Juggling 4 Balls: Preparing With 3 Ball Siteswaps

Video Transcript

"There are a few three ball patterns that can really help you work on your four ball patterns. Now some of the most important are siteswaps. If you remember we went over siteswaps earlier. A quick rundown of siteswaps, each throw is given a number which corresponds to how high it is, or more accurately to how long it's in the air. So a three would be a 3B throw,like one two three, one two three. A five is higher, like that and a one is just a hand off just like that. Now when we talk about these patterns, I'm going to start talking about them in numbers. So the first time I'm going to talk about is 441. We reviewed this when we talked about three ball juggling. But it looks something like this. 441. Now this will help you with your four ball pattern because obviously you're just breaking down the four ball pattern into four throws and throwing them with three. Another really important pattern is what we called a one up two up earlier, where you're going to throw basically two in one hand and one in the other. So it will be like this one up two up. Work on that with each hand isolating the two. So something like this. Another important pattern, when you're juggling three is just try and throw four, or do three throws in the four ball pattern, something like this. That's four four four and back in. And do that with both hands, working all these tricks and that will really help you learn four ball pattern."