Master juggler Michael Moschen performs his incredibly famous, jaw-dropping piece where three balls and a triangle become a musical and visual work of art. From PBS Great Performances produced by Skip Blumberg. To book Michael Moschen visit WWW.BELENZON.COM or call 858-832-8380. Join the Michael Moschen mailing list at www.michaelmoschen.com/fans.html.
After 12 years KZhead decided to recommend this gem.
Happened to me to. Is this the rise of the allmighty triangle?
Same here. 12 years of one perfect triangle loop.
Same here 😁
Same here 😁
I guess the KZhead algorithm is finally working :v
Did i search for this video? No. Did I stay and watch the entire video? Absolutely.
Same bro,
You did well, KZhead’s IA
Just want to point out how real it is that on a 12 year old video, your post from 7 hours ago at this point has 550+ likes. Edit: 22 hours after original comment, 3500 likes
😝
Same
This guy did all of David Bowie's contact juggling in The Labyrinth. He invented so many different types of juggling that he changed the whole field, and so few people know him. It's wild to me.
That was THAT guy!!! Oh yeah!
Wow, I barely remember the movie. I am going to have to watch it again. Very interesting. You would thing juggling is hard enough already. Doing something like this is incredible.
It's possible he's more of a research / invent guy than a performer guy
It's "wild" to you that no one knows a juggler? No matter how famous he is in juggling circles, it's still incredibly niche
@@Ceej_MM I know of him but didn't remember his name. When I watched this, I thought he might be 'the guy' from Labyrinth only because he was so good. I remembered his hair, too. 😆
This routine probably took 100s of hours of practice to execute like this. He has basically reinvented juggling here. Pure dedication to the pursuit of creative vision. What an inspiration!
*1000’s of hours
@@YogSoth yeah I was thinking the same thing. Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 to 10,000 hours
At least
Supposedly to master something you need 10k hours of pure dedicated practice and this guy is beyond mastery so. Even the tricks that didn't involve the triangle takes a thousand hours at least to do consistently
Yes, I couldn't help wondering how many hundreds of hours he spent chasing balls around the room when he first started practising it.
Me: "Time to go to bed...:" KZhead: "THE TRIANGLE!"
Word. 1:15am
Omg its actually 1 am so this is so true
12:28PM
12:41am
1:55
Played a triangle in school once, never seen anyone that small play it.
Underrated comment
Dad is that you?
I'm dead xD
lmao
Yes porcupine tree 🌳 😍 🙌 ❤️
As a drummer I'm insanely impressed with this guys coordination
Duuuuuude I was thinking " that actually sounded like a flam!" Indeed!
As another drummer, imagine how much cooler it would have been had be practiced with a metronome.
@@xDjembexomg seriously. It’s driving me nuts.
@@xDjembex Right?! Alot of folks pointing out how musically talented he is. He really is not, but it is a great gimmick for what is otherwise an amazing juggling and physical coordination display. Time keeping is the mark of a good percussionist. Even as a "rhythm" guitarist I can tell he is not in time for more than a few seconds at a time XD.
"Hi, My names Michael, I'm your new neighbour" "Oh thank Christ, so happy to have you here bro, last guy was a drummer, just 24/7 percussion. I could never get a second of sleep from all the noise" "..."
This is even more amazing when you consider that rubber balls react very strongly to spin... so every throw and every foot stomp have to be so exact as to not impart any unplanned spin as well. This is phenomenal talent.
YT after 11 years . "wanna see some weird traingle?"
... and a guy with balls
Sure. Its actually interesting
X15 CYBER RUSH Your weird spelling is more interesting.
You’re goddam right I wanna see some weird ass triangle
A 2007 video just now being recommended to us. Who knows why.
Devil: so what do you want in exchange for your soul This guy: well you see... it's complicated
Lol
Is it hot in here? Because the triangle keeps getting out of tune!
Lmao😂😂😂
Your comment is better than the video itself. Thanks for the humor.
