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

I just can't describe it. Its a kind of multiplex backthow / flower / contortion / 360 thing. If you make it to brizzle (hint hint) I'll show ya

any chance of a video? I'm enthralled by this 3-4 ball manouvre as I've been working on different 3 ball techniques when I'm bored practicing 5

I would say yes, but I have been sooooo pants with getting videos made up (still not done the exploding firestaff vid either) that it might take me a while!

I'll see about getting the camera out next week sometime and getting some filming done, maybe, its about time I made a proper 3b vid. No promises though.

so uhhh i have [43]23 nailed...
are there any tips for getting the takeouts for my bag of tricks?

also ive been tryna get 531 but im havin trouble with keepin my 3 low it ALWAYS near matches my 5 *head exploads*

this is just the shower isnt it =/

got any tips for some one thats jus getting to grips with it? i can do a run on one side cofortably then going up my right side it goes squiffy =[

mynci are you from poipoi too?

I'm on poi poi yes joined when we met their festival crew a few years ago.
remember that mills is the same hand movements with any number of balls I found the higher under the arm throw was what took the most work, keeping it from going too far forwards or hitting the other balls, once that started evening out may pattern got better. it's not perfect yet still a little too 3D, rather than flat, but getting there.I found slightly higher throws gave me the time to sort my hands out because your hands need to be quicker than 3 balls, but not too fast. As Mike 7 said the RHYTHYM is more important really.

Managed to qualify four balls asynch fountain on a couple occasions.

Still much happier with three.

So a friend of mine came up with an interesting 3 ball trick:

One ball is thrown over the top (so outside throws a la Tennis), the second is thrown as a U-ball and the third stays in the middle but swaps hands. He also came up with a variation using claws to catch the U-ball which looks much nicer. I will get some footage as soon as I can (which may be a while).

is the U-ball as in Mills mess under the arm throw from the opposite side to the opposite hand? ie left hand under right arm straight up and caught in right hand...

Yeah. The effect is of the middle ball staying where it is (roughly) with the other two moving back and forth over and under it, but with one permanently above and the other below.

I have a suspicion that it is merely a variation on Mills mess, but if you claw the catch on the U-ball it looks quite different and cool.

That sounds interesting, I'll have a play tonight

Sounds like it could be 423 mills.

Although I have no clue what I'm actually talking about.

So, I know I'm not making progress as insanely as some people *cough* mike7 *cough* hehe, but ANYHOW....

7531 finally feeling good. Around 30 catches of 5 ball. Qualify of 5 ball half-shower. 4 ball shower and half-shower coming along slowly. 633 Coming along....

Now... the one I've been having some trouble with.... 534.... WTF? I can 53445344 until the cows come home on either side (though it's a little sloppy on one side), but I can't seem to connect into 534. I even tried working on 5344453444 *sigh* Stupid pattern anyway... =P =)

Me and my friend have been discussing a pattern recently, it's a High Half-Shower going one way with a shower going the opposite direction underneath, with 4 balls. I beleive We worked it out to something like.... 4x,6x,4x,2x. He wanted to call it 3531, but that's a 3 ball pattern, so I just fudged the numbers a bit to make it work mathematically. Try it out!

Mike7: I do not think it is, I can do that and this feels very different. This is a rough approximation of it:

Animation.

It feels quite natural, but I doubt it is overly new. If the U-Ball is clawed, it looks a lot better.

Aston: Seeing that pattern, I can tell you exactly what the siteswap is....
3.

That is all.

I knew that.

Was just saying that a friend of mine came up with something cool looking. Grant a couple newbies their kicks. *grinne*

nearly qualifying 3 club wall plane shower...

Wall plane throws are weird.

aston, I reckon that trick is just mills mess 3 with the middle ball made to go straight up and down. Unless the actual trick is quite a bit diferent to the animation.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... wait, no, I think it's time reverse mills mess... I think. Possibly.

Edit: meshunderlay, that (6x,4x)(2x,4x) is cool and has literally a bajillion variations which are also cool. Do some of them now!!

Yeah, wall plane IS weird, I've been trying for a wall plane half-shower, and wall plane reverse cascade but... *shrug* well, it's still a work in progress.