First Aid while Juggling Knives

"Hi! My name is Adria I’m one of the professional jugglers here at expertvillage.com. We’re doing a videotape on juggling knives, someone once asked me Adria can you tell me, can you describe to me what it is to juggle knives? I’m like yeah, you know those really big, heavy jars of pickles in the grocery stores, why yes, yes I do, well it’s kind of like juggling a big jar of pickles except one end will slash at the other end it gives you splinters but if you want to get technical about it you’re getting little splinters from this end too, so what every knife juggler always need to have on hand when they’re juggling, when they’re practicing no matter how frequently it is, our first aid supplies specifically for knife juggling. Now keeping in mind that when you’re a juggler and you’re practicing if you miss up a pattern you have to start that pattern all over again and do it a number of times to get a perfect run before you may move on to the next pattern, if you are juggling knives and you have an injury you’ve got to patch that injury up and get back to juggling your knives. So here we have first aid supplies, as these are heavy and you might get hit by a knife handle on unusual places I don’t know if the camera can see that, see that lovely bruise that’s a recent one, got a cold pack, there’s something that’s called jugglers left thumb we’re frequently slamming the tops of our thumb, cold packs are wonderful for that for temporarily relieving the pain until you’re ready to get back into that pattern. For those nasty slashes which happen oh quiet frequently and might I add I’ve impaled my left foot four times and my right foot once, I’ve slashed my thumbs, I’ve cut my hands, I’ve shaved skin off, it happens you’re juggling knives they’re not toys, a knife jugglers best friend super glue. If you go to the hospital to the emergency room they will glue your wound shut, they actually told me after I went in after my first or three accidents, oh just glue it shut yourself it’s cheaper than what we do it’s the same stuff we use, so I buy nontoxic super glue for those pesky little accidents that happen while I’m juggling. We also have masking tape rather than medical bandage, if you get a juggling injury while you’re juggling a slash, an impoundment, nice little gauze pads and masking tape, masking tape will hold them on longer because the medical tape slips right off, if you want to use medical tape because it’s sterile use medical tape but use the masking tape on top to hold the injury closed I keep referring to my foot cause that’s what I keep hurting you know its farther closer to the ground there. I have gauze pads, I do have medical tape, a bunch of gauze pads I you know I’m juggling knives at least four times a week, we have wrapping, we have alcohol, triple antibiotic ointment, scissors to cut anything to the correct length and girly products, boy scouts carry these as well they absorb a lot of blood, any juggler who’s serious about juggling knives should have plenty on hand because accidents happen. Now you’re ready to start working with knives!"