Michael Moschen: Juggling rhythm and motion

[RichardsonMediaPR]

so nice to see somebody with true passion and pure understanding of how and what they are doing. Dexterity at an extremely high level . . . . here is a man that has clearly mastered his skill and now has the chance to play with it !

[Teabonesteak]

Pure, simple, talent.

[daltonjuggles]

Brilliant man, I'm glad he spreads this knowledge to others :)

[naarfaz]

What was the move at 04:23

[renefidel]

20 pple envy this guy! lol

[Ilovetoact13]

I saw him today, in a feild trip..it was the bomb!

[paulydublinboy]

I'm glad he didn't remain as a golfer. This is so much more entertaining to watch.

[Stormshadow17]

how many people can make music with juggling and tap dance? AMAZING!!!!!

[runwiththepack]

my hero ^^ hes what got me into juggling and all my talents and to explore shapes and the unkown

[noyoucanthaveahug]

What a great talk/demonstration.!

[remy12341]

some moments it looks like he has 3 hands

[T19R0N]

@remy12341 ??? He has doesn't he??

[seymourglass26]

I applaud not only his physical skills, but his efforts to think of new, creative angles for juggling and expression. It's easy to just try and add more balls. To do it differently is a challenge.

[clemensetz]

The cylinder routine is incredibly beautiful!

[sketnomore]

A Small Note here:

Please do not follow up on TED over youtube. Visit the website because seeying the videos here downgrade ted.

and ps: TED is the most beautiful addiction i've ever got into.

[Slance1Himself]

There's so much fluidity in his movement

[Slance1Himself]

Very entertaining!

[jesterfabe]

This guy has been an inspiration for me for many years now and still I can barely do 10% of what this guy can do. He is a true manipulator and master of his crafts.

Can't wait to see what he discovers next.

[Ages139]

Wow, this guy is amazing, i can barely get a cascade of 3 balls. imho i don't think him messing up sometimes wasn't bad at all, he's teaching while doing this shit at the same time! THAT is some concentration

[rangusroung]

wow.. as a guitar player doing exercises like that have actually smoothened my technique

[InvisibleMasquerade]

@rangusroung same here, i juggle and play guitar....they feed off eachother

[InvisibleMasquerade]

@rangusroung oh and one thing i forgot to mention....ive found this myself anyways, don;t use clubs if you play guitar, piano etc... because clubs are ultra hard on the hands and can do bad nerve damage

[sidexwalk]

This qualifies for some of the most awesome shit I've ever seen

[jesuizanmich]

There you have a potential musician with perfect rythm and control. As a pianist, his fingers would be perfectly synchronized to rythm (task like the fantasie improntu would be easy). On the drums, the guitar and most instruments, rythm is important and necesary. In addition, his fluent motion and control would make him a good martial artist. Someone with such ability and knowledge in geometry, properties and rythm could potentially do any job. People think juglers are just juglers...think twice

[MockingbirdH2O]

I was lucky enough to catch his act 'in concert' in Dallas many years ago...

[eggory]

I can really appretiate that kind of random dedication to just understanding how things move. It's very inspiring. He's so clumsy with the balls i dunno if it's just nervousness or lack of a warmup, or because he'd been focusing more on other things at the time.

[mjs5168]

his ball stuff seemed like he dropped mostly because of his head being sweaty and the lights

[eggory]

But when he busted out some of those later instruments he got so into it. He made a ballet out of simple repetitive seemingly meaningless but technically difficult motions. The beauty is so vague, i'm not sure if it's entirely in the finess alone and detached from meaning. But it is beautiful anyway. It's very mysterious, very random, and i appretiate his dedication to it.

[PDXclan]

this is far better than the evolution of dance.

[gewddoogie]

Jug'n Sense

[franses]

1337

[Malia3305]

hes a pimp.

[dawiky]

This is more a showoff than a talk really, pretty sure no one in the audience even understood what he said about juggling. HES REALLY GOOD though.

[JoffJk]

yes but it's extremely interesting for people who do juggle and also to see such extreme dedication to move an art form to a different level

[lysergiclover]

thats mad . he done all the ball tricks for Bowie in Labyrinth

[1ucasvb]

Michael Moschen is fantastic. Any pricks dissing the guy just can't recognize skill when they see it.

[Caqui]

Cute.

[soda18]

wow

[TheAxelofTAMU]

This routine was originally conceived for the 1991 special on Michael Moschen for PBS' "Great Performances." He was filmed juggling through the streets of New York to this exact music. He is one of the most skilled jugglers in the world, and a true teacher and gentleman. Anyone who has the good fortune of meeting him is truly a lucky person.

[papatoony]

Why'd he get twice as long as all the other people??

[Clothahump]

Because he's twice as good.

[mtx1177]

haha gross

[HamOnCan]

awesome, and loved the final note of "there isn't a problem in the world, that a great designer can't fix. . . and far as I am concerned, all we have to do is look how nature fixes any give. . . . always takes the easy way out. . so hey folks, what will it take to take the work out of living and have it work for all of us.? ?

[kaimisawesome]

i dont even care that he messed up at times

that some crazy ass coordination he has

[DriftingMunki]

And he doesn't care either.

Have fun with it, it's like anything else.

[shadowoc91]

I thought that was brilliant. Inspirational.

[scootscr15]

at the end of the day..its juggling

[5Oskar5]

And?

[tsaketh]

At the end of the day, a painting is just oil, and a sculpture is just rock. That doesn't diminish the process in the slightest.

