Essays
This section of the site is about tutorials, articles, and other long posty things that people want to keep visible for quite some time.
Each essay will be reviewed periodically to make corrections, additions, revisions, or in the case that an essay is really unneeded, deletions.
| Date | Title | Description | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-01-15 | The First Five Steps | Ferret's detailed introductory notes for budding CJers. | kverens |
| 2002-01-29 | The Next Five Steps | The Next Logical Steps after the First Five. | kverens |
| 2002-03-13 | Sphereplay - A Review | a review of Michael Glenn's Sphereplay video | kverens |
| 2002-03-25 | Lesson #10 The missing part to the last five | ferret | |
| 2002-03-31 | the butterfly revisited | A new way to look at the butterfly/reverse butterfly. Primarily for beginners working on the different shapes of their butterflies, but hopefully interesting for anybody who wants a different way to think about the most basic trick we learn. | remy |
| 2002-04-02 | Contact Juggling Ball Theory | An essay about different ball types and Contact Juggling with them. | rich |
| 2002-04-04 | The Newbies Guide To Starting Contact Juggling. | A small Essay on What a "Newbie" would want to know. To possibly get them started in the right direction. | Shifty |
| 2002-04-05 | Chicos Guide To Palmspinning | Written by Chico, I found this in the old forum archives. It is not complete, but still is a source of great information. | Shifty |
| 2002-04-06 | Siggys Guide To Getting the most out of your Practice Sessions. | Found in the old Yahoo Forum Archives, Since Rich asked about it, I found it for him, Siggys Essay on warming up, and maximizing your practice time. | Shifty |
| 2002-04-06 | Ferrets Small Stretching Routine | A small essay on the steps that Ferret takes to stretch out and limber his body up for a practice session. This essay also goes well with Siggys Guide. | Shifty |
| 2002-04-09 | The 4 Types Of Jugglers - By : Lance Coombes | Lance wrote up a post about what he feels the 4 types of juggling personality's are. Its good enough to be an essay, so here it is. | Shifty |
| 2002-04-10 | The Ferret Speaks about How to deal with Pre-Performance Stress. | Also a post from long ago I pulled out of the archives, This post goes on to give tips about how to relax before a show, and what to do to get your audience ready for you. As well as telling about a Ferrets preformance night...But now, Broken up..... | Shifty |
| 2002-04-11 | Lat Stretch by Ferret | This is a lat Stretch by Ferret. | ferret |
| 2002-04-11 | Bicep Stretch created by Ferret | This is a bicep stretch description and images by Ferret. | ferret |
| 2002-04-11 | Rotator Cuff Stretch by Ferret | Rotator Cuff Stretch by Ferret. BE CAREFUL!!! | rich |
| 2002-04-11 | Shoulder Stretch by Ferret | This is a shoulder stretch by Ferret | rich |
| 2002-04-11 | Wrist by Ferret | Wrist Stretch by Ferret. | rich |
| 2002-10-31 | Michael Moschen at the Actors Gymnasium | The essay describes a recent juggling master class given by Michael Moschen at the Actors Gymnasium, in Evanston Illinois. | arron |
| 2003-02-07 | Creating a routine for Contact Juggling. | At the request of several members here, over the years. Grab a ‘PB&J’ and a coke. Cause It’s long. | Ferret |
| 2003-02-08 | text filters in .org | how to format your text, and other nifty stuff | kverens |
| 2003-08-10 | Thoughts and ideas from the BCJC2003 | Rather than just describe the events of the recent British Contact Juggling convention, such as in Monkeyboys earlier post of other summaries of festivals, this short write-up is an attempt to get right at the heart of my own festival experience and to describe the big discoveries that personally affected my juggling at the BCJC2003. | Ryan |
| 2003-09-19 | A how to guide on polishing spheres using a buffing machine | Just as the title says. If you own a bench grinder, how to use it as a buffing machine to keep your acrylics in good looking condition. And if you don't own one. Enough knowledge so you can get one and use it properly. | Shifty |
| 2003-12-05 | The 4 Basic Isolations - A workshop. | A beginner and intermediate guide to learning isolations, from Ryan Mellors. First introduced at the isolation workshop, British Contact Juggling Convention 2024. | Ryan |
