The Joy Of Sharing Your Hat Skills

Thomas Waymouth (AKA Tom Thumb), in kathmandu, sharing his love of hat manipulation. A great fun video showing how sharing your skills brings a smile to many faces. Thanks for the Video Tom!

Calendar Updates.

The Calendar has been updated with the latest workshops that people are offering to teach. We have a hat manipulation workshop with Peter D on 24th Jan where you will be able to learn moves with 1-3 hats. On the 7th Feb Lynne will be introducing you to poi and the joys of spinning them around your body.

On the 17th Jan, we are going to try something a little different. We are going to set up Speed Ball Dating. I can hear a few of you saying "Errrrm...What?". Speed Ball Dating is like speed dating, but instead of chatting about each other and what you have in common, you will teach each other a juggling pattern. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner juggler, the aim of the game isn't just to learn new things, it is to learn how to teach someone else what you know, so if you only know how to juggle a basic 3 ball cascade it doesn't matter, you can explain to the other person how to do that, giving them tips and hints on what helped you to learn to do it. Doing this helps you to understand how you learn and teaches the other person how to be a better teacher themselves. We will give you 5 mins to do that and then ask you to move on to the next person. You can teach the next person the same pattern if you like, or try and teach the new move you have just learned, or something totally different. Hopefully by the end of the game everyone will have gained some new patterns to practice and have learned a whole lot more about how to teach other people. Huzzah for skill swapping!

Ahh the memories...

I'm sharing this video, one because it is a nice hat manipulation routine and two because it reminds me of a very happy day, long ago, at one of Peachi's Nottingham University Tribe of Fun-dango days. Well, it's one particular move that reminds me, the handstand into the hat move. The day was spent, hooping, poi spinning, handstanding into hats with Tim, trying to tightrope walk and sleeping in G and Scott's wardrobe with Alice (as you do). Happy days!



Peachi can I put in a request for another Fun-dango?

A good act isn't always just about mad skills

This video shows you how important to an act that the sound track is. Watch it with and without the sound on and you will see what I mean.


Attention to detail in any act can make it go from an average performance to something talk about for years afterwards.

It's a hat off

It appears that hat battling in rain macs is big in Tokyo. We need more hats at the club so we can do this... also more braces and topless men.


I'm going to have to get my top hat out now.

More Inspiration

This video is full of wild moves. Poi, fans, meteors, hats, staff... loads of fabulous stuff. Check it out!



Some of the moves will confuzzle you... but don't let that worry you just let your jaw drop and enjoy them.