Apples and oranges *Now with dance*

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The first one is just me throwing an apple round, its what I do when I get bored. Its my own version of juggling, because <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/juggle.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Its nothing special, but if anyone else plays around like this or can point me in a new direction to play, that'd be nice.

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Nice, here's a video of some contact that you might be able to work into it. I should've chosen a rounder apple, body rolls were too hard. :P

Heh, none too shabby. I've been wanting to learn contact juggling, but in Geelong theres only one place to get stuff for twirling/juggling etc and they stock only smaller contact juggling balls.

Closest thing to trying contact juggling is doing body rolls with a bowling ball, I did that while I was playing league, put off the bowlers after that! .

I daresay that learning with an apple isn't really optimum, either. That was my last one, anyway.

lol, no, learning with an apple is pretty bad. I'd recommend mail-ordering a contact juggling ball off of HOP, or even just buying one from Juggleart next time you're in Melbourne.

Post gone. :O! Change of heart.

NathanielEverist, There is nothing wrong with learning using apples? I learnt to juggle using oranges and I learnt staff with a broom.

Not every one can afford to go out and spend big bucks on fancy pants equipment, and why should they; expensive fancy props don't make you a better performer.


Mother_Natures_Son, I like your video it kind of reminds me of some thing I saw on here a while ago called skeeball or some thing or other, I think it was in the other toys forum if you want to have a look around.

Oh, you should definitely have a go at learning three ball juggling, there are so many fun dynamic moves you can do with it that are kind of like what you were doing with your apple. I can link you some good tutorials if you like?

Also if you want a cheep source of contact balls an old cue ball from a pool table works well.

Good luck

I had always tried to learn to juggle and never really got anywhere. My left hand is a big letdown, I can get a few... rotations? off then it all goes askew pretty quickly. I'll work on it a bit more though, slowly.

Yeah juggling is kinda like that, but you prolly find that after a while your left had will pick up pretty quickly. The cool thing is that once you get on top of a three ball cascade there are lots of neat tricks that you can throwin that aren't any way near as hard to learn.

I've been learning contact with an orange now, but I keep eating my balls, I like oranges too much.

I think I need to just go back to doing one rotation, starting with 2 balls in my left hand and I'll be able to get the cascade...

Please rip it to shreds. ^_^ Remain objective, but be ruthless.

That last minute did contain the end of the song (the song got drowned out by the waves on and off throughout it.) I probably should've looked into that better. The I dunno what the hell its called even time one-poi-is-an-extention-of-the-other-poi move at like 3:05 or thereabouts is sloppy, I think... And I really ought to choreograph a routine so theres not pauses where I'm not really doing much at all wondering "hmm... what to do now?" I think I'll work back to the basics a bit more to put everything together in a more synergistic flow.

But thats how I feel about it.

Thanks for the comment on it! I was beginning to think that it was only my friends and I that had seen it and none of my friends really twirl, so their opinion is good, but only so far.

I honestly don't think Electric_Blue was aiming to be abrasive, by the way and the contact orange seems to be coming along not too poorly, I can do a bit of a circle if I slow right down and I've pulled off a few arm stalls, but I need more practice just at the stall points, methinks.

Anyways... you headed to CG?

Nice video, ruthless criticism as follows :

- The wall plane extension -> Anti-spin flowers patter around 0.38-0.50 - Your timing went out, switching between split-time and same-time - when it was properly split-timed, it looked tight
- For my tastes, you repeat each move too many times before moving onto the next pattern - e.g. 1.25-1.40
- Try and clean up the symmetry of your Not-1.5s
- 2bt btb-waist-wrap - Learn the 3bt
- Slightly dodgy symmerty at 2.40

Then is goes a bit blurry

Nicw work though, the above is really just nit-picking

I lose interest around the 1:30 mark (both times I've tried to watch it). I will say...

- Move your body more in interesting ways and learn some stances/poses/postures that make you look better during static moves - In other words, add some dance!

- Learn combinations which show moves that flow nicely into each other as opposed to cycling through your list of moves.

- The music is low and doesn't quite fit the spinning style (although, the location/setting lend itself nicely).

MNS,

Yeah, oranges are actually ok for CJ, nice and grippy.

And yeah, hopefully I'll be heading to common grounds, I really should get off my arse and buy a ticket...

I like the setting and basically there isn't much wrong with the spinning.

There seems to be a haste or hurry with your spinning that removes some of the grace- the upstalls and anti-spin were technically clean but a little snatchy which doesn't help the flow IMO. Speed changes are good, but if it's all a bit quick or rushed it's not quite the same.

The focus was a bit of an issue too.

Nothing terrible, keep it up; I look forward to more (especially from that beautiful location)

I've got a few more locations up my sleeve, Mr. Chutney, don't you worry about that. Thanks to all for the nitpicking... the speed is something that irks me actually... Its only when the camera turns on me or I get more than a few people watching that that happens, much of the same with cycling through my list of movements.

Mr. Chutney, for the snatchy anti-spin do you refer mostly to the same direction wall plane antispin to longarm or to regular flower stuff? I think I can work a much smoother transition in there, I was trying to go for a stark contrast to mesmerize non spinners or something of that ilk.

Here is a tutorial I made for those butterfly hybriddy things that were all the rage not long ago. Let me know if it helped!



Hell... I'll add this.. its a staff tutorial thing I made to supplement a conversation I was having a friend on playing more freely with staff... I'm not really a staffer, I just pretend. But yeah, forgive the costume, she's doing a photography project and we'd discussed that this was what I'd wear, I was just giving her a look at what the pants were and all that so she could think about whether or not that'd work with the idea she had.