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  • mrauha · 7 days ago

    Stumbled on this, an absolutely fascinating exposition on crafting bean bags for juggling/footbagging. Well structured & written, hundreds of pages of pdf's.

    On the meta, there's a bittersweet feeling - discovering these "early internet" (i.e. pre-enshittification/sloppification) gems is an increasingly rare experience.

    • piva00 · 2 days ago

      Happily surprised to see Joshua Clifton's designs appearing on Hacker News, thanks for posting it :)

      I know many jugglers in the circus community who really enjoyed the process of making their own beanbags from his designs, I just never expected to see it mentioned here, haha.

      • choffee · 2 days ago

        This is why I come to the internet.

        • Cider9986 · 2 days ago

          Learning to juggle badly is rewarding and relatively easy. I recommend it.

          • jcynix · 2 days ago

            Fascinating! Now I need to check if there are "dog resitant" examples, because our juvenile Border Collie surely will shred most materials rather fast …

            • alanbernstein · 2 days ago

              Aluminum chain mail!

            • alanbernstein · 2 days ago

              These look nice. I met someone with juggling balls made of aluminum chain mail, I immediately thought it was the best material for the purpose. She said she made them herself, then shared the instructions with me. It was a great COVID project. Now I have three juggling balls, and a bunch of leftover rings that I use occasionally for small repair and mounting tasks.