From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!houxi!npois!npoiv!alice!mhtsa!allegra!psuvax!sibley
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Blind Juggling
Article-I.D.: psuvax.1084
Posted: Tue Sep 14 16:27:48 1982
Received: Wed Sep 15 05:12:32 1982


Blind juggling is indeed possible.  I know several jugglers who can juggle
for reasonable periods of time without seeing the balls.  The best I know
of is Nick Burgoyne, a math professor at Berkeley, whom I have seen do
this for several minutes.  He does it while on his knees and juggles a
very small reverse cascade pattern.  None of the people I know actually do
this blindfolded.  They need to start the pattern where they can see it,
but once it is going they can be blinded.  Burgoyne, for instance, looks
straight up into the sky.  (The pattern he is juggling is so small I'm
sure he can't see it.)

One secret to juggling is making very accurate throws, as every juggler
knows.  It's not too surprising that some very talented people can do it
without seeing the balls.

Dave Sibley
Department of Mathematics
Penn State University
psuvax!sibley