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allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson) writes:

>Eric's Extension, which is Mills' Mess squared. Your arms cross,
>then cross *doubly*, then uncross back to normal, cross the other
>way, then doubly, etc.

 Ah, so /that/'s what it's called. I've almost got it, except for
when I've got my arms crossed twice, um, anticlockwise, when I
always miss out a beat. Hmph. Nice trick, though.

 (currently, I'm working on juggling (just a cascade, nothing
ambitious) with my arms folded three times; so at the upper arm,
forearm, and finally with wrists cranked around. Unfortunately I
can only manage about two minutes of practise before my shoulders
threaten to rip themselves out of the sockets..)

>There's a picture of Eric (Uhrhane) doing this in an old Juggler's World. 
>He won prizes in a couple of 3-ball Opens at IJA conventions doing this
>and other tricks.                                               Allen K.

 There's someone doing it on the Beauty of Three-Ball Juggling
video, as well -- dunno if this is the same person, though. They
also do a pattern which is essentially a cascade, but alternate
throws are with the arms crossed twice in the opposite way, so it's
throw: [uncross,uncross,cross,cross]: repeat. It's nice once you
can do it, and there's just plain more motion there than in any
other three-ball pattern I've seen.


 Oh, and am I alone in *hating* the voice-over on BoTBJ? The first
time I heard it, I thought it was patronising and irritating --
when I realised that it was actually drowning out what the people
doing patterns were saying at times, it's even worse. It makes
watching the video positively painful..

 Are there videos specifically from the 3-ball opens available, as
with the 'normal' IJA conventions? 

 Personally, I'd be willing to buy a second copy of BoTBJ if there
was one available without the voice-over.. I have yet to see anyone
be impressed by it -- people who can juggle know everything he
says ('this is the cascade. This is the reverse cascade.' Wow.) and
those who don't either don't care about the names of the patterns,
or are equally unimpressed by the even more stupid quotes ('one of
the attributes that makes balls roll so well is their roundness').

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Daniel Mitchell == ke94002@black.ox.ac.uk == bi furry juggler