From: ke94002@black.ox.ac.uk (Daniel J Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: 'Named' patterns
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:13:33 GMT
Organization: Oh, come /on/..
Originator: ke94002@black

naw@planet.bt.co.uk (Ab Wilson) writes:

>Ahh, someone who knows Rubenstein's Revenge. Could you describe it for
>me? I can do Burkes Barrage very fluently, and I can do figure of
>eights round both balls with both hands (I think this is called the
>Weave). Is there a difference between this and Rubensteins Revenge?

 Yup. Hm. I should point out now that I am remarkably bad at
describing/teaching patterns in person, so the chances of the
following making any sense at all are low to say the least. That
said;

 Start with balls 1,3 in RH, 2 in LH.

a: Throw 1 vertically on RHS.

b: Throw 2 vertically with LH on LHS, same throw as the 'across' throw in
Burke's Barrage. [ about now, start moving LH down towards the
flourish in step d ]

c: Throw 3 vertically with RH on LHS. (RH goes under LH for this)
(and I probably won't say much about what to do with ball 3 --
trust me on this, if you can get the other two to work, this one'll
just, um, happen automatically. Your hands will know what to do..)

d: Now, LH comes over properly, grabs ball 1 which is coming down,
moves round as in Burke's Barrage, and releases it back upwards.

e: RH comes back to RHS, grabs 2. Move 2 around ball 1, as ball 1
goes upwards, same move as in the weave (bottom half; go round ball
1 anticlockwise). Releases ball 2 as in the b/b throw across the
top towards LHS. [ note; the throw's not as much across, as just
upward and over a bit -- just get the ball out of the way and into
the air, basically; you'll be grabbing it next time you do anything
with it so it doesn't make much odds exactly where it is, really.
]  Keep this hand moving, as the move's a smooth flow between this
and the bit in step g

f: LH comes back, catches ball 3 as it falls on RHS, throws it
upwards out of the way of the other hands.

g: RH continues in the same direction as it was going after the
'weave' move, grabs ball 1 as it falls, keeps on going, does
Burke's Barrage-style motion on LHS of body.

h: about halfway through this move, LH starts to come upwards; when
RH finishes the b/b move, and releases ball 1 upwards again, LH
should be in place to do a weave-type circle around ball 1 with
ball 2, and then releases ball 2 as in the b/b throw back across
the top towards RHS. Again, keep LH moving in this vague direction.

i: RH throws ball 3 wherever that's got to by now.

j: LH keeps going round, grabs ball 2 from the air as it descends,
does b/b-type weave on RHS.

 Step j == step d, so just keep on going.


 Note. How to learn this? The trick, as far as I can tell, is to
get the hang of the varying circles you make -- if you've got the
weave and Burke's Barrage, then those should be okay, and it's just
a matter of joining the two together, really.

 Much as I hate to say this, once you get the idea, it's not that
difficult a trick, really -- just one that takes a bit of
convincing your hands to do. Actually, it does have a strangely
inevitable feel about it; given the basic 'round the ball, over and
down to circle as in b/b' move, there's not a lot else that could
happen, really. 

 Granted, that's not much use to /learn/ the trick, I know, but
once you /do/ work out what's going on, it's not far from that
point at all.

 Oh, and the site-swap for this is 'just' 3..

>Whats the Gillson variation on M/M for those who havn't read Beyond
>the Cascade.

 Hm. I've not got the hang of this one myself yet, and quite
frankly, I don't feel up to attempting to describe a pattern I
can't even do.. <grin>

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Daniel Mitchell == ke94002@black.ox.ac.uk == bi furry juggler