The Juggling Edge - Juggling road trip week

EricS - 2014-10-01 16:48:43 UTC #

Juggling road trip week

A week clear of other obligations have given me the chance for a set of juggling road trips. I'm off to the Air Raid meeting tonight in Charlottesville, then tomorrow night to the Fairfax club, and Phillyfest on Saturday!

I feel like I'm back in college :)

Orinoco - 2014-10-02 18:35:45 UTC - Parent #

I've got Hastings tomorrow night, then TWJC again on Tuesday. Not quite as much juggling as you I admit, but I'll still have fun. Let us know how you get on.

EricS - 2014-10-03 05:51:36 UTC - Parent #

Charlottesville was great. Juggled with Mark Nizer, IJA 1990 Seniors Champion, and club passing monster Erin. Great club, learned a ton (Passing patterns "Nizer's Nightmare"and "Cloak and Dagger") and just a great group of folks.

Fairfax had about a dozen people. Did some big group passing (though the ceiling space was not as great as Charlottesville. Worked on back-to-back passing (also picked that up in Charlottesville) and had a nice impromptu workshop on three ball tricks.

Resting on Friday, and then off to Phillyfest!

Mïark - 2014-10-16 15:22:41 UTC - Parent #

I managed to find Thom Hamill's video of Nizer's Nightmare, but cannot find any reference to Cloak and Dagger - can you describe the pattern?

EricS - 2014-10-16 23:09:51 UTC - Parent #

"Cloak and Dagger":

2 person, 7 club pattern. Rather than throwing a standard double pass, you throw a double self (back into your right hand), right after you throw that double (the cloak), you throw a left single to your partner (the dagger, replacing the double self).

That's the "easy" part: the harder part for the passer is to catch that self double and very quickly send it up as a double pass to your partner. For the receiver, it's noticing that your partner has thrown a self throw (and not just a really short pass) and to look for a (hopefully) lofty single coming out of your partner's left)

^Tom_ - 2014-10-17 19:40:15 UTC - Parent #

Is that different from "The dark side of 2-count" ?

It also sounds like this is to 2-count what French 3 count is to 3-count?

EricS - 2014-10-18 22:05:22 UTC - Parent #

Not the same as "Dark side," as those are left doubles. The "dagger" here is a left-to-left single. The throws are also not synchronous, it's right-double (self-fountain throw) then left single (pass)

^Tom_ - 2014-10-18 22:40:41 UTC - Parent #

Aha! It looks like I must have misunderstood someone trying to describe dark side recently, as this is exactly what I understood.