SportJugglingCo
I just got seven 2-5/8" ultraleather juggling balls from www.sportjugglingco.com. They are really good. My last unltraleather balls were 2-1/2" GBallz. The difference is mainly in, well the size, but really more in the way their made. The GBallz are 4 panel (although, I think they make a 6-panel one now). The Sport Juggling balls are 6 panel. I like the 6 panel way better because the 4 panel seems to get the thicker leathery material all bunched up at the seams where the 4 panels come together. With 6 panel, the most panels at a seam edge is 3, and the angles made at the seams is larger (360/3 as opposed to 360/4, okay, too analytical here)… But also, with the 6-panel, the "final" sew-up seam is also sewn really consistently. Unlike the 4-panel balls where you can see one small portion of one of the seams as the last bit that was sewn up… so the consistency of 6-panel sits well with me.
Anyway, these things are great. I worked on my 5 ball pattern for a really long time with them today. More practice today than in the last month. I’ve been playing too many video games. 7 balls is out of my league at the moment. I’m taking a step back and trying to get my 5 ball pattern more solid, stand up straght, not reach so far out when I juggle, etc.
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January 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am
I’ve been eyeing those and also the Dodeca balls that Dube.com sells.
I currently use 4 panel balls, but I really like them. They are made of a stretchy yet thin, shiny material and nice and squishy while holding a round shape. There squishiness makes it possible to catch them with just about any two fingers. This has saved me from dropping on many occasions. I here that Anthony Gatto uses Pinky Balls that he paints. They don’t leave much room for error. But then he doesn’t make many errors.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Hear and their?
January 24th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Four a minute thier I thought you were pointing out typos in my post. Eye will often dew that… type the wrong word just because my fingers don’t care. The won eye dew the most is typing “not” when eye mean “now”. And that gets me into trouble since it’s always the opposite of what I mean. At work I’ll say “This is now ready” and mean the exact opposite.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Oh, so I do see my typo. hahah… and now I can’t fix it or none of this will make sense.
February 5th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
The Gballz that I have are 6 panel and they work pretty good for joggling anyway.
April 18th, 2007 at 1:21 am
My favorite balls aren’t related to any of the other ones mentioned. My favorite are the tangents, they are sold on Jugglingstore.com, they rock but it takes time to break them in.