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Twiddled Big Circles - A trickier but nicer version of Big Circles
Big Circles is a big, visual trick, but the grip change can be slightly ungainly. The twiddle that this trick adds gives a similar effect but has a smoother, if slightly more difficult, change.
Mike and LP disagree on the best way to do this - LP's way, shown in the video clip above, is to do a finger twiddle, as described in the Forward Twiddle when the hat is at the top of the circle. Mike uses a Thumb Spin to adjust the grip.
Try both and decide which feels more comfortable to you, there's little point getting both smooth as they look identical to anyone except a hat manipulation geek, and there aren't many of them in the world!
From the TricksWithHats archive
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This is a combination of parts of two other tricks, so it would probably help to learn them first. They are the Arm Roll and the Wipe Up
Start with the hat on your head. With the right arm, do the first part of a wipe up, just to the point where the hat comes off your head. However, instead of carrying it out to the side, push the hat back on your head so that the bottom of the brim comes into contact with your shoulder blades.
Use your upper arm to push the hat off and to the left, so that it can roll down your arm as though you were doing an Arm Roll, catching it in you hand as you do so
One variation that Mike is fond of, is to grip the front part of the crown with the crook of the elbow. Mike claims this gives him more options, and more control over where the hat goes. Try it, it may work for you too!
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Throw a pancake throw, and catch it with your other hand above head. The catch is easier if you stick your thumb forward like a coat peg.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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Hold the plate by it's edge and spin it so that the rim stays in contact with your thumb. After a single spin catch it again. Once you've mastered singles try longer spins. This trick is very versatile and can be used to add lots of flourishes.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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These are exactly the same as the throws with clubs. They work best with pancake throws.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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Slide the plate down your back and allow the plate to catch and stay in the back of your trousers. What comedy!
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09-03-2015
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Hold the plate flat in your left hand, bring your right hand up and over the plate, cross your arms and put the heel of your right hand against the underside of the plate's rim. Bring your right hand up and turn it over so that plate ends up flat in the palm of your right hand. If you turn this round it becomes the Forward Turnover
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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A variation of the simple turnover:
Start with the plate flat in your right hand. Throw it slightly, and while it's airborne turn your right hand so that the heel of the hand contacts the underside of the left rim of the plate as it descends. Push upwards and over with your hand and turn it over so that the plate comes to rest back in your palm.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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A variation of the simple turnover:
Start with the plate flat in your right hand. Throw it slightly, and while it's airborne turn your right hand so that the heel of the hand contacts the underside of the left rim of the plate as it descends. Push upwards and over with your hand and turn it over so that the plate comes to rest back in your palm.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Start with plate flat on your right hand. Swing it in a full anti-clockwise circle, twisting your wrist over at the top so the plate finishes back in its original position with your shoulder and wrist twisted to support it. Reverse the move to unkink your arm.
It's also possible to stop the plate at the top of the circle and bring it back down the way it came.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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Start with a normal right handed upward curl and as soon as the palm is facing forward at the top reach the left hand over and put it onto plate to the right of the right hand. Curl both hands round the front of the plate, which comes down in front of the belly, and then continue to bring the hands round to the back, pushing the plate back up to the left. Take the right hand off and do a left handed downward curl.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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Throw the plate vertically and catch it under the leg (on the left side of right leg with right hand).
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09-03-2015
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The plate is held and thrown vertically, and spins in the vertical plane. Jugglers will recognise this as the way that rings are usually thrown.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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09-03-2015
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The Willy Catch:
Throw the plate vertically, then reach between your legs from behind and catch the plate in front of your crotch.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Hold the hat by the brim with your left hand so that the crown of the hat is facing away from you. Take the stick in your right hand.
With a flick of your wrist, throw the hat up slightly so that it starts spinning anti-clockwise. As the hat descends, hit the brim with the stick slightly to the right of center, such that the stick curves slightly upwards and outwards. This will cause the hat to spin as it rises into the air. As it descends again, repeat the hitting action.
The idea of the basic spin is to keep the hat in the air by hitting it repeatedly with the stick in this manner. I find it helps if you look at the top portion of the inside of the hat.
Adjusting the spin rate and direction:
Hitting the hat nearer the center will give you a slower spin and more height, nearer the edge will give you a faster spin but less height. Obviously striking the left side of the brim will reverse the spin and cause the hat to go clockwise.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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24-01-2015
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The hatstand made its debut at chocfest 7, where I was compering. After a period of prototyping and refining, I built the version that worked. I demoed this a couple of times then it broke. I replaced the elastic and set it up for the big day, used it on stage and it worked, then broke next time I used it.
