Contact juggling after 15 months

[billyballantine]

respect.. thats coming from a multi generation circus guy

[awesome555dude]

Nice

[humanityinchains]

PS: Billy Joel IS one of the BEST!!!! Good choice! GreetZ Kirsten

[humanityinchains]

DAMN!!! I saw a lot of other contact juglers around the world but I can say that you are VERY VERY GOOD!!!!! Why don't try to do something with this talent you have here???? You REALLY have a talent for this. Keep it up! Hope 2 C more of you!! Thanks 4 sharing. Bye! GreetZ Kirsten Visser - Humanity In Chains

[markconigliaro]

@humanityinchains Thank you very much! But actually I do have major plans, I am part of a 4 person prop group called Aether Arts, and next year we're all living together (well I'm the last member to move there, because of school) and we have 76 acres of land to make a prop paradise filled with events and shows.

You can check us out on the youtube channel AetherCrew. Plus you're only watching my 15 month video! I'm all the way up to 26 now.

[pj02143]

Thats some pretty cool moves man. I just got a fushigi ball and wanted to check out what someone skilled could do. That was cool.

[pj02143]

Thats some pretty cool moves man. I just got a fushibi ball and wanted to check out what someone skilled could do. That was cool.

[guitarman198721]

billy joel is a faggot!

[AdamHH11]

@guitarman198721 I can only guess you listen to mainstream music.

[NickJonasRocks961]

I love this song

[TheLisaCondon]

Nice! Don't let anybody get you down, everybody makes mistakes.

[MrBrandon411]

this can break but its fun

[twilightknight123]

You are very very good... I am just starting after and making some basic progress... Some simple isolations and body rolls... However it is pretty hard to do when you have hyperhydrosis (excessive sweating)... Sometimes my hands are too slippery and sometimes they aren't slippery enough... Oh well... I will prevail eventually!

[TABjuggler]

Love it! Nice job man. 

[h0wmAnyfiNgeRs]

gay man likes gay homos in his gay arse

[lildipset1303]

thanks

[SiThG0D]

also, really good vid, obviously your really good with this thing.

[SiThG0D]

one question, how durable is that thing? i mean can i practice in my room and not worry about it breaking if i drop it? what is the material its made out of?? thanks in advance.

[markconigliaro]

@SiThG0D Most contact jugglers use acrylics (in the video). They look amazing and they will never break. It will break many things, but it won't break. I've heard of a ball getting run over by a train on a subway and coming out with a small chip. If you have a lot of valuable things in your room, I'd suggest getting a stage ball (the yellow ball in my earlier videos). They're rubber, so they won't break things easily. Also if your room is upstairs, it will be very loud when you drop it.

[SangoandHoushiSama]

@SiThG0D

Acrylics CAN break. They chip, scuff, and break just like anything else.

I have a fushigi ball, and personally... You'd be better off buying a $15-20 ball from NeonHusky. They're better quality. My fushigi isn't polished well, and the inside has bubbles/imperfections that can ruin the illusions.

[markconigliaro]

@SangoandHoushiSama Correct, they can break, but it's going to take an EXTREMELY long time of abuse to be able to even chip one. As long as your practice area isn't on a road then it should be fine. And I agree, Neonhusky is my main source of contact balls, they are amazing.

[kirby242007]

Its cool good job ...Thats some thing I could not do......... But its kinda homoish

[lildipset1303]

Dude, tell me right now if that fushigi ball works, I'm ready to buy one but I don't wanna waste 20 bucks you know?.. Please reply I'll really appreciate it

[markconigliaro]

@lildipset1303 the fushigi ball "works" just like my 4 inch acrylic ball "works", just like an orange "works", and just like a wiffle ball "works". The fushigi ball is JUST a ball, nothing special about it, there's no trick. I've personally used one before and I don't like it, it's too light for me. If you want to do anything I'm doing with a fushigi ball, prepare to spend months and months practicing. If you want a ball though, get a ball from neonhusky, **** fushigi, don't support them.

[awesomedude112695]

dang ur better than the dudes on the commercial

[markconigliaro]

@awesomedude112695 Most of the people on the commercial were extreme beginners, like just recently picked up a ball. Besides a few people, the people in the commercial were very sloppy. After 18 months now, I better be better then them.

[MissAshPYT]

I like your performance.

[hennayatsu6969]

bravo



[primus1121]

that trips me out, good vid

[Musketeerable]

......dude get a life

[markconigliaro]

@Musketeerable What makes you think I don't have one? Because I'm good at something? So does that mean you're not good at anything? Because if you were, you wouldn't tell me to get a life when you don't have one yourself.

