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Emil Lamprecht Emil started his juggling career performing 3 ball tricks accompanied by slapstick and stage comedy at age 14. He eventually developed a taste for more advanc... read more
EMIL LAMPRECHT: All right. We're going to talk about the shower pattern. Now, this is definitely something you need to have down with three balls well before you push it with clubs. Shower pattern is going to be usually doubles, though some people prefer to throw triples just so they have more time. Doubles for me are a good compromise because they're high enough to do the actual pattern, and low enough that I don't have to worry about too much control. Now, unlike with balls, cold-starting a shower is harder than starting the shower out of a pattern. With balls, it's usually easier to just start with the two balls in your hand and get right into it. With clubs, because of the way you have to hold them, it's much easier to throw a double from a pattern and go right into the shower. Now, the interesting dynamic to learn is how you vamp. I find that when I vamp with clubs in a shower pattern, I tend to vamp downwards. Unfortunately, this means that when I try--because I'm right-handed--this means that when I try to vamp left or in the other direction, I'm vamping upwards just because I'm used to a certain direction. For this reason, it's very important to learn shower both directions early on. Practice one side and switch it. If you can get this down, you've not only learned shower, but you've made an interesting trick with kind of a pattern stall that has left you much more ambidextrous than I am, and hopefully more dynamic for future tricks.