Forms of juggling
Objects, typically balls, clubs or rings, are repeatedly thrown and caught in a variety of different patterns and styles.
For the purposes of record keeping and ease of communication, the terms balls and beanbags are generally interchangeable in the juggling world.
Numbers juggling is the art and sport of keeping as many objects aloft as possible.
Traditionally, the goal has been to "qualify" a number, that is, to get the pattern around twice such that each object has been thrown and caught twice.
Jugglers who focus on juggling as many patterns as possible, many of them mathematically generated using Siteswap.
They will also often juggle well known patterns like Mills Mess, Burke's Barrage, Rubenstein's Revenge with more than three balls.
These manipulations can be the forms from toss juggling such as throws and catches including catches with the head, arms, back, legs and feet and also include contact juggling moves such as head and arm rolls.
Elements of contact juggling are often mixed in, rolling the larger balls around the body.
The main reasons are: However, when jugglers are comfortable with ring juggling, they can create an effective performance.
Rings are about as impressive as clubs onstage, but are easier to juggle because they do not have to be spun as precisely.
Because of their light weight and aerodynamic structure they can be thrown high with less exertion than would be required when juggling balls or clubs.
They focus primarily on performance tricks such as pirouettes, juggling above the head and backcrosses.
Clubs (sometimes incorrectly called "pins" by those new to juggling) are very popular with solo jugglers.
The size and shape opens up possibilities with balances, rolls, flourishes, swings, slapbacks, wrong end catches and more.
There are many moves to do with clubs, among them being pirouettes, juggling above the head, backcrosses, shoulder throws, and kickups.
Tennis rackets, throwing knives, or lit torches may be used in place of clubs.
Other more extreme examples might include chainsaws, bowling balls, or other heavy or unwieldy objects.
Two clubs are swung about the body in different patterns, speeds, directions, planes and phases.
Some toss jugglers don't consider club swinging to be "real juggling" as the props are not thrown and caught enough.
The juggling patterns are normally quite simple with complexity being added by jugglers turning or walking around within the group, changing from feedee to feeder and back again.
The basic pattern for 5 or more people is the Feast, where everybody passes to everybody including themselves, turing in a clockwise direction.
Based on the traditional skill set mentioned in the solo club section.
