Hi
@Razw ,
Welcome to the forum.
There's a little bit of advice from Sam in this thread:
http://kendama.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1112.0.htmlAlso, advice that helped me with juggles was "try to leave the ken throw as late as possible". It seems to give a little extra time in the pattern. It took me a while, but just getting on the practice grind got me from one to two juggles (2 to 4 catches) to Big Cup.
Thinking of the two columns that the ball and ken travel up and down in, I find that I angle the ken outwards a little bit. Something like...
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...viewed from above.
Of course, getting juggles to Spike is considerably harder, as it requires precise control of the ball...
