The Basics of Three Ball Juggling

Series Summary

Now that you have mastered the juggling basics lets learn the really cool stuff!! Emil, our juggling expert, will walk you through the 441, 531, the Shower, Body Throws, Under the Leg, Behind the Back, Over the Shoulder, Penguin Catch, Body Bounces, Vamps, the Box, and Multiplexes in this free video series on juggling tricks. These tricks should keep you busy for at least a couple of hours. If not give the "Over the Shoulder, Under the Leg, Behind the Back, Penguin Catch" a try! Or the "Inverted, Behind the Vamp, Suplex, Walk the Dog, Arabesque Twist in the pike position of course! But make sure that you have a spotter before you try this one.

Video Transcript

"EMIL LAMPRECHT: In this series, I'm going to move on to some tricks which are considered a little more advanced than what I've shown you in past series. Now that you've learned the 3-ball cascade and also some of the basic tricks which create a foundation for moving on, we're going to learn some tricks which are a little more interesting visually, and also progress towards preparing yourself for more numbers, such as 4 balls, 5 balls, 6, and so on. Some of these tricks are also going to be siteswap tricks. Now, they can be allotted otherwise and were probably invented long before siteswaps existed, but siteswap is the mathematical notation for juggling patterns. You can find more information about that stuff by doing various searches online. I'm not an expert, so I'll just give you the basic foundation numbers. We're also going to move into learning the Vamp, which is a very important type of throw which consists of just a short hand-to-hand exchange, and Multiplexes, which involves throwing more than one ball from a hand at a time. Let's get started."