Three Ball tricks
campb...@ix.wcc.govt.nz
I would tell you what I can do, but I don't know the proper terminology.
I believe the cascade (or is it the reverse cascade) is one I can do.
Throwing balls over top instead of under :)
under legs, behind back, looping hand under the other
Can you get books out of Libraries with tricks in them?
Any help would be appreciated :)
Haim
Christopher A. Terry
Here are some of my favorite 3 ball tricks (the only thing I'm really good
at :)
The Shower:
One hand throws high arcs while the other catches and shovels
back to the other hand. The rhythm is very different from that of a
cascade.
Juggler's Tennis:
Use your "over" throws to pass the same ball back and forth over
the top of your pattern.
The Circle (my own name):
Alternate "over" throws and "under" throws, so the balls look
like they're always coming from the same place. I think this looks very
neat. It is also a building block for...
Mills' Mess:
Once you can do the Circle on both sides, switch it a lot: (one
side) over, under, over, (other side) over, under, over, etc. I think it
really helps to see this one to understand.
4-1-4:
The pattern here is "up, up, pass, (repeat)". An "up" is a throw
straight up to the same hand. A "pass" is just quickly moving the ball
from one hand to the other, no throw.
The best place to get new tricks is from other jugglers. One book I
know of is "The Complete Juggler" by Dave Finnegan. There're lots of
tricks in it. Hope this helps.
Chris
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con...@cup.portal.com
>I was just wondering if anyone could pass on a few three ball tricks to me.
>...
Best thing to do is to find some other jugglers. Where in NZ are you
located? I think there is a juggling club in Christchurch, and I know
some people in Wellington. In fact, the NZ juggling festival is coming
up in February in Wellington. Check out the Juggling Information Service
for more local information.
Books you could look for:
The Complete Juggler by Finnegan [US$15.00]
Beyond the Cascade by Gillson [US$11.00]
Three Ball Juggling by Franco [US$18.00]
The Art of Juggling by Benge [US$10.00]
Juggling U by Bruneau [US$13.00]
It is unlikely that you will find any of these in your local library,
except possibly the first, but Christmas is coming, and all of these
can be mail ordered from Juggling Capitol, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20004, USA. They can mail internationally and will
charge your credit card at the current exchange rate.
Videos are also a good way to learn new tricks, but I don't think US
videos will work in NZ (???) so don't order any of those.
Andrew con...@cup.portal.com
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Ram Prasad
Christopher A. Terry <ca...@weyl.math.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>Here are some of my favorite 3 ball tricks (the only thing I'm really good
>at :)
>
>The Circle (my own name):
> Alternate "over" throws and "under" throws, so the balls look
>like they're always coming from the same place. I think this looks very
>neat.
The more common name for this is the False Shower. Yes, a very good looking
trick. Not easy to describe, nor to follow the first few times you try it.
I recently tried the 4 ball false shower and it isnt all that difficult.
So those of you playing around with 4, give the 4 ball False shower a try.
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Kevin Glaser
I found that a good source tricks was the book The Complete Juggler
by Dave Finnegan which I originally checked out from the local library in
Rochester, MN where I'm from and then purchased a copy of it for myself
through one of the local bookstores. In the realm of three-ball tricks,
basically anything you want to do you probably can, just some are more
popular than others. Some of my favorites are Mill's Mess, half of Mill's
Mess (constant over-the-top's with the right hand and constant under-the-
wrist's with the left hand, or vice versa), 2-1 combinations where you throw
two balls up at the same time and then one ball and keep alternating throws
eventually being able to cross the two balls in mid-air or throw the single
ball in a shower pattern or a figure-8 pattern around the other two balls...,
the shower (51 for site-swapers) where one hand constantly throws over-the-
top's and the other constantly hands off balls back to the throwing hand
(technically it throws them quickly and horizontally but it's close to being
a hand-off), over the shoulder where the right hand throws over the right
shoulder back to the right hand or over to the left hand, juggling three
balls over your head, and there are many others. Experimentation I think
is the key. There are several books in the library, some containing more
tricks than others. In our library I think they were under the 794's or
somewhere near there, by the books on magic and games. Have fun and keep
juggling!
Brian D Milner
>The more common name for this is the False Shower.
Is this the same as the half shower?
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Doug Harris
>>The more common name for this is the False Shower.
>
>Is this the same as the half shower?
Nope.
The difference between the (true) shower, false shower, and half shower is
the path of the ball coming across the bottom of the pattern.
In the shower, the ball is thrown straight across.
In the half shower, the ball is lobbed slightly.
In the false shower, the ball is *carried* across and then thrown in the same
circular direction it just traced. You'll probably note that for this to
happen continuously, your arms will need to be crossed on one throw and open
on the next, crossed on the following, etc.
Both arms throw the ball from the same position on the right and catch in the
same position on the left (obviously you can reverse this, too).
Yes, it's a little like half of Mills Mess.
doug
PM project_Bernard
>Brian asks if a False Shower is the same as a Half shower.
>NO, it is not.
>There seems to be a quite a bit of confusion as to what constitutes
>a false shower. [the term comes from the fact that it looks very much
>like a shower, the speed]
>The following description is correct, though may not be easy to understand
>at first. Yes, it is sort of 1/2-a-MM.
>===========
>Kevin Glaser <kgl...@gac.edu> describes a false shower as one of his
>favorites:
>>1/2 mills Mess (constant over-the-top's with the right hand
>>and constant under-the-wrist's with the left hand, or vice versa),
I thought this was called the windmill (or if you prefer: The Windmill)
or maybe its just me being from holland...
Bernard
.sig never has seen a windmill, but heard a lot about the mess mills make
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Ram Prasad
NO, it is not.
There seems to be a quite a bit of confusion as to what constitutes
a false shower. [the term comes from the fact that it looks very much
like a shower, the speed]
The following description is correct, though may not be easy to understand
at first. Yes, it is sort of 1/2-a-MM.
===========
Kevin Glaser <kgl...@gac.edu> describes a false shower as one of his
favorites:
>1/2 mills Mess (constant over-the-top's with the right hand
>and constant under-the-wrist's with the left hand, or vice versa),
Ram - looking forward to Cleveland Jugg Fest.
Bert Neff
Doug Harris writes:
>Brian Milner asks:
>>>The more common name for this is the False Shower.
>>
>>Is this the same as the half shower?
>Nope.
>The difference between the (true) shower, false shower, and half shower is
>the path of the ball coming across the bottom of the pattern.
>In the shower, the ball is thrown straight across.
>In the half shower, the ball is lobbed slightly.
>In the false shower, the ball is *carried* across and then thrown in the same
> circular direction it just traced. You'll probably note that for this to
> happen continuously, your arms will need to be crossed on one throw and open
> on the next, crossed on the following, etc.
Is this ball carried across or under? All balls are rising on the right and
falling on the left apparently (or vice versa). If it's carried under the
right hand and thrown back, then it is the 'spiral' according to 'Beyond the
Cascade', but I like 'false shower' better, as it is a type of 3-ball shower.
How about the case where all throws start from the chest and are thrown in a
plane out to an easy reach away. Is this some sort of side-shower? Out-shower?
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Alan MacDonald
[various posts about pattern apparently known as false shower cut]
>right hand and thrown back, then it is the 'spiral' according to 'Beyond the
>Cascade', but I like 'false shower' better, as it is a type of 3-ball shower.
>How about the case where all throws start from the chest and are thrown in a
>plane out to an easy reach away. Is this some sort of side-shower? Out-shower?
IS this also the same as the one that Max Oddball calls the windmill?