What a lot of balls!

[duke3016]

* a flash is throwing and catching each ball once.

Not around Ellesmere Port it"s not

[SirPercival]

The shoulder doesn"t actually hurt when I juggle but if I get the op then I will be set back somewhat.

To try and measure progress I did some counts today.

3-ball cascade I can do 100+ catches comfortably but still need to work on consistency of throws.
2-ball outward circles in right hand is about 20-30 catches on average, 10-20 in left
4-ball flash I can do about 2 times in 3

[SirPercival]

OK, this is bloody hard.

I can see me getting 4 right after a lot of work but the height and speed needed for 5 seems out of my reach.

Need more than a drink from Des and a few from Ger to make this worthwhile.

[Marty719]

OK, this is bloody hard.

I can see me getting 4 right after a lot of work but the height and speed needed for 5 seems out of my reach.

Need more than a drink from Des and a few from Ger to make this worthwhile.

side bets for motivation obv...

gl sir!!

[SirPercival]

OK, this is bloody hard.

I can see me getting 4 right after a lot of work but the height and speed needed for 5 seems out of my reach.

Need more than a drink from Des and a few from Ger to make this worthwhile.

side bets for motivation obv...

gl sir!!

What odds will you give me Marty?

[kinboshi]

Hopefully you do better with this than Scottish goalkeepers - who traditionally struggle with one ball.

I think you need to be outside (or in a room with a very high ceiling) to move on to 5 balls.  3 is easy, but you will need a lot of height for 5 balls - and a normal ceiling might be too low?

Great idea though.  I"ll donate something to charity if you can do this.  Success should be 10 catches+, verified by three independent judges, and I"ll be Norris McWhirter.

Anyway, in the meantime, you can sponsor me for my marathon.  Thanks

[TheSnapper]

Some idle meandering on the riveting topic that is Juggling......

Two truths about juggling

1. Throwing is more important than catching. If you"re good at throwing, the catching takes care of itself. Emergency response is overrated compared to emergency avoidance.

2. Juggling is about dropping. The entire magic of witnessing a juggler has to do with the risk of something being dropped. If there is no risk of dropping, juggling is actually sort of boring. Perfection is overrated, particularly if it keeps you from trying things that are interesting.

Hence the tricky part--you want to ship in a way that (as much as you can) avoids failure, but when failure comes, moving forward is more effective than panic or blame.

[SirPercival]

Major breakthrough yesterday. Did a 4-ball asynchronous crossing flash for the first time. This is number 13 on my plan but I haven"t mastered 1-12 yet!

Thinking about doing impersonations of APAT"ers juggling for charity on video here. Need to investigate one of these online donation thingy"s first.

[kinboshi]

Major breakthrough yesterday. Did a 4-ball asynchronous crossing flash for the first time. This is number 13 on my plan but I haven"t mastered 1-12 yet!

Must have strong wrists imo.

Thinking about doing impersonations of APAT"ers juggling for charity on video here. Need to investigate one of these online donation thingy"s first.

You could just stand there in front of the camera, perfectly still, with no balls to juggle.  Just say to the camera "Juggling coming soon" - that would be a good impression of someone...

[PantsMan]

The entire magic of witnessing a juggler has to do with the risk of something being dropped. If there is no risk of dropping, juggling is actually sort of boring.

Hmmm. I need more than just "risk of dropping" to make juggling anything other than boring. Unless Stu is on fire, on a greased highwire above the tables at an APAT tournament juggling 4 chainsaws and a live pig ..... i"m out.

[SirPercival]

Well that"s me booked in for the operation - yikes!

Consultant says it"s 2-6 weeks to recover and up to 6 months to get back to "normal".

Glad I didn"t take bets on this challenge but I"m hoping to get back to it as soon as it is safe to do so.

[Chipaccrual]

Take this out of context (pretend you don"t know what the thread is about)



Title of Thread - What a lot of balls!

Stuart writes -

Well that"s me booked in for the operation - yikes!

Consultant says it"s 2-6 weeks to recover and up to 6 months to get back to "normal".

Glad I didn"t take bets on this challenge but I"m hoping to get back to it as soon as it is safe to do so.

PMSL  

[duke3016]

Mind like a sewer - however I was giggling  

[technolog]

Take this out of context (pretend you don"t know what the thread is about)



Title of Thread - What a lot of balls!

Stuart writes -

Well that"s me booked in for the operation - yikes!

Consultant says it"s 2-6 weeks to recover and up to 6 months to get back to "normal".

Glad I didn"t take bets on this challenge but I"m hoping to get back to it as soon as it is safe to do so.

PMSL  

lol - nh wp!

[kinboshi]

Sounds like no bareback riding for Stuart for a little while anyway.