From jjbarlow@prairienet.org Sat Aug 5 03:00:58 GMT 1995 Article: 30952 of rec.juggling Path: hal.COM!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!prairienet.org!jjbarlow From: jjbarlow@prairienet.org (James J. Barlow) Newsgroups: rec.juggling Subject: Re: Advanced info on Devil sticks needed Date: 4 Aug 1995 21:03:53 GMT Organization: Prairienet, the East-Central Illinois Free-Net Lines: 88 Message-ID: <3vu1vp$67r@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3vtude$42l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: firefly.prairienet.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] TMidol (tmidol@aol.com) wrote: : Hi, If any of yoou could please give me almost anykind of information : about devil sticks I'd be much abliged. I'm talking about web sites (or : anyother net sites) book titles, video titles, tricks, anywhere i can get : books or videos or anything like that. : I've been doing them for about a year and a half now and i'm very good at : the tricks i know and just overall handeling of them. I make them and i : want to preform in the streets with them , but i need more tricks for : that. I've also been invited to a peace conference to do a workshop with : them, and if I do that it'd be nice to Know some of the history and : terminology behind them. : Thanks in advance (and remember I need anything and everything I can get : my hands on) : Tman There are a couple of books that I have found on devil sticking. One is Todd Strong's "The Devil Stick Book", goes through the basics of devilsticking and history of the devil stick, but not much for advanced devil stickers. You can get this book from Brian Dube at: Brian Dube, Inc. 520 Broadway 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10012-4436 (212)941-0060 The second is a fairly new book (I have just ordered it from Infinite Illusions and have not recieved it yet). It is called "Mastering Devilstick (part one)" by Chris Dore. The Sample at: http://www.demon.co.uk/circustuff/books/sampdstk.html was interesting enough for me to order the book. However, I am eagerly awaiting his next book "Mastering Devilstick (part two)." Infinite Illusions 1-800-54-TORCH I think some of the tapes from past IJA juggling conventions will have some excellent devil stick routines. I have yet to look into these. And last but not least, I have my own list of tricks that I do and am currently working on. I created the list so I could remember all the tricks I have been doing. I am working on creating a web page that will list all of these tricks and I will try to explain how to do them. Maybe I'll be able to get .gif's or mpegs, we'll see. I have included a brief list here. If you have a question on a particular trick, since I am posting no explanations of them, or if a trick sounds interesting then email me and I'll try to get you an explanation of the trick. Tricks ------ propeller (CW,CCW)(L,R) saw (CW,CCW)(L,R) helicopter (CW,CCW)(L,R) helicopter to tap helicopter tap off knee helicopter tap off foot helicopter tap behind back Behind back Behind back leave stick under leg roll over leg roll over back of neck walk the dog (rollover maybe better name) mill's mess curls flurishes w/handsticks flip handsticks after tap (like juggling) balance to chin to saw stop & go w/ both sticks stop & go w/ one stick (L,R,CW,CCW) single sticking dual chops neck rolls (no handsticks) (add in flourishes) pass under leg half curl from helicopter the hurdle traps from static position, spin around outside of handstick back to static position from static position, flip handstick and main stick, back to static position side saw, up over head and back down other side, into reverse saw Good luck, Jim jjbarlow@prairienet.org --