| How to Juggle Aug 8th 2012, 14:00 Juggling is a challenging but rewarding hobby; studies show that people who learn to juggle increase their grey matter! [1] While juggling may seem and be difficult to master at first, it becomes easier once you've learned the basics and practiced it. This article takes you into the basics of three-ball juggling, after which you can begin to introduce more balls. - Choose suitable balls. Beanbags are good for beginners. Basically, find balls that will not bounce a lot, or roll away when they're dropped––this will save a fair bit of running initially! A set of beanbags can be bought for a very low price or made by hand. Tennis balls filled with sand or a few pennies and covered with a round balloon also work well. They don't bounce and they provide a slip-free grip.
- Toss one ball for a while to get the feel of juggling. Start passing one ball from one hand to the other. Also practice "selfs"––these are throws you catch with the throwing hand. The ball should come to eye-height or higher. Your hands should not move very much, so aim to keep your elbows at your hips.
- Practice scooping. This is a technique to make juggling smooth. Simply scoop, or dip, your hand before tossing the ball. Keep the dip shallow though; it isn't going to work if you scoop too deeply. Practice scooping and tossing from one hand to another, so that arc does not rise above eye level.
- Take one ball in each hand. Toss ball A, and when it reaches the top of its arc, toss ball B. Practice until this simple exchange becomes comfortable.
- Juggle three balls. Try to make three passes in a row.
- First hold two balls in right hand and one in left-hand. (Vice versa if you are left handed.)
- Begin with passing from the right hand. (Again, vice versa if you are left-handed.)
- Throw the ball to your left hand and in the moment ball 1 is at the peak, throw ball 2 (the only one in your left hand) under ball 1 to your right hand.
- At the moment ball 2 is at the highest point (at this point, you should also catch ball 1 in the left hand) throw ball 3 under ball 2.
- And when ball 2 is in the right hand just catch ball 3 and this should be it.
- Try to make these three passes as many times as you can.
- Try to juggle four and five as explained in steps before. Learn to juggle two in one hand, then do two in your left hand and two in your right hand at the same time. Once this becomes comfortable you're juggling four! Juggling five balls is just like juggling three, but you have to move your hands a lot faster and you need to throw the balls higher. Keep practicing––it takes time and patience to master.
- Begin juggling with your better hand.
- Learn all juggling tricks with both hands.
- Start out with handkerchiefs or scarves. But look out; this easy starter method can give you a sense of juggling being far easier than you think, so that when you start juggling balls, it is going to be harder than you thought.
- A bed or couch is useful for catching dropped balls.
- Stand in front of a wall to stop balls from going too far forward.
- Juggle inside to prevent balls straying too far or having wind interference. But do it away from breakables!
- Relax, breathe, don't get frustrated. It may take days before you're able to juggle three a couple of times in a row!
- Juggling is helped a great deal by visualization. For example, if you're having trouble throwing to the other hand accurately or with consistent height, just imagine a box from your elbow height to about a foot above your head. Or, if you can't stop running forward, try imagining you are barefoot and there are lots of drawing pins in front of you.
- When learning a trick, try and get a feel for the shape of it (this is very personal to every juggler for each trick). When you find how a trick feels for you (when it feels "good"), make that aspect of the trick as big as you can; this will greatly improve the effect when performing.
- It helps to think of juggling as being less about catching and more about learning to accurately throw a ball so it will land in the catching hand.
- Try to juggle for 10 minutes and then take a 5 minute rest and juggle for 10 minutes and take a rest; it will improve your skills.
- Try to find a pattern that works best for you. That way, you can juggle with ease.
- Keep yourself inspired - watch juggling videos.
- Don't be disheartened when you think you have made up a trick and it is already signed and sealed as *******, made up by *******. All that means is you are good enough to make up tricks that other people think are good enough to name!
- Don't forget that juggling is an art, and that means there are no rules and you're entitled (maybe even, have a duty) to be as creative as possible and push the boundaries of what you, or anyone else, can do.
- Learn new patterns. In this article the simple pattern "Three Ball Cascade" is explained. After learning the "Three Ball Cascade", you should learn to do "Over-the-top-throws". Instead of each ball going under the one before, they go over it. You can start by juggling a normal "Three Ball Cascade", and then letting one of the balls do an over-the-top all the time, so that 1/3 of all throws are over-the-top throws. If you make one hand throw over-the-top throws every time, you are juggling a "Slow Shower", and if every throw is an over-the-top-throw, you are juggling a "Reverse Three Ball Cascade". When you have learned this, you can advance onto things like cross hand juggling, columns (one in the middle, two on the sides), and "Mills' Mess"
- Whilst juggling, put on some music with good beat to help you find a rhythm.
Edit Warnings - Avoid juggling heavy objects.
- Juggling is an exercise; try to "warm up" with stretching exercises before a juggling session.
- Juggling is hard and sometimes depressing, sweaty, annoying, repetitive or frustrating or all of these at once. But that is the same for any skill that is worth the time spent mastering it.
- Do not attempt to juggle fire axes. Only professionals know how to do this.
Edit Things You'll Need - Suitable juggling balls, which you should easily be able to hold two of in one hand
- A bed or couch to practice over (so you don't have to keep bending over)
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