Introduce yourself

[Christopher]

Name:Christopher
Location:Hong Kong
Age:14
Website:

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
5 years
2. What or who got you started?
a chinese yoyo i bought in Beijing
3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
it's fun and good for your hand eye coordination
4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
1 hour
5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
yes, but rarely
6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
yoyos
7.What are your favourite diabolo, sticks and strings?
Yoho Jumbo/DiaBig, Carbon Short Black,  Reddish-Orange Henrys String
8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
i like everything
9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Sprinklers, slack whips, 360 Fans
10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
anything 4d or above.
11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
3d suns
12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
MFP, Guy Heathcote, Donald Grant, Matt Hall, Ryo Yabe, Barnesy, TPEC, and the MHD crew

[Zane]

Name: Sani
Location: Nova Scotia
Age: 16
Website:

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? I first picked up a diabolo yesterday.

2. What or who got you started? One of the first times I ever talked to my boyfriend (otherwise known as the "crazy guy with sticks" at schools on the days he had his there) he had a diabolo. I've loved it ever since and have wanted to learn.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? Not sure yet, I'm just in the begining processes of learning.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? Unfortunently, I haven't really been able to yet as I don't have one of my one at the moment.

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've tried to juggle balls before, but it didn't go so well.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? I've only ever used one diabolo, a set of sticks and string.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? 1 for now...I've never tried more.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? The fact it didn't take me over an hour like everyone else to get one spinning.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? I haven't seen many yet.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? Everything past getting it to spin.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? I suppose my boyfriend at the moment, but I imagine this will get better as I get more experienced in things.

[Roland]

Hey...
My name is Roland (as my sn implies)
I live in Tallahassee, Florida...
age 16 (17 in like 6 days)
ummm...don't really have a website, but I have a blog...sorta boring though...

I have diaboloed (?) for about 2 years sparingly, with Chinese yoyos and cotton string, so you can imagine why it never took off...I recently got some Yoho's and fiberglass sticks and the such, so now I am addicted...
Uhhh...don't really know what started it...
Don't juggle other stuff...play for an hour or two or three every day if possible...
performances are not really on the schedule yet...did some stuff for my Chinese school, but that was it...
Actually I do know what got me hooked...There's this guy at FSU (the college in Tallahassee) who came from Taiwan... apparently he's like number two or something, and he's pretty amazing... Our Chinese school got him to teach us.
My favorite trick that I can do would probably be some arm combinations...overall would be s-fans

Right now I am working on arm tricks and I am starting two diabolo stuff.  Still perfecting corrections, doing fans, etc...
Infinite suicides are definitely driving me crazy.

btw is there a thread about entering s-fans?
I have searched and couldn't find one...

[seán_]

Roland, theres a few s fan threads and a sweet s fan exits tutorial as well, check the tricks sticky http://diabolo.ca/forum/index.php?topic=149.0
I dont think theres a dedicated sfan entry thread, start one in the tricks section  (watch out for the mods )

I think it used to bw a given that if you have reached s fan level you will know how to enter

BTW any info or vids on this diaboloist you write about?

[Roland]

BTW any info or vids on this diaboloist you write about?

Ummm...yeah...
Search Youtube for "team infinity", it's the second one...
The guy at the college is Chris...

[Haukau]

Name: Hugo
Location: Sweden
Age: 15
Website: Nope :/

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? 
Active 5 months (5-6 years)

2. What or who got you started? 
I Friend introduced me.

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

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

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
Not yet, my first gig is in Nowember.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
3,4 balls, 3 clubs, 3 juggling torches

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
Finesse with finger grind axel, henry alu sticks and orange string.

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

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
Infinitive suicide and duicides.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
Hm... i liked the sprinkler pass in cirkus smirkus diabolorutine.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
2d high and genocide to mini genocide.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?
A friend,Mr Pink and slacker

[mo3]

Name: Moe
Location: Good Old Germany
Age: 16
Website: nothing atm 

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?

- I would rather ask myself, how many months i have diaboloed before, because I play since 4-5 months.
Well, thats not correct, i played as a little kid, but I cant even remember which Diabolo it was.. Well talking blues..


2. What or who got you started?

- Since I've been a little boy I was fascinated by everything like juggling, because I need a challenge


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

- You get to know funny guys and its the best when you finally master a combo/trick, superior!


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

- If I have got the time, its possible that i play 4 hours a day


5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?

- Nop, just for family & friends.


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

- Yes, balls. 2 years ago i was able to juggle with rings.. darn I need some


7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?

