IRNjuggle28
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I am a juggler and a speedsolver. I'm much more experienced at juggling, and have been juggling for a lot longer. I know several other people that do both as well. When I began learning to solve cubes 3 months ago, I instantly noticed a LOT of similarity between juggling and solving. It's hard to explain, but they require very similar types of spatial awareness. Anybody who is a serious speedsolver and a serious technical juggler will know what I'm talking about. Also worth noting is that juggling has a notation system that shares some similarities with cube notation. I'm not going to explain it here; that'd take too long, but here's Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siteswap) I had noticed many similarities even before getting involved in the online cubing community. But after seeing Chris Olson juggle 2 in one hand and solve a cube 1 handed behind his back, BLD style, with the other hand, seeing that one dude whose name I've forgotten juggle a cube while solving it, and seeing Stefan Pochmann juggle 5 balls, I am astounded by how connected cubing and juggling seem to be.
Just like a lot of cubers, jugglers are very on and off. Juggling is extremely frustrating. Even the world record holders go months or years barely juggling at all. It's that bad. It is fascinating and very addictive, and anybody who enjoys speedsolving should give it a look. One notable difference between cubing and juggling is that cubing is a lot more constrained. You're fighting a timer. That is not the case with juggling. You're just fighting gravity and your own coordination (or lack thereof). The more you learn how to do in juggling, the more you can learn. That sounds counter intuitive, but it's not. If you can juggle 4 balls instead of 3, you have way more possible patterns to do; just as a 4x4 cube has way more permutations than a 3x3. The more you learn, the more you CAN learn.
Time for some juggling talk that almost nobody here will get much of!
After 6.5 years (on and off), My numbers PBs are:
5 balls - forever
6 balls - ~180 catches
7 balls - 43 catches
8 balls - 16 catches
9 balls - 9 catches
5 clubs - ~125 catches
6 clubs - 9 catches
5 rings - ~130 catches
6 rings - 17 catches
7 rings - 7 catches
After 3 months of cubing, my 3x3 PBs: (using cross, F2L, and beginners method LL. (Yes, I'm still procrastinating OLL and PLL)
AO12 - 28.30
AO5 - 25.93
Single - 16.24
Anybody who is a juggler and a cuber feel free to share your juggling and/or cubing PBs, and anything else even remotely relevant. There's so many ways that juggling and cubing can be combined and can complement each other, as well. We've seen OH BLD solving while juggling with the other hand, and solving a cube while juggling it. There are surely way more cool things that can be done with the two. One thing I've thought of is juggling AND solving blindfolded. With balls, it's very difficult, but clubs (because they have a handle, which is easier to catch without looking) can actually be juggled blindfolded if you're good enough. I'm probably at the level that I could juggle 2 clubs in one hand blindfolded, but I can't BLD solve cubes. I need to get better at cubing before trying juggling and blindsolving together. Anyway.Time for a brain dump, fellow cubers. Ideas?
Just like a lot of cubers, jugglers are very on and off. Juggling is extremely frustrating. Even the world record holders go months or years barely juggling at all. It's that bad. It is fascinating and very addictive, and anybody who enjoys speedsolving should give it a look. One notable difference between cubing and juggling is that cubing is a lot more constrained. You're fighting a timer. That is not the case with juggling. You're just fighting gravity and your own coordination (or lack thereof). The more you learn how to do in juggling, the more you can learn. That sounds counter intuitive, but it's not. If you can juggle 4 balls instead of 3, you have way more possible patterns to do; just as a 4x4 cube has way more permutations than a 3x3. The more you learn, the more you CAN learn.
Time for some juggling talk that almost nobody here will get much of!
After 6.5 years (on and off), My numbers PBs are:
5 balls - forever
6 balls - ~180 catches
7 balls - 43 catches
8 balls - 16 catches
9 balls - 9 catches
5 clubs - ~125 catches
6 clubs - 9 catches
5 rings - ~130 catches
6 rings - 17 catches
7 rings - 7 catches
After 3 months of cubing, my 3x3 PBs: (using cross, F2L, and beginners method LL. (Yes, I'm still procrastinating OLL and PLL)
AO12 - 28.30
AO5 - 25.93
Single - 16.24
Anybody who is a juggler and a cuber feel free to share your juggling and/or cubing PBs, and anything else even remotely relevant. There's so many ways that juggling and cubing can be combined and can complement each other, as well. We've seen OH BLD solving while juggling with the other hand, and solving a cube while juggling it. There are surely way more cool things that can be done with the two. One thing I've thought of is juggling AND solving blindfolded. With balls, it's very difficult, but clubs (because they have a handle, which is easier to catch without looking) can actually be juggled blindfolded if you're good enough. I'm probably at the level that I could juggle 2 clubs in one hand blindfolded, but I can't BLD solve cubes. I need to get better at cubing before trying juggling and blindsolving together. Anyway.Time for a brain dump, fellow cubers. Ideas?