Miscellaneous
3 Ball Tricks
Various 3 ball tricks I have mastered throughout my juggling years :)
Cascade Variations
- Cross-arm Cascade
- Reverse Cross-arm Cascade
- Galerkin’s Guitar - a Reverse Cross-arm cascade with with the top hand doing a clawed elliptical chop - video
- Frantic Cascade (continuous under the catches)
- Tennis
- Penguin Cascade
- Claw Cascade
- Chops
- Time Reverse Chops
- Time Reverse Chop + Broken Box - 3-colorable (1 ball is caught continously under the arm, 1 stays in the center and 1 is being choped out!)
- 3-MM (MM => Mills Mess)
- 3-Pinball
- 3-bbb (blind behind the back) - my attemps :)
- 333 with body throws
- reverse throw, catch under the leg + throw under the leg
- 3-Factory (normal,normal,carry)
- 3 continuous under-the-arm throw (Mike’s Mess - 5D22)
- Var: 52{wd}2 (wd = wrist-drop)
- Twisted Variation
423 Variations
- 423 Tennis
- 423 MM, FMM (Takeouts)
- 4D2U3 MM with 2 active as wrist drop
- 423 with 2 active goes outside and is caught below other hand
- 423 claw (every throw)
- 423 penguin variation (4 or 2 as penguin catches)
- 423 (3 as bxx)
- 423 follow variation: active 2 that circles the 3 (carry around), claw throw the 4
- 423(follow var) + 3(carry)3 - Relf’s Factory!
- 423 tornado: 2 active in infinity motion
- 423 Weave (S)
- Var: 42423: Orinoco flow
- 423 with 2 active drop, catch under the leg (nice)
- 423 (4 high throw and 3 overhead throw, catches 4)
- 423 overheads
- 423 with 4 as a pinball throw!
Columns + Factory
- 1up2up
- Cross-armed columns (sync Boston Mess)
- Infinity Columns, Reverse Infinity Columns
- Boxy-Columns
- Tennis-Columns
- Fake Columns
- Yo-Yo (+many variations on this, see a nice one here)
- Factory (Symmetric version, 3-count)
- Pendulum-Drop (Factory in 2-count, normal vs pendulum version)
- Time-reversed Factory (Symmetric version, 3-count, Asymmetric version clip)
- Mess-Factory or Cross-armed Factory
Box
- Normal Box (4,2x)*, Double Box
- Swap Box - (6,2x)(2x,2x)*
- Underarm Box
- Penman’s Box
- Penman’s Pandemonium - 2x up!
- Slow Shuffle Box
- Luke’s Shuffle (Box with slams)
- Levels (3-count, 2-count = ‘pop-up’ Box)
- Burst Box/Symmetric Broken Box (2 versions: under and over the arm catches)
- Switched Columns Box
- Threaded Box - continuous under the arm catches
- Bizarre Box - fake 2x, bring it back!
- Karas’s Box - 2 x (fake 2x)!
- Penguin Box
- Claw-2x Box: 2nd pattern in the video
Others
- Boston Shuffle
- Shuffle - shower with slams!
- Burke’s Slam - with takeouts!
- Tom’s trick - Boston shuffle + chop
- Boston Shuffle + Bisector/Shapeshifter
- Boston Shuffle with 2x upwards (changing trajectory, same as below)
- Boston Shuffle + Shapeshifter (upwards trajectory!)
- L-shower - shuffle + broken box asymmetric
- B.Shuffle + Broken Box (2x same ball always) - first trick
- Symmetric L-shower - 2-colorable, reach-under
- B.Shuffle + Broken Box extension - like above + 1 extra throw to “give space”
- B.Shuffle + Burst Box - last trick (2x same ball always)
- Twisted Boston Shuffle - 1st pattern
- Peguinistic Boston Shuffle!
- 441/45141 Variations
- 441 reverse + Burst box - 2-colorable!
- 45141, with 5 as an under-the-arm catch (async, sync + follow/S var) - 2-colorable!
- 45141, with 5 as an over-the-arm catch - 2-colorable!
- Hi there! - a 52530 variation where you catch the 3 with a horizontal claw-catch + other tricks based on that catch
- 23[43]423 ([43] as a ‘traffic light’ - all in a line, same colored balls)
- Rubinstein’s Revenge (522+33)
- Romeo’s Revenge
- Relf’s Rubensteins (combo of Romeo’s + Rubi’s)
- Extended Rubistein (Rubi + kraken!)
- Georgian Shuffle (Symmetric)
- Georgian Scuffle (Symmetric) - G.Shuffle + a little bit of kraken
- 531, 53142, 52413 overheads
- Penguin Tricks
- The confused Penguin - a 52530 variation where the first 5 is smaller than second, 53 feels like synced and you catch the 3 with a penguin-catch
- 4pen41 (pen = penguin-catch that throw)
- 1up2up-half-penguin-Tennis Var
- 53pen1
- 52512-pen
- Penguin Shower
- Catch-up!
