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Equilibristics




Many different tricks and stunts fit into this category.

Technically, balancing a cane on the tip of a finger is an equilibristic stunt, but generally equilibristics is more flashy:

Couch juggling, where the juggler lays on his or her back, balancing an upended sofa on the soles of the feet... the couch is flipped end-for-end, and caught at the other end, gradually beginning a spin which is maintained by deft movements of the feet. This stunt can also be performed with a Canoe , or other large and unwieldy objects, even rarely performed as a gymnastic stunt, using a human gymnast as the juggled object.

The traditional Scottish athletic event, the Caber Toss might be considered another form of equilibristics.

Perhaps the most well-known of the equilibristic arts is the twirling of batons, and the use of the juggling prop known as Devil Sticks .