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Summary: How to incorporate flair in a pattern for juggling in this free performing video.
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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: Now, if you've been practicing the flair to the point where you can do it consistently back and forth in each hand, try doing it as doubles. This shouldn't be too much harder, though it will be slightly harder to figure out where to catch the club as it's coming down. The reason you want to be able to do it both as doubles and singles is because when you're trying to incorporate flairs into a pattern, it's good to be able to do both for different types of patterns. What you eventually want to be able to work your way up to is doing everies. Now, the best way to incorporate it to a pattern right off the bat is to practice doing this. All I'm doing is that as the club I'm going to flair is coming down, throwing a double from the hand that's going to be--do the flair to create untimed gap during which a club in the air and a club is being flaired after which I can then resume normal time and normal pattern. I can do it as a single, but when you're first learning how to do it, it's very difficult. And sometimes, I just automatically don't. Eventually, you want to be able to incorporate that double into your next flair until you can do it consistently. Now, as you can see, if you mess up the flair in some way, you're not always out of luck. As long as you have your hand still on the club well enough to through it, you can recover. However, you want to try to put yourself in the position where that's not the case. Another way you can do the flair is that instead of throwing the double from the hand that's going to do the flair, throw a straight double from the hand that's occupying time like so. Once you're able to do that on both sides--oops--you can exchange it, and now you're doing flairs from the straight throws. There's many different ways to incorporate the flair, that's just a couple of them. You can also do off of high throws. Try something with your own ideas, and work it in with other tricks, and you might find some very cool combinations.