Tricks in 7 Singles

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 14:39:12 EDT
From: anotherco@aol.com (ANOTHER CO)
Subject: *Passing* - Tricks in 7-Singles

"Seven Singles" is the name often given to 2-count (aka showers, express)
with 7 clubs.  This is done exactly like plain old 2-count with 6 clubs,
but one passer starts with four, and the other passer waits till the first
incoming club is in mid-pass before starting his own first throw. 

    To make this work at first, both passers must be very conscious of
juggling as slowly as possible.  Each self-throw should be high and slow. 

Each pass should be thrown higher, lazier than usual, and hold each club
as long as you can.  This will give you the necessary time to have an
extra club.
    Once you master this, you'll find that practically everything you can
do with 6 clubs can be done with 7.  This includes multiplex throws,
chops, shoulder throws, left to left throws, double-triple-quad, ("Star
Wars") and even flourishes.  It is very helpful if the thrower has a
catcher who can remain calm!
    You'll find pickups more difficult, but not impossible. One good way
to handle a dropped club is to throw two triple-spin passes in a row as
soon as the club is dropped, giving yourself a moment where things slow
down.  Another good pick up for 7 is to use a kickup pass to your partner.
     For pickups, or for transitioning from 6 to 7 clubs, do not try to
maintain a 6-club pattern with a space in it, then add into that space. 

Instead, throw any club just a bit early, the 7th club is added
immediately after, making it just a bit late, then the pattern will smooth
out after a few more passes. - Jeff Napier - 


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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 94 15:49:28 EDT
From: davidswf@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Hart-Davidson)
Subject: Re: *Passing* - Tricks in 7-Singles

Great advice!  Here's another tip for a great trick that, once you
have 7 singles down, looks great...

As you maintain a steady, medium pace pattern with six 2 count
(solids), you can kick up into seven singles fairly easily.  The kick
is a low trajectory, single spin that just sort of rolls over into the
hand of the catcher.  To make time for the kick, the kicker should
make a throw during six solids out of his left hand.  This change in
rhythm allows for the catcher to switch to the syncopated rhythm of 7.
The kick comes immediately after the left hand throw, but not
simultaneously.  Again, as Jeff notes, the key to doing this with
consistency is maintaining a nice, relaxed patter with seven singles.


I have found that kicking in to seven singles is *much* easier than
doubles because it requires such a low, controlled kick.  But once you
get the kick to singles down, the kick to doubles (or the timing for
it anyway) becomes easier too.

g'luck

-Bill

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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 94 11:49:11 EDT
From: phy5jbb@sun.leeds.ac.uk (J B Brolly)
Subject: Re: *Passing* - Tricks in 7-Singles

In article <6h8f5$gi@newsbf01.news.aol.com>anotherco@aol.com (ANOTHER CO)  
writes:
[stuff about 7 singles]

>     For pickups, or for transitioning from 6 to 7 clubs, do not try to
>maintain a 6-club pattern with a space in it, then add into that space. 

>Instead, throw any club just a bit early, the 7th club is added
>immediately after, making it just a bit late, then the pattern will smooth
>out after a few more passes.

Another way of doing this is to have the 7th club on your right foot ready
to be kicked up to yourself. When your ready throw a left handed crossing 

single trying to keep it as slow as possible. Kick the club on your right
foot up into the pattern at the same time as throwing the crossing pass
and you should just about be in 7 singles. Its a bit frantic at first but
it's the nicest looking method I've come across.

Brendan Brolly
Physicist and Juggler,
IRC in Polymer Science, Leeds.