As a performing juggler, your training time is most likely spend on 5 main activities:
Planning
Deciding what, how and when to do.
Learning
Practicing tricks, technique, routines.
Research
Inventing tricks or figuring out how to do them.
Creating
Building routines or acts based on your material.
Performing
Showing your skills to others.
Recognizing
these different activities might help you to spread your time and
energy better, or focus on what you think is most important.
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Interesting tricks
An object manipulation trick can be interesting for many reasons. This
is an attempt to list some, so we can understand them better.
Impressive
It looks like this trick is hard.
Visually appealing
You could hang this on the wall.
Conceptually interesting
It means something, even if that something is abstract.
Novelty or surprise
You had never seen or expected that before
Recognition
You had seen or expected that
Why are these reasons interesting? They each deserve a whole post for themselves..
All these can make a trick interesting to watch. Pushing tricks further in one of these directions might improve them. Of course this theory can be applied to routines too.
Interesting to watch is not the same as interesting to do.
Impressive
It looks like this trick is hard.
Visually appealing
You could hang this on the wall.
Conceptually interesting
It means something, even if that something is abstract.
Novelty or surprise
You had never seen or expected that before
Recognition
You had seen or expected that
Why are these reasons interesting? They each deserve a whole post for themselves..
All these can make a trick interesting to watch. Pushing tricks further in one of these directions might improve them. Of course this theory can be applied to routines too.
Interesting to watch is not the same as interesting to do.
Perfect throws
Everybody talks about perfect throws.
A perfect throw is (in no particular order):
Accurate
The longer the path in the correct direction with the strongest muscles, the more precise you can control the direction and the speed.
Allows for errors and variations
The further away the props are from each other, the less likely it is that they are going to collide. The larger your reach from your position, the more likely that you can make the catch.
Aesthetic
Juggling is more pleasant to watch when it is pretty.
Effortless
When it takes less power it can last longer.
Fast
The shorter the time needed between catch and the throw, the more time you have left for other things.
Efficient
Don’t do the things you don’t need to do, relax where you can.
Easy
The quicker you learn this technique, the faster you can move on.
Safe
Don’t ruin your body or your props. Make correct use of tendons, joints and muscles.
Analyze your body and your throw with the points above, and you can find your perfect throw for each and every trick. Everyone focuses on different aspects, therefore there is no such thing as ‘the’ perfect throw.
A perfect throw is (in no particular order):
Accurate
The longer the path in the correct direction with the strongest muscles, the more precise you can control the direction and the speed.
Allows for errors and variations
The further away the props are from each other, the less likely it is that they are going to collide. The larger your reach from your position, the more likely that you can make the catch.
Aesthetic
Juggling is more pleasant to watch when it is pretty.
Effortless
When it takes less power it can last longer.
Fast
The shorter the time needed between catch and the throw, the more time you have left for other things.
Efficient
Don’t do the things you don’t need to do, relax where you can.
Easy
The quicker you learn this technique, the faster you can move on.
Safe
Don’t ruin your body or your props. Make correct use of tendons, joints and muscles.
Analyze your body and your throw with the points above, and you can find your perfect throw for each and every trick. Everyone focuses on different aspects, therefore there is no such thing as ‘the’ perfect throw.
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