(animations made with the excellent software JuggleAnim of Jack Boyce)
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SiteSwap |
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3 balls
cascade |
3333...... | Basic trick of juggling, 1st stage
to have to enter the universe of juggling.
To learn how this trick to click HERE |
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3 balls
Shower |
515151..... | Often tested wrongly by the beginners like 1st trick, it is definitely more difficult than the cascade | |
Columns | (0,4)(4,4)..... | Here the balls do not circulate, they remain on the same position and are launched vertically | |
Columns | (4,4)(0,4x)
(4,4)(4x,0) |
an alternative... | |
Columns | (4,4)(0,4x)
(4,4) (4,0) (4,4)(4x,0) (4,4)(0,4)..... |
another alternative... | |
Reversed
3 balls cascade |
333333...... | If this trick is filmed and that one views with back, we find the traditional cascade exactly | |
4 balls
Fountain |
444444...... | It's poetic, the odd tricks name " cascades " the even tricks " fountains "; to note that in the cascades the balls cross, in the fountains not... | |
Snake | 50505..... | Its name is " snake " because the 3 balls are followed in zigzag. Its notation shows that it is a part of cascade with 5 balls (55555) the 0 indicating missing balls | |
Mills' Mess | 33333.... | Invented by the famous juggler Steve Mills, this trick is one of prettiest to look at, in particular when it is carried out with a negotiable instrument of vagueness. It forms part of a whole of tricks where one crosses the bras.To learn Mills' Mess click HERE. | |
Boston Mess | 33333.... | Also called " pistons ", Boston is an alternative of Mills' Mess | |
Box | (2x,4)(4,2x) | Belongs to the family of the " square juggling ", it is also a synchronous trick (the 2 hands launch at the same time) | |
Robot | 2334.... | Also called " machine ", it points out the mechanical operation of an automat. It is also " public garden juggling " | |
Carry | 33333..... | A little equivalent to the preceding one but request a more constant rate/rhythm. | |
5 balls cascade |
55555.... | An important stage for all the jugglers of a number; the pluspart will remain about it there, some will be tested with the 7 balls but very little will go beyond. | |
5 balls
bounce |
55555.... | More impressive that the cascade with 5 in the air, it is however easier to hold |
JugleAnim is
a software (based on applets java) of generation
and animation of juggling tricks, written by
Jack Boyce which is a researcher in physics of the university of Berkeley,
impassioned juggling.
SiteSwap is
a mathematical notation making it possible to codify any trick, it
is based over the duration of flight expressed in time, thus
a throw of 3 will last 3 times, 1 time being the minimal duration
between 2 throws. Generators and viewers of tricks give many possibily
to invent new tricks.