- My babies, 2 Diabolo Finesse G2 but i played with 2 henrys in the past, very good too!
string? Henry's colored string
sticks? Henry Alu, but soon there will be a pair of xtreme gen3 I'm thinking about the color atm..


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

- I'm just starting to play with 2 diabs, for me atm 1 diab is the best


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

- Since 2 days i finally master Eric's Integral, i luv it


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

- Phew, I'm fascinated by many tricks, e.g. good 3d siteswaps..


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

- A lot of stuff, i'm stuck @ the infinite mini genocides..


12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?

- Every Diaboloist inspires me, because I like everyone who really gets down and starts to improve his style and tricks


I'm excited to get to know the community, especially an english speaking one kinda new 2 me

Greetz!

[fat_hampster]

Name: Danny
Location: Devon, England
Age: 16
Website: N/A

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
Hmmm.... depends on your definition of diaboloed, technically I started when I was about 8, I only actually started learning new stuff a year or two ago.

2. What or who got you started?
Originally, there was a craze at school and I bought one. then I did diabolo once a year at glastonbury children's festival, where my dad performs.  then a couple of years ago I saw someone doing 2 diabolo on the street, which utterly amazed me, and I decided to get into it.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
two things, when you learn a new trick that feeling you get is immense, also when you can do a trick really well and really smoothly, it feels great two.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
an average would not give an accurate representation of how much I diabolo, Sometimes I diabolo loads and loads, sometimes not at all.  Depends on how much time I have, aswell as what prop Im spending most of my time on at the time.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
No

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
Poi and Balls primarily (as well as diabolo), I also do clubs, unicycle, staff, hat manipulation, yo-yo, devilstick, etc. a little bit.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
henrys circus with a plastic hub (I've only tried all-round (which is what ive got) but i prefer it).  henrys carbon short (one white one black ) henrys yellow.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
at the moment, im working more on two, which is fun, but I also like doing 1.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
with 2 diabolos: vortex
with 1: probably fritz release, or inf. suicide

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
everything is impressive, I couldn't pick a most impressive.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
2 diabolo around the arm, mini columns, c-fan, continuos accelerations, improving my suns.
1 diabolo: various arm combos, inf. suicide -> genocide, exc. genocide.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?[/url]
the MFP, all the diabolists on this site, and various other people who I'm not sure what their names are.

[Mr jiggly]

My name is joel, just found the forum brousing the internet.

I have been diaboloing for about a year, well that is, i have had one for ages but only realy got into diabolo for about a year.
I can do one diabolo well and have just started to learn how to do two.
          No tricks learnt yet with two diabolos but i am getting there

Recently me and my mates put on a Ultra violet show at school and it was awesome. I an just starting to learn poi and juggling but nothing amazing yet..

Cheers

[largactyl]

Name: Jeremy
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Age: 17
Website:

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? - 1.75 years

2. What or who got you started? French Grandmother

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? A good challenge.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? 2-4 Hours

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? Never formally, have been kicked out of public places though.

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

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? Circus, Henry's Fiber, Henry's Yellow

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

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? Double sprinkler - suicide exit.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? (Double?) Sprinkler - duicide exit.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? Fan, Vortex Suicide to wrap.

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? Yuki Kojima - Priam - Maki Tojo - Ryo Yabe - Matt Hall

[Toby]

Name: Jeremy
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Age: 17
Website:

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? about 2 years
2. What or who got you started? not sure..think i just had a diabolo kicking about

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? nailing a trick.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? 2 Hours

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

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

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?Henrys Circus, Mr B Energy, Henrys Yellow

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

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? triple vertax genocide.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? 3D sprinkler suicide

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

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? Ryo Yabe pretty much any of the MFP

[Niko]

Name: Niko
Location: Finland, Tampere
Age: 23
Website: www.mungomedia.fi/flow and www.flamma.fi

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

2. What or who got you started?
- A friend who bought diabolo

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
- The feeling when you learn something new

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
- 2-3

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
- Yes, I am in performing Diabolo duo called FLOW

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

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
- Finneses and circuses modified by jurgen

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

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
- Maybe vertax geno. If you ask tomorrow it might be something totally different

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
- I think some of those jibes incredible 3d high sitewaps


11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
- 360 Fan part where you have to turn from 180deg to 360deg

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?[/url]
- Jibe , Kasmir. There is many others too, but those mostly

[JC]

fine to see you here,
jurgen (jürgen) that´s me

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
- Finneses and circuses modified by jurgen

[martin 1692]

Name:martin
Location:Ecuador
Age:13
Website:

