🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi again,
  I just read an article about showering, something I spend quite
a bit of time doing (not as much as on 5 cascade though :-| ).
It's funny, but I always thought you _shouldn't_ directly pass
the ball from one hand to the other - ie I always throw the ball,
and in the 3 shower, you can vary the hands from very close 
together, to about 80 cm apart (about 30 inches) (or more on a good day :).

  For the 4 shower - I still can't do 3 in one hand for more than
10 throws or so, yet I can do 100 throws of the 
4 shower with right-hand throws high, and about 60 with
left-hand throws high. In other words, site-swap doesn't describe
_everything_ about juggling, and a much better trick for working
on the 4 shower, is to first work on speeding up and lowering your
3 shower (eg I go down to a circle about 30 cm diameter or less),
then 'flash' the 3 balls - ie throw them at the same speed, but high.

  Also, don't get hung up on the '7' in '7 1' site-swap for the 
4 shower - just do it ! I can comfortably do a 4 shower
(asynchronous) standing in my bedroom, with a (roughly) 3 metre 
ceiling, and I can take it quite a bit lower. It's certainly
possible to do the 4 shower synchronously, although I only tried
it recently - and you can go even lower still that way. It may
be the only way I'll do the 5 shower standing up in my room :-)
  I can sometimes get about 20 throws of the 5 shower kneeling
down - I agree with the file on moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu about
showering in that the 5 shower will take much longer than 5 cascade
to get reasonably long rus.
(I can do up to 50-60 with 5 cascade, although I've had one run
of 100, and a couple of 70).

Just my $0.02 (added to the 0.05 from what I just posted on club
juggling. I'll be broke soon at this rate :-)

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