Moving Towards 4 Balls
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It will be helpful if you can do at least some basic three ball tricks before trying these, because you will need to have quite some control over the balls and good coordination to take the step to 4-ball juggling.
Juggling four balls is basically juggling two balls in one hand -- in both hands at the same time. Therefore, we start with two balls in one hand. Always practice everything with both hands.
It seems natural to many people to juggle two balls in one hand in a plane orthogonal to the Cascade plane (see Wheel). Always juggle two balls in one hand in the same plane as the Cascade.
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[edit] Columns
Each ball has its path, on which it travels only up and down.
You may want to start with some relatively high throws, to get a feeling for how much time you have for each throw.
[edit] Circles
This way of juggling two balls in one hand has two variations; it can be juggled "rolling in" or "rolling out". We call it Fountain and speak of Fountain throws.
Juggling like this isn't very hard and you will be able to pick it up pretty fast. However, remember to practice both directions with both hands.
[edit] Rolling Out or Fountain
[edit] Rolling In or Reverse Fountain
[edit] Tennis
For this trick we have two variations again. The first one is similar to 3-ball Jugglers Tennis. One ball is thrown on a straight path, as for columns, ans resembles the net. The other ball is the tennis ball and arches back and forth over the net ball.
The second variation might not be as obvious, but you can juggle an upside-down tennis pattern with two balls in one hand. Again, one ball resembles the net and is thrown up on a straight path, just as in the normal tennis version. For this variation the tennis ball is juggled in columns as well, but in between two throws it is carried across, to the other side of the net, underneath the net ball.
If you have enough coordination you could try to juggle four balls now, it is very likely that this is the case.