Devil: nah I’m not even gonna take you soul for that, that’s crazy genius
One of the most amazing parts of this for me is that he has such total control of the ball that he can afford to throw in some engaging physical storytelling and some great expressive comedic actions in between. Not just skill, but style. And to do both flawlessly is on another level.
So, this is what TV was? Sick.
My friend: what music do u like? Me: it’s complicated
KZhead: gotchu son
Best comment ever, Thx
Must be Karma was literally about to say the same thing hahaha
That's one intense triangle solo.
Imagine what this guy could do with a gigantic cowbell!
Matt Johnson or Kung fu hustle funeral bell
Right
One helluva talent!! 👏👏
Ohoh
That final segment with the 3 balls is legitimately one of the most impressive physical feats I’ve ever seen. Unbelievable
It only took YT 15 years to recommend me this, and I'm happy it happened
Incredible that anyone could ever do this routine even once without making a single mistake. He probably does it in his sleep.
He is just wingin it?
Well i remember when i was learning how to solve ribick's kube i would fall asleep with the image of the cube in my head turning in all the ways i learned that day so yeah i can imagine this dude experiencing it too. Edit: spelling
Just dude probably practiced this nonstop every single day till he got it down perfectly and it just became second nature. His muscle memory for this is just something that takes hundreds of hours to get right.
@@ondrejvolecek7215 About 2 years ago I decided to solve the rubrics cube without the help of the internet. Took me 3 months, after that I memorized and kept repeating the same algorithms. I can now casually solve a whole rubrics cube under a minute. These days, I keep it around as a fidgeting toy.
and probably spent many nights with out sleeping mastering his routine
Never gonna play beer pong with this dude
Haha we'd all be pissed after two games
😂
Ashish Jois unless you’re an alcoholic
Against*
Or any other straight guy. Beer pong is effing gay.
The amount of control you have to have to produce that kind of rhythm and not go once out of beat is astounding. All credit to him for the performance.
This has to be one of the most impressing things i've ever seen in my life.
What instrument do you play? This guy: *The Triangle*
Colonel Ga-Taffy It was 1 year ago lmao
underrated!
Underrated comment. Should be Top.
- Oh yeah, the triangle! So cute! - No, *THE* triangle
Playing with his balls amazing.
The world will go nuts when he comes out with "the square"
That's just sick 😫
Imagine if he made a 4d shape for this lol
Dude just discovered volume and the thetrahedron
They better square up.
What’s next the pentagon
I took my son to this performance. We sat in the 3rd row! Wowzers. I’ll never forget the way Michael’s hands moved so quickly. A master at his craft. He inspired my son to be a juggler and now he’s performing as a professional juggler on cruise ships! How cool! 6:16
This man could move mountains. Truly an inspirational soul who does nothing but bring joy to children. God bless America!
@@SupremeNewt69 truly an admirable American we can all look up to. God bless you neganewt and all of your little newts
@@UNIFIEDMVMNT Speaking of newts. I'd love to see Michael Moschen juggle newts. That would take me back to the days of my grandpappy juggling all the amphibious creatures he could find in our family's pond. That's also where he went Of Mice and Men on my great aunt, Beatrice L. Simmons.
@@SupremeNewt69 that would be quite the spectacle to see him juggle those slippery little creatures! If anyone can Michael can! I have a life sized pin up poster of him now hanging in my family room. Everyone who comes into my house must acknowledge Michael’s presence as if he were there too. It’s a tradition now! My grandchildren LOVE to speak to him! And make up stories about him. How fun
@@UNIFIEDMVMNT Haha, my grandchildren do the same thing. Praise be to Michael and his holy powers! People once said juggling is The Devil's Sport, but I've come to disagree. My son is an avid satanist and doesn't juggle. Take that, you atheist swine. God and Satan can both agree that juggling belongs to the people, lol 😂😂
The dribbling with his feet is the bit that impressed me the most; that was amazing
Just imagine what he could do if he had a hexagon
Or 4 balls! Mind blown!
