22 December 2007 Olga arrived in Penza.
21 December 2007 Vova came back home.
21 December 2007 Olga met mom and they left Moscow for Penza.
20 December 2007 Olga left New York City for Moscow.
20 December 2007 Olga met Eleanor, and they walked a lot. They went to Rockefeller Center and other places. They ate dinner together.
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19 December 2007 Olga left Los Angeles for New York City.
16 December 2007 Vova left for Las Vegas.
2 December 2007 Lobo hike pictures
25 November 2007 Today is Barry Bakalor's birthday. He is 60 now!
25 November 2007 Lindsay left Vova's place.
21 November 2007 Lindsay Spurka came to Vova's place.
18 November 2007 Olga went hiking again.
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12 November 2007 Olga went hiking.
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11 November 2007 Vova came back home (Agoura, CA).
10 November 2007 Olga performed on the Nomadic Juggling Festival.
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10 November 2007 Vova left for Jupiter, FL to do his show for Jesper Parnevik.
29 October 2007 Vova came back home.
24 October 2007 Vova left for the Big Red JuggleFest in Ithaca, NY.
7 October 2007 Vova came back home.
6 October 2007 Vova performed his new routine in the Variety Show.
5 October 2007 Vova left for the Berkeley Juggling Festival.
15 September 2007 Today is Vova's birthday. He is 20 now.
24 August 2007 Vova started college.
20 August 2007 Olga started college.
14 August 2007 Vova, Olga, Barry, and Sue left Moscow for Los Angeles.
12 August 2007 The Galchenkos and the Bakalors left Penza for Moscow.
11 August 2007 Watch the video of some out-takes from Vova and Olga practices and other interesting moments.
11 August 2007 Olga made another video of her juggling. She named it "Look for me in the sky, I'll be flying by!". Olga: "This is the last video before we all leave Russia to head back to the US! I hurt my finger pretty badly today, so I didn't have as much footage as I would've liked. I apologize in advance for putting some filler-crap in the video. We're leaving Penza tomorrow, then staying in Moscow for a day, coming back to the US on Tuesday!"
7-11 August 2007 On August 7 Vova and Olga decided to try passing. You can see their very first attempt with 10 clubs. Then they moved straight to 12 clubs. Vova and Olga practiced passing for only 15 minutes a day and only 12 club passing. In this video you can see their best attempts for 4 days they practiced passing. On the 5th day (August 11) Olga broke her nail. You can see this moment in this clip.
10 August 2007 Watch the video of Vova doing 7 club moves.
8 August 2007 Vova made one more video. He wrote: "For my next video I'd like to return to straight juggling. No fancy locations. Just plain juggling."
7 August 2007 Watch the video of Vova juggling 5-9 balls.
5 August 2007 Watch the video of Vova doing 6 club moves. Again I just put them in chronological order.
5 August 2007 Watch the video of Vova doing 5 club moves. I just put them in chronological order from August 2 to August 5.
5 August 2007 Olga made one more video "So close...yet so far".
5 August 2007 Vova made a video of him juggling at places around our hometown Penza.
4 August 2007 Just one more move by Vova - 3 club 3 up 720 into crotches
4 August 2007 Vova tried 5 club 5 up forward roll only twice. You can see these attempts.
3 August 2007 Watch the video of Vova doing lazy (reverse shoulder throw) pirouettes with 3 clubs and lazies with 4 clubs.
3 August 2007 The video of Vova at the same place in 13 years.
1 August 2007 Vova is featured in this month's 805 Magazine, now on stands:
For text version click here.
31 July 2007 We went bowling.
Watch the video!
31 July 2007 Today is Olga's birthday. She is 17 now.
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We were waiting for a trolley-bus and hided from the sun behind the bus stop. Olga just noticed some homeless kitten. |
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Olga made the video of her birthday:
30 July 2007 Vova, Barry and Sue Bakalor left Moscow and in 1.5 hours landed in Penza.
29 July 2007 Vova, Barry and Sue Bakalor landed in Moscow and met with Tatiana Galchenko (Vova and Olga's mom).
28 July 2007 Vova, Barry and Sue Bakalor left Los Angeles for Moscow.
25 July 2007 Today Olga decided to go to the circus club and do some juggling. Of course I taped her practicing that day. And I was surprised - she was pretty good for two years without practice.
