A Guide to Juggling

Series Summary

Juggling is a skill where objects such as balls, bowling pins or rings are thrown and caught in succession. This skill is often demonstrated at birthday parties, circuses and other entertainment events. Juggling has become an ever-popular hobby since the International Jugglers’ Association began a club for performing and non-performing jugglers. The benefits that hobbyists learning to juggle include improved hand-eye coordination, relief of stress, improvement of flexibility and the enjoyment!

In this series of expert videos, learn how to juggle! Get expert tips on juggling one to four balls. After mastering the skill of juggling balls, challenge yourself with juggling lacrosse balls or clubs. Take the challenge further with juggling torches. Learn about the safety issues involved with this hobby and keep yourself safe! Toss juggling can be fun, but try another juggling trick such as balancing a cane on your chin. Watch as our expert demonstrates bounce juggling with lacrosse balls and Rolla Bolla in these extremely fun and instructional videos!

Video Transcript

"Hi, Jeremy here on behalf Expert Village. We are going to talk a little bit about juggling now. Juggling basically is the art of keeping more then one ball in the air at a time. You can do juggling with almost any kind of prop. I have seen people do it with chairs, bowling balls, basketballs, shoes, just about anything. There is a couple of rules though one don't do it with anything too light, juggling balloons does not work too well. The wind would take them away, they don't fall right. Anything too big also becomes hard, if you try to juggle cross beams well besides being way too heavy, you can not really get a good arch on it. Anything too light is also or too small is also hard to do. You can do it with light pennies but if you do anything much smaller then that you really can not do much with them. For most people tend to go with the traditional equipment balls, rings, knives, torches. Just never trying knives or torches until you have somebody around that has done it for a while and you yourself are comfortable with club juggling before you start doing anything dangerous that you may harm yourself or others. We would go ahead and teach a little juggling in the next segments."