The Half Shower Ball Juggling Technique

"Hi! My name is Adria, and I’m one of the professional jugglers here at expertvillage.com. We’re going to learn some intermediate and advanced three ball juggling patterns, but before you learn these intermediate and three ball juggling patterns, you have to know how to do simple beginning juggling first. If you look at the Stephen Bent videos here on Expert Village, he teaches you how to juggle one ball, two balls and three balls for basic juggling patterns. This is called the cascade, and that’s very important to remember because most juggling patterns move forward from the cascade. Stephen Bent also teaches a trick called over the top; this is over the top, leading with the right hand, because as you can see I’m throwing it with my right hand. Anything that can be done with the right hand in juggling should also be able to be done with the left hand: this is over the top leading with the left hand. Right now we’re going to learn some basic juggling patterns based on that one trick of over the top. The pattern we’re going to learn first is called the half shower leading with the right hand, this means that the right is going to be throwing every throw with an over hand throw on the outside. You want to take it and just toss it like you’re going to be tossing it over your head, but every throw with the right hand will still be an underhand throw up the inside midline of the body, that you learned from Stephen Bent in the basic cascade pattern. And what that ends up looking like is, the right hand is throwing every single throw outside with the repeated over the top, the left hand is throwing an inside throw, this is called a half shower leading with the right hand, and anything you can do with the right hand you also have to learn to do with the left. Usually people who are right handed find it easier to do with the patterns leading with the right hand, people who are left handed find it easier to do patterns leading with the left hand. Leading with the left hand in this case means that every throw from the left hand is an outside throw, you’re throwing it over your hand, over your head. The right hand will be throwing the underhanded throws up the midline of the body, the same underhand throws that you learned in the simple cascade, and this is what it’s going to look like. Every throw from the left is an over hand over the top throw; every throw from the right is an underhand inside throw. This is a half shower leading with the left hand."