10 Years of Not Juggling

[Boppo]

I have posted my first collage of juggling clips. It's all new
material, filmed in late 2009.

As you might expect, it's mostly hardcore siteswaps and numbers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFDWZ1_f6F4

-boppo

[Adam Rowney]

Having a 10 year break then coming back to that is brilliant!
It's nice to have a legend back in the game :)
What is your personal best with 10 may I ask?
Do you find you have picked up a lot quickly again?

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[Boppo]

On Dec 14, 12:44 am, rowney...@hotmail.com.nospam.com (Adam Rowney)
wrote:

With 10 I have gotten 13 throws, clean finish in the asynch fountain
and 14 throws, clean finish, in the synch fountain. I think I could
beat this, but qualifying is highly questionable. I did pick up
things very quickly - after between perhaps a dozen and twenty decent
hour-long sessions over 3 months, this is what I have recovered. I
tested the waters in the past, for example, flashing 10 was completely
hopeless when the sessions began. Flashing 9 seemed doable but it
didn't happen the first few days I tried, and flashing 8 took a lot of
tries. I couldn't break 100 catches with 7 or even 6, but during the
break I never, ever lost the ability to juggle 5 even when I didn't
feel my best.

I have a new fascination with fountain-shower hybrids (e.g. 661515,
666615, 889191, 888891) and the last two are new to me, I never did
them in the past. They will form part of the basis for my first
tutorial, which will be "Siteswaps for learning numbers juggling."
Incidentally there are also cascade-shower hybrids (5551, 777171, 771,
99919191 etc), and also fountain-pseudoshower hybrids (66661, 8888181,
etc) and cascade-pseudoshower hybrids (51414, 7161616, etc) that will
also be in the tutorial. I like those a lot too, as you can see in
the film. They are a way to approach a numbers trick in several
steps, the higher the number, the more the steps.

What do I mean by pseudoshower? Consider the following sequence:

2: 2
2: 31
3: 414
3: 5151
4: 61616
4: 717171
5: 8181818
5: 91919191

I claim there's a pattern there, and you already know the names for
all the tricks with odd-numbered high throws, so I'm calling the
others pseudoshowers.

-boppo

[gantenbein]

Boppo wrote:

[snip]

> They will form part of the basis for my first
> tutorial, which will be "Siteswaps for learning numbers juggling."

[snip]

Cool !!! Can't wait to see it! I'm a big fan of your "Numbers Notes".

Steffen