What's the name of your Juggling Club?
Motor City Juggling Club
In what city and state?
Rochester, MI, USA
How old is your club?
Founded in May 1991.
Website?
www.mcjugglers.org
http://www.youtube.com/user/motorcityjugglers (for videos)
History of the club?
The club was founded as the Mount Clemens Juggling Club by Gerry Carson, who earlier also founded the Midland Juggling Club. When we moved out of Mount Clemens, we chose to keep the same website
(mcjugglers.org), thus we needed a new name consisting of the letters 'M' and 'C'. Since our members are from the metropolitan Detroit area, the name Motor City Juggling Club was an appropriate choice.
A five-story glass-walled atrium, excellent for diabolo, club passing, and numbers juggling.
How many "regulars" do you have at your club?
It varies greatly, but a typical meeting consists of 4-14 jugglers.
What is the age range of your Juggling Club participants?
9-65
What kind of non-juggling jobs/careers do your jugglers have?
Engineering, computer software, performing, law, student, etc.
Who was the last traveling juggler to stop through?
Steve Mills of Mills Mess fame.
Clubs or balls?
Our most-regular members are interested primarily in club passing, but we also have attendees interested in ball tricks and numbers.
What brand of clubs do people juggle mostly?
Todd Smith "Assassins", Dubé "Europeans", Renegades, Henrys, Play "PX3".
Regular members primarily juggle, although other attendees also do diabolo, flower sticks, unicycling, rope tricks, yo-yo, cigar boxes, bullwhip, magic.
What professional jugglers do people at your club admire?
The answer varies greatly from member to member. Responses include:
Jay Gilligan, The Sharpe Brothers, Steven Ragatz, Michael Moschen, Vova and Olga Galchenko, Sean McKinney, Anthony Gatto, Jon Brady, Thomas Dietz, Doug Sayers, Lauge Benjaminsen, Jason Garfield.
What is the mode of transportation for your jugglers to arrive at juggling club?
In the Motor City, we arrive overwhelmingly by automobile, although members have also been known to walk, bicycle, and unicycle.
Is there a club consensus on the World Juggling Federation?
One of our members, Nick Thomas, has competed at WJF.
Does your club organize a festival?
No
Ratio of males to females?
It varies greatly from meeting to meeting. Regular members are mostly male, however, lately a number of female students have been attending. With the school year winding down, the number of females attending likely will drop again.
Pink Bunkadoo Feed, Dead Man's Bludgeon, Dead Man's Cousin, Dead Man's Dozen, Scattered Sunshine, Shattered Scattered Sunshine, Quasar, Scrambled V, Train to Nowhere, Roundabout.
What non-circus hobbies do your jugglers have?
Drumming in a Scottish bagpipe band, astronomy, college radio deejay, board games, rowing, martial arts, knitting.