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Showing all entries dated: Tuesday, 4 August 2015

2015-08-04

Orinoco

3 clubs, 30 minutes

Good solid session, very few drops. Feel I'm really close to being able to run reverse backcrosses properly if only I can force myself to throw to a consistent height.

club passing, 10 minutes

Club passing & stealing with John & Laurence.

handstands, 5 minutes

Total practice time: 45 minutes

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peterbone

3 clubs, 5 balls, 6 balls, 7 balls, 9 balls, 11 balls, 35 minutes

Short garden session. Quite windy. 14 catches clean with 11 balls.

Total practice time: 35 minutes

Location: garden

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Mike Moore

Token, 25 minutes

I'm trying to get serious about improvement again! Today was just a quick "Do I still remember how to juggle?" before the rubber hits the road tomorrow. Not having juggled seriously for the last ~week due to traveling to teach, I wasn't expecting much. Surprise! Everything was hitting cleanly, movements felt good. What a pleasant surprise!

My focus has shifted a bit. I'll make a list of short- and middle-term focus patterns in the next day or do.

Total practice time: 25 minutes

Location: Roz

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GumybolzZ

5ballPREP, 5 balls, 3 balls, 90 minutes

I had a proper session this time, but i still didn't practice everything quite thoroughly. Don't get me wrong though, this session was really good!

I warmed up, practiced the 5b cascade, moved on to refining the 55550, and the 552. Practiced the 534 and the 53 a bit. Then I had some fun with 3ball overheads. I noticed that i tend to move my hands out and away from my resting position, but it was no problem to correct. The pattern felt really clean.

For the 5b stuff, and the warming up, I simply focused on keeping my shoulders relaxed, and just allowed myself to execute my throws the way i felt was natural. I mean, I did the pattern, and if anything was off, i would noticed and change it. For example, if i noticed my high throw was going outward, i would focus on making more narrow throws, having them land in my hand, which would be alligned with my shoulder. So, in other words, I did what i normally would do in practice, only i was putting great emphasis on the important basics (relaxed shoulders, lowering hands, etc.) as i was doing it. And idk how to explain this, but, I wasn't so focused on being perfect, I was just making sure that i was putting effort into clean throws, with good technique and form. And really, all that matters is that you try. And that you're not just tossing the balls in the air.

Oh and, when i was flashing and doing the 55550 warming up, i noticed my throwing technique kinda changed. My hands sorta scoop, in a 2D plane now, I thought it was cool, and natural, so I put effort into doing it the rest of practice. (_)__(_) <-- kinda like that, each throw is made where the inside of the scoops are, and each throw is caught at the outside. I'm guessing this improved when i was lowering my arms a bit, I mean, i swear i've done this before many times, but I didn't pay much attention, and i swear it has improved. I swear, this is going to be key in getting a solid 5b cascade. (wow, i swear alot o_o XD)

Also! I was able to count and do atleast 10+ 12catches of the 5b cascade, with excellent form and technique! :D

Total practice time: 90 minutes

Location: Home

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Maria

passing, 170 minutes

2 workshops in 7 clubs passing + continued afterwards with feeds and triangle.

Total practice time: 170 minutes

Location: Bruneck

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JackJuggles

3 balls, 30 minutes

A good 3 ball practice. Tried to stick with my routine of working on tricks for only about 1-2 minutes. It worked pretty well. Maybe took 3 minutes or so on a few tricks, but generally spent a small amount of time per trick.
Let me just sat why I prefer spending just a couple of minutes or less on each trick. The shorter amount of time I spend on tricks, the more tricks I get done. I may not be able to learn a trick in a single practice session, but I solidify a lot of tricks over time. This way I can spend just an hour a day, but if I do it everyday I learn much more tricks.
Getting back to my practice, it was a generally good practice, Although nothing stands out to me about that practice.

4 balls, 5 balls, 35 minutes

30 minutes on 4 balls, 5 minutes on 5 balls.
My 4 ball practice went well, but I practiced some tricks I shouldn't have that just frusterated me. I spent 2-4 minutes on each trick. Overheads both sync and async worked well.
5 balls went well did a practice pyramid of 15c x10 -) 30c x5 -) 50c x1. It took me about 3-4 minutes to get 50 catches, longer than I intended, but I want to do this pyramid everyday until I drop only a couple times, then make it harder.
Overall a good session

Total practice time: 65 minutes

Location: My bedroom

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7b_wizard

7 balls, 3 balls, 5 balls, 3 heavy balls, 204 minutes

3b freestyle, misc - 7 min7b casc - 47 min. (2 min warmup with 5b was enough)

(forced rainbreak) 3b freestyle, misc - 15 min. (at home)  

(out again) 5b casc varied - 10 min.7b casc - 125 min.   Max counted runs: 39, 43, 41 throws; several over 30 th.   Many too high, a bit too much forced; fewer low runs.   Partly tried "narrow" during better phase .. this shall remain an issue (as again a lot drifted into too wide). [ dailyLongestRun7b: 43 ]

loc: rivershore-meadow + home + concrete area among fields

Total practice time: 204 minutes

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Ethan

everything, 700 minutes

Just a normal practice.......

I'm trying to get ready for IJA in 2016!!!!! SO EXCITED!!!!! IJA would be the first competition thing I've ever done.....I'm going for gold.......ok maybe I'm setting my goals to high........I'm still going to try my hardest though. I might throw in some 5 ball box into my routine.....har har "throw in" see what I did there;) ha ha ah ah......*crickets chirping*.....anyway..

Total practice time: 700 minutes

Location: home

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