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Summary: The five-three-one is a hard trick that takes practice and getting used to. Learn how to perform the five-three-one from a juggling specialist in this free entertainment series.
Isaac Shivers is a student in the Boston area who grew up in central Iowa, where he learned to juggle. He's been juggling for about three years. Isaac has been affiliated with the Des...read more
"In this video I'm going to be talking about the five-three-one mills mess. Now this is a pretty hard three ball trick, takes a little bit of practice and some getting used to. Once you work on it a little bit, you'll be fine. First off I'll just show you what it looks like. This is a mix between five-three-one pattern, which is this. If you remember it's a three ball side swap, and mills mess, which is this. The five-three-one mills mess looks something, whoa, try that again. Hopefully it doesn't look like that. Hopefully instead it looks like this. Now this is a complicated trick to learn. There's a few steps you need to take before you learn the trick. First off, you need to get this three-one hand off down. So what's happening, in normal mills mess where you'd be doing this, instead we're doing this. So what's happening is I'm throwing a three, then handing off that one as my hands cross just like that. So practice this for a while until it's pretty clean. And then all you do, is you add a five throw on the outside every time. Something like this. You start here, you'll five throw on the outside, then that three-one pattern we were just working on in the middle. So do a normal mills mess, make that outside throw a five. Hopefully you don't drop. You just make that outside throw a five and the inside one's a three-one and that cross over. That's a five-three-one mills mess."
eHow Article: Juggling Five-Three-One Mills Mess