Introduce yourself

[Nino]

*Name: Nino
Location: Italy
Age: **
Website: None

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
I've diaboloed for six months now, but I touched for the first time a diabolo about one year and a half ago.

2. What or who got you started?
I started after doing the animator at a summer camp: a friend of mine taught it there and so I tryed.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
I like the... magic. When you see someone diaboloing, it looks like the diabolo is suspended in midair, like it's magic. Same thing for devilsticks and juggling in general.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
Not so much... In my city mosquitoes are very widespread and after only thirty minutes outside diaboloing I can't stop to scratch.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
No, I'm not so good.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
No, I don't.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
I love my Harlequin Diabolo and my aluminium homemade sticks. I use yellow fluo string.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I only know basic tricks with one diabolo... I haven't thought of two diabolos yet!

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
I don't have one, even if I enjoy the lift.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
Uhm, I don't know.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
The magic knot. I couldn't practice, so I've been tying to learn it for six months.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
I don't know famous diabolist.

[nickbonnes]

Name: Nick Bonnes
Location: I live in Tiel, the Netherlands. But Im actually from Shepton Mallet, UK
Age: 15
Website: http://www.facebook.com/nickbonnes3

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? Now about 4,5 years

2. What or who got you started? At a mini circus group, I discovered diabolo and Im never stopped

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? Diabolo, I like to discover new integrals with1/2 and new patterns and starts with 3

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? Not at this moment, its almost Christmas so I dont have any time

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? Yes, I did, I really like it

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ? I could do 5 rings, I can do also 7 balls, 3 clubs and a little bit 5 rings

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? I like taibolo`s and Epic diabolo`s, deos sticks from Trash and henry`s, Slide and sundia string

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? I think with 1 or 3, I dont like 2D tricks anymore. I`m also practicing 4D, but my high pattern is still rubbish. Low is getting better

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? I like to working on new siteswaps with high, I really like pattern, like mini columns, reverse cascade and I can run cascade.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? That Robin Spinelli alongside of me broke his 5D low record, that was awesome wasnt it Robin ?

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? Nothing at this moment, I`m very busy with school and studies, so I can only practice at juggling conventions and if I have a bit of spare time I only practice 4

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? Too many I think xD , I really like to practice with Folkert, Max, Judith Both, Dixie and all of my friends from juggling conventions

[Sjors-Stuurman]

Name: Sjors Stuurman
Location: Holland
Age: 15
Website: http://sjorsstuurman.nl

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
Well... I learned how to play the diabolo 6 or 7 years back, but have recently learned two and am willing to learn some more tricks Can do quite a few with 1 diabolo, but no suicides or genocides or anything like that.

2. What or who got you started?
A Local Circusschool

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
I'm more a Juggler really, but what I like about diaboloing is that it looks very cool while some tricks aren't very difficult, sometimes with juggling balls or clubs, people aren't as impressed, but if I start diaboloing I immideatly catch people's attention.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
I juggle around 2 - 4 hours a day, of which probably 30 minutes till an hour is diaboloing

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
I've performed with a diabolo once! However I like to perform with balls, rings and clubs more

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
Yep, I juggle 7 balls, 5 clubs and 6 rings, I also do flower sticks time to time.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
String: Henry's string
Sticks: The Aluminium Mr. Babache things.
Diabolos: Only have used Mr. Babache Arlequino's till now, and I'm not really that fond of them.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
Eh, since I've recently learned 2 diabolos, 2 diabolos.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Eh I think one of my Knot tricks into a Whip catch is probably my favourite

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
I think that'd be a vertical genocide into a vertical whip catch

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
2 diabolo correction

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
Robin Spinelli, Judith and Brend mostly, and many others actually, but I only remember Robin's, Judith's and Brend's name haha.

[matthussey]

Name: Matthew
Location: Bedford, UK
Age: 30s
Website: None

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
I bought one earlier this year during the summer months after seeing a guy demo them and finding I could transfer some of my yoyo skills to it, but I've not used it lots.

