling conventions team sport that is played on a volleyball court and with strongly style similar to volleyball rules, but with clubs.

Combat

Combat is also to -find at juggling conventions sport ( all against all) is played or as a one on one either as elimination. The aim here is to disrupt the three - lobe cascade of the opponent (eg, by absorption or capture one of his legs ).

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