Hi everybody,
I'm Anita, located in Germany at the moment, where I get to know my first kendamas - like new friends in all of this loneliness.
In a shop for juggling toys a video was shown to me - and it was clear, what I'll work out for the rest of my life, at least: as long as I can.
I'm 41 years old now. Granny later will be able to juggle the kendama with both hands.
She will even know how to impressingly make gravity visible with two kens, one tama and no string...
But we started very slowly, of course, my little dog and me.
Whenever we go for our walk, I keep on playing, while he is doing what dogs usually do... left hand, right hand...
It is simply the best juggling game, I'd say.
It makes you elegant, and it is increasing logical intelligence.
First I ordered three used kendamas second hand, really already quite ugly but cheap ones, with bad strings and without bearings.
Then, in a martial attack of artistic inspiration, I took some holographic foils, glue, brushes and colours, to recycle these old toys a bit.
Now I have three really inspiring holographic kendamas with kind of "Klimt" (you know Gustav Klimt?) tamas, performing a rainbow by breaking the sunlight within the pieces of the holo-foil fixed onto the tama...a spirit chaser... nah, a spirit-freeer, so to speak... they leave through a rainbow, as some of you might already know...the holo-foil lets appear one... I rather watch this glimmering bowl than these darkened witches and wizards around here... in the forthcoming desert...
Great for the mind, I can tell you.
I'm a convinced asket living entirely without drugs, coffee, alcohol or cigarrettes... and this is giving really a good working peace now...my artwork is the only drug I still have...
I bought bearings and now enjoy the difference, while I'm slowly getting how to spike the bowl as perfectly as I already catch it with the cups or with other parts of the ken...kind of swinging...
My three "industrials" don't mind falling onto the hard floor, they look intentionally designed as if they were used anyway (painted 4 times with one colour over the other, crackled, plus gold, copper and silver)...and they do have really much grip, so they are perfect to slowly prepare for playing with an expensive one later.
I do not go for competitions or official degrees. And I'll never be the speed queen.
Twohands is a snail...
Unfortunately I cannot simply travel to meetings or events.
But I plan to teach the kendama to an SOS-childrens' village... after I have left Germany.
Nice to meet you here - for lonely people like me internet is a perfect crowdy place, and the only one near.
Let me read your discussions first, while I screw up my basical skills on both hands until I it feels most natural to be able to do all of these moves...glimmers and sounds...
:-)