Juggling Journal
I was talking to Orinoco in the Beta talk section about a possible juggling journals section. So, I am going to try it out. I was thinking of individual practice logs for each user (WJF used to have this but they have seemingly disappeared). I thought it might get confusing making individual topics in Small Talk, so, for now I'd like to try making a topic where anyone can post practice logs and see if it catches on and where it goes from here...
So, I started practicing juggling heavily in about late 2005 / early 2006. I practiced obsessively for about 4 years, and had gotten decent. I could qualify 7 most of the time, perform with 6 without too much fear, and run 5 ball siteswaps.
Sadly, I stopped juggling, except for a few juggling gigs, in about early 2009. I am trying to get back into it and a practice log motivated me heavily on the WJF forum, so I tried it here.
Unfortunately, my skills need work. Last practice session, I was able to do some 5 ball siteswaps for a couple rounds back into the cascade. The cascade doesn't feel as good as it used to, either, so hopefully it irons itself out. I was also able to, after warm up, do 20 catches of 6 async without much trouble. Flashing 7 was not too hard either. I also was able to run some 4 ball siteswaps without too much trouble. Definitely needed warm up though.
I am using 3 inch ~180g sportco balls, but my arms are not conditioned as well as they used to be, so I ordered some 2.75 inch 136g rag bags. I'll use those for 6 and up but will try to stay with the larger ones for 5 if they don't fatigue me too much...
Alrighty, there is my input for today. Going to try to practice an hour everyday and see where this goes.
Jamie
Sounds like a good idea. I used a similar feature on the UK Climbing website where I logged my climbing as well as my juggling practice sessions. You should be able to see this without an account.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/e.php?d=2012&u=95498
Orange is juggling, red, green and yellow are climbing, brown is running.
Little Paul - - Parent #
Interesting system, I currently do something similar (but paper based) for various things (but not juggling, as its been a long time since I last did any of that outside a fest)
I keep meaning to find a non paper way to do this, but haven't yet found anything suitable. The climbing one looks like what im after, but as i havent climbed anything in about 10years it's feel wrong to use that!
I was thinking about this more last night at TWJC & came up with a few more ideas myself
I've actually spent a fair time thinking about how a computer/web-based version could be made to work in the most efficient and useful manner possible, and I've got quite a lot of ideas on the matter. I've been working on it as a small side project for a little while now, although my free time has been somewhat limited as of late. I'd like to share my ideas when I've got a little further with it, but it's still in the development stage at the moment.
I definitely agree that something with many more features than a journal would rock...
Something like that link would be way cool and very useful tool. I use an excel spreadsheet logbook thing that was originally created as a running log. But, having something online would be way better. Tied to the records section here somehow and some sort of progress charting and some silly things like % of life juggling type stats would be fun.
cheers - Warren
A web developer's journal system just popped up on Wordpress. It's called Capsule and it's a wordpress theme that lets you journal with @project and #hashtag indexing. I haven't tried it yet, perhaps next week. https://alexking.org/blog/2013/04/24/capsule-the-developers-code-journal.
Metadata is a love note to the future.
Little Paul - - Parent #
interesting idea certainly. I might have other uses for that. Hmm...
This got me interested too. While trying out ideas I came up with this last night as a sort of test/demo: https://juggling-records.com/log_test.php. Any thoughts?
Blimey, we're all at it!
Here's what I came up with today.
https://www.jugglingedge.com/log.php
thegoheads - - Parent #
I really like this idea. I'm curious to see how this develops and I will likely start a journal here too. My only input is that it shouldn't be too complicated. We can use words to describe the finer details of our practices. If there are far too many graphs, charts, drop-down menus, etc I would likely find it too troublesome to bother learning how to use. I guess a lot of people like things to be convoluted/fancy so maybe I'm the minority here.
...minority maybe, but fortunately your opinion appears to match that of the lead programmer! ;)
That looks good. I like the graphical view, similar to the UK Climbing one. I would suggest you add the ability to add new custom session types with new colours. This could include other juggling sessions (such as 'outside in the park') or could include sessions of training for juggling such as weights or cardiovascular.
Also, it would be great if it links into the records section. So you see a symbol for the days when a record was broken.
Also, I'm not sure you really need to show the time of day in the graphical view. Most people will only have one session per day. You could then shown a whole month or the whole year in a single view instead of just one week. The time of the juggling session would still be displayed in the session info. Or maybe the user could choose to view by week, month or year to get different views.
Thanks. I will definitely have the coloured categories fully customisable. With regards to it linking in with the records section I will have it do so but I am not sure to what extent just yet. I think you are right that it would be better showing may be just a month in the graphical view - I will try it out. I also wanted to have an alternative 'feed' view that just shows all the logs one after another, public or private settings and the ability to 'subscribe' to other jugglers' logs. Is subscribing to a log something that people would want or are they typically not exciting enough for others to be interested in reading?
In the spirit of the topic (though I am quite happy people are discussing new ways to track progress) I'll post another practice session summary.
Today my 5 ball cascade felt good and is getting back up to what I would call solid. My arm muscles are still a bit out of shape, so I am getting sore and tired more easily. This should go away as I practice regularly again.
3 in 1 hand felt pretty good in each hand, but still not as good as it used to feel.
4 ball siteswaps felt better than earlier in the week, but still could improve. 74414 was feeling very good.
6 balls - felt better than earlier in the week, did 20 catches on the first couple tries. Still needs word.
7 balls - took a couple tries to flash :( which is not good for me but I believe it has to do with using heavier balls than my arms can handle right now.
yay juggling.
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