Juggling 4 Balls: Columns & Wimpy

"So we've already talked about the four ball fountain, synchronous and async. Review, this is the async fountain, and this is the sync. Now some of the other more interesting four ball patterns include columns, wimpy, async columns, all of these things. Now we're going to talk about columns first. So the fountain pattern if you remember, each ball crosses over, moves in a little circle like this. When you go into columns, the ball just goes straight up and down in columns like that. Pretty easy to understand. But a switch between them is pretty cool. If you realize here's what a fountain looks like, and here is what columns look like. Very different visual appeal, very different pattern. Now just like you can do a fountain sync and async, you can do columns sync and async. So there was a sync, do a synchronous like this. This is often called split since the two patterns split each other. Now another very common pattern is throwing in unison, but also crossing. So this is usually called wimpy because when you move into higher even number patterns, it's easier to throw across than to the same hand. What I mean by that is just like this. Instead of each ball going to the same hand, you're going to cross, and just barely miss in the middle. Now doing it repeatedly, it's kind of a strange looking pattern, but it's very common to do just one run of that. So you're in your synchronous fountain, throw one cross and back out. Clean that up, again, one cross, back out. These are all good patterns to know, and will help you when you start working on more advanced patterns."