How to Juggle Cross Patterns with 4 Balls

Video Transcript

"EMIL LAMPRECHT: Now I'm going to introduce you to your first sync trick. I call it "crosses," though to the wider juggling community, it's actually a pattern called "wimpy." This is where the balls synchronously thrown or crossing to opposite hands. Now, with six balls and then eight balls, some people find doing this pattern as opposed to an async or even sync fountain much easier. It can, if done in an outside throw way look a lot like a trick. The difference between wimpy and crosses for me is that wimpy, you're just throwing regular inside throws that has happen to miss each other. Crosses are more outside throws that create a bigger and wider arc to opposite sides. Now, there's a couple of different ways you can negotiate the balls so that they don't collide with each other. I personally prefer two switch planes backward and forward so that the balls miss each like this, but the visual effect is that they're right on top of each other, or in front of each other. Other people would prefer to distance it this way, so that the balls kinda of stack a little bit as they go by. This stacking limb like this is certainly a better training for your hands as typically you want to keep balls within the same plane but visually, especially in the performance context, I prefer them to come close to colliding or even skip past each other on different planes. That is four-ball crosses."