When people see the things that can be done with 1 2 or 3 dibolos they are just plain impressed, and i think the difficulty is generaly appreciated.
I think whatdraws people to the diabolo is that eeryone played with one as a kid, yet never got further than throwing it in the air and catching it (or not!).
I think whatdraws people to the diabolo is that eeryone played with one as a kid,
You have an audience who don't know much about diabolo tricks. These people will be easily impressed by tricks such as the string climb, cats cradle, neck bounces etc. Which is great for us (the performer) because the are easy to do, and can be set into a routine which is quite long, yet consistent without any mistakes.
I'd think it would be much more satisfying to perform to other diaboloists, though I've never done it cos I've never actually found another one of around my standard
I say impressed its not their fault that they are sometimes impressed by 'the wrong things'. Others get it as well, jugglers with eating the apple is the classic, difficult poi moves, isolations and the like, mean more to poi swingers than outsiders. etc.
Today I was juggling with diabolo in a local amusement park and thought these things. It's really frustrating when audience don't appreciate your technical tricks, that you have just learnt to do smoothly.For example I did some leg orbit combos with routine and then some other easy tricks. The audience liked them alot. The idea is, that people saw all the time what was happening. It is not hard to notice that diabolo is going around your leg. Litlle bit harder to understand what it is happening when doing monorail, lot harder to understand for example some body moves.There is lot of "magic" in diabolo. No one has ever understood the string climb when i do it first time. Also some magic knots are irrational stuff. People really loves this kind of tricks.<snip>Ok...lot of text without meaning. The summary: Easy and magical tricks for normal people. Technical and hard ones for jugglers. That's the way it's and we have to accept that.