salute à tutti
loon plage has been a great festival!
different from Marines
here in the north of france people are more "rural" more "true"
there is a very strong tradition of wood toys , games played in cafés
"estaminets" , and also because life is rough after the closing of sewing factoties
and coal mines in the 60-70 ties,the rate of unemployment is high,
many older and even younger people live on the dole.... as a result (it's my personal analysis)
this creates more truthfulness in the way people behave, talk , question, get involved
wednesday-thursday schools from all around : over a hundred kids of all ages to hear the stories
of tops told by emmanuel , mermouy and others
friday big snowfall,my train cancelled and rescheduled at noon(..)
saturday sunday a lot of activities and 2 records
precision target with taiwan tops : after elevating the landing zone we ended at 2.25 m (over 7 feet)
corkscrew contest : 22 wraps by Attila (certified by VDOs)
the rest of the acts would need a lot of writing ...
whistling tops , long wirewalker, quentin yoyo ,
reno diabolo , thierry contact , cuper demos "las technicas de trompos",
emmanuel thomas philippe , david and family, mermouy never tired demonstraters,
manu:at the mix
Big Up to DORIAN the main organizer of the festival
greetings to Audrey and Ludovic from the museum of ancient toys
Denys the woodturner : very skilled and a master for pedagogy
and finally
LUDO and Karine and Sham the masters-cards for ANY-THING
the only down side is that we couldn't do the freestyles on music contest*
(despite 8 players ready to groove ) :
signing off
jim
today cuper in paris for one more day
spinning around
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too many things going on !!