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Summary: Back cross multiplex another version of the multiplex in juggling. Learn the back cross multiplex when juggling three balls 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 we're going to be talking about backcross multiplexes. Now, even though the name is pretty complicated, the trick itself is not that complicated. I think it's one of my favorites, and it looks something like this. As you can tell, it's just a backcross multiplex. To do this, obviously you need to know how to throw a clean multiplex, like that, 2 balls out of one hand. You also have to have a very clean backcross, like that. What we're going to do is we're going to stack the 2 balls in our strong hand, just like this, with 1 on our fingers and 1 in our palm, and then, to make the throw, we're going to bring it around our back, and when it's down here we're going to flick our wrist straight up, so that we get some separation between these 2 balls, just like this. Now the 3rd ball's going to be being thrown out of your weak hand, over to your right hand, so it will be like this. So after you make this backcross, you need to pull your hand right back out to catch that 3rd ball, just like you were doing a normal backcross, something like that. Now this is important to learn with both hands just like any other trick, so you need to get it down with your right, and your left hand. Now some of my favorite patterns to make this work, you can alternate, so left, right, let's try that one more time. The left, right, and such on, and you can keep going, and doing backcross multiplexes."