5 Ball Cascade
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See: Cascade
5-ball Cascade is the model for site-swap '5':
the other four equal tosses are the designated "beats" for one '5', and the other hand catches:
Expect this to take major time and fervent practice.
It has taken some jugglers several years to finally get decent "runs" (usually meaning 100 catches).
Yet many "instant jugglers" do succeed immediately following 3-ball Cascade.
Find a 1.14 Mb video of the trick you can watch or download at Gerd Balser's website.
Find many YouTube videos at this Search page.
Some exercises that are commonly used and recommended:
- 3 Ball Flash a 3-ball variation using '55522'
- 4-ball 552 with a 2-ball Chase
- 3 Ball Snake which is '55500' and a 3-ball Chase
- 5551 a 3-ball Flash with four balls and much faster
- 5 Balls With A Gap aka "Four out of Five" and '55550' (often skipped)
- 5 Ball Flash requiring five perfect tosses to gather well
See also:
- Matt Mangham has a video and complete tutorial using animations at his website.
- Tobjörn Anderson's Learning the 5 Ball Cascade
- Bruce Tiemann's Numbers Notes
- Rick Moll's Learning to Juggle 5 Balls
- endless discussions at rec.juggling and WJF Forum and Gatto's Forum
The first variation to consider would be:
[edit] 5-ball Reverse Cascade
Another easy variation has been called:
[edit] 5-ball Fountain
Because the toss location is crossed, the ball paths do not cross, appearing as two loops like a Fountain.
