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While difficult to master, the 534 pattern is a great visual effect. Learn the 534 pattern in four ball juggling in this free hobby video.
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"In this video I'm going to talk about siteswap pattern 534. Now as ridiculous as it may sound, it's just a string of numbers, I think this is one of my favorite patterns. It looks pretty hard at first, but what's really going on is, I'm throwing a five a three and four, then a five, three, four. So what's happening is a high cross, low cross, straight up, then from my left hand, a high cross, low cross, straight up and keep going. It looks something like this. See if we can start it. Failed start, start again. See if you can pick out the five the three and the four. It's a pretty good visual sight to have the fours just traveling straight up and down on the outside of your pattern. That's what I just did right there. Another common pattern or approach is to throw a normal four throw that will go from the center to the outside. So that pattern will look something like, oops. Let's try that again. Something like that. Hopefully you don't drop it like I just did. Again we're talking about the 534 pattern. It should be a high cross, a low cross then a straight up throw on the side. Something like this. Working up to this, you really just have to clean up your five, your three pattern, getting that as clean as possible out of both hands and then making them together with a four throw to make the switch happen between hands. Just keep practicing it, clean it up as much as you can and you can make it work."
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