Chris Hodge Juggling Practice 6/24/09

[usajuggler]

How long have you been juggling?  How often do you practice?

[KARLOSTAR100]

8 ball (a,a)(6,6)*!

[jlspma]

are you a right hander?

[penguinjuggling]

@jlspma I'm left handed for most things but I do shower and half shower right handed.

[jlspma]

@penguinjuggling I'm right hander for everything except for playing billiards,that's why I suck I box patterns because I can't achieve the same pattern of showers in both directions. =D

[Morphae]

Six ball shower! Pretty

[Rimdaugas1989]

Amazing, i just vaau, ;O

[kzSoUlFaThEr]

WOW man you gonna be so incredible, SUB*

[JanDeHo]

Was that 6 Ball shoulder throws ?

[penguinjuggling]

Yes it was 6 ball should throws at 1:55.

[Kragork]

he is worse than A.G.

he is better than Jason G.

[penguinjuggling]

Jason Garfield is much better than me.

[3kliksphilip]

@Kragork His 8, 9 and 10 ball juggling isn't quite as good as Jason Garfields.

I don't know how you can say that one juggler is better than another, they all have different strengths.

[Kragork]

interesting view

[3kliksphilip]

@Kragork Thanks

[dutylux]

@3kliksphilip WELL IF JASON GARFIELD IS SUCH A GOOD JUGGLER, WHY DIDN'T THOM YORKE WRITE A SONG ABOUT /HIM/, HMM?

[3kliksphilip]

@dutylux Could not hear or see for, jealousy...

[janionnevill]

what ballls do you use? are they the same for normal and numbers juggling?

[penguinjuggling]

In that video, I was using 2.25 inch Baglady Beanbags but I have switched to 2.5 inch Sil-X Balls now. I am having trouble with more than 7 of them though. So I might go back to Baglady Beanbags for numbers.

[jugglermalc]

i did that i went from sport co balls to sil-x and had trouble juggling more than 6 so went back to sport co

[janionnevill]

you really are insanely good

[jugglerJS]

dude i say this with all honesty you are one of the best jugglers ive seen

[gameshowkid222]

I barley practice any tricks at all. Not even the shower. I spend 12 hours today practices NOTHING but 7 and 8 balls. Have you ever done this kind of thing?

[penguinjuggling]

I used to do it all the time, but after I got fairly good at 7 balls, I started practicing tricks a lot more and I have not done that in a long time.

[chasejuggler]

I've always wondered if my rate of improvement is slower because I work on tricks a LOT more than numbers. I can't help but wonder if there's 5 ball stuff that will always be beyond my reach until I learn 7...

But screw it -- practice what's fun for you, right?

[penguinjuggling]

I think practicing numbers will help with tricks, especially siteswaps, but I think practicing them only about five percent of the time and practicing tricks the rest of the time is probably the fastest way to learn tricks. I did not start practicing a lot of tricks until I was fairly solid with seven balls though. So I am basing all I have said on me learning seven ball tricks and practicing eight and nine balls as numbers.

[gameshowkid222]

I just love numbers, yup practicing is fun but frustrating. And I have to wait until the summer again to do use practice sessions like this.

Tricks are cool..... But ya gotta love your numbers.

[SlevyJwood]

Great job tonight! It was really fun seeing you perform

[joasten]

What balls are those? 12 panel sythetic leather beanbags? This is just amazing.

"10 hour practices session". That kinda freaked me out!

[MGZolyn]

insane! haha see you at IJA!

[SlevyJwood]

My brother is also competing in Juniors. Good luck to both of you!

[bozobozo]

2mins and 53 seconds of PURE AWESOMENESS.

I didn't even blink!

How can you do such tricks? I have never even THOUGHT of some them.

Respect

[chasejuggler]

Get it boy!

6b backcrosses are such a rare thing. Really caught me off guard.

I'm sort of on a 5 ball backcross quest. I'm curious, do you keep your form generally the same as that of a 3 ball backcross, or are there major changes that need to take place for the quicker & higher throw that a 5 ball demands?

Keep it up bro!

[penguinjuggling]

There are not really any changes that need to take place. One thing to keep in mind though is that with 5 ball backcrosses all the throws must be the same height, where as with 3 you can change the height with each throw.

See you at the CJA and IJA.

[Spathever]

What a monster. I especially loved the 6 and 7b backcrosses, 7 ball overheads and 5b overhead shower sequence, fantastic.

[jugglelulz]

OMG! on the edge of my seat the whole time!

[manuel886202]

Totally extreme!!

[gameshowkid222]

Nice job Chris. I liked that 7 ball popcorn.

[figure17]

You are amazing, Chris! The high lo 8b fountain was unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!! No to mention everything else in the video!!!

[penguinjuggling]

Yes, I am going to the IJA. I am doing Juniors too.

[Michalslm]

Oh man, that was outstanding! So many mad tricks above the head.

GREAT SKILL!

[DOUBLESH0CK]

wow. hey I ordered like 12 more of your bean bags from your website, they will probably arrive this week woot

[Jugglingbuffoon]

You are a beast.

[TheJuggler98]

That was crazy!!!

[lauge999]

Insane! I loved it! 5*

[jamc999]

5 up to contortionist is what people want to see!

this is extreme...

[BahamutBlueDragon]

Incredible.

I quit juggling

[bornametalman]

Extremely good juggling! Thanks for posting.

[rancid3000]

Next Josiah Jones, but with cleaner patterns! Get cracking on 6 and 7b mills mess! That video was unreal!!!! Great work.

[yero10]

WHAT¿?!¿?!!!!!

unhuman...

[EdgarMalabar]

OMFG!!! this is imposible!!

nice, really really nice

[ortto69]

Wow, awesome!