@@_TVA_ it was a joke
Timothee Vasina stfu
Dubstep
Your hyped af right? So many likes on a dumb not even funny comment. Haha. Wow. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ball guy: does a hard trick audience: haaHaAhAhHaaHA
I think he means that the ball guy should get more than HaHaHa likes big claps and all people standing
@@muhammadamiruddin6267 and he got those But at the ending of the performance
@spencer kleiman thanks for explaining the joke, you must be fun at parties.
The Flipping Legend it’s because of his body language and expression after making the last catch. It’s the reaction he wants.
@@iyague he had to explain it because op doesn't seem to understand the joke. You must be fun nowhere because you seem like an ass (:
Never seen this until 2024. You know it's a great performer when he doesn't need to speak a word. Love the rhythms he creates.
Just pops up in my feed about every 5 years
Son: Can we go play catch? Dad: Here's a triangle.
But you said I’d get a brother... Turns out mommy likes girls heres a triangle
Son: "But -" Dad: *TRIANGLE!!!*
😂😂
Then he went to get cigarettes and milk. Never returned. So you became a pro In his absence
No talking, no bullshit, no fancy lighting and smoke effects. Just pure skills.
...incredible skill
That fucker is coordinated as shit. Probably be an incredible boxer.
Yessssssssssss Fantastic display of dexterity
And math
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When I was a little kid I fell asleep watching PBS late one night. Michael Moschen was performing the triangle. It was years later when I saw him again and only then realized it wasn't a dream.
This has blown my mind beyond anything I've ever seen in the juggling world. This guy is a master of masters.
*After 11 years, KZhead felt I was old enough to watch this so I got recommendations.*
why comment this, i see this comment everywhere
@@jorritwoudsma7530 this is due to youtube's algorithm.
@@jorritwoudsma7530 *You still don't get that it's funny that KZhead algorithm just pick people based on what others viewed and then recommend things to them.*
I know, but everyone does not have to say it all the time. I enjoy the video's that youtube recoomends.
How many of these 1.8 million views do you think happened in the last 2 months.
the amount of bounces before he catches the ball shows how straight he has to throw the ball for it to not bounce out of the triangle... and that's mad accurate consider he's constantly moving, just wow.
I never even considered that. You're absolutely right!
Or maybe the sides of the traingle are concave?
@@AshishSingh95 that would make it harder
@@joosepjagomagi2536 i think you misunderstood. I'm saying concave in 1D sense, such that the sides are very slightly lifted up at the ends, and depressed at the center, that makes the ball bounce towards the center of the triangle.
@@AshishSingh95 We can see the floor is flat, dunno about the walls of the triangle tho good theory
He just keeps on going and keeps on giving. An absolute master of his craft.
i love how someone decided to invest some time in a triange and some balls, and how much everyone loves it. its almost hypnotic.
Can you imagine the hours of intense, trial and error, practice.
Not to mention having the courage to overcoming negative criticisms along the lines of wasting time on useless skills, and getting a real job.
Can you imagine how many times that man has been hit in the face with balls.
@@IGotaFever4U he was probably already making a living being a juggler by the time he got around to making and mastering this triangle. its not like this video represents the entirety of his marketable skills. in fact, hes the hands doing david bowie's juggling in the labyrinth.
Not just the face:)
@@IGotaFever4U Often acrobats and jugglers come from families of performers.
Many years ago I Produced a 4 hour special for A&E called The Mystery of Genius. I had Michael as an example of physical genius. Interviewed him at his home. Lovely and talented man - and yes he PRACTICES! I hope he's doing well.
Pretty sure he's dead?
@@austinstone478 A Google search just now told me he's alive and 66 years old.
That's pretty awesome
Ling Ling 40 hours!
Freaking awesome.
After 15 year this gem of a video was recommended to me by you tube !!
The way he just makes it seem so effortless is truly impressive.
