3-ball Shoulder Tosses

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Note: the elbows of the animation figure do impossible backwards snaps in these examples.
Watch the balls, and ignore the funny elbows, please.

This is one Shoulder Toss, with one ball:

It is tossed from behind your shoulder, over your shoulder.
The other hand crosses to catch in front.
It is more of a flip up from that odd twisted position, than a toss.

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To start with three balls, you can start with one Shoulder Toss every fifth throw:

Each hand is getting a chance to try one, but all the other tosses are in the way of each other.
So you may not want to work on this any longer than it takes to do it,
unless doing one as a Flourish is what you want to do with this move.

Another step can be two Shoulder Tosses together:

With three other tosses, each hand will be starting a pair, for even practice.

As soon as you feel ready, you may be ready for:

All Shoulder Tosses

If you are straining anything, please stop and recuperate -- this can cause real injury.

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Reverse Shoulder Tosses are the same, in reverse:

The toss is easier, but it must land where the hand will be.
That coordination usually takes a long time to learn.

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You can use site-swap '4' to make a Shoulder Toss also:

Getting your hand back in front to catch the '3' will be a problem

You can combine both ways of making the Shoulder Toss:

This is '42333' with a '3' Shoulder Toss then the same hand doing a '4' Shoulder Toss.
There is a video of a similar pattern by Matt Mangham.

You can use just the 423 part with Shoulder Tosses:

The throws are basically all the same; but keeping track of where to go to catch, is a challenge.
You get to rest an arm each round, but not your brain.

You could do, or try to do, '423 Reverse Shoulder Toss':

Now all the tosses are from the front, with all catches blind behind your back.

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