🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan11.140032.5254@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> gcohen@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Gregory Cohen) writes:
>In article <1iku0dINN68@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@wendy-fate.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) writes:
>>mitch@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Mitch Veenstra) writes:
>> > just a note to anybody who's trying 3 ball tricks and 4 ball
>> > at all.  once you try clubs for a few days, you'll find that
>> > your ball tricks are even firmer than before.  (now if I could
>> > only throw and catch 3 clubs without walking foward, club
>> > juggling isn't ment to be a track sport)
>>
>>Don't be so sure!  There's something called "joggling" that I saw
>>once on ESPN late at night and never again.  I saw a guy doing a
>>100m dash while juggling five balls.  I don't think I could even
>>juggle three balls back then so my eyes were falling out of my
>>head in disbelief.
>
>Anyone know if that juggler was Owen?
>
>-GReg
>

Yes, I believe it was.  A while back I taped this segment (from "Amazing Games",I think) where they had visited one of the IJA conventions ('87 or '89?).  They
showed Owen taking several attempts at it, along with Billy Gillen (or am I
confusing this with a different segment from the Guinness tv show?  I'll have
to check).  Owen's record is 13 seconds plus a little bit, which is quite
incredible since the vast majority of people cannot run that fast with their
hands empty, myself included.  His three ball record is 11.68!
A couple people ran it with five in Montreal this year, and last year in St.
Louis Billy Gillen ran it with seven!  He stopped quite a bit to pick up drops,
but always carefully restarted with a good pattern, and finished in between 2
and 3 minutes.  If you're curious about joggling, give it a try.  You don't needa particularly great 3 ball pattern, and it's great exercise for the whole body.-Ben