The Basic Bouncing Ball Action:

Notice Ball follows a definite path of action -- study closely the spacing of ball along this path -- notice the basic similarity of this ball action to the hop and jump below -- also to the walk - run - leap - skip - etc.

Notice A-C-E are like 5-7-12-14 above when character stretches--B is like recoil on 6-13 and D is like the normal 2-10-17.