Tag Archives: responsive
Frontal – Steve Brown
11/26/13
“Just a little responsive fun.” – Steve
Yoyo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYoFactory.
Song is “Ursula” by Westy Reflector.
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Measured Hop – Steve Brown
5/11/13
“Came up with a trick today, turned out it was an Ed Haponik trick already. Went back to the drawing board and ended up with this oddball that started with a Tape Measure (inspired by Ed, who was inspired by Jon Gates) and ends with a null hop (inspired by Drew Tetz). I like twiddling with other yoyo players styles sometimes.” – Steve
Song is “Man Leaves House” by The Blind Shake.
Yoyo used is the DieNasty by YoYoFactory.
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Earwig
10/23/11
Another responsive trick for those of you who enjoy high-risk tricks.
Song is “Canvas” by Scouts Honor. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Velocity by YoYo Factory.
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BONUS: 2001 THROWBACK
Steve Brown - Madfest 2001 from Steve Brown on Vimeo.
Here’s a video I didn’t even realize I had…a copy of my performance in the public show at the 2001 Madfest Juggling Festival in Madison, Wisconsin.
Nifty!
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Cufflinks
9/8/11
Responsive!
Song is “Transmetropolitan” by The Pogues.
Yo-yo used is the Velocity by YoYo Factory.
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Pause For Alarm
7/20/11
I actually came up with this tonight while doing yo-yo tricks for my kids’ bedtime story.
A few years back I found this great children’s book called “Slim & Jim” where the main characters are a mouse and a rat who are really good at yo-yo tricks. The kids are finally old enough to dig the book, and they want Jenni to read it while I do all the yo-yo tricks that are mentioned in the book. So during a lull in the story where I wasn’t needing to narrate the tricks, I twiddled around and came up with today’s trick.
Check out the book (available here: http://goo.gl/OvHJO) if you have the chance. It’s great for kids…or for obsessive compulsive yo-yo collectors. 😉
Song is “I Know I’ll See You” by A Place To Bury Strangers.
Yo-yo is the Velocity by YoYo Factory.
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Jay Gilligan Likes Russian Balls
6/28/11
I was at a juggling festival several years ago and my friend Jay Gilligan was there. He had been given a set of Russian circus juggling balls….a thin-walled, hollow plastic ball filled with a small amount of sand. Not enough to make the ball particularly heavy or solid, but just enough to keep it from rolling when they hit. It gives them a really peculiar feel to juggle, as they sort of “thud” in your hand, but with a soft whooshing sound. Super weird.
So I was hanging out with Jay and watching him work out this routine that was specific to those balls. Lots of really nifty body placement stuff, the sort of thing you would expect from Jay. Odd, off-kilter, but still graceful and interesting. After watching him for a few minutes I spoke:
“Dude, that’s a really nice routine.”
“Oh, thanks. I had these balls, and had to do something with them.”
“So you dig ’em?”
“Honestly? No. Not at all. In fact, I think I might hate them. They’re terrible. But I had to do something with them.”
Creativity is work. It’s not a bolt of inspiration that always strikes often enough to make you interesting at parties…it’s taking everything that comes your way and grinding it down to it’s essentials to see if there’s something worthwhile hiding inside. It’s checking out everything, no matter if you like it or not, because there may be something useful hiding in there. It’s often very much not fun, and most days it feels like impossible work.
But that’s what we have to do, you see. We’re compelled to be this way.
Every time I hang out with Jay, I’m reminded of this. It’s a valuable lesson to have taught to you often. Jay’s a good guy, a hard worker, and a brilliant juggler.
But he doesn’t like russian balls.
Song is “With The Fishes” by Die Hoffnung. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Velocity by YoYo Factory.
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Safe Deposit Box
5/17/11
When I first started throwing, I was pretty taken with the way the old timers did things. I still am, really. But the ease with which they busted out tricks that are incomprehensibly easy to us today is still a glorious thing. One of my all-time favorites was “Bank Deposit” but I had a generational disadvantage….I wear jeans. The old timers were always wearing khakis or chinos or suits, and their pockets were suited to this trick…mine would barely open when I jammed my hand into them. So in 1996 I came up with this version which works really nicely on a responsive looper, and lets you get away with just wearing a shirt that has a chest pocket.
Song is “Houdini Logic” by Circle Takes The Square.
Yo-yo used is the Loop 720 by YoYo Factory.
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Interruption
3/2/11
Remember when playing responsive wasn’t a throwback? 🙂
Song is “Crazy Plane” by Grabass Charlestons.
Yo-yo used is the FAST 201 by YoYo Factory.
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