Watch "Going for the Juggler"
May. 18th, 2020 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithI admire juggling and related skills. This video takes a while to get to the impressive part, but once the stunt is assembled, it's really impressive.
What makes it impressive?
* Once the plates are in place, he can't look down or up, only straight ahead.
* Juggling 4 things is harder than 3 or 5 because the pattern is different and more challening.
* Any juggling while standing on a devilboard is much harder than on the floor, because of the added instability.
* The presence of the spinning plates overhead requires perfect control of the juggling clubs, which have to stay far enough away to avoid hitting the plates.
* So that's almost entirely kinesthetic intelligence at work, because the ability to use visual checks is greatly limited by the constraints on head motion. You can see him feeling out where the devilboard is, for instance.
Juggling is so awesome. :D
What makes it impressive?
* Once the plates are in place, he can't look down or up, only straight ahead.
* Juggling 4 things is harder than 3 or 5 because the pattern is different and more challening.
* Any juggling while standing on a devilboard is much harder than on the floor, because of the added instability.
* The presence of the spinning plates overhead requires perfect control of the juggling clubs, which have to stay far enough away to avoid hitting the plates.
* So that's almost entirely kinesthetic intelligence at work, because the ability to use visual checks is greatly limited by the constraints on head motion. You can see him feeling out where the devilboard is, for instance.
Juggling is so awesome. :D
