The Juggling Edge - Stuff I learnt today.

Orinoco - 2012-03-18 19:47:34 UTC #

Stuff I learnt today.

A nice little three ball move: hold two balls in one hand at waist height, hold the third at head height for a drop. Throw the two balls as a column multiplex, drop the third ball. Catch & hold the top ball of the multiplex at head height with the hand on top. Catch the dropped ball then the lower ball from the multiplex in the lower hand. Rinse & repeat until smooth. Then every now & then throw the column multiplex so that the top ball goes over & the lower ball goes under the upper hand (keep this hand as still as possible for best effect).

When juggling a pattern I'm not confident with my weight is on the balls of my feet, if it's something I can do easily my weight is on my heels. I wonder if an audience can pick up on this shift?

Years ago when I used to be a lot better than I am now people would often see me juggle & comment, "Wow, you can do anything", which was untrue, they were watching combinations that I had monotonously practised until fluid for many hours woven together to create the illusion of being able to do anything. Nowadays my practise is pretty much all improv. Instead of pretending I can do anything, I'd like to genuinely be able to do anything (within reason). Faking it is by far the easier route to the same effect.

Lindor chocolates have a small circular indentation which makes them look like the Death Star.

& as a final thought: JEEEEENNNNNSSSSSOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

The Void - 2012-03-19 14:13:56 UTC - Наверх #

1 : vertical version of Georgian Shuffle?
4 : Agreed.

Orinoco - 2012-03-19 19:46:25 UTC - Наверх #

That's a good point, it is exactly like the Georgian Shuffle except without the single throw tagged on the end.

Reuben - 2012-03-22 02:02:21 UTC - Наверх #

1: There's a whole genre of interesting patterns involving a multiplex from one hand while the other drops a ball from above. One nice variation to the pattern you described is where you catch the dropped ball (having thrown the stacked multiplex) and before catching the lower stacked one throw it (the dropped one) up again to the top hand (which should already have caught the top stacked ball), so that you end with two in the top hand. To get back to where you started, you can do the same in reverse, with a squeeze instead of a multiplex.

4: Strange, isn't it. Any theories as to why?

Reuben :)

Orinoco - 2012-03-22 21:28:38 UTC - Наверх #

1: Ooh, that's nice (took me a little while to stamp out the instinct to claw the single ball after it is thrown back up). I quite like switching from side to side as soon as I had 2 in the top hand & one in the bottom, it has a Singapore Shuffle like quality to it.

4: It is most likely the point where the truffle is held while it is dipped in the chocolate that forms the outer shell. Although I would prefer to think that the 'Master' in Master Chocolatier is a nod to the master/apprentice dynamic of the Sith.

^Tom_ - 2012-03-23 23:08:26 UTC - Наверх #

4: I always assumed it was the opposite - that they left a hole in the shell to pour in the soft middle.

fak - 2012-03-24 09:25:40 UTC - Наверх #

I don't have a Lindor chocolate in front of me, but do they have a visible equatorial line to indicate two halves brought together? If so, I'd go with the "pouring hole" theory. Dipping to get a round chocolate is tricy - look at malteasers, they are rarely round (even though they must be forming the central biscuit to be round and then they are dipped).

Orinoco - 2012-03-24 19:51:05 UTC - Наверх #

I don't remember a seam (chocolate doesn't last long around me).

I've only seen truffles being made by hand using the dipping method & they did come out very round after some painstaking post dip processing so assumed Lindt do the same but using machines.

This video sheds a bit of light:

https://youtu.be/vhk58A5qVuQ

As far as I can tell:

5:20 Truffle centres loaded.

5:23 Truffles coated through the tube like thing & dropped into the trough which recycles the coating (the contraption immediately after the tube is possibly a fan that blows cool air to harden the shell up a little).

5:42 Rotating thing rolls balls to make them rounder.

6:08 The ball drops over the edge from one conveyor to another & stops dead, suggests the shell is still a little soft & tacky, I think the box it then goes through is possibly a fridge.

6:17 The way the balls drop off the lip in the conveyor, roll around a little & come to a stop suggests that they now have the Death Star dimple which was somehow picked up in the fridge.

More factories should open up to the public.