Alberts??Treblas??

[David Cairns]

O.K., after reading Rec.juggling for about a month, the time has come to
ask a few vital questions about clubs:

What's are "Alberts","Treblas", and how do you do head rolls?

If the answers to these are in some FAQ, then I apologise unreservedly,
but I am a newbie to the net.

Dave.

[Doug Harris]

Alberts and Treblas are club tricks in which the club is thrown through the
legs with both feet on the ground. One of these goes front to back, the
other back to front (hence the backward spelling of the names), but I forget
which is which. I can't do either one.

Yes, this knowledge is in the FAQ which can be found in one of three places:

ftp moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu
ftp musky.pnfi.forestry.ca
www http://www.hal.com/services/juggle/

Or, if you don't do ftp or www, let me know and I'll send you a copy.

enjoy,

doug

p.s. sorry, but about all I know about head rolls is what they look like...

---
Doug Harris do...@bou.shl.com

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

[Mark Olson]

>
> p.s. sorry, but about all I know about head rolls is what they look like...

Head rolls are true feats! They start with the ball balanced either on the
forehead or on the temple. If you assume that the ball is balanced on
the forehead, a head roll would go from the forehead to the temple.
If the ball is on the temple, it could go from the temple to the
forehead over to the other temple. You can also roll the ball from
the temple to the back of your neck (for extra credit). In the book
'Three Ball Digest,' Dick Franco provides a pretty good description of
how to do forehead balances, temple balances, and head rolls. They
are very difficult but very impressive...
--
Mark Olson || Mark_...@sterling.com -or- uunet!sparky!marko

[ray hoffman]

alberts are a three club trick where the clubs are thrown from the front of
your body and they come around your legs back to the front, this is done while
both feet stay grounded..this is the hardest #$@% 3 club trick i've ever worked
on - if ya thought backcrosses were bad.......treblas (albert spelled back-
ward) are throws that come from the back through your legs to the front again
with your feet grounded....
if you want to start practicing headrolls i'd suggest you learn to keep a ball
balanced on the 3 points : forhead and right and left temple..after that work
on the transitions between the points...also practicing this trick in front of
a mirror is very helpful..............

Have fun :) -- Ray

[D W Colyer]

In the referenced article, d...@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Cairns) writes:
>O.K., after reading Rec.juggling for about a month, the time has come to
>ask a few vital questions about clubs:

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>What's are "Alberts","Treblas", and how do you do head rolls?
>

Yeah. How *do* you do head rolls with clubs?

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[STEVE 'DOC' SALBERG]

d...@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Cairns) asked:

>What's are "Alberts","Treblas", and how do you do head rolls?

"What are Alberts"
Alberts are named for Albert Lucas. They are a club trick where
you bend over forward and swing a club down between the legs and then
up and over the back and shoulder (or more to the side- sort of over the hip).

"What are Treblas"
Treblas are the opposite of Alberts. They are thrown by leaning back and
throwing the club from behind you, between the legs up close in front of
your private/delicate parts. I don't know who first had the nerve to do
them.

"How do you do head rolls"
Step one: Set aside about a year of your life.

Step two: Start spending about an hour a day pounding
your forhead with a mallet to make a dent.

Step three: Swallow a flexible plastic tube so you can
breath when you have your head bent backwards
at a ninety degree angle.

Step four: Watch a tape of Mark Nizer's act so you can
copy all of his "dent" and "ear-suction" jokes.

Step five: Ask someone else because I'm bored to tears watching
the same old headrolling tricks time after time after time...

Steve (my patients can *all* bend their necks to 90dg) Salberg
.sig rolling around on the floor in agony because it tried a Trebla and
kept it just a little *too* close in to the body...

[Andrew John Conway]

One head roll trick that is rarely performed these days is the
face spin. The ball goes from the forehead to the right eyesocket,
then round the bottom of the nose to the left eyesocket, and
finally back onto the forehead. If this is done quickly with a
ball around six inches in diameter the ball will pick up spin
around a vertical axis. Trixie did this very well so Mark Nizer
has probably learned it by now. I love seeing stupid tricks
getting handed down in this way...

Andrew
con...@cup.portal.com

Visit my home page <ftp://ftp.shell.portal.com/pub/conway/index.html>

[Andrew John Conway]

Danny asks:

>
> Yeah. How *do* you do head rolls with clubs?
>

Start with a large smooth surface such as golf course fairway or
stretch of the M1 motorway. Stand with your knees akimbo, and place
the head about two feet in front of you. Hit it firmly with the
club and see how far it rolls. Remember to follow through.

Andrew
con...@cup.portal.com

.sig is worried that heads are going to roll over this.

[Jackson A J]