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The Cherry Picker. In the previous series we did the slow Cherry Picker or the Tic Tac,
which is this. Now, a slight variation of this, is this. The Cherry Picker is the most
difficult part of both of those tricks combine. So what you're doing is the balls are traveling
in an upside down pyramid in a circle and you're grabbing it at the apex, shoving it
along an imaginary line and dropping it. So this is what the Cherry Picker looks like.
Okay. Now the most difficult part of this is two-fold. It is having the throw be the
right heights that you don't have to reach for it, so that it looks as though the top
is on a shelf and you were just pushing them along a shelf. That's the most difficult part
I, is getting the throw to stop at its apex right on the same plane every time. The difficult
part II is the release. When you're releasing it on the other side, you don't want to throw
it, you don't want to flick it and you definitely don't want to push it down. You need to be
able to drop it which is much harder than it, than it sounds. It's very hard to move
your arm that quickly and then drop without having the ball continue along its path and
fly out. So the way to start is, start with your Tic Tac and instead of doing the Tic
Tac part, try to move it over. Okay. It's, another way would be to practice your under
arm throw and instead of doing a chop downward, this, try to move it over. And eventually
with enough practice, you'll be able to get them to sit in the same spot. And obviously
the further you can move them over, and the wider you can make that triangle, the better
the trick looks. So that is the Cherry Picker.