Interesting Threads

I'm going to start posting links to the interesting threads I read on rec.juggling which is an online juggling discussion group. These are from the last couple months. There are more recent threads which I will post soon. Click on the links above the quotes to read the entire threads. The quote is the original post or a condensed summary of mine if it is a really long post.

Combined halfshower-fullshower siteswap?

Hi there. Anybody knows the siteswap for a combined 4 ball halfshower - fullshower? Not a transition from one to the other, but a continuously pattern. -Matias

The Juggling Crib - Pilot

THE JUGGLING CRIB is a juggling related comic strip featuring some local jugglers here in Stockholm, Sweden. In the main cast you can watch bad imitations of jugglers like Elias Hedlund, Wes Peden, Peter Åberg and Jay Gilligan amongst others.*

I will be releasing a new episode every monday starting on the 28th of April.

THE JUGGLING CRIB
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~svph0214/index.php?page=projects&proj=tjc

Feel free to give feedback either here or at eliashedlund AT gmail DOT com

* The script and all characters in this comic are based and inspired by real life situations. The following strip contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. The truth is always nastier though.

/ Elias Hedlund

The Juggling Crib - language

THE JUGGLING CRIB is a juggling related comic strip featuring some local jugglers here in Stockholm, Sweden. In the main cast you can watch bad imitations of jugglers like Elias Hedlund, Wes Peden, Peter Åberg and Jay Gilligan amongst others.*

THE JUGGLING CRIB
http://www.informatik.umu.se/~svph0214/index.php?page=projects&proj=tjc

New strip every monday

Feel free to give feedback either here or at eliashedlund AT gmail DOT com

* The script and all characters in this comic are based and inspired by real life situations. The following strip contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone. The truth is always nastier though.

/ Elias Hedlund

Multiplex terminology

Hi rec.
I was chatting to Tiff a couple of weeks back and he mentioned a duplex (I forget what he called it) and wondered what terminology everyone uses or has heard being used to describe the first 2 of the following 5 duplex throws. I've labeled them using the terminology I use or have heard of from others but I want to know what others use.

(1) Martin Duplex Taken from the trick with the same name. Throw a ball with a ball held in the hand. Siteswap [?2]

(2) Slice Duplex Throw both balls but one ball goes straight to the other hand as a pass while the other ball is caught on a later beat. Usually thrown so the catching hand is directly above the throwing hand and claws the 1. Siteswap [?1]

(3) Split Duplex Throw both balls and catch them in separate hands. Common siteswaps [43], [54], [65] etc.

(4) Stack Duplex Throw both balls to the same or other hand treating both balls as if they were one. Common siteswaps [33], [44], [55]

(5) Cut Duplex Throw both balls to the same or other hand like a stacked duplex but in a staggered fashion so the bottom ball of the duplex is caught and re-thrown before the top ball is caught. Commonly used in Shower Explosions with the siteswaps [53], [64], [75] etc.

Thanks in advance to everyone who replies.

Danny

High patterns

I've been practicing 744 recently and I think I'm in love with high throws...

Any suggestions for some nice 5 ball siteswaps or tricks that involve high throws? It doesn't matter how hard they are (as long as they are possible), I'll start easy and work up to the harder ones or something like that, so long as they are prettyful.

Thus far I've only got 744, 94444, 5 ball box and d151.

-Thanks guys and gals :)

What is the value of juggling?

What is the value of artistic juggling or of sport juggling?

What are the practical benefits for individuals or society by having us jugglers around?

To Workshop Teachers: Re: Siteswap Workshop Handouts

If you don't mind, could you send me the files of the Siteswap Workshop Handouts you have used to teach workshops? That is, of course, you used one. I'm really curious to see what people have used in terms of handouts.