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22 July 2007 Vova came back home (Agoura, CA).
21 July 2007 Natasha, Vova and Olga's former dance teacher, and her mom visited us that day. Natasha didn't see Olga more than 4 years. We had a nice conversation together.
Click here to see Natasha, Olga, and Eleanor dancing more than 4 years ago.
20 July 2007 Vova and the Kikyo brothers passed 15 clubs for 125 catches - beating the old World Record of 118. Vova also won two person team passing with Peter Kaseman (12 clubs for 54 passes, tying their previous record). And Vova won individual numbers club category with 7 clubs (83 catches).
Watch the video of Vova and Peter winning two person team passing
19 July 2007 Vova got third in Seniors.
15 July 2007 Vova left Hartford, CT for Winston-Salem, North Carolina to participate in the IJA festival.
14 July 2007 Vova got second in Overall Championship.
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Photos by Sarah Zolten
13 July 2007 Vova won advanced club competition and got second in ball and ring advanced competitions.
11 July 2007 Olga got her immigrant visa!
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11 July 2007 Vova won:
1) 360s with 3 clubs (37 pirouettes)
2) 360s with 5 clubs (18 pirouettes)
3) 5 Club Backcrosses
4) 5 ball Freestyle with a high-low shower into a 5 up shower 360 into a high mid low shower
5) 3 club Freestyle with a whirlwind into body throws
6) 5 club Freestyle with a 5 up 360 into a qualifying run of backcrosses
7) Isolated Endurance, 7 clubs
Vova got second in
1) 360s with 5 balls (23 pirouettes)
2) 360s with 5 rings (10 pirouettes)
3) 4 Club Freestyle with a shoulder backcross combo into 4 up backcross 360
4) 6 Ball Freestyle
5) 7 Ball Freestyle
And Vova got third in
1) 5 Ring Freestyle
2) 6 Ring Freestyle
6 July 2007 Vova left for the WJF Championship (Hartford, CT).
6 July 2007 Just one more video of Olga. You can see here Olga's cousin Roma, Mom, and grandma Tamara.
5 July 2007 Olga's grandmother and two cousins came to our place from Astrakhan (680 mi from Penza). We had a dinner together at Olga's other grandma's home.
Video is mostly for Russians
30 June 2007 Vova and Olga's piano teacher visited us that day. She didn't see Olga more than 4 years. We had a nice conversation together.
Video is mostly for Russians
27 June 2007 Olga and her mom came back to Penza.
26 June 2007 Olga got a refusal, because we forgot to take her birth certificate to the US consulate. Olga's case will be reconsidered when she submits the missing document.
25 June 2007 Vova came back home (Agoura, CA).
25 June 2007 Olga and Mom left Penza for Moscow to get an immigrant visa in the US consular.
23 June 2007 Olga came to Russia right after she graduated from High School in America and she had a chance to visit the graduation ceremonies in her former two schools in Russia... Olga didn't see her classmates more than 4 years.
23 June 2007 Olga and mom fell asleep and I videotaped how they are sleeping.
22 June 2007 Vova and Olga's former English teacher visited us today. We had a nice conversation together. This video is mostly for Russians.
22 June 2007 Vova left for Kansas City.
21 June 2007 Read the article about Olga in the Acorn newspaper.
19 June 2007 Olga arrived in her native town Penza, where she met her dad and grandparents. She didn't see them 4 years.
18 June 2007 Olga passed the medical exams needed for getting the immigrant visa.
17 June 2007 Olga and Mom met in Moscow! They didn't see each other more than 3 years.
Unfortunately this is all footage we have.
17 June 2007 Vova made the video of Olga's graduation ceremony.
Barry Bakalor: "Graduation was very nice. 525 graduates. The program had marks for 3 honors. Olga was one of 16 graduates who got all 3. When the principal was bragging about all of the amazing people in the graduating class, he ended with, "and a world champion juggler."... At the end, it took a long time to find Olga on the field, because of the crowd. We finally did. She was in tears. She could not stop crying. She didn't want to leave the school. It was very touching..."
16 June 2007 Olga left America for Russia.
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