Useless Information by Quentin

Beautiful is the only word that really sums it up.

L.C.A.B. (Long Combos Are Boring) by Raphaël

After playing for nearly 10 years, Raphaël presents his first solo release. The video is packed with interesting material which is flavoured with his own unique style. I hereby declare the shot in the thumbnail as the best shot of the year. That composition is priceless. Looking out for your 2nd video!

CoNtInGeNcY by LaNgErZ

Langerz taking his yo-yo crossover insanity to the next level. Again. Introducing thumb slack and even more pretty figures with 2 diabolos.

Malte² by Malte & Malte

A nice showcase of two of the many juggling Maltes; Malte Strunk & Malte Peter or shortly Malte². Hardcore German diabolo and juggling!

Whirlcool by Ceri-Anne

With flowing style, cool music, great editing, and a cool looking washing machine, Ceri-Anne shows us where a little creativity can take a diabolo video in her first solo release: “Whirlcool”. Ahhhh, yes, ain’t that fresh?

It’s Tricky by Pranay & Sergej

The collaboration between Pranay and Sergej brings an awesome video with a great soundtrack, fancy dancing, butterfly stick releases and funny out-takes. One of my all-time favourites. More people should play their soundtrack while recording!

EJC 2008 Diabolo by Florian

Ah, the memories. Even I made it in with my lazy ass. Excellent editing by Florian, awesome moves by everybody present and tons and tons of fun. Diabolo.ca says hi

Horizon by Petit Lu & Clément

The French won’t ever stop, will they? Petit Lu’s and Clément’s awesome tricks, alternated with gorgeous scenery time lapses make this an excellent watch.

Leaves by Marijn

As an up and coming new school diaboloist, Marijn presents his first video. Lots of interesting stuff!

Stop n’ Dream by Grums & Axaros

I’m a sucker for great music. Fun little tricks, awkward catches and complex body moves performed in a unique style.

Magic Wall by David

The earlier-discussed Diabolotween concept finally found place. Inspired by the Magic Board skateboard collaboration video, Magic Wall was born from a London bridge meet-up. “Why wasn’t I present again?”

The Diabolo.ca Collaboration video 2008: “Work in progress”

I had mixed feelings about mentioning a video I have been involved in so much, but as this is a collaborative effort, I feel it’s justified! Not much to say about this baby – over 13 minutes of 40 diaboloists from 12 different countries, all mixed together on some great music. Not to mention the 13 page discussion thread it resulted in.

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Last summer, I collected some material I was working on, filmed it, and put some time into editing together a practice video. “Dang-diggy-dang” was born. I then decided to release the video on the forum, as I hadn’t released anything publicly for a while. The last trick in the video was a 2 diabolo integral idea, which is basically Jako’s integral suicide applied to 2 diabolos. I thought of that trick about a year before, but only tried it every now and then. However, I lacked the technical skill to hit it – so I decided to put it out there and see if any of the new school kids were able to nail it. A few weeks after the release, two people had nailed the trick and Busk showed me a very nice variation at the EJC. Busk was playing around with his own slowcide variation, inspired by Stefano’s (a.k.a. P5yk0) sun variation on Jako’s integral. Inspired by my video, Busk then applied his slowcide integral to 2 diabolos.

Here’s a short montage of the evolution of Jako’s integral suicide and it’s variations — as a tribute to Jako the originator, the trick and our community. I included some of my favourite variations which I could get my hands on. I’m sure there are a lot more variations I’m not aware of though, so please feel free to share your own findings!

Pretty neat how this community-thing works, huh? Like they say; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Sometimes you have to share your ideas and open them up to the public, before you will see them being explored way beyond your imagination.

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