As you will notice, this trick is done along the "inside" of the arm. This opens up a lot of ideas/paths for multiball and generally makes it easier to get 2/3 balls to flow around the body.
After learning this, I naturally thought I should try it on the outside as well, as this would open up a lot more paths for multiball and allow for a lot of cool new tricks, such as some back to back variations or allowing you to do a regular style chestroll with 3 balls (instead of the slightly ugly inside arm version which everyone does now). At first this seemed like it shouldn't be that hard...
Which is why I am writing about this now, in the hope that someone might be able to take the idea and figure out a decent way to do it!
(Please note I posed for sections of this trick just to show how it would look in reality, it wasn't taken in one go!)
Simply having the ball on the back of the hand and bending the wrist down to do the rollover like the above pic seems like the most ideal method (and mirrors the inside arm version), but in reality it's a pretty uncomfortable trick, plus it's really hard to get the ball to roll over. To stop the ball in your hand rolling off you need to grip it with your fingers, which isn't exactly the most comfortable thing for your hand, plus you then need to bend your wrist down at the right angle so that the the rolling ball can roll up without getting jammed by the other ball. This could be made easier with a smaller sized ball, but that would mean changing everything else for the sake of that trick...
The advantage of this method is that after the rollover, the ball should be on a relatively straight course rolling up your arm again, making it much easier to go into other rolls, or go back down the arm for another rollover.
The next method I tried was a type of claw grip.
With this method it is much more comfortable and easier to get the ball to roll over, however the release of the bottom ball is much more difficult. If you can get the bottom ball out between your thumb and index finger, the next problem is getting it to roll straight from your hand, as it will want to roll away from you off the arm. Should you manage to figure that out, you just need to grab the top ball in the claw position again (NOT easy) ready for another rollover! All in all a slightly easier method but still no good.
These two ideas seem to be the best options I can think of but neither are quite there (at least for 125mm balls, the first method could work for someone else...). So, I'd like to ask anybody reading if they can think of a better alternative? Maybe some other way of getting the balls past each other that I haven't even thought of? If you have an idea, reply and make a video! If this trick gets figured out a whole bunch of new tricks become possible, so I figure it's a worthy cause.
Give it a go, and good luck!
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