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So, hows about a thread where people just chat and post replies often about their practice sessions?
To be honest, I just feel like talking about juggling more and want to chat about it, share and read other peoples experiences and everything all in the one place! I know you can create threads for bigger things and stuff, by why not have a topic based on random juggling discussion?
For example, and to start,
Today I spent quite a bit of time outside in the sun juggling, mainly practicing 5 balls and working on patterns to help out with 5 balls, 55550 55500 50505 5551 552 etc.
I feel like i'm progressing quite well as now once warm I can flash 5 about 8/10 attempts and have had runs of 8 balls a few times, with 6 and 7 feeling not much harder than 5 once warm.
With 4 balls I worked a fair bit on both sync and asyc 4 ball fountains, getting some of my longest runs yet! While also starting to try half showers, reverse fountains and pistons- which I had a nice run of too :).
I also spent a fair bit of time improvising with 3 balls, trying some clay motion juggling, behind back catches, low fast patterns including factory (which was pretty cool done really small), mills and shower. With a bit of time trying to improve my over the head juggling, backcrosses, 441 and 531 patterns.
Was a pretty long day of juggling but a great session all in all. There were a few frustrating moments, but mainly pure fun!
Dylan
I went to #Altern8 on Monday, played a little diabolo - mostly working on my slack and string-figure stuff.
Usual 5-club practice, managed to get my self-imposed target of "at least one run of 50+ catches per session" (68, since you ask).
Self-certified myself as kendama 3rd Dan again. (Training hard for 4th Dan exam this summer). Also ran the BKO advanced tricklist with 12 misses.
A usual day at the office for me. #actualjugglingtalk
Nice work on the 68 catch run with 5 clubs!
Do you always count your runs when you're working on 5 clubs or film and review them?
I generally count when trying something new or when I set myself a goal like yours and try to achieve it- though I find sometimes it can be distracting, sometimes helpful depending on the pattern.
I used to be right into diablo when I was young but never really got that great, it could be something I get into in the future though, but for now my spare time at home is for juggling =P.
I always count 5 club runs as I'm doing them. Some people seem to find that distracts them, but I've never had a problem with it.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I go in phases with counting catches. I can go for years not counting throws then decide it's a good idea and count everything. Then at some point decide that counting is getting in the way and swap back to not counting.
Brook Roberts - - Parent #
Not the void, but I've got into the habit of counting strongly enough that I tend to count almost everything that I'm learning. With things like 7 balls/5 clubs I sometimes have to concentrate not to count and distract myself. I don't think it makes things much harder for me anymore since I'm so used to it, but I do worry it might have an affect on my patterns - I only count throws from one hand and wonder if this is why some of my patterns tend to be a bit lopsided.
I'm also in the habit of counting. For me, it's anything with 5 or more objects. I generally count up to 10 then start again, only sometimes managing (or bothering) to keep track of the number of tens. Something that interested and amused me recently was the realisation that I'd starting counting in eights instead of tens. Took me a while to realise that's because I've been learning eight count based dancing stuff lately!
I count in 4s and 16s. That is, it goes One (two three four) Two (two three four) Three (two three four) Four (two three four) and then it repeats.
This is (I think) because I am a software developer.
It is completely ridiculous and I have no idea what the point is.
Little Paul - - Parent #
you mean you don't count just in hex or octal?
Little Paul - - Parent #
You do count using unicode characters though... right?
Little Paul - - Parent #
You don't have enough Ctrl of your pattern?
Little Paul - - Parent #
I tend to count in 8s as well for some poorly understood reason.
I think it probably goes back to when I was DJing all those years ago, and got used to thinking in terms of 2 bar phrases which repeat twice to make a 4 bar phrase - which seems to be how a lot of the dance music I was playing is structured.
I also count catches, but I don't know why. I always recommend to anyone who asks me to focus on making the pattern smooth rather than counting how long it lasts.
Often I will start off a pattern, start counting, then get halfway through & question why I am counting such awful out of time, out of place, over spun throws, then I will focus on straightening everything out, then I might start counting again, but I *always* restart counting from 3.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I actually did some juggling yesterday. Inspired by one of the IJA Tutorial Contest entries, I spent some time working on a trick I've tried a few times over the years and never made any progress with.
The tutorial I watched broke it down in a way I'd not thought of and it made a little more sense than it ever has before.
I'm not going to tell you what trick it was though, wouldn't want to give away any clues as to how my judging process is going ;-)
Little Paul - - Parent #
talking of the tutorial videos - I've decided to start deducting points for hipsters with stupid facial hair.
You're a funny one =P.
I just hope my facial hair style at the time wasn't 'hipster' =d.
That's awesome that one of the tutorials was able to help, there's some really good ones in there =].
I definitely see myself using a few at least throughout my juggling but will probably still watch other ones too. When learning something new I feel as though I always want at least two opinions on how to get started/learn it. I also sometimes like to read an explanation also.
Although if a tutorial is very clear and states exactly what to do I'd go back to that one and watch it a few times while learning.
Anyone else have a similar habbit for learning new patterns/tricks?
P.s. It hardly matters if judges give away stuff now, the submitting period is over so there's nothing we can do to change our tutorials now =P. But I guess it's funner it all being a secret until the very end!
Also this brings me to another questions, once the judging is over and the winners decided, would the judges (or at least some) explain how they decided on their top ten? I think it'd be fun to hear how everyone's done it and the differences between different peoples favourites and why- though I believe this will be in the eZine?
Anyway, that is all for now =].
Dylan
Little Paul - - Parent #
The judges have been asked to pick their top 10, and to make some comments about those 10 saying what they liked about them and why they picked them - so there will be some info around that. As you say, I expect that'll all be on the eZine.
I've voted now, but I'm still going to keep the details secret. Partly because it's more fun if it's a surprise, but partly because based on the reference number the voting site gave me last night - I'm the first judge to make it as far as voting, and I wouldn't want to influence the other judges at all!
Yeah I reckon it's better keeping it to yourself until the announcement =] surprises are awesome and I reckon everyone would prefer it like that =]. Was there a deadline for the judges or just in their own time?
It seems like a much better system this year though, much more fair than just peoples votes- which would basically be a popularity contest.
It's going to be fun to see how close the judge's top tens are too (although I guess they'll kinda stay anonymous) =P.
Brook Roberts - - Parent #
Even if you try not to just vote for your friends, there are too many tutorials for most people to watch anyway before voting, so I'm sure most people who voted last time didn't watch half of them anyway.
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