| description | klas: The guts of this move is taken from Shifty's 2b Flying Butterfly. It probably looks better with single coloured balls (or acrylics of course), but I thought it would be easier to follow with balls in different colours. Notice how the the pink and yellow ball never changes hands.. If it's done 'perfect' all thre balls will line up in a column in front of you which looks really nice. To do something similliar with four balls, you'll either have to thumb to
balls in the same hand, which I am unable to do, or you have to turn the
flying butterfly around, so instead of doing it from palm to cradle, you do
it from cradle to palm. The problem here is to get into the position with
two balls in the cradle in a nice way. I don't know about any hold that
would be the equivalent to thumbing in palm, so butterflying one ball from
palm to cradle while holding a ball in cradle seems impossible (but I would
love to be proved wrong on this one). The other way to end up with two
balls in cradle is to catch one ball while already holding one, this is
doable but difficult. First version: Place two balls in each palm. Butterfly both hand simultaneously, letting one of the balls go flying
and ending up with the other one in the cradle, this will leave you with
two balls in the air (for a very short time), these balls should be catched
in cradle on the oposite hand from which they there thrown. You now have two balls in each cradle and has to reverse the motion to
get back to the start, that is a flying butterfly from each cradle, and
catching in palms. I haven't figured out how to position the hands to get the last part to
work. The first part is also VERY difficult and I have so far not succeded
in doing it with two balls. (one in each palm, butterfly one and send one
flying, try to get both in the same cradle).Second version: One ball in right hand, thumbhold. Three balls in left hand, one in thumbhold, two in cradle. Do a flying butterfly in left hand, and catch the flying ball in right
hand cradle. This leaves you with left hand holding two balls in palm, and
right hand holding one in thumbhold and one in cradle. Do a palm to cradle transfer from left to right, you now have the
starting position, but mirrored, so you have three balls in right hand and
one in left. Repeat, but start with right hand. Couldn't let this one go, so here's a third variation, I think this is that I first was thinking about, but forgot along the way. :) It's the same as the second version above, but instead of doing a palm to cradle transfer then you have two balls in one palm, do a flying butterfly, this introduces the step of catching the flying ball in the other cradle while already holding two balls, one in thumbhold and onde in cradle. You'll also end up with the ball in the other hand in the cradle, you would probably prefer to get it to palm before catching the flying ball from the flying bytterfly from the other hand. This is probably best done with a butterfly before the flying butterfly, bit if you're good you may be able to dom them at the same time. |
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