- Statue of Liberty
- Hector’s bisector
- 42333 Variations - both inward and outward 423’s
- One-side bisector
- Twice per side bisector
- Taffy Puller
- Bursty Bisector/Parenthetical Perplexion
- Burke’s Bender - a 423 bisector variation
- The Shapeshifter
- 2 balls shapeshift exercise
- 441+33 shapeshift the 2nd 4 (33 is done with the same hand)
- Broken Boston shifter! - 2-colorable!
4 Ball Colored Patterns
My favorite 4 ball colored siteswaps :)
The most interesting patterns (visually) have 2 or 3 colors.
2 colors
2+2
- Base pattern is 552. There are two chromaticities for the 55 throws: monochromatic 55 and dichromatic 55. We have 1 period per color when 55 is monochromatic and 4 periods when it is dichromatic - 2 as {blue,red} and 2 as {red,blue}. So after 2 periods, there is a color order change in the 55 dichromaticity case.
- Switch (monochromatic => dichromatic): 552 - 534 - 552 - see video
- The reverse transition (dichromatic => monochromatic) via a 534 must happen after the first 552 or after the first 552, but never during the change from {blue,red} to {red,blue}! I shall say that this transition happens at 1st or 3rd period of the global dichromatic 552.
- A siteswap that can be started from a dichromatic 552, after the 1st or 3rd period, and does not have transition throws, can be equivalently started from each hand holding two balls of the same color! This means that you can go from a dichromatic 552 after the 1st or 3rd global period, to a fountain pattern with different color balls in each respective hand!
- Start with monochromatic 552: 552 - 55613 - 63551 - see video
- Start with monochromatic 552: 552 - 55 |714 - see video (last sequence)
- Start with 1 color per hand: 642 - 63641 - 64613 - 5|561 - see video 1 (full sequence) and 2 (part of sequence)
- Start with 1 color per hand: 75251 - see video
- Start with dichromatic 552 and switch after 2nd or 4th period (*): 5|741 - see video
- (*): 5|6616162 - see video
- (*): 7427242 - see video
- (*): 5|8518501 - see video
- (*): 8441841481441 - see video
(*): These are equivalent to starting from 4 ball fountain with throws corresponding to colors as (blue,red,red,blue). Note that the placement of the balls in your hands, so that the above throw sequence respects the coloring, forms a crossing pattern.
3+1
With red the one ball that does something completely different from the other 3!
3 colors
1+1+2
- 45641 - see video
- 46451 - see video
- 1234567 + the 2 above all in one sequence - see video
- 7362514 (start from fountain with throws corresponding to colors as blue,red,red,green) - see video
- 75314 (start with 2 balls of the same color in one hand) - see video
- 5|58142 (start with 2 balls of the same color in one hand) - see video
4 colors
- 6372451 - see video
Mills Mess
Notation:
- R = Reverse (in time)
- F = Flipped
- Unless specified, each siteswap is done at all 3 positions: U (UP), M (MIDDLE), D (DOWN)
2 balls
- 312 (3xMM with active 2)
- 2 Var: wrist-up (MM, 3D), wrist-down (FMM, 3U)
3 balls
Period 3
- 3 (MM,RMM,FMM,RFMM)
- 423, 441 (MM,FMM)
- 4D23 - Burke’s Barrage
- Twisted Burke’s Barrage - see video (3rd pattern)
- Twisted Takeouts - see video (4th pattern)
- 531 (MM), 5U3D1 (FMM)
- 51 + Var
- 4M-5D-0
Period 5
Other siteswaps
- 531+441+423 (D)
- 531+441+3
- 5241+531 (favorite!!!)
Tricks
- Windmill
- Reverse Windmill
- Twisted Windmill
- 4233 Twisted Variation
- Half-Mess (2 in each side, 3M3D3U + 3reverse)
- Claw Half-Mess
- Boston Mess (2 directions)
- Cherry Picker - a claw half Boston Mess
- MM shower: 441+3M3D
- Penguin MM
- FMM with wrist-drop on parallel with the middle throw
- 3M3U + 4M4U1 FMM (4 in each side)
- Peruvian Mess: 4D23D + 3U3M
- Frostbite
- First 4 inside
- 441+3{M}3{U+claw}
- Frostbite 531 - can be combined with 33 as M,U+claw as above
- Twisted Frostbite
- Frostbitten Bisector - the hand that claws is the same one that bisects (my video)
- Shapeshifted Frostbite
- Frostbite + Galerkin’s Guitar
- Frostbiten Taffy Puller!
- Orka’s Mess - (4,4)(4x,0)(2,4)*
- Flo’s Mess/Reach-over
- Twisted Flo’s Mess - see video (1st pattern)
- Reach-under
- Mess Sync Var: (6U,4D)(0,2x)(4D,2)* (color-coded)
- Kraken
- Var: Takeout (on the medium ball)
- Var: Orbit (carry around)
- Staken
- NoSlowerDNA-inspired tricks (Andrew Olson):
- 4D23-MM + 5D1-like (really smooth) - 2-colorable!
