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Yoga / Alexander Technique
Watch Kristina’s posture. It is very rigid, yet seems natural and happy. Even when re-composing herself (when she steps back to adjust) she never loses her posture. Which just proves that it is natural, naturally learnt habit - something which conscious mind does not need to control by thinking about it all the time (and not thinking about it in emergencies such as “step back”) - a habit which has been moved from “conscious” to “subconscious” - so we don’t have to “control it” anymore and it such move also frees our conscious resources to deal with some other matters which we could not previously due to overload.

Joyful Ordinary Journey
Watch Kristina’s smile at the very beginning, and her “I love Hopping” (which I misread for ‘I love hoping’ T-Shirt. Give some attention to the surroundings, ordinary gym, probably in some school, ordinary, sporting clothing Kristina and Vova are wearing, everything is ordinary, even the way they perform their “acts” are utmostly ordinary matter, there is no “Big Deal” anywhere, no matter how hard one searches for it. But there is an ordinary joy, pleasure of doing something that pleases one.

Egoless Perfection
Vova throws his clubs on the floor, but there is no anger in this motion, it is more of a manifestation “they are only clubs”. Kristina steps back at one point, probably to adjust to not 100% perfect delivery by Vova, but she does it with grace and, yet again, posture, and without any trace of annoyance, without any trace of failed expectations, she does it with total humbleness and joy of receiving an opportunity to put her faith, her composure into practise.

Control / Spontaneity / Mastery over one’s own life
The way Kristina and Vova juggle those clubs gives an impression that they are almost not necessary there, that it all happens “naturally”. They do not control clubs, clubs control them - they are just reacting to what has been thrown at them. And because it has been thrown at them - they have to react, in the only way they know, there is no time for thinking here, for any analysis. So they react to it in perfect way.
But of course. It probably took many, many years to learn, condition oneself to react that way. And here comes Zen and the Archer blending with the arch’s string, and Buddhism and Nirvana and Liberation: yes, for many, many years one has to practise, try to control something in order to reach perfection. But the sweet price of perfection, of this enormous effort and dedication is that, once one reaches it, one does not need to control or even think about it anymore: it is kind of shifted into subconscious, “spontaneous” area of our brain, Blind Zatoichi and his sword - he does not need eyes to confirm that what he is doing is right.

Automation and happiness
Kristina and Vova seem to managed to automate their “brain patterns” and corresponding bodily behaviour when it comes to juggling clubs. This maybe sounds awful as a term, but it isn’t. It just proves how “easily” (with many, many years of hard work and dedication) we can condition ourselves, our brains, to achieve anything we dream off.
We have, in fact, done it already. We have automated our brains how to be unhappy, how to create and consequently live on the dramas, how to look for something wrong when everything seems right…. how to prove to others that our lives are not as good as theirs because……

Anger Management
Last clip. Kristina and Vova seem to throw clubs at themselves “in anger” (new corporate term which I, worryingly, noticed is used more and more, “to do things in anger”) but they are not throwing them “directly”.. using the shortest route… they maybe throwing them angrily but following the longer, “up in the air” route… there are a lot of lessons, analogies and quotes here (”When angry count to four…”), the one which strikes me most is that, simply because of this longer route, the anger seems to hang in the air above them - so they are not affected by it, so practical advice here is that when angry and in need to hurl abuse at somebody, one should try to use the longest possible route for this abuse to be delivered…. and in most cases the anger will die out before abuse reaches its destination - so we have a chance to recall it or apologize for it before it even arrives hehehehe