[5Oskar5]

Exactly

[jordonbenson]

and at the end of the day, you sit in front of your computer at home, alone, being negative.

[FlameOz]

for the people who doubt this guys skill...he was one of the original creators of a LOT of modern juggling/manipulation technique and is widely credited as "inventing" contact juggling. The man is a legend - witout him lots of modern "hard core" tricks would not be possible.

[cheesus948]

contact juggling and toss juggling are very different things. you can't compare the 2.

and in the early 20th century Enrico Rastelli developed thechniques that helped him master 8object juggling among with countless of other techniques that are still used in juggling today. not to mention the invention of siteswap was done without him. modern juggling could have survivzed without Moschen.

[doodlr]

Well, they're both types of juggling.

Anyway, this guy is great. He's totally on the list of people I want to meet or something now. This video is one of the best.

[cheesus948]

the juggling in this video is very meh...

his 3 ball stuff is all beginner tricks and the most difficult thing he did was 5 ball bounce, which is actually easier than 5 ball cascade (because you don't need to worry about throwing at a constant hight).

[pinkprincess8910]

people underestimate 3 ball juggling why dont you try to imitate kriss kremo's three ball act and see how easy that is??

[tjhynson]

for the wide range of balance/juggling acts he is pretty good!

[analubalitious]

Tallanted and interesting, but does it really belong in TED?

[lyricessence]

Thanks for posting these old TEDTalks! I haven't seen Michael Moschen's work in years!

[ganjalover187]

the dude is crazy with it..amazing!

[YenKaizer]

there is no denying, Michael Moschen is brilliant!

[cooper2426]

"I a a brilliant drummer" That's a little prideful don't you think?

[trakkaton]

No, it's not prideful. But you can argue if it's an accurate description. Feel free.

[consciousson]

"I like not to know for as long as possible. Well because then it tells me the truth... instead of me imposing the truth."

Michael Moschen

[squeakvl]

the sequence at 32:30 is mesmerizing, I'm impressed.

[LarvaMaster]

Amazing! do you realize the strength of this mans' kinesthetic\body intelligence?.

this man is BRILLIANT!

*****

[tehSrewolf]

If you going to say "wrong", at least give a concise and accurate reason as to why my belief is "wrong".

[DanHasAMillion]

i watched most of it, gets a little slow for me at times, it would be better if it was a hot chick doing that ;)

[TrentJ23]

right.  (?)

[tehSrewolf]

This guy is brilliant, is there anyway to contact him?

[punkposer]

TED isn't only about brainy high teck geeky subjects. TED is about expanding your mind to think in new/different ways. The ordinary isn't always ordinary. Don't just look at it as juggling, look at it as movement, rhythm and timing. Even break it down to just timing, timing is a big part of our lives, do you know how many actions are occuring in your body from the simple act of breathing..even something as simple as blinking, and all those actions are based on precise timing.

[SSparks555]

I agree. This video is about improving skills. Whatever they might be.

[leonjeekins]

wrong.

[daughterclam]

Wow, what an interesting mind this guy has! I was reluctant to invest 38 minutes into juggling but that was really cool.

And this fits right in with TED. Think about the acronym...Tecnology, entertainment, design!

[miighankurt]

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[prep4md]

Pretty cool, but why have him on TED?

[jalgjalg]

not my cup of tea, really...

[dollaresque]

For the first time I could see the inner-workings of a human mind when it goes through the act of juggling sounds, objects, and even time. Very cool indeed. And I wouldn't put this into the "entertainment" TED. This is as different from regular juggling as novels are different from stand up comedy.

[TheWiseCommenter]

it's cool... it really is... but if you add up all the time you spent learning that... you could cure cancer with that time.

[BlackAlpha6666]

There are plenty of other people that could do that. Just imaging if all we did was trying to find a cure for cancer... Who would do all the other professions, jobs, etc.

[Funtasan]

wooot

[FreeThinkinHeathen]

Has anyone else noticed how TED has been using more entertainment fills like this as of more recent?

I like to watch all of it just fine like this video but I do want answers, like has this been going on all along and I just haven't noticed all this time until now, or is there something else going on?

[atypicalguy]

Yeah, I noticed that too. I think they should just take 'talks' like this and the music portions and have a separate entertainment TED.

[Darsises]

Not exactly what I expect from a TED talk...

[HaxxBlaster]

I second that.

[iurak6868]

i underestimated him at first.... :) great video!

[zeldarooles]

omfg i thought he had three hands at several points

[ivanisavich]

Very cool...I love his philosophy of taking something simple like juggling, and turning it into an artform dealing with the manipulation of space and shape.

[eightfootmanchild]

This guy did the contact juggling in Jim Henson's movie "Labyrinth".

[BayerLexan]

Yes, he is also considered the creator of contact juggling.

I like contact juggling, but was frustrated trying to learn some basic stuff, so I sort of gave up on it.

[rumple81]

great

[Blackliam]

holy crap, thats good

[popartproductions]

Great juggling act! I do magic but can't juggle to save my life! 5 rubber balls for this one! POPS

[Zetimenvec]

was he messing up on purpose? I couldn't tell...

[easytorememberme]

WOW.

[vaporrub003]

Amazing, simply amazing

[BlackAlpha6666]

At the second half, try to ignore the man and focus on the objects. When he moves the objects in rhythm, they look almost surreal.

This guy is very skilled.

[BlackAlpha6666]

Awesome!