- (4x{U},2x)-3M3D (MM Var) - 2-colorable (the 4x{U} is the one-color ball, the 3D becomes the 3M)
- 5-beat MM var (take the Down thrown ball and carry it to the other end)
- Var: 3D(and carried)3U + 4D4U1 MM (really nice)
- Monkey Mess - 44133
- Monkey Mess Variation
- Twisted Monkey Mess! - see video (2nd pattern)
- Moose Mess - 4413441 (frostbite variation)
- Tonge Twister - a cross-arm mills mess variation!
4 balls
5 balls
- 5 MM is enough :)
One Hand
- 60 Inward (most basic)
- 60 Cascade, reverse cascade, columns
- 8040 (hi-low var)
- 80 (4 balls in one hand!)
Sync
3 balls
- 312-sprung: (6x,2x)(2x,2x)(4,2x)*
- 330-sprung: (6x,2x)(2x,6x)(0,2x)*
4 balls
- Shower (6x,2x)
- Hi-low: (8x,2x)(4x,2x)
- Hi-mid-low: b17131 (sync version)
- 3-sprung cascade: (6,4)|(6x,2x)*
- 423-sprung: (6,4)|(8,2x)(2x,4)(6x,2x)* (NICE)
- Box: (6,2x)(6,2x)*
- Stacked Box: (6x,4)|(8,2x)(4,2x)*
Nice combinations
- (6,4)(4x,2x)*
- (6x,4x)(2x,4x)* (sync version of 75251)
- (6x,4)(4,2x)* (box-like)
- (6,4x)(2x,4)* (box-like)
5 balls
Base pattern here is (6x,4)* (transition with ~757 from 5 ball cascade).
From this you can go to the following:
- Shower (8x,2x) - transition with (8x,6) to bring 4 balls in one side
- (6x,4)(6x,4x)* (NICE, no transition required)
- (6,4x)* (no transition required, sister pattern :)
Multiplex
Duplexes
3 balls
- [43]1421, 3|[43]0521 (5 in) - color-coded
- [43]5021 (5 out)
- [54]1131, 3|[54]0141
- 3[54]012
4 balls
- 4[42]2, 5[21][22] (feels like 501), 6[22]2[21][32]
- 3|[43]5521
- [43]23 (423-like)
- 3 MM variations
- [43]14 (441-like)
- [54]1622
- 3|[54]6122
- 6[43]142, 642+1[43]
- 3|[54]21
- 3|[54]2423
- 4[54]502, 3[54]512
- [54]1424, [54]1451
- 3|[64]2521, [64]1621, 3|[64]6121
- Multiplex shower: [75]15121
5 balls
- 1up4up
- 1up3up (the 1up crosses)
- [54][22]2 (normal duplex)
- Reverse
- MM with [54] as the ‘down’ throw
- 24[54] (Gattoplex)
- [33][33]3 (Cascade)
- [44][22]3 (423 Var)
- [44][44]14[22] (441 Var)
- 25[62] (Martin’s)
6 balls
- [33] (Duplexes - Cascade)
- [54][52]2 (552, multiplex version)
- 2up4up (sync, async)
- 3up (4,[44])*
Triplexes
5 balls
[44x4x]-base:
- 22[43][22]3[345]5 (Denis Paumier from Siteswap DVD)
- 24[22]3[345] (same hand => triplex, 4 and 3)
- 25[22]2[345] (same hand => triplex and 5)
6 balls
- ([444x],[22])(4x,[22])* (building up for the 7 ball version)
- ~ [54]24[444x]262 (nice, complex one)
7 balls
- ([444x],2)*
Train 7b Cascade
A 7 Balls training program! Warm-up with the 3 and 4 ball section, put more effort and time to the 5+ ball sections. You can also skip sections or mix them, e.g. start from the 5 ball section. A good advice is to work yourself up to 7 quickly and do multiple short sessions/attempts on 7 during one practice (so not just once in the end when you are most tired).
3 Balls (warm-up)
- 3-cascade: play with dwell time, high throws (722+), 3up
4 Balls (more warm up)
- 741, 714
- 71 (shower), 5|7272712 (baby juggling)
- 56|7707070 (snake)
- 2 Variations: start with 3 in one hand and 1 in the other. Either throw the 3 first or the 1
- 5|7770700 (3 and 1), 555|7077700 (1 and 3)
5 Balls
- 5-cascade (endurance!) + play with dwell time (high throws)
- 77722 (3up), 7777700 (5up)
- 5|77272 (snake - tough)
- Others: 744, 66|771
6 Balls
- 7777770 (six 7’s)
- 77772 (four 7’s)
- Others: 75 (half-shower), 756
7 balls
- 7b cascade