Peter Richardson 3-Ball stack. Found this clip from last years's BJC on my phone.
http://juggling.tv/16287
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Whoops! Copyfail.
http://juggling.tv/16288
Little Paul - - Parent #
Nice, he's getting good at that (and isn't cheating by using those horrible saggy slomo/gertie balls favoured by some 3 ball stack spinners ;)
Although I did get somewhat distracted by Luke Burrage failing to flash 6 clubs in the background. I thought you had that more solid than that Luke? Or were you just having a bad day?
lukeburrage - - Parent #
There is another video from this same session where I'm nailing 5 club backcrosses over and over in the background. So it wasn't too bad of a day.
lukeburrage - - Parent #
Turns out that's me failing to flash 7 clubs.
Little Paul - - Parent #
Ahh, well, that would line up better with my mental picture of your skill level :)
Is this one of those tricks that it more difficult than it looks? Because it looked reasonably easy, although not something one can do in the first couple of attempts.
Peter's been ball-spinning for a long time, so he's good at it. When you're good at something, it often "looks easy" to the uninitiated.
It isn't.
Yeah, I thought it was one of those. I have never tried it, so was asking in pure ignorance.
I will say that I was not expecting it to be that much more difficult than I thought it was, based on Nigel's comment below.
Little Paul - - Parent #
It jumps up surprisingly fast (unless you're cheating and using the saggy balloon balls that the americans like so much)
If spinning 1 ball = juggling 3 balls, a 2 ball stack is 5 balls, and a 3 ball stack is probably somewhere around 9 balls.
4 balls stacked is just crazy. I've only ever heard of one person getting anywhere with it.
I learned to spin a ball in a little over a week, about 10-15 years ago. Took me about another month to get it comfortably solid a while to get it "solid" - a broadly comparable amount of time to learning a 3 ball cascade.
A few years later I spent a week long festival mostly working on adding a second ball, it stayed on for probably 3 seconds at best. I think in total, that reflects the amount of practice time it took me to go from a solid 3 ball pattern cascade to 10-15 catches of 5 balls.
That was probably nearly a decade ago, and although I admit I don't work on it that often, I've never got more than about 15 seconds of a 2 ball stack (with proper balls) which feels like the equivalent amount of work that it took me to get up to 100 catches of 5 balls.
You can imagine how long I think it would take me to add a 3rd ball!
I've been ball spinning for around 15 years. I can stack two balls sometimes but three is definitely beyond me. I've seen Pete stack 4 balls once in 2004 (BJC Derby) at around 01:00. Shame there was no-one around to record that.
Nigel
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