Thursday, May 7, 2015

inventions

alright, facebook triggered me again, the topic this time trick invention and inventing tricks that already exist

INVENTIONS

So lets start some 14 years ago when i started devilsticking, i was 10 years old and after a few weeks of devilsticking i joined this youth juggling club with a trainer and 3 gorgeous girls who where significantly older than me who all have been really good at devilsticking for that time (double propeller in progress, partner devilstick tricks i´ve never seen before etc). i spend all my time on Devilsticks (took me 3 years to learn the 3ball basic cascade) and it was totally normal that i would come to my trainer severall times a training to show him the new trick i invented... which he always knew and could do. clearly that pissed me of so i would go and invent more to prove i´m awesome but what i didn´t understand back then was the following... it´s not important if someone found a trick before you, all that counts is that you found it on your own/in your own brain and therefore this trick is now yours... sure u might have to share it but i guess we can deal with that.

well things changed.. there was youtube and juggling conventions (thx markus for crushing my believes of what would be possible) and i spend some years to just find every trick out there and learn it. this have been good time but i guess around 16 or 17 years old it slowed down until i had the feeling i had learned basicly every trick out there with the exeption of some super hard 2D tricks and a few jigsaw and helicopter variants i still not like and therefore can´t do today.

while it might have been wise to just become a club juggler like everybody else at the time i started inventing again. wrist rolling and toss juggling elements have been the first thing i researched and i found lots of stuff. well there wasa one moment i still remember when i was watching florent lestages - bonobo video (if you don´t know it google it know!!!!!!!!!!) which i had seen at least 20 times before and i realised he was doing a trick i invented 2 month before. this means for 2 month i was completly convinced to be the inventor of this trick but actually the trick has been done before and i watched it in video 20 times before inventing it... i guess this was the moment (even if i didn´t realised it back then) when i stopped believing in inventing tricks but build the theory that all tricks are out there and you just have to find them. they are there already so you can´t invent them just pic them up like a beautiful flower or a strange thing that lies on the floor but you cant figure out what it is so you take a closer look.

a year or two later i finished school and went to my second ejc ever. i meet eljoh (nikkis husband awesome guy) on the first day and while we had this chat he showed me this new technique he invented but couldn´t do. "anti tic tac" i was thrilled... i practised and explored it... a lot and today ? well i havent invented it and actually i´m pretty sure some japenese stickers worked out the same technique themself at the same time but i explored it, i shared it, i uploaded videos i explored more shared more and now a few years later where at a point where i these tricks get common goods... which is awesome

fast forward to ejc toulouse i think. it was before the battlestick tournament so a group of like 30 stickers was chilling, showing of, talking, sharing when we figured out that both me and ali basicly invented the same trick in the same year without talking or sharing it in any way. none of us knew when he actually found the trick or when we were able to do it but actually i believe we found it on the same day and qualified it on the same day too... thats just how it is

i guess the same happend when me and casper both found out that 3handsticks rule and actually i´m convinced that tony pezzo had the idea around the same time

anyway so far this have been rather a collection of storys from my stick life but what do i want to tell by this ?

i´m not sure but propably the following

- you can´t invent a trick, all the tricks are out there and just have to be found
- you cat own a trick, you might be the first on to have done it verified but if somebody finds it without the knowledge of it beeing there allready he has the same right as you to call it his trick
- tricks will spread. if someones doing it, few people will do it 2 years later, some more 10 years and after 20 it will be lost or common good
 - if you believe you found a new trick, share it for gods sake most people wont know it and grumpy guys like me might tell you we already did it years ago  but were still kinda proud of you

guess that´s it (skipped out the stuff i wanted to tell about naming tricks because i have complicated feelings toward trick names) i´m not quite happy with the text, feels like i´m missing the point i wanted to tell but i can´t grap it for now so this has to do for now