2. What or who got you started?
A guy demonstrating circus skills at my kids' school. He had loads of diabolos along with other things and I picked it up and managed to get it spinning, a few high throw catches and some basic yoyo stuff a bit like yoyo trapezes or lindy loops.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
I like that it gives me something to do away from computers.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
So far, 0.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
Nope.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
I don't juggle but I do yoyo (mainly 1A but a little 5A and 4A) and speedcube. I've tried taking up juggling but haven't managed to find the time to even pick up the basics.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
Can't comment.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I own 2, but only use 1 at a time.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
I managed some kind of suicide once, which was fun.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
I've seen Langers do diabolo on a yoyo video and it was crazy.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
Any form of spin generating other than the basic one.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
None at all.

Hello, I wanted to add some stuff. I took up yoyo as a cheap and entertaining way to get off of computers, which I use 8 hours a day at work then 8 hours a day at home. It turns out it is fun, but not as cheap as I had thought once you get collecting things. I've been doing about 2-3 years now although I'm pretty much stuck at the upper intermediate level.
As I said above, I saw a guy letting people try out diabolo (among other things) and found some of the yoyo skills seemed to transfer a little so bought myself a cheap £3 one from a store and played with it a bit over the summer. I'm planning to do the same this year but I may get a better diabolo and sticks but have no idea what to get, I'm thinking a G4 Finesse but don't know if bearings have caught on in diabolo as much as they have in yoyo.

Outside of skilltoys, I've spent the past 15 years as a software engineer, I'm married and have 3 kids.

Anyway, that's me.

Matthew.

[Wis]

Welcome! Bearings are quite used nowadays in diabolo and if you like yoyo tricks you can go for them. Although a bit old this post has tons of interesting reading about equipment: http://diabolo.ca/forum/index.php?topic=3.msg3#msg3

[leomalabar]

Hahaha, you`re speedcuber too, rarely, there are several diaboloist/jugglers who practice this two things

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
I don't juggle but I do yoyo (mainly 1A but a little 5A and 4A) and speedcube. I've tried taking up juggling but haven't managed to find the time to even pick up the basics.

Matthew.

[ASamJ2K]

Let me Reintroduce myself

Name:Alex
Location: CA United States
Age:15
Website: N/A

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? two

2. What or who got you started? someone at my old school came to teach me

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? I can't say why

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? I don't know

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? yes

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ? No

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? currently Epics, DEOS sticks,  Henrys string

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? one

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? there are a lot of things I can do

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? they are all diffrent

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? 3 DIABOLOS over a year and still can't do it despite I can Chinese whip fluently, 1D right stall to 2D sprinkler that will leave me with an external wrap to a full stall, but I can't shuffle. Why can't I do it?   

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?[/url]  lots if them

[Exscaly]

Hello !
Name: Jet
Location: Western Australia
Age: 17

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
13, although only really started about 6 months ago.

2. What or who got you started?
Was given one ages ago and just started playing.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
I mainly do diabolo and 3 ball/club juggling, but I find diabolo the most versatile - its movements seem to sometimes turn into devil sticks, poi, conventional juggling... seems nearly endless!

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
So far, I just have 2 blue MB Galaxies (and a really old yoho small one) with the sticks and string that came with the yoho (13 years still holding fairly well... it may be telling of how much I've used it over the years). The Galaxies are the only 'known' ones I have and know (and even then, they seem unknown), so I have nothing else to judge by. I recently made my own wooden sticks and used 2mm blinds string from the hardware store, and after a few tests, seems to be more effective than the string I've used in the past, they're now my main sticks.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I'm developing my skills with 1, learning to start and correct 2... 3 is a long way off!

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Just learnt how to genocide!

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
Currently learning the tomicide, with many bruises.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
All the people and posts here on diabolo.ca!

Also, I'm a leftie. Super looking forward to meeting you all! 

[Ju-va-pied-nu]

Hi !

Name: Julien
Location: France
Age: 35

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
18 years, when I started i was 17.

2. What or who got you started?
One day one of my friend bought one...I was just starting juggling with balls...She teached me the basics and then I got addict !

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
Juggling makes me happy...I feel good when I'm juggling and I like to create my own words with it...It also help me to work on me...be patient and pushing back my limits !

