A high-low shower is a variation of the shower pattern where the throwing hand alternates making higher throws and lower throws, so that each low throw is caught before the previous high throw.
- Video: 6 ball high-low shower by Valentin Helml
5 ball hi-lo shower practice
5 ball high-low shower by Ken Nishimura
Siteswap exercises[]
You can use these exercises to practice the same kinds of throws and sequences of throws that are done in high-low shower patterns, before you learn the full pattern.
Some of the siteswaps listed below are shortened to leave out parts where you’re not doing anything. Click on them to see animations of the exercises.
You should practice doing these starting with your right hand and with your left hand, so that you will be able to do the pattern on either side.
3 ball high-low shower:
Exercises to prepare for 7131:
4 ball high-low shower:
Prerequisites: 4 ball shower, 3 ball high-low shower
Exercises to prepare for 9151:
5 ball high-low shower:
Prerequisites: 5 ball shower, 4 ball high-low shower
Exercises to prepare for b171:
Alternative names[]
- Shower under a shower
- Stacked shower
Variations[]
The high-low shower is a simple example of a showered siteswap. 7131, 9151, and b171 are showered versions of 42, 53, and 64. You can change any vanilla siteswap into a showered version by replacing each of the numbers with the siteswap for a shower with that number.
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3 ball high-low-low shower |
4 ball high-low-low shower |
4 ball high-high-low shower |
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4 ball "excited state" high-low shower |
3 ball high-low-middle shower |
4 ball high-middle-low shower |
(6x,2x)(2x,2x)
3 ball high-low shower variations
"97531" shower
5 ball showered 8642 by Chris Fowler