The pay off

[The Amazing Beaumanz]

Just got back from having dinner with a father and son who have been coming to Clearwater beach for awhile now and come almost every night of their visit to our festival.
Gabriel, the nine year old son has shown that he has the passion and desire to become a juggler. he has spent many hours practicing and a year ago he came with a set of juggling balls and showed me his progress.
A few months ago Gabriel came to my show with his juggling balls and this time he had a Rolla-Bolla with him. After watching him, i decided that during my next show i would use him to show the other kids in my audience what hard work and practice can do. Gabriel was elated.
Today, i met Gabriel and his dad at the pier and it was a crappy day so we went under the pavillion and Gabriel pulled out a new set of Renegade fire torches, dunked them in fuel, sparked the lighter and proceeded to knock me on my ass!!!! WOW!! Two months ago, he was barely able to cascade three clubs.
The feeling of seeing this 9 YEAR OLD KID and knowing that i was some type of inspiration is what makes this all worth while.

THANK YOU GABRIEL!!!


Sincerely,
Dallas


ps Gabriel is totally fascinated with the whole street performing scene. His address is gabrielthejugglingkid@hotmail.com if anyone would like to drop some words of encouragement.

[jester]

Congratulations. It's a marvellous feeling.

A 13 year old learnt tricks off me and got involved in a similar fashion several years ago.

He now goes under the name of Jamie the Jester and now he's teaching me.... And I'm grateful for it.

Feel Proud. Feel Very Proud. It is the best kind of pride you can have, the pride in somebody elses ability.

[Doctor Eric]

That reminds me of the time I taught my little brother to shoplift...
Now I have a 52" plasma television.

[Magrat2005]

Originally posted by Doctor Eric
That reminds me of the time I taught my little brother to shoplift...
Now I have a 52" plasma television.

I'm not really laughing

[jester]

I am.

The sign of a true comedy genius is when you can make the people who don't like you laugh.

I'm laughing. Now Dr Eric, you can either consider yourself a comedy genius or you can feel liked by me. Or maybe now it's both. Nah, sorry, you are merely a genius.

[the scarecrow]

Merely a Genius?

Is that a backhanded compliment or a fronthanded insult?

[Evan Young]

heh. I was hired to teach three non juggling actors how to juggle last fall so that they could fulfill the juggling requrements of the show they had been hired for. They had (have) horrible habits and technique. One of them deliberatley disobeyed my advice. She said, to my face, "I'm gonna work on this my way until it works", and she still sucks, bad. These are adults who have a true insentive to learn good juggling technique and wouldn't listen to hours of one on one training.

A few weeks ago I was hired to do a show and teach juggling workshops to a middle school in northern mass. I was put in a gym with groups 70 to 100 pre teens for 45 minuits a slot, four slots. Durring that time I saw at least 200 kids overcome the same problems those actors failed to overcome. And I had almost no time for one on one instruction. Sadly the payment for that day is two weeks overdue now, some pay off.

[jester]

I got paid handsomely to teach an actor how to juggle for a pantomime once. He applied himself brilliantly and got obsessed with the juggling but didn't learn his lines very well.

When I went to watch the show, he juggled clubs and passed with another cast member but needed to be prompted several times.

I once taught some adults for a holiday camp. One of them kept ignoring me and got into such a state but had no faith in my instruction and I felt very impatient with her. So I ignored her and let her suffer for a half hour or so. I discovered her boyfriend was in the class, so I taught him how to teach it (he could juggle okay) and he showed her. Once she had it she calmed down. It had been doing her head in and I was frightened of her.