The Juggling Edge - I notice some new 3b patterns have been added to Library of Juggling recently.

pumpkineater23 - 9/20/2014 17:48 #

I notice some new 3b patterns have been added to Library of Juggling recently.

https://www.libraryofjuggling.com/UpdateLog.html

Thank you - great news - more please! Someone get some of those crazy Murakami ones on there pronto!

LibraryofJuggling - 9/20/2014 20:56 - Parent #

Yay, someone is using the update log! Glad that addition has been of some use.

As for Murakami's tricks... yeah we'll see about that. If anyone here can actually juggle any of those patterns and would like to write a tutorial, I would be happy to add it to the Library. Barring that I might eventually try to learn some of his tricks myself, but my pattern backlog is too big right now.

noslowerdna - 9/21/2014 02:00 - Parent #

During recent practice sessions I have been working through these animated cherry picker variations, as well as finding a few of my own. The ones toward the end of the page are particularly fun (also, the embedded Murakami/asf360 videos contain some really challenging and creative patterns).

Perhaps the Library could contain a "Gallery" section, that just contained animations, to make it easier to catalog patterns? Such a gallery could also serve as an inspirational backlog for written tutorial contributions.

Mike Moore - 9/21/2014 13:32 - Parent #

I can do some of Murakami's fairly early work, and will hopefully have some free time in a month or so. I'll try to remember to give it a go!

pumpkineater23 - 9/21/2014 16:42 - Parent #

There are many patterns I would love a step by step 'Library of Juggling' style breakdown of. Like this one for example:

https://youtube.com/v/jN1wo5yIlVw?start=105

Mike, I'd say you can do that one. I can't understand it.. the swap at the lower corners. It looks like it should be quite simple, probably isn't.. I can't understand what's going on or how to go about learning it.

pumpkineater23 - 9/21/2014 16:44 - Parent #

.. it's at 1:45.. not sure if the link worked properly.

Little Paul - 9/21/2014 16:54 - Parent #

I'm not sure how you could possibly hope to understand it from that video, it's impossible to see what's going on because the backlighting hides all the important information about the pattern.

noslowerdna - 9/21/2014 17:17 - Parent #

According to the comments, that pattern is "531 with the 3's as a factory carry".

I had a similar idea a while ago that you can see at 10:44 of https://youtu.be/hW_F5FBFwSc (reverse slam instead of factory carry).

pumpkineater23 - 9/22/2014 10:28 - Parent #

LP - Yes it's true some more light would be helpful. I'm not sure I've seen the pattern elsewhere unfortunately.

Noslowerdna - Checking the comments was a good idea, thank you. "531 with the 3's as a factory carry" is helpful, I like your idea (10.44) too. And your IJA tutorial is excellent BTW, very thoroughly explained and the video has the slight strangeness that all your videos have that I like very much.

noslowerdna - 9/23/2014 12:00 - Parent #

Thanks for the compliment about my IJA contest video - I'm glad you enjoyed it. I managed to get a few cycles of this pattern last night (still quite sloppy though). The timing and spacing are difficult to get right. In lieu of a proper tutorial, here's a slow motion clip. Hopefully this is helpful for the visual learners following this thread.

https://youtu.be/CoZKKJt5Uak

Mike Moore - 9/22/2014 13:39 - Parent #

Funny you should mention that one! I came up with it (admittedly, it's not a conceptually complex trick, but it does look really nice) a while ago, and it's cool to see others found it too.

I learned it by doing 531 Mills, with the 5s as under throws. Try doing this very low, and by necessity you'll probably start clawing the 3. The sylistic jump is at this point: instead of throwing the 3 as a typical Mills throw (to land in the centre of your body) throw it more or less straight up, and carry it across. This might happen naturally as you try to lower the pattern, so try it first without thinking too hard.

The last step is matching the heights of the carried 3 and the throw 5. If you can drive the pattern low enough, it shouldn't be too crazy, but there might be an interesting aesthetic to doing this pattern at arm's length!

Mike Moore - 9/22/2014 13:40 - Parent #

Correction:

The sylistic jump is at this point: instead of throwing the 3 as a typical Mills throw ~~(to land in the centre of your body) throw it more or less straight up and~~ carry it across.