The Mock Moose Feed

Okay, so now that I've got the blog itself set up, and looking nice and stuff, I should really go ahead and post something of substance. I still need to fix the layout of some of the auxiliary pages, but whatever.

So last Wednesday I brought my new camcorder to juggling, and recorded and hour and a half of footage... Here are clips of a couple of the patterns we worked on this week (in three sizes/compression levels to choose from).

The Mock Moose Feed is a pattern that Martin and Henry and I invented the previous Wednesday. It's a very nice, very symmetric pattern for the feeder, but it turns out to be rather asymmetric for the feedees in weird ways; one of them has a slightly weird sequence, the other has a very weird sequence.

Anyway, here I am feeding Martin and Rick (Martin's doing what was Henry's role, since that was the weirder one, and Rick is doing what was Martin's role). I've included one attempt that didn't get very far, but which ended in a funny way, and then a later attempt which was about two cycles. Our best run was actually about two and a half cycles, but I liked the way this particular run looked better -- mostly because we're struggling a little more, but keeping it going... :)

Large - 78 MB Medium - 11 MB Small - 3.2 MB

Here's the causal diagram for it:

Feeder does: inside, inside, inside, inside, simul-to-lefts, outside, outside, outside, outside, simul-to-rights

Feedee A (simpler) does: R straight, L self, R straight, L self, R straight, L straight, R self, L straight, R self, L diag

Feedee B (weirder) does: R self, L straight, R self, L diag, R diag, L self, R straight, L self, R diag, L straight

One of the other patterns we worked on was the 11-club 2-fisted feed. The feeder is basically doing just a regular right-handed 7-club pattern with one feedee and a left-handed 7-club pattern with the other feedee.

Large - 39 MB Medium - 6.3 MB Small - 1.8 MB

Not sure whether this was our best run, but I think it was probably fairly close. Near the beginning you can hear a club hitting the ground, but we still have all 11 clubs up, so I assume that was a club dropping on the other side of the cube...

Posted by neilfred at May 31, 2003 05:53 PM