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This move is quite tricky to do, as you need to stretch your catching hand out beyond the elbow to catch the ball as it leaves the elbow - the feeling is awkward.

It\'s worth it in the end, as rolls on the back of the arm are very hard to do, and so impressive when you show them to a fellow CJer. A non CJer, on the other hand, will consider it just another hard thing.

For your next trick, try learning to roll the ball to the elbow, and instead of dropping into the cradle, try rolling the ball back again to it\'s own cradle.

One thing that really helped me in becomming good in the armroll is that I learned to really streach my fingers (I think I can see Ferret do this as well). In the arm this then creates a flatter surface for the ball to roll on (in my arm it even creates a sort of roll-gully, from the wrist to halfway up the arm, between two sets of muscels.

Once past the wrist you are likely to lose the ball before it rolls over the elbow. I don't have a real tip to compensate for that but your audience won't know that you missed the complete armroll.

And if you over-compensate (the ball rolls to much on the body side of the arm) then it is not to difficult to go into an inside chestroll.

Shadow: to move from the back-arm roll into the fore-arm roll, you should roll the ball as if you're going into a chest roll, then turn your arm out so the palm is up, and the forearm is outstretched and almost perpendicular to the body, instead of parallel, as it is in the back-arm roll.

An interesting variation is to hold your right arm out parallel to the chest, and the left arm alongside it, nearer to the chest, so it's fingers are resting on the right arm's biceps. Roll a ball from the right cradle to the right elbow, and then onto the left arm, and down the left arm to the right cradle again. I have managed this with two balls rolling at a time (in opposite directions), but I hear it is possible with three.