I'm mid 60's. Used to do a little bit of juggling / balancing a broom on my foot / spinning a plate or tray (people didn't like it when I did it with their best plate ;-). With lockdown have sort of started with 3 balls again - muscle memory is not bad, but reactions have taken a little knocking. I suppose I'm aiming for 5 balls, but may revise! Also learning to unicycle. What I really wanted to ask on the forum is : fountains are normally done with the same number of balls in each hand. While I understand it would likely be VERY difficult, is there any intrinsic reason you can't do fountains with, say 3 balls in one hand and 2 in the other, or 2 balls in one hand and 4 in the other? I've tried the trivial case of one ball in one hand (OK, not really juggling) and two in the other - seems possible with a bit of practice.
Hi Chris,
Yes, you can do split-number fountains. I've done 3-2. The issue is that it means you're doing different rhythms with each hand, which does tend to mess with your head!
Try it anyway, it's a fun challenge,
Cheers,
Void
Mike Moore - - Parent #
Hi Chris, welcome!
Here are a couple examples that I did a few weeks ago of what you're describing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B89UxqdgB3w/
You could do a 3-2 fountain as Void described and also (if you understand site-swap) as 666660 i.e. 3 in one hand, 3 with a hole (leaving 2) in the other, couldn't say which was the easiest. Click the highlighted numbers to get an idea of what it looks like.
There's different ways of doing these, as pointed out previously, and it's all a bit patting your head and rubbing your stomach.
Probably the easiest is with a "hole", much like practising 5 balls with 4, or, indeed, doing a 3 ball columns pattern but in a fountain. I found this easier to do "in sync", but it's harder to get into from a cascade.
Next easiest for me was with differing heights. For 5 balls this would be 6s in one hand and 4s in the other, the feel is a bit like 534 with 4 balls. Pretty easy to get into from a cascade, you could probably swap sides too but that would mean being able to do the 6s with the non-dominant hand, something I never managed. It could probably evolve into something like 645 (I think that works)
Then there's the in-and-out-of-sync way, which I never managed to get my head around for more than a few throws. Its throwing "half a hole" with one hand, and it's a horrible headfuck.
I've never tried any of these with anything more than 5 balls, cause I'm crap at numbers.
Cedric Lackpot - - Parent #
> is there any intrinsic reason you can't do fountains with, say 3 balls in one hand and 2 in the other, or 2 balls in one hand and 4 in the other?
It's sometimes referred to as polyrhythmic juggling and was explored in some detail a few years ago by Joost Dessing amongst others. If you are lucky there might be some old videos lurking on the web.
Whatever happened to Joost?
He dropped out of the juggling festival scene and became a lecturer, but to be honest I don't think he ever recovered from Pimms night.
Did any of us really?
Oh and yes, I'm still alive - but I'm not reading the 4786 forum posts since my last login..
Little Paul - - Parent #
Someone on the radio was encouraging people to try putting herbs in their GnT - including chives
mike.armstrong - - Parent #
Wasn't that Peter?
mike.armstrong - - Parent #
I mean Pieter. Bloody autocorrect
Little Paul - - Parent #
I think they were shopping together weren’t they?
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