Re: Rob Murray

On May 9, 4:37 pm, dumbass5...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(ultimatewannabe) wrote:
brynbobaggins wrote:
Difficulty is in the eye of the beholder,

No it is not. Difficulty is awesome because it exists independently of
wether people like your tricks. A trick can be easy for someone and hard
for someone else which makes it relative but not nearly as subjective as
you imply. Regardless of that, the trick still took some amount of time
to learn and still has some level of difficulty which should be rated
relative to the hardest tricks done by the best jugglers. It shouldn't be
rated in terms of how hard it looks or how much applause it gets.

UW

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The phrase "....shouldn't be rated...." is subjective too. Life if
unfair, and regardless of how much you work on a trick hoping that the
audience will realize how difficult it really is, and as you say, how
difficult it is compared to the best jugglers in the world, that's not
the way it works.

If we are talking juggling for jugglers, this a different story, and
probably the ONLY scenario where the true difficulty is realized,
understood, and appreciated.

Regardless of whether you feel the difficulty factor should not be
judged based upon how hard it looks or the applause it receives
because that would be fair, in performance, how a trick looks and how
it is received by the audience is what matters to them.

What Brynbobaggins said "difficulty is in the eye of the beholder" is
correct. If you are performing for people, they want to be
entertained, how you do that is up to you, and you can't force people
to understand and appreciate how tough the trick is to you. And
really, it doesn't matter how many hours you put into it. That
matters on a personal level to us jugglers, but nobody hires us based
upon how hard our tricks are , how many hours at the sweaty gym we put
into it.
It matters if the act is entertaining, and most likely, a crowd will
feel that juggling 3 knives is harder--and funnier--than 7 ball
siteswaps.

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