by Jason Quinn
Yet another good meeting with about 15 members present. This week's meeting featured the first in a series to be called "Insane Juggling Challenges". Here's the challenge that I sent out in the e-mail listserve:
This week's challenge will be me vs the *ENTIRE* club. If the
club wins, I'll bring a cake or some nice treat to the next meeting.
Everybody will attempt to juggle three 3-lb juggling balls for as long as
they can. After everyone is done, the top 3 times from the guys and the top
3 times from the gals will be added up for a total of 6 times. I will
attempt to beat that time. No way, you say? Maybe. It's going to be tough as
nails but it wouldn't be an insane challenge otherwise. I'm calling ya'll
out. Let's get it on!!!!!
The top three times for the guys were 6:06 (Ted), 2:21 (Richard), and 1:53 (Sean). For the women, 0:29 (Jessica), 0:07 (Rachel), and 0:05 (Maura). Other participants included Alec, Andrew, Matt, Christopher, Joey, Mark, Pat, Alicia, and John. After adding up the top times, I had to juggle for more than 11 minutes and 1 second. A tough time for sure. I'm happy to report however that I managed to avoid any silly drops and went on to win the first challenge quitting after a little buffer somewhere around 11:30.
A big thank you to Richard Sheehan for taking some photos of the juggler's at this week's meeting and for joining in the heavy juggling contest.
by Jason Quinn
First club meeting was a nice success. There were about 18 people total that showed up. Sean ran a 3-ball workshop to help the new jugglers. I ran a passing workshop to help those with a decent cascade. Almost everybody in the passing workshop learned the 6-ball 4-count! Awesome. We played a game of volleyball but it didn't work out that great. We'll try again. Many new faces at the meeting. Sean took some photos, which can be seen in the pictures section.