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The Buzz this summer has been a rather large Beef. Here is the saga:

Anthony Gatto, the self and nearly-universally proclaimed ‘Greatest Juggler in the World’ puts out a billion totally sweet videos.

Jason Garfield puts out two tarting videos of spite, wit, anger, and anti-humility towards Sir Gatto. They are very long. The juggling community (and I can gauge this because I read rec.juggling) is polarized; half find them in bad taste, and half find it moderately amusing (before it gets long).

The whole effort is to rouse Gatto to perform at The WJF, the beer/juggling olympics. The competition is largely Garfield’s show, and to draw a big name among jugglers, try to knock down criticism of an absence of big names last year, and to probably stack up against the guy one-on-one, Garfield attempts to cajol Gatto to come.

Gatto scoffed the videos high-road style, and after a ‘pretty please?’ on The WJF’s main site, Gatto publically declined, politely. He’s the Michael Jordan of Juggling.

This whole thing is a bit confusing but quite dramatic. Will Gatto Attend? What will the -CRAAZZY- Jason Garfield do next? Oh the drama… It just makes me happy.

There are some pretty sick videos out there right now, here are the three videos that have defined my juggling summer:

-Dnaygs’ WJF profile video. This is just slick production through and through.
-Kristian Wanvik’s practice video. This guy throws freakishly high. But awesome.
-Anthony Gatto’s Mock WJF Seven-Ball video. This is why everyone wants him for the WJF.