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9 balls is crazy hard. I've only caught 8 out of 9 too, so far.

Did you skip 8 flash? I find it pretty easy now (a walk in the park compared to 9).

Today I did overhead 633633 out of and into 4 ball overheads (inspired by a random Olga Kay clip), and I also got 6 rounds of 744 out of and into 5 cascade.

Also I have recently learned to touch type, so this whole message was typed without looking at my hands! Go me!!!

Edit: Almost forgot... I also learned what I believe is called Gatto's Multiplex. Do people know what I'm talking about?

Juggle 'til I drop!

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3 ball cascade. Up to about 30 catches on a good run.

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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Live life in a spin!!!
but if you fall don't come crying to me!!!

Got some silly kick tricks with my new underfilled balls. Machine drops into side-foot kick back into machine, repeat on the other side.

My penguin box is improving too, got 6 rounds yesterday

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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aston there are two things I think you should be starting on.

1) Outside/reverse throws. Go back to two balls, throw the first one as normal then move your other arm out to the side slightly and throw that ball over the first in a wide arc.

When you have that try a single reverse throw in a cascade. Remember that it needs to be a wide arc so the next ball can go under it as normal. Now with the other hand.

Get that good and you have 3 new tricks - Every RH reverse(or every LH) = half shower. Same ball always reverse = tennis. Every thow reverse = reverse cascade.

2) 423. Ignore the numbers for now. Try to juggle 2 in one hand. the idea is to keep the balls in 2 columns so they go up and down next to each other without swapping. Then the other hand.

Start with 2 balls in the RH and 1 in the LH. Throw the first ball vertically up in the center, and start doing the columns thing with your LH. When you're ready switch - catch the middle ball in the RH so you're doing columns on that side. Then build up till you can switch continually, each hand will do 2 throws in a row each time.

Those 2 tricks will set you up for most of the different styles of juggling, be it bendy armed 3b, numbers, siteswap or whatever

Don't forget to start and finish your practice with long runs of the cascade.

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Cool. Thanks for the advice. Will start on reverse throws and carry on messing about with columns.

Managed to get a few runs of over 60 for the cascade. Throw from my left is still leading a little, but I am working on it.



Quite addictive stuff, only waited so long because I did not want to keep picking stuff up, but since I was throwing my poi *anyway*....

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Boooo.... I learnt how to drop a 5b cascade after 20 catches. Every time... Dunno whats happened

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

Thanks a lot for all the advice.

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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Don't you mean b171 [or as I like to think of it (2x,6x)(2x,ax)]?

Ho ho ho, I feel like a real siteswap geek.

I've been randomly working a bit of 66661 as of late. As far as 5 ball swaps go it's pretty easy. Also I've been throwing a few (2x,8)(2x,4)'s into my 4 ball shower as a swish way to change direction.

[How rad would (2x,c)(2x,8)(2x,4) be to change 5 shower direction!?] - if only it wasn't always wet and cold outsite and my right hand wasn't buggered.

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Oops yeah you're right Mike! I usually think of it as f***n high shower with a 4b shower underneath heh heh.

How are you throwing the 6's in 66661? I have trouble avoiding collisions with it.

And we don't talk about reversing 5b showers, because then I'd have to admit I can't do it backwards and that would make me look silly

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7441 with the 1 behind the back or head FTW

If you like that try doing 7531 with the 7 & 1 behind the back. And film it. I like watching peoples expressions when throwing really high BTB.

I can almost do 7531 completely BTB, but never quite got out of it, and I look like a fool most attempts.

I'll give the 66661 some work this weekend at BoB and see how I get on

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

Working hard to be a wandering hippie layabout. Ten years down, five to go!

And don't forget to practice with BOTH HANDS!!! >:|

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wwffj: I think I'd better try 441 btb before working on any other btb crazyness.

Juggle 'til I drop!

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