I forgot to mention on the forum that I was attending Jugglefest in Austin this Saturday.
I could only be there for 5 hours and top spinning was limited. But I added two new members to the Figaro Gallery (uploaded in record time!) One was Carlos Lozano from Houston, who I had met the year previous to the pandemic, and showed me a bearing combo he had learned from me at that time. The other was Chris Jost who was manning a vendor's table and by chance I found out he played tops. He learned mainly from Mark Hayward but also knows Jon Gates. He owns a Sweetle and can regen. Alan was successful throwing Figaro after a number of (supervised) tries.
So we reached
270 players on the Figaro Gallery!
Alan C., who is already on the gallery, was also there. As a Taiwanese he was very excited that I had met Hai-Shi in Tokyo
Unfortunately, I could not try the fire top I got from Rocco as the facility (a high-school) does not allow open flames.
I did make noise with a whip top. And I tried the Rubik top I finished printing the day before to replace the one I gave to Ortwin.
On the video I just do two rotations thinking I could undo them later and get the top back into the solved configuration. But I got confused and now I need to start solving it from scratch!
