Juggling 4 Balls: Switching Patterns

Video Transcript

"So now you've learned a variety of different four ball patterns and you want to learn how to switch in between them on the fly. That is you can do this and you can do this, but how do you switch from one to the other without stopping. Now switching between columns and fountains is pretty easy. Really all you have to do is switch from throwing like this to throwing straight up, throwing back. So it looks something like this. Here's a fountain, going into columns, back into a fountain. That's a pretty easy switch. Once you can do both patterns, it should be pretty trivial to switch between them. A harder switch would switching between Async and syncers, now some people you can really just kind of fudge it. Like slow your right hand down a little bit, so you're doing like this, slow it down and there you're back into doing sequence and you can kind of speed your right hand up, and you're back like this. Now if you noticed this kind of takes like two or three beats and you just kind of fudge around a little bit and it works out. My favorite way however, is much cleaner in which, what I do, is I throw one throw with my right hand just half again as high as I throw out of my left hand. This will slow my right hand down by one beat, and thereby putting it in sync or out of sync with the other hand. So here if I'm in the async pattern, I throw one a little bit higher and I fall into sync. So to get out I do just the inverse on the async. So again, just like that, that. You really have to work on getting that significantly higher throw clean out of your right hand without changing around what you're doing with your left hand. Work on that and get it cleaned up and it's a pretty easy switch."