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- From: esurw@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr S M Landamore)
- Newsgroups: rec.juggling
- Subject: 4, 5 balls, also simple passing patterns
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:48:53 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- I am currently working on 4 and 5 balls: I have got the hang of the
- pattern with 4, I just need to practice. A lot. I find that my hands
- have a tendency to `rotate' - the left comes in, the right goes out a
- bit. Any tips on preventing this? I have tried to slow the pattern
- down, and practice each hand seperately when I find this happening...
- or will it come with practice?
- I read with interest the juggling help files on 5 balls; I have a
- few comments of my own I could add when I get slightly better, that is
- of course if there is any interest out there...
-
- Last night we practised passing balls (I am currently living with 2
- other jugglers... very handy! :-) I would like to know is there a name
- for the pattern we made, I have a copy of The Complete Juggler (Dave
- Finnigan) but it wasn't mentioned in there...
- Stand in a line, each person has 2 balls, with an extra ball at one
- end. (ie, 2 balls in an end hand, 1 ball in each of all the other
- hands) Then the balls get shifted one hand along by throwing, with
- reflection at the ends. ie, as a ball is about to land in a hand, the
- ball currently in that hand gets thrown along in the same direction as
- the incoming ball. With only 2 balls, the end person who just passed
- to the next along has a while before their next turn: I tried eating
- an apple during this break - the resulting noise and mess damn near
- drove us to tears laughing :-)
- We then tried this in a circle (or as near to a circle you can get
- with 3 people!), with occasional (announced) reversals of direction.
- This got me to thinking, could this be made into a simple game?
- Randomly changing direction with people who drop leaving the circle...
- Hmm I wonder...
-
- Regards,
- Stephen
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- Stephen Landamore, esurw@uk.ac.warwick.csv
- University of Warwick, England, CV4 7AL.
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