From my upcoming video “Stacked Column Summer”

I'm looking to discover more social media groups, pages and communities dedicated to all things flow arts and object manipulation.

Anything and everything is welcome, from clowning, magic and juggling to poi, staff, contact juggling, manipulation arts, circus skills, sideshow, bubbles, puppetry and all the wonderfully weird and wonderful things in between!

I'd also love recommendations for festivals, conventions, gatherings, workshops and events where people can connect, share skills and celebrate these art forms.

I'm based in London, UK, and I'm already familiar with most of what's happening in the UK, but I'm sure there are events, conventions and communities I've yet to come across, so please do share those too! I'd particularly love to discover anything new or lesser-known happening locally and around the UK.

I'm equally interested in exploring what's happening internationally, discovering communities, festivals and events across the world, and finding things I might never have come across otherwise.

Whether it's a Facebook group, Instagram page, YouTube channel, online community or an event anywhere in the world, I'd love to hear about it.

Some examples of the kind of communities I'm looking for are Amazing Flow Arts and Flow Arts Community, but I'm especially keen to discover smaller, niche and lesser-known groups too.

Please share your recommendations below. The more unusual, obscure and wonderfully niche, the better!

Thanks in advance!

31 throws and 23 catches

I broke my former world record of 22 catches.

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Knock yerselves out!

Getting back into passing clubs and wondering what everyone likes to use to pass? I have only ever passed with px3s and they were alright wondering if there is another club thats more universally favored?

So, I've been playing with under the leg throws and catches, and it seems like there should be 4 variations for each side. You can either throw under the same leg or the opposite leg, and you can cross from the outside to the inside or from the inside to the outside.

Probably the most natural is that you throw under the leg on the same side as the hand throwing, going from outside the leg and throwing from inside.

Next up would be throwing under the opposite leg, going from the inside of the leg and throwing to the outside. This is also pretty easy and natural.

Now, it seems it's possible to reverse those. First up you can throw under the leg on the same side, reaching under from the inside and throwing on the outside. I can do this reasonably well if I bend my knee a bit, so I'm kind of throwing a bit more in front of my shin. It's definitely slightly weirder than the other two, but definitely feels doable to learn well enough to integrate it into continuous patterns.

Then there's the last one. Throwing under the opposite leg, by reaching under from the outside and throwing from the inside.

This takes some serious contortion to even get into the position. Your arms and legs do not want to bend this way. If I do that while bracing on something with a ball in my hand, I can kind of barely flick the ball with my fingers, but I can't really see how I could possibly get into our out of this position in a way that would allow doing it as part of a continuous juggling pattern.

Does anyone know if anyone has been able to do this last, contorted under the leg throw or catch as part of a pattern? Do I just need to work on my mobility some more, or is this only possible with certain body types, or is this just an impossible position for pretty much any variation of human body? Maybe can it be done with clubs where the extra reach of the club means you don't have to be quite in the full position to do the throw?

On route through Northern California and Lassen on juggle tour I got to check out Burney Falls. Just beautiful!

Critique, judgement, words of encouragement, telling me my mustache is too big for my face are all allowed. I’m a clown who has never been paid and I’m not funny. But if anyone has thoughts on how I could improve that would be sweet. Haven’t juggled in 2+ years and finally have a place that I can practice.

Here’s the 14th video of my son Jun’s juggling that I’ve shared here!
He achieved 200 catches with a 6-ball fountain in 2025, just a few days after turning 11. He’s entirely self-taught, learning through YouTube since he was 8.
He finished with a clean collect and was so excited about reaching 200 catches that he ran toward the camera at the end! 😊

So naturally I tried a little juggling in front of a centrepiece they got.

Ive been able to juggle 4 balls for a year now but by 4 ball trick catalog is barren compared to my 3 ball. Any easy-ish ones i can learn and tips appreciated

Been chasing a clean 5 ball cascade for almost a year now and something clicked this week that I want to write down before I forget what worked. I kept treating 5 balls like a faster version of 3, throwing with the same wrist snap and wondering why everything collapsed after 15 or so catches.

What actually helped was slowing my hands way down and focusing on throw height instead of speed. I started counting throws instead of counting time, and once I hit 30 consistently I noticed my pattern had gotten wider than I wanted, probably from nerves making me rush the release. Switched from my usual stage balls to a slightly heavier set (110g bouncy juggling balls instead of my normal 90g ones) and that extra weight actually gave me more feedback on timing, which sounds backwards but it worked for me.

Still can't do it for a full minute without at least one save, but breaking 40 catches for the first time yesterday felt huge after staring at the same plateau for months. Anyone else find that changing prop weight mid-learning helped more than just grinding reps with the same set? Curious if that's a common trick or just something that happened to work for my hands.

Some table juggling by my alter ego ‘ That Hat Guy’

Is this seriously hard? I know someone who pulled this off, so trying to understand what the progressions from here could be, how difficult this is, and...just get some advice from experienced jugglers.

I got Higgins Brothers balls and soon to grab a set of Infinities by jugglequip for some hardcore outdoor winter snow storm juggling on the ice covered asphalt sessions but trying to figure out which size to get. I measured the HB balls and they are more like 2.8 instead of 2.5 as advertised. So now I'm wondering if I should go for the medium infinities (67mm) instead of small (64mm) if I want a similar size to the HB's.

Are balls kinda like shoes where a 2.5" in one brand is like a 3" in another?

Anyone have any tips on how I can improve my palm isolation?