Michael Rayner performs a special comedy variation of the classic Oriental ball/ring on parasol routine.
Thanks to Bill Coed for posting it on JugglingDB in a thread which is becoming an excellent list of resources for ball/ring on parosol videos and tricks.
If I part 1 of 6, parts 2,3,4,5 & 6 are also on on youtube.
Comedy genius of Demetri Martin, one of our favorite comedians. 6 parts, this is nearly an hour long.
I score 8 out of 9 of his “Useless talents” (in part 2) missing only the rubik’s cube, and can proudly (!?!) claim many others. I’m guessing there are MoM readers with more!
Enjoy, Drew
String manipulation from Kasau Taishou, winner of ‘best technique’ from last season.
More Kasau Taishou on www.ministryofmanipulation.com
Youtube User ChappieTV has archived all the award winners from the past few seasons. (25 videos)
Nadia Comaneci scores a perfect 10 on the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
New video from Ori’s “Happy Oree Friends” saga. Nice vid, dude! 
Stuff that moves is an excellent blog of videos of doing things with stuff - Skills, Dance, martial arts, strength, sports and random goodies. Much like the Ministry - If you replaced the Contact Juggling with Wrestling.
Enjoy the entertaining banter of a man who might be called Matt, and might live in Philly.
The current headline story is above, and points out that the good stuff happens at 1:45 - I didn’t think that was possible without a trip to casualty.
Continuing the theme of Juggling Blogs, this week we bring you The Karasel by innovative juggler Michael Karas.
http://www.michaelkaras.net/karasel/
The blog Includes great DVD and prop reviews, and is loaded with intelligent written content rather than just *cough cough* video reposts. I’m hoping he blogs plenty of new-school juggling goodness when he tours with Jay Gilligan at next summers ‘Shoebox Tour.’
Posts I enjoyed:
Me at 400 - Michael talks about youtube and the importance of keeping good ideas offline.
Skateboarding and Juggling
eliashedlund The Juggling Crib - Cartoon Blog.
Each week, Elias takes another opportunity, to mortally offend another member of the online juggling community. Depending on your viewpoint, you will find the crib cartoons either; Funny, Rude, Childish, ironic or all of the above.
THE JUGGLING CRIB is a juggling related comic strip featuring some local jugglers here in Stockholm, Sweden. In the main cast you can watch bad imitations of jugglers like Elias Hedlund, Wes Peden, Peter Åberg and Jay Gilligan amongst others.
Mostly SFW - Contains strong language and sexual reference. Enjoy.
I Can’t Stop Juggling is the excellently titled blog of Ed Provencher.
Rec.juggling regular, American in South Korea. With plenty of Juggling Videos, thoughts and links. Focusing mainly on Balls and clubs and throwy-droppy Juggling (Toss Juggling).
Ed’s been a bit quiet for the last month, (presumably too busy juggling to stop and post!) so we’re hoping if we poke him, he’ll start blogging again.
Enjoy
Drew
A youtube classic, Those bum-head trap catches at the end are clearly impossible.
This reminds me, MoM has got 3 more Bodyroll montages to put out in the next couple of weeks. How’s the final edit going Ryan?
Emiliano Alessi Manipulates and dances with a single club on stage at the EJC in Athens last year.
Beautiful movement, and working with shapes and dynamics. Well worth a watch.
Also for your viewing pleasure we have, Mister Puma, a man who does in fact look more comfortable on his arms than his feet. He’s French also, and if you get past the four or so handstand press ups he does in the training section at the start, you’ll see him doing very dangerous things that the French transport police (Do they have them?) don’t mind. VIDEO LINK
On the subject of amazing body control, we got a member of the British Tumbling Team - Damien Walters, doing some crazy crazy stuff, including a back tuck with a chair, and a front tuck to immediate double back. Yowsa! VIDEO LINK
Some beautiful parkour training from a young British chap - Phillip Doyle. He’s really powerful, agile and dedicated, but also, he’s barefoot for the entirety of this VIDEO: I love how long the swing of his arms is when he runs, just like a gymnast.
Finally a very very strong and gymnastic Russian - Oleg Vorslav. He’s doing things in this video that I seriously thought weren’t possible for the human body, but he’s making them look easy. Really, I’ve only ever seen gibbons do some of this stuff, and that’s a compliment. This is an art project film, so don’t expect to see much slow motion of the movements but it’s well done and amazing to watch. The amazingness starts at 3 minutes into this ten minute video. VIDEO LINK
