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7b_wizard#

9 balls flashing, 5 ball tricks, 145 minutes

5b all up 180° (single turns back to casc) - ~15 min. ___ turn + 5 t cl.
9 balls flashing - ~130 min. ___ xiv 8 g. i 11 t.

5prop mix, 45 minutes

45' - 5propmix 3b2c - rounds: 7, 7, 7, 7.

Total practice time: 190 minutes

Locations: nearby school´s roofed bikepark, indoors low ceiling

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RegularJugular#

Dirt Cheap Props in Italy, 1441 minutes

Dirt Cheap Props in Italy, or how I learned to stop worrying and LOVE Plungers:

So I've been in Italy since the beginning of July (it's probably not permanent) and it wasn't long before I felt the need to juggle... But props are expensive, then accidentally after trying to fix a problem at the flat with the local hardware store's plungers... I realised I had struck cheapskate juggling gold. Hallelujah! Plungers are f**king amazing!

The Target:

So naturally when a passing set of six plungers costs less than one (admittedly high quality) juggling club, and you think you will have the weather time and suitably skilled friends to juggle with... Anyway weather, time and fellow jugglers did not fully materailise... But well... That's a challenge right? Also someone accidentally suggested that I could juggle 5 of them, before I had tested that I could...

So Low Target / Goal, have fun, and 4 was in some ways easier than with my old Play Primas...

Which makes 5 seem a very tempting goal, how about in the time I've got in Italy break my own old 5 club record with clubs, with plungers and get it on Video? Quickly added goals:

1. Do this with Circus, or Hybrid grip, like I'd always suspected was a good idea before, but was too, erm lazy, to properly retrain.
2. Make it repeatable, so that it's not just a one off, but a standard repeatable goal.
3. Try to break the tricks down to simpler exercises, so that those exercises can be understood inside out
4. Integrate my best understanding of Pyramid Practice Techniques and add in my best ideas of how to mix in what helps me... ( I learned my eyesight and lack of previous awareness of what exercises are suitable to form higher level skills, doesn't suit pyramid practice alone... My original Research into the practical differences that differentiate Circus / Hybrid grip, from European, and the practical values of the angles / 'parallelness' of the throws and the tricks to spot easy ways to get the launch to those things have been greatly assisted by juggling... Plungers.)

Maybe no one will read this... Maybe too many will.

Many thanks and much love to the juggling community as a whole. Thank you for getting me this far into what I (senselessly) enjoy :)

Total practice time: 1441 minutes

Location: Italy

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7b_wizard#

9 balls flashing, 5 ball tricks, 145 minutes

5b all up 180° (single turns back to casc) - 10 min. ___ Should mention, that I always briefly warm up on higher 'n higher and on pulsing high\\low a bit. ___ Today, got upto the turn + 5 casc throws, all caught ( which is what I kind of do 'until' as a minimum goal, or even get as many of as can, while actually I currently really want back to stable cascade plus another attempt on a 2nd turn per run ).
9 balls flashing - ~135 min. ___ xxi 8 g(athers). xii 11 t(hrows) ( one of which into 8 g ), iv 13 t.

5prop mix, 65 minutes

65' - 5propmix 3b2c (tinyclubs, doubles) - rounds max [7 or above]: .. started with focus on clubs only, especially right double spin, .. 8, 7, .. here noticed too many too wide runs, so put main focus on more scoop \ throwing more from the middle, .. 7 cl, 8. ___ Overall not too tensed today, but for keeping 'em up after 4-5 rounds, but not below, with rather relaxed into early collects ( on bad days, or early within stints, I usually have to 'fight' a bit, in order to even get a viable pattern started ).

Total practice time: 210 minutes

Locations: rivershore-meadow, indoors low ceiling

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