Some people enter the "zone" but this guy has always been in the zone
He IS the zone. Wdym?
Who knew the zone was triangle-shaped
The zone enters him
This guy is the zone
😂😂
So this is what my neighbors do all night
Nolan Wagner lmfao for real
AHAHAHAHA
🤣🤣🤣
You have no idea how much appreciation I have for this comment being in an apartment 😂😂😂
Plot twist: He is your neighbor.
This guy is one of the most creative jugglers I’ve seen, he also does contact juggling and was the guy from the movie labyrinth with David Bowie , the crystal ball juggling that was him...
He's in the flow of everything and his subconscious is the one performing.
In flow you are complete conscious, so it is the opposite: Focused, in the moment, no distraction/thoughts
His geometry skills, musical rhythm, and hand eye coordination is impeccable.
*are
@@14768 lol
It's all over the place, but considering it's decent. Impeccable is a very bad way to describe this.
Dumb at best, at worst its a waste of your 3 min
@@Necronaut well, meanwhile you can juggle two doritos right?
So uuuuhhhhhh You guys got this in your recommendations as well
ChaiSpicedD 🤫
ChaiSpicedD alright cool thanks man I was just curious
I was on a triangle tangent anyways
@ChaiSpicedD I don't know if you're just joking or is an asshole. I get this in my recommendation, which is related to nothing I have watched recently.
Yup
The accuracy is what really gets me with this, throwing it perfectly EVERY TIME where it doesn't go flying out 😮😮😮😮
There really is no other performance like this…. 👏 Bravo!!!!
I saw every KZhead video KZhead algorithm : hold my beer 🍻
Lmao ikr I was like fuck I'm bored of these recs! Ffs show me something interesting this appears in feed. Lol now im readt for music n sleep lol
Me: Watching VR videos on KZhead KZhead: Y'all gotta love some balls
Same
😁😁😂
Yo get out of my head
Hey fizzy what's goods Joseph
lol I was watching vr aswell
16 years, glad the algorithm still can show me some gems
Executed to perfection. Such incredible hand eye foot coordination.
The amount of accuracy involved is unbelievable. I'll bet this guys a hacky sack genius.
Fo sho
And probably a pool shark , he knows every angle
@@jjrobinson7680 but can he see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?
I bet he crushes racquetball :D
@xczun mangus this is juggling. Juggling doesn't only refer to the simple 3 balls in the air thing. Juggling doesn't even have to involve balls.
I've never seen anyone treat juggling this way. Completely unique. This guy would make an excellent drummer. Precision control of his limbs and he already has a sense of rhythm.
Yeah, when he started the leg bit, I immediately thought of drumming.
in a way, he is one
He'd do great as a tap dancer too, it seems
He’s like a yoga instructor too
He would be a great astronaut
Went down the rabbit hole and found this gem
This is talent. And a live performance makes this super spectacular
This is the longest hidden gem in the KZhead history..
We watched a man play with his balls for minutez
💯
His hand eye co ordination is unbelievable
He probably doesn't even needs his eyes at that point it,s all muscle memory
It's all on beat aswell, have a good listen and notice he uses the 4 x 4 rhythm a lot 🙂. His seriously talented
Practice !
15 years later video recommended to me. And I loved it. I had never seen anything like it.
Nice! I remember watching this as a kid on TV and being fascinated by this skit. Amazing!
In my 15+ years of watching KZhead, this might be the most impressive thing I've ever seen
Imagine how impressive it was watching it on PBS long before the internet was even known by the general public.
@@msimcox2 Juggling existed before the internet
@@tomchamberlain4329 not what he meant smart ass. He meant imagine not having your mind stuffed full of all this amazing shit the internet has to offer, not having near the amount of knowledge we do about the different random things we've seen we never would have without the internet, only to watch this impressive shit naturally.
Jeez thats nearly 4 bachelor degrees 😳
@@tenebre911 Whooooosh! Joke went way over your head mate.
