3-ball Cascade Bounce
From JuggleWiki
Tip: using expensive high-rebound balls for first learning is not easier:
common lacrosse balls will let you control your motions over a more comfortable range of effort.
It will be more useful to select a set matched for the same rebound.
And if the floor is not perfectly flat, you will always be trying to learn about the floor, instead of the tosses.
The animation software does not do Lift bounce for a value of '3', this is a poor approximation only:
In that way, it is like Cascade, and this is the usual starter Bounce pattern.
The animation shows tossing over the other hand's toss, but you will see tossing over the rising ball.
How much lift you give it, is up to you -- it is going across more, the higher it goes, and that may be good or bad for your learning.
All you really want is more time between bounces than with Force bounce as below.
And especially with bounce, you will want to see it done: tutorial by Stephen Bent;
his advice to catch palm-down is not necessary, or common; but do see how easy and slow this bounce really is.
Once you can manage bounce with Lift, the next usual step is to try Force (US) or Push (Eu):
A point is commonly made about where to aim the bounce,
two strike points in front of the other foot, again like toss Cascade.
The catch is a light cupping under the top of the bounce, rolling the hand over for the toss.
Learning to put the top of the bounce where you need to catch it, is more helpful than the strike points.
More important for learning bounce is whether you try that Cascade form first, or Reverse Cascade:
Rather than aim at the floor, you aim to toss under the rising ball.
Your hands will be circling in the same directions as toss Cascade, and that will also be more comfortable.
If you are practicing on a floor that lets you hear the strike, that will help you keep going:
the drumbeat rhythm that you are making is part of what is so captivating about bounce.
