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. — This comment was unsigned.

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)