thanks for visiting and commenting – so do you work for the Fushigi Ball
company?

Best price and fastest shipping came from http://www.FushigiStore.com They have the chrome and glow in the dark fushigi balls in stock.

Contact juggling is a very easy art to get involved in…all you need is a round orange (or my favorite…a pool ball) and a bed to stand next to. Then you just get on Youtube and search “How to contact juggle” and you’ll be learning…for next to nothing. DO NOT PAY $20 for a dedicated contact juggling ball UNTIL you can do the butterfly and the butterfly transfer with a tennis ball-sized orange.

Thank you for enlightening people to our true art form. I contact juggle professionally and have noticed a considerable impact on public perception of this art form. People no longer appreciate it. It used to be the most amazing thing people have every seen. Now they think anyone can do it because the commercial says so. I can't express how deeply this commercial saddens me.

I hate to burst your son's bubble, but most of what you've heard is modern marketing hype surrounding an invention that has existed for roughly twenty years (and in the case of multi-ball work, since about the 1500's).

What the Fushigi ball actually is, is a solid chrome sphere surrounded by a thin layer of acrylic or polycarbonate. Previous contact juggling balls were made of pure crystal, acrylic, chrome, rubber, or even wood! The original Fushigi ball was simply an acrylic contact juggling ball, but it had the unfortunate side effect of causing fires if left in direct sunlight, which is why they have now stuck a chrome ball in the center.

Just to be clear, there is no magic trick or gimmick, no mechanism inside that actually make it defy gravity and float away. This is a perceptual illusion called "isolation", which you can see in many Youtube videos if you search for "contact juggling".

I do have to say, though, that any acrylic ball, even a Fushigi ball, looks quite striking when maneuvered correctly. But contrary to what is implied in the commercials, be aware that the artists involved have put in many months if not years perfecting the visual aspects of this beautiful art form! And there's a reason for that: contact juggling is extremely addictive!!