5 Ball Cascade
From JuggleWiki
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'
- 552 a 4-ball pattern with a 2-ball chase
- 3 Ball Snake which is '55500'
- 5551
- 5 Ball Flash
- 5 Balls With A Gap aka "Four out of Five" and '55550'
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 (register to even look at it)

