Juggling 3 Clubs: Over the Top

Video Transcript

"An important trick to learn when you're juggling three clubs is called over the top. It's very similar to the ball version, but with clubs you have to worry about the spin, so to get a club to travel from the outside of this hand to the outside of this hand is a little more complicated than doing it with a ball. With a ball you can just do a normal throw over the top. With a club, what you actually have to do is turn the throw sideways so that it will spin like this over to your other hand. I'll show you what that looks like, this is over the top with a club. If you see, my throws like this are in a plane traveling out from me like this, spinning this way. My throw over the top is in a plane 90 degrees from that, and spinning like that, something like that. So when I put that into the pattern again, just like that. Now this throw is a little complicated at first. You have to think about turning your wrist to the outside and then throwing over. To make this work, what we're going to do is just practice with one club. So be like this, you'll have your normal throwing stance. You're going to turn your club out 90 degrees, and then you're going to flick it out to the side. You only want it to spin once and then as it's coming down like this you need to catch, 90 degrees out, again, with your left hand, like that. Now you need to get this throw clean with both hands so that you can do the over the top pattern with either hand, something like this. So it takes quite a bit of practice, but if you work on it long enough, you can work it into your pattern. It's a very good visual effect. People like how it looks. That's over the top with three clubs."