Unproductivity continues

The end of the school year has certainly kept me busy for the past few weeks. 

Between end-of-the-year banquets and the added workload of graduation, I have had my hands full at the paper recently. 

With everything going on, I have more or less abandoned the notion of making any real juggling progress for most of this month–and that is a pretty good explanation for the lack of posts recently. 

This has really been a growing trend lately. But even with these time-constraints I have still managed to do a good bit of juggling–it has just not been as goal-driven as in the past. 

Most of the juggling I’ve done has been in short bursts. 10-20 minuets or so a few times a day. 

I have been under so much stress and had some many obligations that I just haven’t had enough long, uninterrupted bits of time to have a long session. 

I have been having a lot of fun with four balls though. I can feel the pattern getting more and more solid, even after having it comfortably in hand for months now. 

I can manage a nice little transition from 3-4 (starting with the fourth held, tossing in a few stacked multiplexes, and then moving into a asynch fountain). From there I can make a nice transition to a synch pattern, manage a few simple placement tricks, and then move back into an asynch, and then back into a 3 ball cascade. 

It is nothing impressive, but it is very fun to work on stringing a few tricks together, and it is something that i haven’t really attempted in the past. 

I’ve also started working on a similar string of tricks with 3 clubs, but this usually takes me a bit longer to warm up into. 

From a cascade I start with an over-the-top tennis, go into a half shower, into a reverse cascade, into mills-mess (this part is ugly), then work a double toss on the underarm throw of mills mess and use that to go into a doubles cascade, back into a regular cascade, and then throw three 1.5 spins to end up with an all fat-end cascade, then back. 

I don’t think I’ve ever finished all of that, but writing it out makes it a bit more real in my mind, and I think I will be a bit more dedicated to getting it all together in the coming days. 

I’ve also done a bit of work with 3 balls, and I finally managed a few decent runs of a clawed mills mess. It is  very fun to juggle. I’ve also started working on the factory, and I managed a few catches of it.. although they were ugly. 

My shower is still ugly, too, and I would like to see both of those improve a bit. 

Other than that I have not done much. I haven’t dedicated any real time to progressing with 5, but I usually end my short sessions with a few flashes, just to keep the feel and form fresh. 

Hopefully in the coming weeks things will be more juggle-freindly.