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Burke's
Barrage,
Although
Burke's Barrage (named after its inventor,
Ken Burke) derives from the CrossArm Tennis pattern, it's about
ten times more active, and you might have trouble spotting the
family resemblance. Both arms are constantly in motion, crossing the
body, throwing, catching and carrying, like windmills flailing in a
storm. But, surprisingly, Burke's Barrage simply adds flourishes -
elaborate, wheel-like carries to the Cross-Arm Tennis pattern,
executed, one on each side, by the arm that is "idle." The
resulting "Barrage" is no misnomer - when you see the
trick performed, those wheeling carries really come atcha! No
question that in Burke's Barrage we have, as my friend Noah put it,
"One of the major 3-ball moves."
Start
with two balls in the right hand, one in the left. .(Figure
26) RH tosses 1 straight up about shoulder height at the right side
of the juggle space. (NOTE:
This is a starting move only. Henceforth only the LH wiIl
throw and catch 1, just as only RH will throw and catch 3.) (Figure 27). LH "tennises" 2 in a short arc over to the right. (2 wiIl tennis back and forth throughout.) Then LH claw-catches 1 and carries it down and around through more than a full counterclockwise circle on the right side of the body. The "wheel" it describes should point more or less forward like the right wheel on a car. (This carry will terminate with the LH throw to be described in Step 5.) While this is happening, RH will make the two consecutive throws described next.
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