🚀 go-pugleaf

What excites audiences? I agree that it is often hard to tell. But there
is one way to find out! Test your material in front of one! If you gauge
them carefully, you will certainly know what they did and didn't like.
Some people said that the audiences don't know what's hard, so you have
to "educate" them... I would like to second this. Of course, HOW you
educate them is up to you. There's no good reason for them to know the
truth about which tricks are hard, if you can use this to your
advantage. CONVINCE them the fire is dangerous. Make them believe that
five balls took you years to learn (this actually might be true). Tell
them that you grew up with the circus, and that you had to leave when
you fell in love with the strong man's sweetheart. They will believe
almost whatever you tell them, because they want to believe it. They
want to believe that you are a magical, special person. 

Surely you've noticed that some jugglers do five club back crosses and
barely keep the audience from yawning, while others can get a standing
ovation from a three ball cascade with a high throw and pirouette. When
you educate your audience, you don't have to teach them the truth. 

I feel so bad... I've posted twice this month, once advocating stealing,
and now recommending lying. I'm not a bad person...really.

Oh yeah! Rola Bolas! I don't know, but I've been told that a good solid
board on top of an old basketball makes an excellent rola bola. Anyone
done this?
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Jesse Schell
jscn@andrew.cmu.edu
Information Networking Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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