Trying To Make Juggling Exciting

Apparently there’s a “sport” called “combat juggling.”  Who would have guessed?  But the video above suggests it is so.

I’m sure the participants in these contests are fine athletes, excellent jugglers, etc., but there is just something comical about guys juggling Indian clubs, running around an indoor field, trying to knock down the opposing team’s Indian clubs.  How can you take the sport seriously?

In my view, there should be a rule that any form of “entertainment” that was once featured in a vaudeville-type act on The Ed Sullivan Show should be barred forever from “sport” status.  That way, we can be spared the spectacle of “combat pie plate spinning,” “combat ventriloquism,” and “combat Topo Gigio.”

Robot Juggling

Okay, I admit it.  As any reader of this blog knows, I have a weakness for news about robots (especially weird robots) and robot technology.  I bet you didn’t know, however, that I also have a weakness for juggling.  And when you combine robots and juggling, I am helpless.

Who would have thought that running a search on YouTube for “robot juggling” would yield such a rich bounty?  If we can create juggling robots, can household robots who wait on us hand and foot be far behind?