We’ve made it; through the detours and potholes of the very south, on the road to milford sound, past queenstown into mt. aspiring national park, up the coast to hokatika, greymouth, and punakaiki, and to nelson and able tasman national park–and we did it all in six days. We’re firmly settled in the Bay of Islands, in the North Island, and happy to be done the volumnous driving in the southlands (though we miss narrowly passing trains on one lane bridges).
We’ve boated through a hole in the rock, meandered down Romantic Russell, and are firmly ready for a night of bread and cheese and ping-pong. Our hotel rocks–and we’ve been spending too much on decent food.
The parents have written a thorough journal while I’ve been watching movies and not been practicing juggling nearly enough. Here ends the crap travelling journal.
I miss Kate very, very much!
It’s time to head south and then north and west to begin the second leg of Mum and Pop’s Journey through New Zealand–on their dollar. They helped us win, by a half point, the Outback’s Quiz Night last night complete with a $100 bar tab (which we can’t use) and a free Tui hunter’s cap (which my dad is using). Time to drive–hopefully internet access is on the way.
Oh, yeah, and Flower now has a blog.
Anthony Gatto — the best juggler in the world — has been throwing down torrents of juggling fire in the past week. Today (or maybe yesterday), he’s popped up:
-Seven Ball Shower.
-Nine Ring Run. (He names this ‘9ringrunnnn’, emphasizing the run part of it)
-Five ball-routine.
The first is impressive, the second damn impressive, and the third just plain interesting. It’s interesting because I finally have not only a routine of Gatto’s, but a comparison point to other, more worldly jugglers. No other juggler I’ve seen can throw seven-club backcrosses, nine ring pulldowns over a ball bouncing on their head, or five club alberts–but most of the five ball tricks I’ve seen before.
This routine video, in some ways, pulls him down into a league more versed by others. The tricks are very similar to Thomas Dietz’s video number 2–where Dietz flashes pretty much every five ball trick in the book, in sequence, and without drops. Gatto’s routine is easily one of the most impressive I’ve seen, but not typical groundbreaking fare (though he did preface the video with ’simple’). Man, isn’t juggling just great. But so is Qwantz–frick!!
Here ends the last juggling, ulimate, internet-related post for a good few weeks while I head off travelling New Zealand with Mum and Pops.
Putting this up for all my homies in the Cargill 155 complex. You are all like neighbors to me. RANFURLY!, scree fields, nights on the prowl in Dunedin–I won’t forget. I leave you with Frustration, the Card Game.
Two new incredibly hard tricks by Anthony Gatton in a nice squashball court:
-10 backcrosses whilst juggling seven balls – link
-five clubs ‘treblas’ — between the legs tricks – link
My Parents are crossing the country, then the pacific, then the cook strait to get to Sunny Dunedin. It will take them approximately 94 hours, but mostly it’s because they really love airports.
My near-monopoly on sweet old juggling blogging as been foiled by an ozzie. This pseudo-kiwi is wicked pissed this arvo, and ready to kick ass. Actually–cheers, hopefully he’ll get a lot of cool posts up and then I can steal them to share with you.
Gluk: Juggling News [gluk.com.au]
Until Google crawls my blog, I’ve implemented Technorati Search to my burgeoning badass blog styles. Look Right, and test it out (it might not catch new posts).
Anne is glowing over Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Simply smoldering. I personally think it’s that the Pitt piques the Germanic senses.
