Moves

- Move your elbow outwards, hand in front of your chest, untill the arm is horizontal.

- Hold your hand tightly to your chest and notice the bulging flesh between your under and upper arm.

- Move your underarm and hand forwards and notice the point where the skin starts to tighten (and move upwards) by the pull of your underarm.

- The transition point between this tightning and bulging of the skin is the correct arm position. At this point the flesh is minimal tensed and the weight of the ball can easily depress the surface of your skin. On the outside/back of the arm you might have some stability from the upperarmbone.

- Now it\'s \'simply\' a matter of maintaining the balance by slightly lowering or raising of the elbow, preventing the ball from rolling out of the dimple made by it\'s weight.

Somebody posted a message once in the Yahoo CJ-club because he had some problems with this hold, I added some of Ferret\'s helpful reply;

You may have an overly developed muscle at your elbow that creates a bump or hill at the balance point. It is called your \"Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus.\" If you are thin you can see it move. Place your arm in front of you, parallel to the ground and your elbow at a 90 degree angle. Bend your wrist keeping your fingers straight to where they point towards the sky. You should see the rise in that portion of your elbow? That\'s the problem. Even with your palm parallel to the ground you may still have a slight rise in that spot, thus causing an unavoidable barrier in a key balance point. People who work with their hands and rely on a strong grip tend to have this development in their elbow. It\'s not a bad thing, it\'s just something you have to work around. If you place your arm in the same position and bend your wrist, so that your fingers are pointing straight at the ground, you will remove that bump. In a sense, drawing that muscle in by contracting your forearm flexor, this in turn will create a depression and allow the sphere to settle. Unfortunately, placing your hand in that position, just looks plane Stupid! But if you practice you will eventually find a happy medium between nailing the trick and not looking too oddly deformed. Hope this helps!