3 Ball Flash
From JuggleWiki
The word "flash" means fast and energetic.
If you toss fast up, the ball goes higher, and takes more time to come down:
That higher toss is a "one-ball flash" also called "one-up" or "one high", and is a "flourish" for being done once.
It is a useful variation when you are developing your Cascade toward more complicated patterns.
That could also be how you first learn to Pirouette or Eat The Apple, during the extra time.
The traditional pattern named Flash was all three of three balls always going high:
The extra time for all the paths means all three balls are in the air while both hands are empty.
Common advice is to clap your hands; but concentrating on your timing and accuracy is more useful.
Note that the actual heights are literally up to you, but keep the tops close together --
tossing very fast together and accurately are the main goals.
The site-swap code for this trick is '55500'.
The term "flash" has since become commonly applied to launching all the balls for a pattern and catching all of them, once.
Some people were taught to do that catching stop on the way to first learning Cascade.
It does get you making three tosses, but not practicing any of the down-up swing into a following toss.
The term also now means tossing some number high out of a pattern that then continues somehow.
Here is 3-ball 3-Up in that usage:
When your juggling has developed to this point, you may be already performing, and this form of Flash is very useful.
There is time, with empty hands, for you to comically mop your brow, spin your 360 pirouette, whatever you devise.
See also: Flash in the "Terminology" section.
