h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Also, you're the world's premier expert on being Fizzymouse, something none of us could've achieved! I wouldn't even know how to deal with the tail, let alone the , it's a wonder you don't all over the place!


Right. PR police.

To further confuse and befuddle the PR police


Entry: Cross Country Diabolo - the Sport of Jugglers - A30646767
Author: Malabarista - U1528154

I blame lil. She's a bad influence on you, Fizzy

Oi, that's 15 posts of inane chatter - in PR.

I'm shocked.

Inane chatter seems to follow me

But back to business - does anyone still have any suggestions or objections?

Don't fret Malabarista, I make it 17 posts ... those two PR police added another two to the total.

Surely as the founder of some sort of sport/movement, you are in an excellent position to write about it?

I suppose one could argue that the entire entry might just be a ploy to advertise CCD logo (link not working for me btw) bearing merchandise, but you certainly couldn't argue such a case very convincingly, especially with the current 404 error .

Anyway, the change of "the Sport" to "a Sport" is much better .

I know its kind of not, by definition, in the spirit of CC *Diabolo*, but I think its worth noting that very similar games can be played with other juggling equipment - balls would be a bit easy, but clubs and devilsticks would present a reasonable degree of fun/challenge, even though they don't offer the long range leverage advantages of the diabolo.

vp

Thanks for pointing out the non-functional links I suppose I can't link directly to the picture Oh, well, then at least I can put in a little description under the pictures.

There's no merchandise - the shirts we use were made using a printer and an iron-on transfer So if anyone wants to do the same, they're welcome to it!

And yes, other equipment might work, but throwing a ball back and forth is so very *mainstream* as sports go, and the others just don't have the same distance, I'm afraid. Passing from atop things is another challenge entirely! And dunno how well devilsticks can be passed

Though maybe there should be an entry on different passing styles, too Maybe the Juggling Waltz, that's always fun... Or "Chaos Juggling" as my group calls it, where two people each juggle a cascade, but both share the ball that's currently up in the air Yay, material for more entries!

There, links changed

Yeah, like I said, leverage helps the diabalo.
Devilsticks have certainly been passed by this researcher, but not across really long distances - they have too high a surface to mass ratio, and tend to be susceptible to wind fluctuations - and of course, the least susceptible spin, the helicopter, is the hardest to throw and catch.

Clubs are pretty good though, and as for balls - at a british juggling convention a while back, I saw two guys practicing a long range feed - one bloke started juggling one ball in one hand, and another stood at the other end of the square and tossed him balls... I am not sure how far apart they were, but accuracy of the throw was a problem - it was closer to the length of two tennis courts than the length of just one for instance. Of course, the more balls the receiver has, the more accurate the pass has to be. Luckily the feeder had a huge supply of balls, and there was a pretty good cheer when the receiver eventually managed his 4 to 5 ball transition (which I can't even do if the feeder is right next to me). It was also pretty funny watching the receiver failing to dodge all the passes which were fairly accurate but not quite accurate enough

vp

Ah, the logo... nicely ambitious

The trouble with devilsticks is also the fairly large diameter, I'd think they would get stuck in trees and things. But then in my group, "passing" devilsticks usually means juggling them and the handsticks like clubs; I've never tried passing helicopter spins, though we have had a sad, miserable failure at juggling three of them between two people with handsticks Maybe we need more practice

Impressive, passing over that distance! Even getting them that far takes some skill, let alone accurately enough

Say, might you be interested in collaborating on an entry for various passing styles? Though I must admit I can't really make sense of the counting system, puzzles me as much as knitting patterns do


(Ah, yes, the logo. Perhaps for the less ambitious and more hootoo-minded, we should change it to 42 km )

Ooh I think I could do the counting bits... would need to do a bit of research first though - not got any friends to pass to at moment, as I currently live out in the juggling styx, so I am way out of practice...

RL is a pain though, so don't expect half an entry arriving in your PS tomorrow or anything - I tend to be a bit of a slow burner entry-wise.

Maybe you could also help with my plans to AViate the juggling page?

I'll pop over to your PS, lest the PR police get us

Any more comments? Sorry about the sidetracking up there.

*Can't see any other tracks, shrugs*

Your h2g2 link seems to link to the entry itself, which is a bit strange ...

And I am back to being unable to see your photos, though that might just be me?

Apart from that, brill

The photo links work fine for me (IE), and the h2g2 links leads to the FP, so will have to be removed anyway, I guess, as will the link to 'Everything'

Thanks for catching that It was meant to link to the FP!

I'll go see about the photos

You missed my post, Mala.

Yes, sorry, simpost.

Why will those particular links have to be removed? I thought a bit of self-reference would be useful for people who stumble across this entry over google or something (as there's not a lot else written about CCD )

The pictures work for me, too, in Opera, even when I'm not signed in to my Fotki account.