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I have been interested in skillful things since my youth and learned to juggle at a young age, this coupled with a love for performance and travel and a strong sense of independence has guided me into my current way of life. My wife (Jennifaerie) and I are the owners of TryOut Toys Entertainment LLC, we base our business, and lives, on the importance of being playful. We live, with our 4 year old son Ayden, in NH but travel frequently to different fairs and festivals around the country by traveling in a 1996 International Bus (The Home Bus.) We perform at Tai Chi festivals, corporate events, music festivals & many other gatherings all around the USA.
We make our living performing, inspiring, teaching and selling supplies for the art of Sphereplay (a.k.a: Contact ball, contact juggling, dynamic manipulation, palm spinning, the chinese health balls, spheredancing, orbology, camel backing and many other names over it's 10,000 year history.)
As a company, and as, hopefully, conscience aware human beings, we try to inspire people towards a more playful lifestyle. We use toys and spheres as some of our way of playing but recognize that there are many different ways to healthy play.
To me, the important thing is that people play in a way that allows them to be"in the moment" as well as being in a space that is safe to be creative.

I will post my whole story, over time in another module.

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Re: who getting syked?! (in Sphereplay) I'm definatley going to be there!

Jennifer & Alea will be at Sphereplay Day Sept 19th too!! So if you want to meet the cutie little girl, here's your chance!

Ayden & I will be heading together to the NC spherecamp and it will be totally awe... read more

discussion post on Tue, August 19, 2008 - 7:55 AM

Sphereplay Day ( events » arts ) SpherePlay Day is an opportunity to meet, learn, share and play with other sphereplayers and manipulation artists in a really relaxed, creative and playful way. So take the day off, call in sick, extend the summer a bit and come join us for a day... read more

event starts Friday, September 19, 2008 - 10:00 AM

Stationary (blog entry) So we have been off the road for 41 days now and it's kind of strange. Waking up in a bedroom that has more sq. footage than the homebus is still a weird feeling. The fact that almost everything we own is out of storage bins and accesible is nic... read more

blog entry posted Tue, June 10, 2008 - 10:27 PM permalink - 5 comments

breaking records (blog entry) Hey I just wanted to share something cool with everyone, and hope that you can apply some things that I've found useful to achieving your own dreams and breaking your own records.

6 years ago this week we opened our first sphereplay booth at t... read more

blog entry posted Thu, October 11, 2007 - 4:47 PM permalink - 5 comments

my favorite break (blog entry) I had a really nice 3.25" amethyst sphere, it was gorgeous, I mean really really pretty and I absolutely loved that sphere! I was in Florida one winter hanging out around a traveler friendly house where I was playing with this amethyst sphere ins... read more

blog entry posted Tue, October 9, 2007 - 8:08 PM permalink - 5 comments

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Stationary

So we have been off the road for 41 days now and it's kind of strange. Waking up in a bedroom that has more sq. footage than the homebus is still a weird feeling. The fact that almost everything we own is out of storage bins and accesible is nice but odd.
I hate yard work and the lawn is like 2 ft high but having a yard is kind of cool.
I dislike doing dishes but it's not so bad when you have consistant hot running water.

So it's a mixed thing and I am enjoying the house experience but... read more

Tue, June 10, 2008 - 10:27 PM permalink - 5 comments

breaking records

Hey I just wanted to share something cool with everyone, and hope that you can apply some things that I've found useful to achieving your own dreams and breaking your own records.

6 years ago this week we opened our first sphereplay booth at the Texas Renaissance Festival. We offered 3"clear, 2.75" clear, 2.5" clear and black & 3" wood. That was it 5 types of spheres( we are now up to aprox 40 different sphere options)

This was the fair where we decided that we needed to put out our ... read more

Thu, October 11, 2007 - 4:47 PM permalink - 5 comments

my favorite break

I had a really nice 3.25" amethyst sphere, it was gorgeous, I mean really really pretty and I absolutely loved that sphere! I was in Florida one winter hanging out around a traveler friendly house where I was playing with this amethyst sphere inside the house where a DJ was spinning some really good re gee/ house/ jazz fusion. It was really nice music to sphereplay with.

Well, I was on and pulling off some of the more difficult stuff I could do at the time. I had been playing for about ... read more

Tue, October 9, 2007 - 8:08 PM permalink - 5 comments

back in TX

It's funny I never thought I would appreciate being in TX so much! The weather is great now, a tad warm but whose complaining, and the people we hang out with are so cool.

Over this weekend Ayden, went with Josh and 3 of his friends and came home super exhausted, he even fell asleep face down on a chair while waiting for me to finish an e-mail. It was too cute!

I'm looking forward to seeing all the cool people I meet at the Renaissance fair, it's one of the highlights of this style of... read more

Tue, October 9, 2007 - 7:38 PM permalink - 0 comments

time to leave the east coast

It's that time again..... I woke to a chill in the air under a pile of blankets this morning and I realized what that signifies..... It's time to head to warmer climates. The thing I miss most about New England, besides my friends and family, is the change from fall to winter, the color of the leaves, the crisp autumn days and chilly nights. Not so damn cold that being outside is painful, just enough to put on a sweater or a warm jacket! Yum.

But, TX awaits us, there is fun to be had... read more

Thu, September 13, 2007 - 6:57 AM permalink - 2 comments

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