{"id":2030,"date":"2014-04-09T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T09:45:09","slug":"top-40-jugglers-of-2013-and-even-more-epic-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/2030","title":{"rendered":"Top 40 Jugglers of 2013 &#8211; and even more epic journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1643\" target=\"new\">It&#8217;s that time of year again!<\/a> You know, quarter of the way through 2014, so it&#8217;s time to share the final results of last year&#8217;s Top 40 Jugglers poll (as voted by you!).<\/p>\n<p>For the 2013 chart I set myself a very difficult challenge: to release one video per juggler, with me copying a trick, sequence, or section of a live show, taken from a juggling video that was released in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As I finished them, I released each video on YouTube (and post them to Facebook) and let fellow jugglers guess who I was imitating.<\/p>\n<p>Could I make it through?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JNI1oQpAXvA&#038;list=PLedkVkRnas-pFFNIg6zFc6xc_Fw8z_rZk\" target=\"new\">Click here to see each video in turn as a YouTube playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had a <em>lot<\/em> of fun making the videos, but it was a <em>lot<\/em> of work. Besides the juggling, I had to copy some mannerisms of the juggler, and often getting those right was sometimes harder than the juggling tricks themselves. Not that the juggling wasn&#8217;t <em>fucking hard<\/em> at points too.<\/p>\n<p>As I went I made a side-by-side comparison edit with my impersonation\/tribute\/copy shown beside the original juggling video clip. After releasing all the individual clips I recorded a commentary track and released the full video. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9lmHEHZNY5U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which is your favourite clip?<\/p>\n<p>Hardest tricks for me physically:<br \/>\n* 8 club passing 8-up 2-stage 720 due to having limited time to get the trick, meaning Brook and I didn&#8217;t rest much between attempts.<br \/>\n* 11 ball flash. I found so draining on my arms that I couldn&#8217;t manage other jugglers&#8217; tricks.<br \/>\n* Nathan Bigg-Peterson&#8217;s 5 club multiplex backcrosses. I <em>still<\/em> have a lump in my lip from hitting myself in the face with a club. Also I broke not one but two bulbs for my studio lights, and they&#8217;re not cheap to replace.<br \/>\n* Alex Barron&#8217;s 6 ball siteswap 999333 with the second 3 behind the head. I&#8217;m just not used to throwing balls high like that after years of juggling in my 4.2 meter ceiling studio.<br \/>\n* 8 club multiplex. It took three days and at that point I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be able to manage the 9 club version, as I could only practice the 8 club version at home. My hands got used to the grip by the end, but it was still very draining.<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3281 votes cast<\/li>\n<li>Wes Peden won with 179 votes. Haavard Hvidsten and Tony Pezzo <em>both<\/em> got 148 votes, but due to the sorting formula, ties are broken by the juggler going <em>up<\/em> the chart the most, so Haavard got second place.<\/li>\n<li>17 votes needed to make it onto the chart.<\/li>\n<li>Wes has now spent more years at number 1 than <em>all the other number 1 jugglers combined<\/em> (6 years for Wes, 5 years for all other number 1 jugglers).<\/li>\n<li>Jason Garfield became the first former number 1 juggler to drop out of the chart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again! You know, quarter of the way through 2014, so it&#8217;s time to share the final results of last year&#8217;s Top 40 Jugglers poll (as voted by you!). For the 2013 chart I set myself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/2030\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}