Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/29/amazing-orbit-juggling-performance-in-a-castle.html
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Nice. Thanks for sharing. He is also a great guitar player with a unique style:
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I don’t understand how this works. Nothing about those balls make sense. So ah… someone want to explain how they float/fly like that? Because I’m feeling dense.
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I presume they are all suspended by thin strings tethered from a point about 10 feet above his head
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Boom! Thank you! Now I see the strings!
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Won’t someone please think of the poor production assistant who has to untangle the pendulum strings after the performance?
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It should be possible to calculate the length of the strings by checking the period of the orbits. (Well, you’d also have to assume that he’s on Earth, I guess.)
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For accuracy, this should be repeated in a vacuum. I’m sure the performer wouldnt mind
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The math would be easier if the performer were also spherical.
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A very cool wonderful thing! Thanks. But I’d have preferred fewer jump cuts in the video so I could follow the path of a single ball from his hand and back to his hand.
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He is using a technique innovated by the late great Eddie Van Halen!
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That would suck.
I believe there is one overdub part in this
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