Marden's Marvel
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- Difficulty (1-10): 6
- Prerequisites: Rubenstein's Revenge, Windmill
Marden's Marvel is a three ball
pattern established by
Daniel Marden. It is essentially Rubenstein's Revenge
with an extra throw inserted during the flourish. This gives the trick an
aesthetic more similar to the Windmill, with its circling arm motions and
ball paths. If you are already very comfortable with Rubenstein's Revenge
then you might find this pattern very easy to grasp through simple
adaptation, but for this tutorial I will work from the ground up.
To begin learning Marden's Marvel, start with two balls in
your dominant hand and one ball in your non-dominant. Cross your arms such
that your dominant arm is underneath your non-dominant arm, then make a
vertical throw from your dominant hand. After that throw is made you will
begin to uncross and then recross your arms such that dominant hand is on
top. As your dominant hand begins recrossing (after having uncrossed), the
ball it previously threw should be beginning to descend. Make a throw from
your dominant hand after it is about halfway finished recrossing, clearing
space for that hand to claw catch the first ball. You will then make an
under-the-arm throw from your non-dominant hand toward the non-dominant side
of your body, clearing space for it to catch the second ball thrown from
your dominant hand. Your dominant hand will then claw catch the ball just
thrown from your non-dominant hand as it reaches its peak.
Practice this on both sides. For the next step you are going
to make a throw from your dominant hand before it catches the last ball of
the previous step. This throw should be roughly identical to the throw your
dominant hand made while recrossing. You will then perform a vertical
under-the-arm throw from your non-dominant hand along the dominant side of
your body, clearing space for that hand to catch the ball just thrown from
your dominant hand. This last throw should then be caught by your
non-dominant hand.
As shown, practice this on both sides. Notice that the final
throw of this step is a mirror image of the first throw. To run the full
pattern simply repeat the the same throws and catches using the opposite
hand configuration. Marden's Marvel is not all that difficult of a pattern,
but when performed with speed it can impress and confound even an
experienced juggler.