Showing all entries dated: Sunday, 2 August 2015
5 balls, 5ballPREP, 60 minutes
Warmed up, then spent most of my time practicing the 5b flash with correct form. (relaxed shoulders, lowering hands a little more than usual, staring straight ahead of me so that i can see if the pattern is centered or not, keeping an even beat, trying to keep the throws at the same height) I can't focus on all of that at once!! but what i do is put more focus on the ones i notice i'm struggling with.
I started late, so that is all I did. >.>
Total practice time: 60 minutes
Location: Home
2 hours workshop: Takeouts in passing
+ some other juggling
Total practice time: 190 minutes
Location: Bruneck
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4-8 balls, 3-4 rings, rola-bola, 180 minutes
Nice sunny morning so spent a couple of hours juggling in the garden. Was meant to be a club practice session but it was surprisingly windy so aborted that after about a minute in favour of trusty balls.
Started with some 5b siteswaps. Some nice long runs of 753 (c40 rounds but wasn't counting). Was working on 771 quite a bit which I find surprisingly hard. Managed 11 rounds 4 or 5 times but couldn't get any further.
Moved up to a mix of 6, 7 and 8 practice, with the focus mainly being on 7. Achieved a few nice runs of 7 (max 134c) but seemed to be dropping around the 80 mark fairly consistently. Practiced some single backcrosses out of 7, 867, half shower and 8888881 but with only very limited success with any of them today. With 6 had a play with 777771 for just about the first time but only achieved 3 rounds back to pattern. 8 was generally terrible, as was my 4 in one hand practice.
In the evening was going to go to Camcircus but was tired after a 10k run and aware that most are at the EJC so gave it a miss. Did spend about an hour on and off juggling rings and playing around on the rola-bola at home though. Was working on 3 rings with a forehead ring balance again. Was having only limited success. Consistently need to step to the right which I need to sort, especially as there's no room in my living room to do so. Weirdly got to 42 catches 3 times but couldn't get any further with it today.
On the rola-bola (which saw the light of day for the first time in a couple of months) I got back into practising a club chin balance. My level seems to have dropped a bit but getting holds of about 10 seconds fairly consistently. Something to work on as want to get 5b + balance on there. Practiced 5 balls a bit on the rb which was pretty solid with all attempts around 100 catches.
Total practice time: 180 minutes
Location: Garden, Living room
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7 balls, 5 balls, 5 ball tricks, 3 heavy balls, #StagesOfLearning, #collateral, 215 minutes
3b freestyle, misc - 15 min. 5b casc varied - 30 min. Some 7-high endure: max 213 throws. A bit b-high: 12 catches clean (from increasing cascade) lol. A lot 9-high; wanted to double my max ~40-50 throws to what 70 or 100 catches I want with 7b, but got only two max runs of >=40 and didn't wanna exhaust on it. 5b tricks - 20 min. 5b all up 180° : (from running cascade) got five times 4 catches and was about to give up after third time. But it was so close and the fifth time was "almost" with had the fifth ball, but slipped off after half caught. After some more fails and again wanting to adjourn that as it wouldn't succeed, I instead decided to WANT that flash done knowing I could get it after such close tries. Got it shortly afterwards. [ #collateral ]. #StagesOfLearning : First throwing way too high, balls going anywhere. Counted beats on single ball throw for timing five throws until 180° catch to find the apt height. --> Next - with right timing now - found always second throw (weakhand) failing and switched that off. --> Now found the flash in its whole landing too wide, so threw it more narrow which made one or other collision until I finally got it. [record that one]. 7b casc - 70 min. 41 throws counted run.
3b freestyle, misc - 5 min. 7b casc - 75 min. Another 41 throws run.
Had better, but: good phase with ~ 30 th runs = good session. [ dailyLongestRun7b: 41 ]
Total practice time: 215 minutes
Location: rivershore-meadow
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5-8 balls, 3-5 clubs, 120 minutes
5 balls - cascade, high throws, 744, 753, 645, (6,6)(6x,2x)
7 balls - longest run was around 100 catches.
8 ball flash
3 clubs - doubles, triple with active 2, 423 with lots of variations, and 50505
4 clubs - sync to async, lots of sync
4 clubs - 534 - had a few qualifies
5 clubs - some long runs, but nothing that felt really good
Total practice time: 120 minutes
Location: 2pm-4pm outside wearing sunglasses
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