Spring Break
Jugglers get hooked on the toss
Students and community members converge to toss some fun at McAlexander fieldhouse on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Gail Cole
Issue date: 1/9/09 Section: News
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Each Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., students and community members meet in McAlexander Fieldhouse to practice their individual skills, work together and have fun.
Membership is open to anyone, and the club's casual membership brings in a small group of students with a variety of skills.
"When they're here, they have lots of things they can work on," said David Sallee, and instructor for the club. His wife Brenda is the faculty advisor.
"Once we get a student to the point where they are passing, throwing things at each other, they tend to come again and again."
Along with juggling, Sallee said the club has welcomed students who were interested in working on acrobatics and gymnastics.
"It's becoming quite diverse," he said.
The club works on juggling everything from small bean bags to bowling pin-like clubs to rings. The instructors bring props, but Sallee explained that jugglers eventually collect many of their own.
"The more you get into juggling, the more props you wind up just accumulating," he said.
The club does work with torches or swords, but Sallee said that they are not very dangerous; swords are slightly dull, and torches use flammables that usually will not hurt a juggler.
"Chainsaws, we don't ever bring in," Sallee said.
According to Sallee and Crizzly, another instructor in the group, the only other juggling group in Corvallis is the Corvallis Unicycle and Juggling club. Since the OSU club meets twice a week, much more frequently than the Corvallis group's twice a month, the instructors give students a greater chance to practice.
No matter the student's skill level, the instructors said they work to be inclusive to all members.
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Crizzly
posted 1/09/09 @ 2:30 PM PST
We meet *monday* 5p-7p, not tuesday. :) If you check out blog, you can see our calendar of events, view our videos, and check out the links to our upcoming convention, juggling prop vendors, juggling simulators, and even some of our videos! Don't forget to sign our guest book, and perhaps subscribe to our email distribution list (very low traffic)!
Crizzly
posted 1/09/09 @ 5:36 PM PST
We meet *monday* 5p-7p, not tuesday. :) If you check out our blog, you can see our calendar of events, check out the links to our upcoming convention, juggling prop vendors, juggling simulators, and even to our videos! Don't forget to sign our guest book, and perhaps subscribe to our email distribution list (very low traffic)!
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