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When you are not a diabolo juggler yourself, treating the diabolo fan in your life to a gift that will help them enjoy their preferred pastime even more can be challenging.
From gear and merch to DVDs and other accessories, the 8 recommendations below include something for pretty much every diabolo player regardless of skill level.
Prop Bag
Having a dedicated juggling bag to go to conventions or simply to have a place to put every juggling thing away is a great gift. If you practice diabolo, not only do you need your sticks and diabolos but you also need to have on hand a lot of other things like a roll of string, a pair of scisors, a lighter, keys to tighten your diabolos, headphones, … So having a bag big enough to house everything is very practical.
If you or the diabolo player in your life has up to 3 diabolos, a regular backpack with a front pocket for all the little accessories is enough. If there is more props, go with a dufflebag.
You can browse my shop for some diabolo themed bags here.
Wireless Headphones
If your diabolo player loves listening to music during his training session, a good pair of wireless headphones makes a great gift.
There is nothing worse than having your headphones yanked out of your ears because your sticks, string or diabolo got caught in the wire. It usually end up with your headphones damaged and sometimes your music system flying with them.
With wireless headphones, you can tuck your music system away from harm and keep your headphones longer.
Water Bottle
Juggling is like any other physical activity and you need to stay hydrated to avoid cramps etc. Having a nice and sturdy refillable bottle is a must. You can then throw it in a bag, drop your diabolos on it without it breaking and spilling your beverage on the string, ruining it.
You can browse my shop for some diabolo themed water bottles here.
Diabolo
This one is a bit tricky if you don’t know what the juggler is using or likes.
If the diabolos he or she uses don’t make any noise while spinning, it means it is a fixed axle diabolo, so maybe a bearing diabolo is a cool idea to expand their tricks and style. I recommend the brands Sundia or Hyperspin.
If you know exactly what brand and make of diabolo they have, getting another one if they don’t already have 3 or 4 will allow them to try to juggle with multiple diabolos.
DVDs And Books
For beginners, my 2 recommendations are “the diabolo from a to z” and Donald Grant’s series of books (here on Amazon). These books teach the basic tricks and will help build a good foundation.
For advanced players, there are 2 great DVDs with tutorials but also with awesome inspiring videos of great players : Diabology and The Planet Diabolo (here on Amazon). I bought Diabology 3 times because I lended the DVD to another diabolo juggler and ended up gifting it to them twice.
String
Diabolo jugglers need to change their string regularly, and it is very annoying when you run out of string because you can’t juggle anymore. So you can never go wrong by gifting a roll of diabolo string as long as it is NOT Henry’s white. Any other color of string by Henry’s or any other diabolo brands is good.
If your budget allows for more you can add a pair of scisors and a lighter to help them change the string and a pair of keys to tighten their diabolos (make sure to get your hands on the diabolo to see what type of keys – allen keys or socket spanners – and what size you need).
Convention pass
A juggling convention is a meeting of jugglers usually during a weekend with workshops, shows, games and a good atmosphere where you learn a ton and have great fun.
You usually have to pay for a pass for the duration of the event that allows you to access everything.
Going to a juggling convention is a great experience and is in my opinion the best vacation for diabolo enthusiasts! You can find a list of them here.
T-shirts And Other Merch
If you’re not sure if any of the previous suggestions will be a good gift for your juggler, a diabolo themed t-shirt or hoodie is sure way to make a diabolo player happy!
You can browse my shop for some merch including t-shirts, hoodies, mugs and even shoes!
