Cross Arm
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This is 2-ball Cross-Arm
Your arms do stay crossed, and are kept quite still.
Here, the figure's left arm is the upper one, and you should do both forms.
The pattern is 2 Ball Reverse Cascade -- up from the side, down toward the center.
Use this to get more comfortable with the strained twisted positions, and backwards reactions.
Note that for this website, Cross-arm means the upper hand's crossed toss,
and Under-arm means the lower hand's crossed toss.
Get a third ball, get crossed, and start one of the two balls in one hand:
Again, your arms do stay crossed, and are quite still, as you use your wrists more to toss and to aim.
Wrists together is too close, elbows together is too far for the cross.
Slight rocking side to side is better than much sliding of your arms from catch to toss positions.
Each hand makes its same catch and toss, toss is always backwards or Reverse.
Each toss will be aimed as if to go over the previous one, but it just drops toward the center.
Where you start from two balls in a hand does not matter -- they're all going over.
What does matter is getting good in either cross position -- above, the figure's left arm is upper.
The two forms feel very different, and you should work more on the one you don't like.
Because -- what Mills Mess is, is Reversing Cross-arm Reverse Cascade:
...and there is no faster or easier way to learn it.
Here, there are four Under-arm tosses for one hand, then a catch is taken to an Outside throw, and crosses to upper.
The upper Cross-arm hand takes its catch low and makes an Under-arm toss to start as the lower hand.
Do the reverses on 3-count, and that will be Mills Mess -- and a good 3-ball-Chase form right away.
The bad news is: That was the easy part.
[edit] Cross-arm Cascade
This is animated using '522' because there will be that sort of timing for it.
Because it is that difficult to make your arms do this, you will have to think about each move.
The toss is aimed to go under the arc of the other ball, just as the regular Cascade would be.
Reversing this form on thirds would be the rarely-done Reverse Mills Mess.
