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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2013, 12:46 PM Aug 2013

As God is my witness, my goal is to turn this into the combat juggling group!

You read that right. Combat juggling. As featured on Colbert.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/introducing-your-new-favorite-sport-combat-juggling

So says Jason Garfield, founder of the World Juggling Federation and impresario of the sport of “Combat Juggling,” a combination of dodgeball, tag, juggling and blunt-force assault. Per Garfield — a Seattle resident and performer who’s kind of a juggling professor-slash-standup comedian; see some of his entertaining riffs here — “Combat” games have been a part of the juggling community for years, and his launch of Major League Combat in 2010, after what he says was three years of planning and preparation, turned the pastime into a formal sport.

The basic goal of MLC is simple enough: try to prevent your opponent from juggling (by knocking down their clubs) while maintaining control of your own three-club juggle. In other words, the last juggler standing wins. There are several strategies used to accomplish this, but players typically toss one of their clubs high in the air to give themselves an opening for an attack.

A competitor is out when they stop juggling, when one of their clubs hits the floor, or when one or more of their clubs is stolen by another competitor. Light bumping and arm-to-arm altercations are permitted. This is COMBAT!

Major League Combat has held tournaments in Brooklyn, Las Vegas, and Quebec, among other places, and Garfield says he’s aware of 50 or so regular players on ten different teams. (The highlights in this post come from the Vegas tournament, which ESPN shot for online streaming.) Each tournament can feature a few different varieties of combat games. Here are our favorites:







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As God is my witness, my goal is to turn this into the combat juggling group! (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2013 OP
JUst when I was wondering what happened to my initial Sports Group Post! joeybee12 Aug 2013 #1
I guess it will give us something to watch now that Roger's on the downslide. nt TBF Aug 2013 #2
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
1. JUst when I was wondering what happened to my initial Sports Group Post!
Wed Aug 7, 2013, 12:53 PM
Aug 2013

I'll have to kick it back to the top!

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