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hello everyone, I've been working alot on my toss juggling recently, as well as my contact juggling. Now, I've seen alot of people blend the two togethor, but I can't figure out when the cj move has to start relative the catching the next ball, can anybody help me out with this? thanks

There are so many different tricks you could be talking about...maybe an example of the ones you want to learn maybe from a video!

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I was specifically wondering about entering a chestroll starting at my right hand, then catching a ball in that hand and returning to the juggle once the chest roll gets to my left without pausing, does that make sense?

yes, I find that it is easiest when you juggle in a lofty slow pattern and then I could not make it work until I was able to ketch the ball in a cradle. Then I practiced throwing the ball to a cradle ketch straight into a chest roll. Once you break it down in to smaller pieces, learn each part it becomes much easier to put the whole trick together. So look at what your doing, try to find out where the problem starts and then break it down to the most basic part and put it back together from there...let me know if this helps at all.

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thanks alot, that really helped

good!

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found this
http://juggling.tv/12076
right at the beginning juggling with what could be considered a butterfly.

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I'm fond of gripping a ball with my ring/pinky/thumb with palm down and two-finger cradling another and flipping both into the air. The one on top should be tossed at a 4 (high, same hand) while the underside is tossed as a 3 (across, normal 3ball height), you can then catch offhand 3 with your now available cradle and then catch the 4 on the underside somewhere in there.

Also, drop a ball during a tough pattern? Impress your crowd by asking the ball to come back up, kicking it up into an elbow stall, and letting it roll to a cradle before wiper'ing it back into your palm.

Confident with your Machine? throw in a palmspin or a clawgrip/doorhandle/isothingie on your offhand between 3 ball tricks while tossing the first ball.

5 balls? 5 ball is impressive enough to most onlookers, also, I can barely do it so I'm not about to start introducing CJ with it

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I was working on 5 balls all in cradles for a while, it never really went anywhere though. I can quite confidently do one catch and throw on the back of my hand in a 5 ball cascade though.

I really to throw in arm rolls from windmills/millsmess, I really like to do various elbow stalls during bostons mess.

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This was filmed in 2005 and yet it is completely badass, so much lovely work in contact and toss. Should keep anyone going with inspiration for a few years.

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Wow that is a nice video! I really like his small 3 ball multiplex into palm transfers.
Here are some of my ideas for contact toss: I now have enough new more technical and aesthetic tricks for a new video but I´ll wait sometime so I can make the video with better filming, editing, backgrounds, music, etc.

The last two videos were plain awesome!

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Heres a video I made a little over a year ago



The three ball toss contact stuff starts about two minutes in if you want to skip ahead.




Briney, that was one of the greatest juggling video's Ive ever seen. Not sure how Ive missed seeing that one, thanks a ton for sharing it. He has such an articulated style, its really inspiring.

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