The official HOP juggling "I just learnt a new move" thread

it's funny how sometimes people write "5" and sometimes people write "five" . . . .

so, umm, I still can't do 66661 with five. I really should practice doing 5 more often. On a brighter note: I think I might be able to do rubentsien's revenge now . . .

is that smiley ment to be havin a go at me? i sometimes change whether i say five ball or 5 balls, but does it matter?

my 4 ball mills mess is more solid now, and im doing about 15ish rounds,which equals about 60 throws. Would you say 4b mills mess was harder or easier than 5b cascade?

no no no the off topic thingy was pointing out that what I was saying was off topic and generally pointless. There is nothing with saying "5" or "five", it was just an observation.

I'd say it was harder, but that's just because I can't do it but I can do five balls. I reckon 4b mills is harder because you have to cross your arms and it is generally harder to see where the balls are going.

just checkin, cuz the smiley looked a bit angry/annoyed.
o yeh... how long does it take before my newbie status wears off? how many posts do i need to make? Its kinda annoyin.
Also is 444033 mills mess any good for practicing 4ball mills?

Edit: how is it possible to record a trick so you can put it into siteswap to make it into a video on jugglewiki. I think i may have made a random trick that I dont know how to record.

100 posts me dear.

4b mills is silly, ignore it. move on. do 4b rubensteins instead, its so purdy.

i'm adding a new trick ive invented to jugglewiki, and calling it crafords confusion. i can get to the page where you edit 'crawfordsconfusion, but dont know what to do now. Could you help plz!!!

Use the sandbox feature that's around there somewhere..

4bmills mess is harder than 5 balls, but I've never tried 4b Rubensteins Beth, it sounds crazily hard!

i can only do 4b rubensteins with multiplexes so it doesnt really count but done properly looks ace, try it!

how do i put up the java image of my man doing my trick?

4 ball Rubesteins has the siteswap 52283, I have no ceiling height to do 8's.

can't help with your problem mtgjumper.

i know, its annoying, my ceiling can cope with 5s but thats about it, maybe a 7 if i lie on the floor but that just makes catching harder. there is 64244 variation but thats looks really hard.

shameless plea- go on http://www.jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/index.php/CrawfordsConfusion.
Thats my trick! But theres no videos...

Edit: o no! it doesnt take you to any page!

http://jugglingdb.com/jugglewiki/index.php/CrawfordsConfusion?action=PageHistory

does that work?

Edit: make sure you click version 2.

My advice to budding 5ballers is to stop counting catches. I find it deviates from concentrating on the pattern. get someone to time you instead, concentrate on the pattern and then work out the number of catches afterwards. 4 x number of seconds.

The other classic mistake is not breathing. Sounds stupid but it's true. I find breathing out on starting helps. Certainly did for seven balls

all too true ^^^^

15 catches of 3 in one hand im chuffed

Long runs of (3club) tapbacks. Yay me!

Also been getting some runs of backcross tennis. slowly learning them, i think it helps i've hardy juggled balls for almost 3 weeks now.

Also been getting some long(er) runs of 3 clubs chops with flourishes

i got about 10 catches of four balls last night.

most pleased, up until then it always just looked like a mess of balls flying around the place.

i laughed out loud when i finally realised what i was supposed to be doing.

Why thankyou for the encouragment Lemonkey.

isnt that kinda like me saying to someone.

"Your not really running, your hopping on one foot...in split time!"

I've gotten that before but I just tell them thats how you do 4 balls. another kid once said he learned from watching a math movie its not possible to do 4 balls with a crossing pattern alternating everyhand. I responded the only way is the trick 4 balls with a hole or split or break wathever its called where you throw with the same arm twice.

wow whats the big deal that I didn't use a comma i didn't know grammer was so incredibly important to you people

People? There's only one of me here.

Are you seeing double? How many fingers am i holding up?
I'll give you a clue, it's one more than you're thinking.

On a different note:

I just managed to do 113 catches of 5b. Not too shabby Hexagonic. I will manage to beat you! I've still got about two and a half months (and its the christmas holidays, therefore, I have more time to juggle!). Then again, my fifth juggling ball has just burst ; I may have to get my mum to sew it back together again.

Your fifth juggling ball? Does it have a number on it? I might number my juggling balls...

I don't number them Beth; I'm not that sad...
I have 6 decent juggling balls: 3 blue ones from last Christmas (it was just before Christmas I started juggling seriously) and 3 red ones from about three and a half months ago (when I started to learn 5 balls). The blue ones are well used, and are softer, so I can fit three in my hand comfortably (remember, I've got little hands). One of those has burst: I call it my fifth as I can't use 3 reds comfortably, so it is the last one I would want to burst, therefore, it is my fifth. Hope you understood that.

@ Hexagonic- You said if you count the number of cathces you do, it is distracting away from the pattern. However:

a) Is this a help, because you are conciously counting, and unconciously juggling.

b) As I said, when I juggle five I use three blue balls and two red ones: to count the pattern, I add on ten every time the second red ball reaches my left hand again (I'm right handed, so start with three blue in my right). This doesn't seem too distracting.

I bring this up as my parents, as of recently, haven't supported my juggling that much. Sure, they would clap as I did Mills' Mess etc. but I went to my first convention a week and a half ago, after three years of juggling (one of which has been serious). They say they don't have the time to time me on a stopwatch, and I find it difficult to time myself in this way.

...And that ends my novel. Phew. Pretty long post...

"i've hardy juggled balls for almost 3 weeks now."
Are you lettting us catch up?