No, they were in California. Boppo was still an undergrad at Caltech (class of '87), as was Bengt (class of '88). Colorado is where Boppo went to grad school, several years later.
> We invented it independently very shortly after, and our explanations were tighter, cleaner, and more focused, as you might expect from mathematicians
Wow. I was at Boppo's site swap workshop at some east-coast juggling fest in the early 90s, where his girl friend would shout out a string of numbers, often containing 8s and 9s, and he'd demo them. And Allen taught me how to pass 10 beanbags, although I never made it work with anyone else. Cool to see where Allen ended up.
No, they were in California. Boppo was still an undergrad at Caltech (class of '87), as was Bengt (class of '88). Colorado is where Boppo went to grad school, several years later.
> We invented it independently very shortly after, and our explanations were tighter, cleaner, and more focused, as you might expect from mathematicians
Actually, the group at Caltech also had a math guy, Bill Banks (http://www.math.missouri.edu/~bbanks/vitae.pdf)
He and Boppo juggled together a lot, but I don't know if Bill made any contributions to siteswap development.
Another math guy/juggler, Allen Knutson (http://www.math.cornell.edu/People/Faculty/knutson.html), arrived at Caltech the next year. I don't know if he contributed any improvements or not.