As interesting and mesmerizing as this was, it's actually extremely terrifying how accurate and in rhythm he is. It's like witnessing a super human or a robot without flaws. It feels so alien to watch this.
There were times when he was out imo like 2:06 but yeah i do get what you're saying...
Burn the witch
I know what you mean. I think there really are super humans though. You can find plenty of examples all over youtube. It’s kinda cool when you think about it.
Plot twist, he's a robot 🤖
The amount of practice just to toss every ball in the same plane as the triangle (or close enough that they won't bounce out) had have been insane. The rhythm is as much a tool to do this as a result. He knows from the sound when to expect the next ball to get to his hand. I wouldn't want to play handball against him.
I enjoyed how calm and quiet the performance is. Highly skilled hand-eye- foot coordination and spatial awareness.
Wow, that is actually so cool. The precision and timing of every move is amazing.
The fact that this dude not only thought of a routine like this, but also went "but what if music" and then pulled it off perfectly is absolutely wild
I just imagine all the kids out there with ten foot triangles in their backyards watching this and being inspired.
LOL
Nice
🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful thought
nice thought
The level of understanding that's taking place as he does this is incredible.
This is so crazily skillful! The precision is off the charts! *Amazing!*
Its like playing drums but with a triangle and three balls and without the drums
Whilst juggling
Down with the sickness
Dude, everything is drums. Even a piano :)
5 balls
That was my exact thought too. This dude throws balls like he's playing an instrument.
We were privileged to see him perform live in 1994. We had seats in the center 4th row of a small theater. He was amazing. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1990. Fun fact, his high school buddy was Penn Jillette. Also, if you are familiar with the Henson movie, Labyrinth, his hands are the ones actually juggling the glass balls.
man, _the_ penn jillette...
In one of his books Penn claims that he taught Moschen juggling originally, although Moschen doesn't like when he says that. (I'm not trying to slam an incredible talent here.)
wow I didn't know that I actually really like that movie
You're saying David Bowie didn't juggle his own balls? I didn't even realize they had the kind of visual editing back then that could film one guy performing a well-crafted talent & superimpose David Bowie over it in a way that it looks like Bowie did it
@@reallue I didn't even have to go outside KZhead for it: kzhead.info/sun/Zrlxlrh5f6qgl6c/bejne.html
I'm so glad my neighbour upstairs has been attempting this in the middle of the night
Amazing, thanks for sharing
I've been juggling for 9 years, I've seen people juggle with absurd amount of balls, with objects not fit for even holding is hand or while performing several other advanced exercises, but this had blown my mind more then any of them. The fact he is juggling while randomly throwing some balls in seemingly random directions and keeping it going and interesting and even very satisfying to hear is just unbelievable for me and inspirational af
I can't even handle two balls and people be out there handling multiple balls with ease, that's honestly amazing whenever I see people in the street that showcase their skills at handling balls, some of them even juggle massive balls and other with a big stick.
Git sum, bro! 😃
Yeah not to mention the fact ha has the throw them perfectly straight each time as the triangle isn’t too wide
Geometry go burrrr
Well if you look at the dots on the triangle where he throws the balls then you’ll notice there are only 3-4 angles he’s using for throwing, this, paired with a lot of training, makes the task basically automated
I love me some video essays and reacts, but this is what KZhead was truly made for. Preserving gems like this for posterity.
KZhead and everything Human created was made for make Money!!! Nothing else
Those polyrhythms at the end were mindblowing.
Fricking AMAZING!!!!!
"Hey can you do you rhythm for us?" "Of course! Let me get my triangle real quick"
KZhead to me at 3am: Here’s a video about the triangle to make you go to sleep! Ahh... finally...
Hopefully you are sleeping now..
...I can eat.
Me at 2am right now.
Me at 1am
Guys... Go to bed...
I've been watching him for 40 years and its always amazing.
Damn, I haven't seen this in about a minute. This man's skill always blew my mind.