Be prepared to spend significant tinkering time in between uses, and for frequent breakdowns. That said, it's never let me down when I've needed it.
All in all I've found it a great way to get chicks[1], if you don't count the long evenings spent honing the design and strewing the house with geeky construction equipment, and the fact you'll be laughed out of most nightclubs if you go in wearing a topper. But on stage it works, and it has drawn admiring glances from fellow jugglers and even won us a bag full of croissants on one occasion.
Sweavo, June 2003
[1] facts may vary
From the TricksWithHats archive
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24-01-2015
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Songs: How To Party (Ft. Batts) & So Run, of SamyO/nProbando los cubiletes que compré hace dos días (literalmente).
Un malabar muy poco conocido y muy interesante. Si ya controlas un poco en malabares con giro (como mazas o sombrero) resulta relativamente fácil realizar los movimientos básicos y se presta mucho a la experimentación.
También puedes realizar algunos movimientos de pelotas con ellos, e incluso he visto usarlos como cajas chinas.
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21-01-2015
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Hom(m)
Un enfermement volontaire pour libérer les désirs
Loïc Faure s'enferme pour inventer un nouveau chemin vers la liberté. Enchaîné à sa cage, il grimpe, jongle, s’obstine et déborde d’énergie. Le corps se forge, les balles s’apprivoisent, le spectaculaire se mêle de virtuosité et de poésie. /nAcrobatie au sol ou sur mât chinois, cascades, tour de force, Loïc Faure pratique un théâtre physique où toujours il jongle. Épris de défis, il cultive sa passion en l'assaisonnant d'embûches. Avec Hom(m), il faudra entrer dans la cage-matrice pour s'adonner au désir irrépressible de jongler. Et comment s'y prendre quand les mains sont entravées ? En persistant, quitte à jouer de la tête, des oreilles, des pieds.
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24-12-2014
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missing the sun... searching for lost movement... contact juggling on slackline - august 2014
sequences of 1-4 balls and bouncing research at the end... clearer vids will follow--- like, share, subscribe--- it will give me motivation... THX :D
material: 8 cm acrylics, 40 meter slackline-tools webbing music: michael fraser - django style
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05-12-2014
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So I did something called #100 happy days. I filmed 100 tricks and uploaded them...this is the final one. Enjoy watching!
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26-11-2014
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Juggling from Christian Hauschild and Lauge Spin Benjaminsen at the EJC 2014
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17-11-2014
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Don't get mixed-up, there's no sauce in the video. "To sauce" means to throw or to pass in Canadian slang (it comes from the saucer pass in hockey), so now it should make sense :)
This video is the continuation of my 3 ball juggling experimentation and it mainly focuses on body throws, hence the title.
Music:
Defunk - Banjo Blues
The Sound Providers - 5 minutes (ft. Procussions)
Filmed at: Camosun College, Victoria (BC).
Thanks for watching!
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08-10-2014
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Starting off with the base pattern of rotating 2 count 4 count feed, we then add the maniuplators to do 3B (Brook in blue t-shirt the B maniuplator, Steve in black t-shirt the 3 manipulator). Every 30 beats you get back to the start, and so every 30 beats the B/V manipulator (Brook at this point) switches to the other pattern and the 5 people do around of 3B/3V. We do 3B/3V/3B/3V and then try to exit the pattern.
Patterned invented by Aidan - see 'How to Steal From Your Friends' at http://www.juggle.me.uk/passing/ where 3,V,B and transitions between them are described.
In Aidan Notation (X, Y, Z are the jugglers):
X: Ps | Ps | Ps
Y: Ps | ss | Ps
Z: ss | Ps | ss
3: cZZ | sZX | iXY
V: cXY | sYY | iXZ
B: iXY | cYY | sYX
I switch by doing the second column of the pattern I've arrived in (as manipulator) and then switching to the third column of the new pattern (and everyone responds accordingly).
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06-10-2014
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Have fun and thanks for watching.
Music: Sunshine Alley - Stanley Turrentine
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26-09-2014
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With apologies to those who were expecting Fats Waller...another chocolate-chip cookie and Irn Bru-fuelled 8 minutes of Kendama mayhem.
This time from the beer-garden of "The Haven" bar and restaurant, Cellardyke, Fife, Scotland.
Clad in an 18 year-old T-shirt, you are invited to breathlessly marvel as Donald pirouettes with balletic grace to some inner muse, and the music of John Coletta./n No animals were harmed in the making of this film...
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