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Last night was excellent at #TWJC as we were joined by a large contingent from #HCC which swelled our ranks considerably. As we will be imminently moving to a new hall & will need to offload a lot of our excess stuff (watch out for an inventory soon) it was commented that, "the vultures were circling".
Andy brought along a Jacob's Ladder & tasked us to hold one end then pull it up & catch it in a neat stack which was a nice kendamaesqe challenge. Andy said he has managed to pull it off once. I came pretty close. Simon managed it on his 3rd attempt. & his fifth. Andy was also bemusing people with the cork trick where you hold a cork in between your thumb & the knuckle of your index finger in each hand then have to pull them apart using the tips of your thumb & index fingers. I broke out a trick I learnt from a magician at a Christmas party when I was about 8 that has served me well for many years where you hold your hands palms together & hold a stick on top with your thumbs, then without letting go or crossing your arms you use a 'magic twist' to finish with your tumbs underneath the stick. I enjoyed taunting the otherwise highly coordinated jugglers who couldn't work it out.
Then Andy showed me another trick that worked on pretty much the same principle & I couldn't work it out.
We re-worked out the 4 club zap zap zip pattern that we picked up at BJC2012. Simon has discovered an interest in siteswaps & has even descended to the point where he pulled out a piece of paper with a load of numbers that he was working on. One was 654 [SIC] so there is hope for him yet.
Thank you Hastings for a great night, see you on Friday!
On Monday at #altern8 , I managed a couple of your tricks for the first time. https://www.kendama.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,24.msg3497.html#msg3497
jamesfrancis - - Parent #
Good to see people are still working on some of the patterns from the Zaps workshop I ran at BJC.
654 was actually the second pattern in that workshop (although I refrained from mentioning siteswap at the time to maintain interest from the oldies!)
James
I missed the workshop, but I did see a couple of people passing zap zap zip [or (4-1.5)p(4-1.5)p1] at BJC. Last week, as my finger's not been 100% (and so I wanted to avoid higher throws), Alex and I tried 552 as well as trying 55244 with the 4s as flips. That seemed much trickier, but then it was time to home.
Any other zap patterns worth trying other than 5 and 645? I think I tried 756 a few years ago. Might be time to try it again.
jamesfrancis - - Parent #
825 and 852 are both very doable
67525 and 75625 I would also recommend with 5 clubs
With 6 clubs 756, 75756 are the easiest.
When you have learnt those come back and I will find you some more!
mike.armstrong - - Parent #
I had to double take when I read "casual enthusiast" there!
This may also be a test of posting from my (android) phone...
Why are some of those lines going backwards?
I suspect I have not come across this notation method before....
The arrows represent causes of throws not throws. A cause being a prop hurtling toward that hand on a beat.
In 4 hand siteswap a 2 represents a zip/hand across/1 in vanilla siteswap. To do a zip the hand you will be zipping into needs to be empty, which means that you need to have thrown whatever it was holding the beat before hence the backwards arrow.
855 and 885 are also fun - splitting your attention between the heffs up there and the zaps down there can be challenging.
jamesfrancis - - Parent #
Yes both fun, but both very difficult and hence left off my original list. Incidentaly I find the 7 club pattern 885 easier than the 6 club 855.
If you can find a couple of good passers, 855 feeding 2 885's is excellent!
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