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
It depends ! It can be 0,1,2,3,4........

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
Yes I do...

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
Yes : Balls, clubs, cups, spoon, plates....

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
My favourite is the classic Henry's Circus...I also use Henry's string but I have made my own sticks.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I like the best working with only one diabolo...

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Using my feet !

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
I got crazy first time I saw someone showing integrals combinations....

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
I'm still trying to find new tricks with a very big string passing in my clothes....

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
Etienne Manceau, James West& Norsud, cie Filophile, the mad french posse...

[August]

Name:August Rohde Aass
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Age: 14

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
2-3 years

2. What or who got you started?
When I was 10 years I got my first diabolo, everyone of my friends had it and trained at school. But it was not before i was (one month before) 12 I really started.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
It is fun!

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
4-6

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
Yes

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
I also juggle balls and clubs

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
I like epic diabolos, sundia carbon sticks and Sundia string (blue)

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
one (integrales)

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
I do not now, but I like integrales.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
I do not now.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
3 diabolo

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
Everyone on youtube.

[Wis]

Welcome August! I was living in Trondheim for 6 months. I can tell you that there is a juggling club in the NTNU where a guy plays with 2 diabolos. You may want to join them if you are willing to practice with somebody. Btw, in this video I recorded some years ago you can see some bits of Trondheim, might be curious/fun for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxa6GAkm5g

[gt.reaction]

Name: Alex
Location: United States

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
I started a few years ago but I quit for a long time, just getting back into it now! So altogether probably 2 years? Perhaps 3.

2. What or who got you started?
Saw some cool stuff at a summer camp, decided to try it for myself.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
Learning new things.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
It's pretty sporadic, but I practice when I can. Can't put a number on it.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
I performed once and failed miserably but I'll be trying again soon hopefully.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
I dabble in ball and cigar box juggling, but I'm really just a diabolo player.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
This is a tough one. 35cm Taibolo sticks and white Taibolo string (I haven't tried many other types of string though). Favorite diabolo... probably Sundia Triple Bearing Fly and Sundia Shining fixed axle. I used to exclusively use Taibolo v2s but I've found that I like Sundia better, particularly the bearings. I've ordered the Sundia Icy which will hopefully be a good investment. Also will be trying out 35cm Sundia blue diamond carbon fiber sticks soon.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
1. Since I can't really do anything with 2 or 3 yet xD

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Star trick, 2:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdhPICh-UEs Simple but cool, I think

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
In person? Probably some crazy vertax combo that I can't name. Online? There are too many to choose from, I think many of the tricks that I've seen are equally amazing!

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
A trick by William Lin (I posted about it in this forum haha) and some integral stuff.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
William Lin (he was the first guy that I watched a video of), Hiroki Abe, Kobayashi Norifumi

[gijoey959]

Name: Joey
Age: 23
Location: Texas, United States

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
First diabolo should be in the mail tomorrow

2. What or who got you started?
I yoyo, so naturally diabolo was interesting to me, and my growing interest in off string yoyoing, or 4a, helped push my drive to learn diabolo. Finally someone posted a couple of diabolos and sticks up in a yoyo group, and we traded

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
Learning tricks feels good

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
None, but I yoyo several hours a day, so I definitely will be practicing daily

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
No, I don't even have an interest in performing with yoyos, it's all just for fun

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
Yoyo

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
Lol, I don't know

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I'm just happy to have 1 so far

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
I'll be happy when I can get it spinning

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
I really like seeing the horizontal play from the people who can do it

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
Probably going to be plenty soon

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
There is a person who goes by Ume that is sponsored by YoyoZeekio that posted the first horizontal diabolo combo I ever saw, from there I have been determined to give it a try

[theAfanc]

Name: Sousa "theAfanc"
Location: Flagstaff AZ
Age: 22
Website: theafancslake.tumblr.com

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
   I have ownded one for about a week...

2. What or who got you started?
   An anime that will remain unamed

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
  I love the freedom and the ability to just make **** up as you go

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
   haha...

