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In article <1jn97cINN2d1@veal.csv.warwick.ac.uk> esurw@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S M Landamore) writes:
>  Any good book is essential (IMHO) - I can't say a bad thing about
>The Complete Juggler by Dave Finnigan

 Aak! Personally, (and I'm not the only person I know who feels this -- not by
a /long/ way), The Complete Juggler is, whilst fairly encyclopaedic, well-nigh
useless to learn things from. For one thing, he's horribly brief with his 
descriptions of tricks -- he'll just say what a trick is, rather than how it's
done -- and, some of his instructions are downright counterproductive. The 
'how to learn five balls' method looks designed to teach you how /not/ to
juggle five -- learning how to stop rather than continue is going to teach
how to, well, stop. Not juggle. Hmph.

 And his use of traced photographs, whilst it may be accurate, is nothing like
as clear as well-designed diagrams can be. 

 Other books? Kit Summers' Juggling With Finesse is very good, and equally
all-encompassing (well, there's no huge section in the back about how to 
teach children, but that's no great loss IMHO); the Dick Franco books are
nicely made, if too heavy on archival photography -- and, of course,
Beyond The Cascade.

-- 
Daniel Mitchell = ke94002@black.ox.ac.uk = skinny bi lycra-clad furry juggler