The famous actor Rutger Hauer, who was the first Jugger ever since he acted as Sallow in "Blood of Heroes" and has played the ancient Jugger legend there, has died.
"Blood of Heroes" has been published in 1989, thirty years in the past.
Condolences.
Hello, dear juggers!
My name is Arturo Pérez Amores and I work as Commissioner of Communications for the Spanish Jugger Federation. You may remember my post at Jugger Worldwide on the creation of an online debate assembly by gathering up to three representatives from each 'jugging country' and then discussing common issues and goals until we reached agreements and resolutions. The comments at Facebook showed there was support, but also that some of the proposals were not very clear. Nevertheless, we saw no impossible obstacles and decided to ask every country if they would join, and this was the result:
During this process, several important questions were repeated by many different organizations, so my colleagues (Miguel Alvarado [USA] and Rickhard Nilsén [Sweden]) and I decided it was best to post out our official answers to these FAQ at this blog (there's a Spanish version at the FEJ's Bitácora). We hope they'll help everyone understand what we're trying to build and pave the way for the creation of the International Jugger Council, as we'll be sending out the invitations to the interested jugger groups in the next few days.
... Read more: Continue reading "International Jugger Council - some Frequently Asked Questions"
So you are very fond of Jugger and put time and love into this wonderful sport. You spread the fascination to others, educate them how to play or how to make good spars. Or you struggle organizing that one big tournament every year that the community loves to attend. Yet, what about motivating your team mates to get a bit more involved in the organizational hassle of Jugger themselves, by making their engagement a bit more visible, so that their work may be appreciated by others? To achieve this, I thought about creating these Jugger merit roundel. They offer a way to show the merits you earn during your Jugger life with an »evolving« emblem, without having to change the roundel itself. So you can print the basic roundel on your jersey in your first year and than just add all that which you achieve over time. [Download the PDF with all the definitions here.] [Download hi-res PNG elements here.]
Note: There is also an extensive set of free individual player position symbols available. Check out [the individual player position symbols in this article].
Continue reading "Show your Achievements: Jugger merit roundels"
The Projekt: Jugger i Sverige, together with the Swedish Jugger Association, has recently published training material for spars makers (Baumeister/byggmästare) and for team leaders and referees. To motivate people to get involved into the organizational aspects of Jugger, a merit roundel may be of help to show their personal achievements. ⇒ The player position symbols/icon set with eps/png downloads can be found here.
[ Read more about their meaning and downloadable files ]
Jugger often starts thanks to the attachment and sweat of one or a few persons who, against all odds, hold to the thought that there must be Jugger in their country (and, most important, close to them). When Jugger starts rolling in their country, they have rightfully earned a shining title for their achievement: That of the "Jugger zero", or "Juggermaster zero". The name is inspired by their wish that Jugger will spread through the country like a positive kind of epidemic. And first sources of those are also called the "Number Zero".
To honour those first ones, here comes the list of Jugger zero's around the world. It is, of course, incomplete and needs your help to be continued—contact us if you know one more, or detect an error or inaccurate report!
Also, this "Hall of Fame" will be completed with photos and a more appealing layout, of course.
| Alpha Jugger | David Webb Peoples | 1989 |
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| ~~~~~~~~::~~~~~~~~ | ~~~~::~~~~ | ~~~~ | ~~~~ |
| HH/HD/KA | Deutschland | 1993 |  |
| Lester | Deutschland | 1993? |  |
| Gavin | Australia | 2000 | ~~~~ |
| Mark Hill | Eire | 2006 |  |
| Santi | España | 2007 |  |
| Errol Solano | Costa Rica | 2008 |  |
| Wess Apshaga-Meaux | USA | 2010 | ~~~~ |
| Pedro | Colombia | 2011 | ~~~~ |
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Aleksei Smyshliaev |
Latvija | ? |  |
| Roberts Sīlis | Latvija | ? |  |
| Ruben the Uhu | Sverige | 2012 |  |
| Markus Müller | Österreich | 2012 |  |
| Marija Ger | Lietuva | 2016 |  |
| Povilas Zemkajus | Lietuva | 2016 |  |
| Regan Morgan | New Zealand | 2015? | ~~~~ |
| Arkady "Shaman" Shamanovsky | Russia | 2016 |  |
| Alex | Schweiz | 2018 | ~~~~ |
| Tan Quan | 中华人民共和国 (China) | ? |  |
Photo credits: David Webb Peoples: himself; Lester: Susanne Serwe; Ruben, Mark Hill: Mark Hill Photography; Latvia, Lithuania: Ruben; Arkady: himself; Tan Quan: himself.