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
   Once I am comfortable with tricks, I will be putting together a cosplay of the Diablo player from above unsaid anime and I will do a routine for the Masquerade and whatnot.  but for now, no I do not.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
I just yoyo :/

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
   I just want to get it to spin...

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
  Uhm...getting it off the ground and spinning >.<

[Wis]

2. What or who got you started?
   An anime that will remain unamed

Hehehehe, please name it. I think I know which one you mean, the one with the girls fighting with diabolos in some fliying cages, or swings? If you got the link I was looking for that 3 weeks ago and gave up
Welcome!

[SebiHausi]

i want to see that anime!
tell us

[Wis]

Somebody told me... wear protective glashes if at hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhaOyMNoRYQ

[ysalamari]

Name: Max
Location: South Germany
Age: 24
Website: http://diabolo-info.de

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
11

2. What or who got you started?
Summer holiday camp. Some diabolos were available. I pracitced the whole summer

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
Express the creativy, being free

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
1h

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
Unfortunately not

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
no

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
Henys Circus with LED Kit

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
Atm 1

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Genocide Sun combo

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
Dont know the name 

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
2 Diabolo start

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
An unknow circus guy

[Olivier.B]

Name: Olivier Belzile
Location: Montreal, QC, Canada
Age: 22
Website: www.olivierbelzile.com

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
   Started diaboloing at age 10-12, but I got seriously to it when I turned 17

2. What or who got you started?
   I wanted to get into circus, and living in the countryside, I knew I had to pick a discipline I could learn by myself. I also liked to diabolo already

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
   I'm all about performance, I love creating an act for an audience and just give myself on stage. I like that I get to develop a relationship with my diabolo and share it with people

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
   About 5 days a week, 2 hours a day, sometimes (read "often") less, if getting lazy or working on another discipline.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
   Yes, I've been street performing a bunch, and also performed as part of my school program and at various events.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
   I do juggle balls and clubs, but I think I'm not good enough (I don't have my 5 props stable yet)

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
   I'm all about circus diabolos with giant axles. They're extremely stable for outside performances (windy), And I like feeling the weight of the diabolos for timing for certain tricks. I use play string because it is thinner and therefore safer for mini-genocides and variations (in my opinion). Sticks are Babache's aluminum to compensate for the diabolos' weight.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
   1 Diabolo. It gives more freedom for movement. I especially enjoy excalibur/vertax as it allows me to open the stage area and stop being so frontal.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
   Behind the head blind catches to lying down. When I get it right and a get a good suspension then let myself collapse on the floor, the feeling is greeeaaat. Plus, audiences love it. I what the audiences like, I like.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?


11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
   Blind catches combos, and one trick I'm working on I'm not going to talk about before I get it stable enough to present on stage. Sorry, got to protect my creative stuff

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
   Jeremy Arsenault, Tony Frebourg, Fellow ENC students Dominique Bouchard, Fabian Galouye,  Noah Nielsen, Johan Juslin, Felix Martin and Arata Urawa, Jean-Félix Bélanger from Quebec's Circus school, and every single Taiwan guy out there who just rock the diabolos

[scottchesha23]

Name: Scott
Age: 29
Location: Northumberland, North UK

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
On Christmas day this year, it will be 1

2. What or who got you started?
Some my best friends are jugglers/spinners/fire performers, i went to a festival and saw a guy with 2 diabolos, i was inspired by him and them

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
The beauty of it

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
Honestly depends on the day, minimum of 1, up to 8

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
I have performed unofficially with a fire diabolo at a festival, with my fire performing friends

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
want to learn unicycle, maybe fire breathing

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
so far i think anything by Sundia or Mr Babache

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
I'm fairly competent with one and i can keep a shuffle with two

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
possibly suns, with an under feet 'jumprope' finish, or magic knot into whip catch, can't really choose, depends on the tempo of the music

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
seen some unreal, 'had to see to believe' stuff on youtube, but competence with two is enough to wow me

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
Genocides and variations of

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
There is a guy in London with some mad skills and i'm going to his workshop soon, he's my biggest inspiration atm, but i am looking for local spinners to me, so give me a message if you live in Northern England/South Scotland, i'll bring cake....

PEACE