Mills Mess
The Mills Mess (English for Mills- Mess , named after the juggler Steve Mills) is a juggling pattern that is usually thrown with three balls, but can technically be juggled with any (even or odd) number of objects. The Mills Mess is also sometimes referred to as Blizzard or, in the English-speaking world, based on a suggestion by Mills, who gave it its name, as Double Lubman (double Lubman).
The three-ball pattern is based on the fact that a certain ball is thrown in the shape of a lying “figure eight” (from outside to inside) and the remaining balls follow the trajectory of the first ball. In the three-ball variant, each ball has its own path, which it follows again and again. The lanes of the individual balls remain permanently assigned to a ball without one ball exchanging lanes with another ball. So z. B. A ball thrown on the right side with the left hand and caught on the left side with the right hand and vice versa.
In variants with more than three balls, several balls continue to follow one another in the shape of an eight. However, the "role" of the individual balls changes, so that each ball sometimes flies ahead in the trajectory and sometimes follows the other ball (s).
Sometimes cross-arms are juggled and the position of the arms is constantly changing; once the right arm, then again the left arm is up / down. The balls are sometimes thrown with crossed arms and caught.
Noted as a siteswap , the Mills Mess describes a "3" and is therefore no different from a cascade . In principle, however, any siteswap can be thrown as a Mills Mess. Another popular trick is the Mills Mess with four balls.
variants
A variant (especially with clubs) is to turn your body back and forth while juggling. This makes it possible to throw the three clubs at five positions as columns. The middle club remains in its position and the other two are "carried" from left to right and back again to be thrown in a column on the respective side.
Another variant is the Boston Mess , in which each ball (each club) always flies up and down in the same place next to each other and only the hands underneath cross each other as in the Mills Mess.
Web links
- Video tutorial by inventor Steve Mills
Individual proof
- ^ Adrian Vosskühler (1994). Juggle. From beginner to expert . Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3499194344