USELESS(?) BRAINTWISTERS

Arm twisting balance

Hold your arm straight with a ball on the elbow hold/balance. Make sure that your hand is completely palm-up. Now turn your hand palm-down (full 180 degrees), while still holding the ball balanced in exactly the same place. I still can’t quite do this with my left hand…

Maksim’s Challenge I

Juggle a three club cascade so that two of the clubs make half flips all the time, while the third one does a full flip, but so that you catch and throw it from the fat end every time. (tip: this is easiest to start if you hold two clubs in one hand the “right” way around, and the third one in the other hand from the fat end).

Maksim’s Challenge II

Juggle a four club fountain. One hand does single-single-double all the time, while the other hand does double-double-single. And don’t try to cheat by doing this synchronized with singles going to the same height as the doubles

(Both of these challenges are shown on the Radical Club News videos.)

Luke Wilson’s Flat-half-full-half-flat

The title pretty much says it all. Juggle a three club cascade in a repeating sequence of those five throws. Just keep doing flat-half-full-half-flat-flat-half-full-half-flat…Luke’s own words: “I wanted to make the simplest and shortest sequence that would change hands, and not have any club do the same thing twice, or tennis or anything. If you do 15 throws, it then starts again on the other side. After 30 throws you are back at the start.” This in a mills’ mess, anyone…?

Catwalk Confusion

Imagine this scenario: you are performing on a catwalk in a fashion show, so that half of your audience is on your right, and the other half on your left. You stand in the middle, facing one half of the crowd, and start to do the Triple-B (juggling three balls blind behind your back) while smiling jokingly. After a while you stop and turn around. Now you take the most serious and concentrated look on your face and do the fake juggle behind your back (the one where you just hold your hands behind your back and move them around a little as if you were juggling). The result? Now half of the audience will think that you are quite funny but perhaps not the most technical juggler in the world, while at the same time the other half will find you very serious but highly skilled…