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 NYRngrs24 |
The MYACHI!!! The new thing for Juggling! |
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Posts: 86 (11/07/09 15:31:17) |
My friend enlightened me today about the Myachi. She was at FAO Schwartz and some guy there came up to her to show her the newest thing of juggling. Watch the
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Myachi Commercial on Youtube |
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Posts: 416 (11/07/09 17:49:07) |
if that was actually the next big thing, the kids would have been riding wheelies, not skateboards. Also, does anyone else find three 30-something year old
stoner guys hanging out with that many preteens a little creepy and unsettling? It's like they're raising a Tyler Durden-style army of tweens.
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Posts: 912 (11/08/09 10:12:43) |
Can't open window (China randomly blocks sites). Are those the rectangular pillows you flip on the backs of your hands? They tried to hire Sean to demo
them, but they were too cheap.
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Posts: 87 (11/08/09 17:21:29) |
Yea, that's what they are. You could do those tricks with a bean bag if you wanted. I guess the rectangle shape makes it easier.
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Posts: 136 (11/09/09 09:33:47) |
I did a school gym class juggling teaching thing a while back for a friend teaching fifth grade in Harlem. She volunteered to make equipment, didn't
realized they should be roundish or at least square. She made about 60 kidney-bean Myachis.
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Posts: 3746 (11/09/09 11:12:55) Administrator |
See, I really want to call out that "skill toy" for the lame P.O.S. that it is.
But I know I'm in a very thin walled glass house with my own army of super nerdy hobbies: juggling, unicycling, slack rope, hand balance and freeline skating. Maybe you need slightly more skill for my stuff. But still they are uber-dorky. -Slammin' |
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Posts: 185 (11/21/09 17:40:13) |
Hey Slammin,
Here's where my age and dorkeness comes out, what is freeline skating? Just curious. |
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Posts: 3751 (11/22/09 06:50:25) Administrator |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X-Z2d_rKYI
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Posts: 922 (11/22/09 09:05:27) |
Sigh. I remember when I could watch Youtube.
Actually the Flag Man paid for some proxy relay server in the US so he can get Youtube and Facebook here. I'm not going to bother. I haven't seen any free line skates or normal skateboards here, but rip sticks are everywhere. In one city we were in, there was a park we cut through to get to the theater that always had gangs of little kids brandishing giant sticks at each other while on rip sticks. It was pretty awesome. They'd all stop to shout "hello!" at us scary monsters. It takes a lot of courage to talk to people who look like us apparently. I only know what rip sticks are called because of my pogo-sticking, rip-sticking fiddler from Cavalcade of Youth. Viveca |
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Posts: 3752 (11/22/09 12:02:32) Administrator |
When I was in Taiwan, large packs of little kids were almost were almost always the unfortunate target of my wrath. I would be in one of my miserable funks and
then some kid in a pack of school kids would say "Hello" and then some other kid would offer up "Lao Wai" (Foreigner) or "Fuck
You"! And I would yell at them.
Not one of my best moments, but memorable. Slammin' |
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Posts: 11 (11/22/09 21:39:35) |
how do you make that work with only two wheels?? you can do that stuff slammin'?
-Champ- |
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Posts: 3753 (11/23/09 06:08:21) Administrator |
There are two wheels on each skate. They are set at about a 80 degree angle (that is, slightly off perpendicular). You use your body weight and your groin
muscles to scissor your legs and 'dance like a fish' to propel yourself forward. It takes a bit of practice to get the motion down, but you know me
and practice. Once you get it, it is ridiculously fun. Honestly, skating while listening to music is like poi swinging for me. That is, I suck at it, but I
love it so much that it doesn't matter. I can just do it for hours. That was one of the best things about the IJA festival at Winston Salem. The big
'dungeon' room was nothing but baby smooth concrete.
I'll bring my skates to Carmine some time and you can try them. Thanks -Andy |
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