Lol I just looked at your profile, all your comments are about MW2 videos. Ahh hypocrisy. If you don't know what that means, say I said "haha Musketeerable, your a n00b because you never got a nuke" yet I've never gotten one myself.

I love picking apart stupid comments.

[rstar899]

@Musketeerable really i know

[primus1121]

@Musketeerable dude, shut the fuck up

[KRL1E]

=O wow that is so cool

[themickchick]

That was great. Thank you for sharing. I am glad to find someone who has work at learning to use this and has become quite good, rather than blaming the object for it not working after only trying for a day or two.

[Dondarkcatcher]

i just saw thefushigiball on collegehumor, and after i watched the commercial i really thought it was the ball that was doing it somehow. that is until i did some reasearch. i see how the advertisment of the product can destroy the hard work-> there are "random" people shown who can do it w/o any practice, at least it seems so. specially the comment from that girl " oh now i get it how its done" or something like that. nonetheless, i think your vid is amazing. i was stunned.

[markconigliaro]

@Dondarkcatcher This is my favorite comment out of all my videos, thank you for doing the research to learn what fushigi really is.

[ANTOIN3]

Use a vacum.

[delmo369]

fushigis is gay then wow i never heard of contact juggling till now im 24 dammmmmm i tought fushigi was something new i really would b mad at them how bout ya all get togheter and sew fushigi

[822ryan]

i understand why you are mad at fushigi. iv never heard of contact juggling before this video and if i were u i would be pissed off at fushigi to

[Kakerville]

so are fushigi and contact juggling pretty much the same thing?

[markconigliaro]

@Kakerville they are exactly the same thing. John (the creator of fushigi) is just rebranding contact juggling so he can make money. contact juggling has been around for more then 20 years, fushigi, a few months. so you'd probably see why us contact jugglers are a little upset.

[Kakerville]

@markconigliaro Oh okay thanks:)

[vinced1212]

@Kakerville fushigi ball just looks cool nothin more

[kidneybog]

not to diss hobbies, but... nevermind.

[bretona]

100mm??

[markconigliaro]

@bretona Yup, 100mm, I find them the best visually for rolling.

[dvspro123]

you're awsome man! you know what you need though? a Fushigi ball. they're the best contact juggling ball on the market!

[markconigliaro]

@dvspro123 thanks but i had to stop editing my next video (be up in a couple hours!) to respond to this.....**** FUSHIGI!!!! and **** their "magic gravity ball" too!.....alright I'm calmed down now.

[dvspro123]

@markconigliaro what's wrong with Fushigi? it's better than the ones you have.

[markconigliaro]

@dvspro123 Because the guy who made fushigi is trying to rebrand contact juggling to make money for himself. He's taking the hard work and practice I've done over my juggling career by calling the ball a "magic gravity ball" so now people think "oh he's not doing anything skillful, the ball is magic, theres a trick to it that once you learn it, anyone can do". I'm part of a contact juggling forum and that has happened to some of our performers, and they are losing money because of that.

[dvspro123]

@markconigliaro oh, well Fushigi is the way i found out about contact juggling. then i started liking it.

[forrest42]

@markconigliaro wow man that sucks they fooled me too, ill pass the word along. mad skills dude.

[THEnewestERA]

Dude your frieken amazing! Your doing tricks ive never seen... Anyways I jut started contact juggling like3 weeks ago and I'm addicted :D great vid

[markconigliaro]

@THEnewestERA thanks and keep at it! a lot of my newer moves are combinational tricks. after you get a good arsenal of tricks under your belt, you'll start thinking "what if i do that trick with this one" and you'll be very excited when you see that it's possible. just keep practicing!

[SennyoGirl]

I know what you mean. Seems like this is what happens to me on stage. I practice and can do something about perfectly a million times...then when the time comes to show it off....fail! I still say its looking good. I know you can do it. And YAY for that ending move.  Once you have that down smooth, gonna make people do a serious double take when your out there busking. I like your little intros. Show all your game consoles next time. lol :) maybe you did that already, can't remember.

[markconigliaro]

@SennyoGirl lol yea its very frustrating, hence my "move" at the VERY end. but its smooth enough now that I can do it around 70% of the time...except today...and i did show my consoles, kinda, not up close but they are mentioned in one of the videos.

[trent4245]

lol u play rockband :P

nice juggling BTW

[markconigliaro]

@trent4245 lol it's actually guitar hero, and I'm not the best, only hard on guitar/base and medium on drums.