Four Ball Half-Shower
Other Tutorials:
- Siteswap:(4x,4x)
- Difficulty (1-10): 6
- Prerequisites: Half-Shower, Wimpy
- Related Tricks: Arches, Asynchronous Half-Shower
The Four Ball Half-Shower is a
synchronous trick in which one hand makes constant overthrows while the
other hand makes constant underthrows. While this version of the Four Ball
Half-Shower is probably the most popular, there is also a slightly more
difficult asynchronous version (siteswap 53) in which the gap between the
high and low throws is much larger.
To learn the Four Ball Half-Shower, it is important to master
synchronous high-low throws, a skill that can be challenging at first. Start
with one ball in each hand, and then make a high overthrow with your
dominant hand while simultaneously making a low underthrow with your
non-dominant hand.
Practice this pair of throws until you are very comfortable
with it. Then, with two balls in each hand, make one pair of throws, and
when they are at their peak, throw a second pair using your last two balls.
Once you have two sets of throws mastered, you can move on to
three, four, and so on, until you able to juggle the Four Ball Half-Shower
continously. Once you have mastered making overthrows with your dominant
hand, you can switch sides and learn the Half-Shower going the opposite
direction.