Talk:dwell time

In juggling, the dwell time is an important parameter, meaning the time a so called 'prop', especially a beanbag, a ball, a ring, a club, or anything alike that are caught and thrown again, (.. not so much a diabolo, devil-stick or anything alike that are being handled with tools .. prop = requisite? propulsator? propulsion element? propelled thing? ) stays in the hand that catches and throws it (respectively the time it is in contact with the tool handling it).

Juggling pingpong balls with pingpong rackets thus would give a dwell time near 0 or a minuscule fraction of a second, while a huge glass marble contact juggled by a contact juggler gives a dwell time of like upto minutes.

At juggling clubs, balls or rings, the dwell time is usually fractions of a second. It is - looked at it exactly - the time from contacting the prop when catching, unto leaving the hand when throwing. It can be varied by the juggler, by using different techniques of catching and throwing: e.g. A ball can be caught with the whole hand - like gripped entirely -, then thrown again = long, slow dwell time. It can be caught using the hand or even only the fingers like as a basket - without gripping it entirely, only like braking it to catch it, then giving it its direction when throwing it = average dwell time. The ball can be ticked or flicked by using the hand like as a racket to propulse the ball back into the air, without even seizing it in any way = shortest dwell time. .. where these techniques in their definition transition rather fluently into one another.

The dwell time must not be confused with the juggling speed: .. a certain juggling pattern juggled at a certain height with a certain speed can be achieved with small (short) or high (long) dwell time by using different of the above techniques.

Varying a 3-ball-cascade ( .. the article exists! ) or a 5-ball-cascade in speed or improving from 3b-casc to 5b-casc, will automatically improve a juggler's dwell time abilities.
 * It doesn't seem necessarily different from the existing sense. Could you add a usage either here or in the entry? I wonder whether we should have an appendix suggesting for various contexts to what "state" dwell time refers. DCDuring TALK 19:07, 29 July 2011 (UTC)