🚀 go-pugleaf

Impressing a crowd...? The last thing you want to do is try to impress a
crowd with skill that includes no "sales" of the difficulty involved. In
other words, you have to entertain them on their own level. They will
_never_ appreciate the amount of work that went into a trick like another
juggler will. This is the number one flaw I see in most juggling shows.
Trying to do "juggler tricks" for non-jugglers.

I learned a long time ago to "sell" the show. It works. I tell them
how hard something is. I break tricks down into pieces that they can
understand. I have been told _way_ too many times that I'm a better
juggler than some other juggler they have seen when I know darn good and
well that I can't hold a candle to the other juggler when it comes to
technique.

So, what do you do? You _juggle_ for yourself, you _entertain_ for non-
jugglers. I am constantly asked why I don't do shows at Club Renegade, etc.
The reason is simple: I am not a juggler's juggler and never will be! No,
I won't impress at an IJA convention, but I'm working :)

By they way, the best acts I've ever seen are the _very_ few that can do
realy juggling tricks _and_ entertain at the same time (Edward Jackman
and Mark Nizer come to mind), but they are really few and far between.


			-Ben
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