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Four Ball Fountain
The four ball fountain can be juggled as an asynchronous pattern. All the throws are fountain throws, which are thrown and caught by the same hand.

If you follow the path of one ball you'll see that it is caught three beats after it is thrown, so it is thrown once every four throws. Throws that are caught three beats later are 4s.

So the four ball fountain can be written:

Throwing hand: R L
Throw:         4 4

It can be written more simply as: 4.

If you want to juggle the four ball fountain at the same speed as your three ball cascade, you have to make the throws about twice as high.

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