Diabolo physics

Jul 23, 2009 12:06

Diabolo.ca 2 diabolo high tutorial:
"don't even try and learn 2 high where there is ANY wind at all" 
Easier said than done - the pattern is 20 feet high!

Juggling practice tonight indoors for the first time since I started properly working on 2-high - will see what difference the lack of wind makes.

PS learning about the physics of diabolo recently gave 2 nice words: PRECESSION and NUTATION.

NUTATION is an 8 worth knowing,

PRECESSION  has 3 anagrams
NECROPSIES - autopsies on animals
ENCOPRESIS# - shitting oneself
PRECONISES# - praises

Precession is a gyroscope's counterintuitive response to force.  Here's a video about it.  Nutation means 'nodding motion', it's the motion of a nearly-horizontal gyroscope precessing due to the force gravity. [a spinning top does this instead of falling over]

diabolo, sowpods, juggling

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