How to Throw 1 Juggling Club

Video Transcript

"So now, you have your juggling club. You have, or hopefully you have multiple juggling clubs. You know how to juggle three balls very well and you want to learn how to juggle three clubs. Now what we need to do first, is train yourself to think about the spin. The spin of the clubs is very important. It's a whole new dimension of juggling that you really need to take into account when you're juggling clubs. The basic throw with clubs is very similar to that with balls, except when you hold the club, you want to hold it about half way down the handle, and when you throw, you want it to be a very natural throw. So, you're going to throw from your elbow, and let it spin once, and catch with your other hand. Now getting the spin right is pretty hard at first. A lot of times it might spin too much, like that, or might not spin enough, all these different things can happen. What I want you to think about at first, to get the right spin height along with your throw, or the right spin, is I want you to think about how high you're throwing it. So if you throw naturally from your elbow, the club will naturally have a certain amount of spin, it will spin a certain speed, just like that. You hold your wrist steady, don't flick it with your wrist. Hold your wrist steady, just throw from the elbow, and it will spin like this. And then, if you throw higher, it will spin more, throw low, it will spin less. So at first, I want you to think about controlling the height, and leaving the spin where it is. And you want to try and get this one club going back and forth, left to right, cleanly. Just like you learned how to juggle three balls, but with a club."