I posted this in GD once, but I thought that you guys would appreciate it more because it's amazingly fun to watch and do when high, and still fun when sober.
A "set" of devil sticks is made up of three pieces - the baton and two control sticks - but it will often be called a "pair of sticks".
Typically if a center stick is not tapered (i.e. a straight dowel or rod) and possesses tassels at its end, then it is known as a 'Flower Stick'(as the tassels, when the stick is spun, will twirl outwards and resemble an open flower). This term is also now used to describe a straight center stick with any weights (not just tassels) at its end and sometimes refers to hybrid sticks which are both tapered and have weights. Tapered sticks without end weights are known simply as 'Devil Sticks'. Flower sticks can also be properly called "Devil Sticks" as that is the more general term.
A set of devil sticks consists of one Baton (twirling)—usually about 60-120 cm (2-4 feet) long—and two control sticks—generally about 1 cm (0.4 inch) thick and 30-50 cm (12-20 inches) long—which are used to manipulate the baton. The baton (often called "the center stick" or simply "the stick") is in some instances tapered from the end to the center, typically about 3 cm (1.2 inch) in diameter at the ends and 1.5 cm (0.6 inch) in the middle. Designs and measurements vary quite widely, in the extreme case the center stick may be as short as 1ft or so, ranging to the extreme length of slightly more than twice that of the juggler's height, in which case the juggler has to stand on a table or pedestal. Most commonly, though, control sticks will be about as long as the combined length of the juggler's hand and forearm, the baton being slightly longer than the width of the juggler's upper body.
History:
Juggling Sticks have continuously evolved as they were passed down through the centuries.
Whether they were reinvented in, or traveled to, China, there is no doubt that by 2000 B.C.E. the Chinese were using juggling sticks. It is commonly believed that Marco Polo then brought juggling sticks to Europe from the Orient. Juggling sticks have been used in Europe since the Renaissance.
With the hippie phenomenon, the advent of huge outdoor music festivals, the invention of modern variants on stick design, and the post-sixties increase in popularity of juggling as recreation or as a hobby, stick juggling has become increasingly popular as an activity even among people who would not consider themselves to be 'performers'.
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Basically, Flower\Devil sticks are two handles and a center stick.
Flower Stick:
[img]http://www.seriousjuggling.com/images/devil-sticks-flower-sticks/CrystalStixStandard.jpg[/img]
Devil Stick:
[img]http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~jpoveda/images/devil_sticks.jpg[/img]
Devil Sticks are much harder to use because they are weighted completely differently, and have no grip.
I'll be making some short instructional movies to show how to properly learn how for those interested, and if you want to buy a pair, I make and sell them. I only have a couple listed online because I don't have the materials to make a lot right now, and I go to the park and teach kids how to do it so I need to keep some.
[url]http://www.etsy.com/listing/46720876/handmade-flower-sticks[/url]
I don't have any tutorial videos yet, but here's a video I posted once or twice here already showing off my fire pair:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYbD2qDfRo[/media]
These are awesome
I have these things. They are so much fun to play with stoned.
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Better.[/QUOTE]
I like sticks better, if you get a bunch of people you can actually get some pretty awesome passing tricks
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Better.[/QUOTE]
These can sometimes have really awesome designs
It sounds so....hippie.
[QUOTE=Rastaboy;22523264]It sounds so....hippie.[/QUOTE]
so do you, you'll love them :v:
I have some of these, they're awesome.
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