1. How many years have you diaboloed for?
6 months
2. What or who got you started?
my friends started playing and i liked et
3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?
i enjoy playing it feels so relaxing mostly
4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average?
like an hour a day
5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo?
occasionally
6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ?
no but i like devil sticks
7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
mr. babache rubberking henry's allumninium sticks Henry's pink strings
8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best?
1 is the one i prefer but also 2
9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
genocide infinite suicide and guillotine
10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done?
jibe back combo with 1 diabolo
11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)?
all 2 diabolo tricks
12. What other diaboloists have inspired you?[/url]
jibe, Baptiste and other ecuadorian diabolists

[DiaboloWebb]

Name: Aiden Arnkels-Webb
Location: Halesworth, Suffolk, England
Age: 15
Website: www.diabolo-suffolk.com

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? 2 and a half months

2. What or who got you started? A Mushy Pea's stall at Towersey Folk Festival, spent 5 days playing with the 5 inch flex diabolo's and bought a yellow finesse, some henry's ally and a reel of henry's green.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? There are always new tricks to learn, new combo's to try, and new things to invent.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? up to about 8 at times.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? Not really altho i plan to in the future

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ? Hoping to get some rings and poi, possibly cigar boxes and devil sticks.

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? Mr. Babache Finesse G2, Mr. Babache Xtreme Handsticks/ Henry's Ally Handsticks, Henry's Yellow String.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? 2 Diabolo's as i like the feel of them orbiting on the string, this will probably be 3 at some point

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? Infinite Suicide's to Genocide to Accelerations to Tomocide to Infinite Suicides to Genocide, to Slowicide Mini Genocide (pulled it off twice, dont do it much as i prefer learning new tricks, i'll get into more combo's later)

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? 3 Diabolo big sprinkler suns/ 2 Diabolo Vertax round the body

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? 3 Diabolo's, Correct exit to normal sprinkler, S-Fan

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? The MFP, Kyo, 'Tijn, Sean, Arjan, anyone that does an awsome looking trick that i instantly want to try and master.

[Christopher]

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string?
mr. babache rubberking henry's allumninium sticks Henry's pink strings

Henrys doesn't produce pink string.

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do?
genocide infinite suicide and guillotine

Whats guillotine?

[The Vitamin Guy]

http://gibee.club.fr/diabolo/diab1_en.htm -> Body Moves -> Guillotine.

[the-circus-gremlin]

Name: Fred Hoffman
Location: Halesworth/Suffolk
Age: 13
Website: www.Diabolo-Suffolk.com

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? 2 years because i stopped for a year.

2. What or who got you started? My friends patrick and kieran who can still only throw and catch it. god bless you friends.

3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general?  The relaxing feel of complete control.

4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? 3/4 hours on a week day 4/5 on a weekend.

5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? Yes occasionally.

6. Do you juggle other props? If so: balls, clubs, rings, cigar boxes, devil sticks... ? Poi, balls, clubs, devilsticks, cigar boxes, unicycleling, ect...

7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? My favourite diabolo is the finnesse G2 with finger axle and weights, string is henrys yellow, sticks are henrys alu or MB energy sticks.

8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? 2 because there is the control you get with one but the lovely orbiting feel of 3

9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? Infinite sprinkler suicide! or maybe behind the back infinite suicide.

10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? 2 diabolo vertax.

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? 3 high. *arrgh curse you wind*

12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? The mad frech posse and martijn halekor

[DiaboloWebb]

11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? 3 high. *arrgh curse you wind*

Dont you mean 2 high? you cant even do three yet lol, i'm beating you on that front 

[stryju]

Name: Tomasz Stryjewski
Location: Malbork, Poland
Age: 21
Website: www.fld.pl

1. How many years have you diaboloed for? since early summer 2006 (that's 0,5 year now)
2. What or who got you started? convention in Torun 2006 (su)
3. What do you like best about the diabolo or juggling in general? the 'magic' around it
4. How many hours a day do you diabolo on average? depends... 0-5h / day
5. Do you ever perform with the diabolo? if someone sees me...
6. Do you juggle other props? no, but i did spit fire - ex-member (technician) of Mamadoo (www.mamadoo.pl)
7. What are your favourite diabolos, sticks, and string? Circus, Henry's Fiber, Henry's Yellow
8. Do you like working with 1, 2, or 3 diabolos the best? 1d
9. What is your favourite diabolo trick that you can do? inf suicide
10. What is the most amazing diabolo trick you've ever seen done? big body moves combo
11. What tricks are driving you nuts right now (what are you working on)? all body moves and all suicide variations
12. What other diaboloists have inspired you? su, martjin, vux, that kid who did bodymoves on some films + all better than me <most of you?>