I love how he ends it like "give it up for the TRIANGLE everybody!"
His motor skills, geometry, musical rhythm, and hand eye coordination is off the chart. Being human is amazing!!!...
Yeah this dude is super smart. Very impressive stuff.
I feel like I couldn't possibly be the same species as this guy... I'm pretty sure my DNA can't do this...
This is the stuff of a top level fighter pilot
@@Jeovaunihunter that's the problem, the world is designed to make people not care to try anything
@@Jeovaunihunter I don't need to jump off a cliff to know that I can't fly...
recommended and so amused by this.... then I saw it was 16 YEARS AGO...... I was definitely a PBS kid growing up but I dont know how I missed this!
forgot i had a memory of this, thank you
I love the fact there’s absolutely no major applauses happening whilst he is performing, I’ve seen some performances where people clap along with the performers and it’s infuriating
I don't like that either. Would be very disrespectful in this case, since the show involves sound and rhythm
great performance but I don't understand why some people are laughing.. ?
@@bellesbae he is ‘confused’ as to why the balls keep ‘randomly’ bouncing back into his hands
There's no applause because this is ass. Some who sorts glass could do this.
I agree. I think that it's kind of narcissistic. I feel like the attitude of these people who are loud during live performances is to project out that they understood how remarkable what they're seeing is, or that they got the joke, etc. In lots of recent live performances these have been really common occurrences. Not so much of letting the performer do their act unimpeded. People have a right to do whatever they want, but I'm just calling it out for how I see it.
I first saw this about 30 years ago, and it's still mind-blowing. It's part magic, part juggling, part geometry, part music...no matter how long the performance is, I still want it to go on.
That's what she said
Part dance.
What part is magic?
@@danm2084 if you have to ask then, well, it’s lost on you unfortunately.
Incredible. The amount of training to accomplish this live with no mistakes must be staggering. I salute this man. I hope he’s still in business.
Man I don't have words to say, supremely talented😮
I don't know why I'm here but.. I WATCHED THE ENTIRE VIDEO AND I ACTUALLY ENJOYED IT
That was unbelievable. Towards the end I couldn't even see him catching the ball before he threw it again, his motions were so fluid. That was a man in total control of his environment, a true master.
Whenever he threw it, his hand was in the perfect position to catch the incoming ball. The level of choreography is astounding.
I think the most amazing thing is that every single throw in that video was the exact same direction and strength it needed to be cause even slightly off and the ball would have gone flying the wrong way. Peak human performance
Greatest drum solo of all time.
Coming from a percussionist, his rhythm is really good, even as if he wasn't, you know, completely minupulating physics like a boss.
Try making a rhythm with a bouncing ball or dropping objects..m its SUPER HARD compared to regular drumming. This guy is insanely good
no 4/4 in a triangle man.
Too much insight.
I would guess that the rythm probably is a huge help in getting in a routine in this.
They need to have a dang Guinness record simply for being this guy
Look Kris Kremo too
Listening to this on my headphones is really so meditative and helps me unwind
Equilaterally brilliant!
Literally perfection. The entire video and not messing up a single throw, pretty amazing!
Useless perfection doesn't fascinate me
@@MoneBodyno What would be useful for you then?
@@danielmohring4610 Kuka systems
Practice makes perfect
His performances has physics on it
When you get right into the zone with juggling it gets to a point where you feel like you’re not really controlling the balls anymore, you’re just “Assisting” them into the patterns they naturally want to be in. This guy is so good at that in a few more years he won’t need to use his limbs to do it anymore, just his mind! 😇
Yeah, by now I bet he's in the audience just encouraging them.
@@Alexander_Tronstad Balls: As we do you Alexander, as we do you.
I need to try that with my accounting books.
bet your boyfriend loves you
Watching perfection is as satisfying as it is rare! ❤ Makes me wanna master something as well as he did. 🙏
...a master artist and genius. AMAZING!