 Owen Morse, of Tustin, California, began performing in high school, crafted a 15-minute-long, sports-themed routine set to music, and eventually earned work through an agency in Hollywood, playing the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach while in high school and working at Disneyland while in college.A mutual friend introduced Wee and Morse at a jugglers' convention in San Jose, California, and they spent the next year corresponding regularly.The two met again at the IJA convention in Akron, Ohio, and decided to pair up in 1988 for the Teams Championships in Denver, Colorado, where they took the silver medal only "two weeks after their first performance together."