Object Toss

Here's a clip of me tossing an object (Dream Eater plushie):


Here I use the third toss to capture 3 snapshots of the same toss at different stages, employing the "Fourth Down at Halftime" method:



The distance between the apex and the middle shot is more or less a quarter of the total distance between the apex and the last shot.

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