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Tips for 5 balls

  • 15-11-2005 12:22AM
    #1
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭


    I've been juggling since the start of August and am quite obsessed at this stage. I've been doing 4 for a while now and am feeling quite comfortable with it. Just got another 3 balls the other day and started trying to do 5.

    I've read some stuff on 5 balls but I thought I'd start a thread here in case anyone has some nice tips.

    This is what I've been doing.

    1)Flashing 3
    2)Flashing 3 while holding an extra one in each hand
    3)I have different sets of balls so I've started with 2 and 3 and flashed them to see if the balls are indeed switching hands.
    4)Flashing 4 as if I were doing cascade??
    5)Trying to remain relaxed and not tense up.
    6)Dropping balls ;)

    I'm not sure what height to aim for. At the moment, I'm just using the ceiling in my kitchen as a mark.

    Where should I be looking as I throw the balls?

    Would trying 6 help me?

    Very generally speaking, how long does it usually take to get 5 ball cascade going fairly solidly? I seem to have picked things up quite quickly up to now.

    Thanks!!


Comments

  • #2
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    5 is a real mountain compared to 4 balls. it'll take around 6 months to be hitting the 50c mark regularly but hen it shoots up after that. the patterns i found to help most were 50505 and 525


  • #3
    Hugh Hefner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,767 ✭✭✭Hugh Hefner


    Aye, a few months of preactice before things start getting nice and steadily good.


    I think the best height would be about a foot above your head.

    Also, try flashing 3 balls from one hand into the other (you should get a 3 ball arc in the air). Then as those 3 balls land in your other hand flash them again under the line of the original arc, back into your first hand. I think this is called Chasing The Dog. If you're doing it right you should only be using one or no hands at any given time.


  • #4
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    amazingemmet wrote:
    5 is a real mountain compared to 4 balls. it'll take around 6 months to be hitting the 50c mark regularly but hen it shoots up after that. the patterns i found to help most were 50505 and 525

    I tried to plug your examples into this [URL=]http://www.juggling.org/programs/java/nichols/[/URL]
    to see what they looked like but it doesn;t seem to recognise them as valid. (or something)


  • #5
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    Their defintiely valid. come to juggling in trinity tonight and i'll show you how to juggle them


  • #6
    rparle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭rparle


    You're describing 50505 (or 55050), the three-ball snake. Also good are 552, 55550 (four balls in a five-ball pattern, with a gap), and some people swear by 5551 but I find it harder than 5. The three-ball shower (51) in both directions is a must aswell. And the four-ball half shower (53) in both directions won't hurt.


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  • #7
    rparle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭rparle


    breadmonkey wrote:
    I tried to plug your examples into this [URL=]http://www.juggling.org/programs/java/nichols/[/URL]
    to see what they looked like but it doesn;t seem to recognise them as valid. (or something)
    http://www.jugglingdb.com/news/siteswap.php?site=525
    http://www.jugglingdb.com/news/siteswap.php?site=50505


  • #8
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    amazingemmet wrote:
    Their defintiely valid. come to juggling in trinity tonight and i'll show you how to juggle them

    Sorry, I only saw this just now but I couldn't make it down anyway. Thanks for the offer though.


  • #9
    NiallKelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭NiallKelly


    breadmonkey wrote:
    Where should I be looking as I throw the balls?

    You should be looking at the top of the pattern where the balls cross.
    breadmonkey wrote:
    Would trying 6 help me?

    I don't think 6 is a good pattern to practice while just starting to learn 5, since its a completely different pattern. Maybe try flashing 7. 5 will seem a lot easier then.


  • #10
    andrewg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭andrewg


    i liked to try to pretend i was juggling 3 just very fast. if you just think of the 3 ball pattern, you may do better.

    try flashing 3 balls then while they are in the air, try throwing the other two up. this helped me improve. i am still not great at it. i have been juggling since february 2005


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