How to Juggle by Muscle Memory

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Jeremy on behalf of Expert Village, here to help you with all the frustrations you've had with trying to learn the three balls juggling. Now the common mistakes with the three ball juggling, the common problems is either one, people try the three balls, they throw the first two, and the third, they always panic and it ends up falling down. Now if that happens, you want to make sure that with your non-dominant hand you throw about as well with two as you do with your dominant hand. See step two again. If not, then go back and try it again, even if you're just feeling uncomfortable, maybe go back and try two both ways until you're feeling comfortable enough. Once again never practice for more than fifteen minutes at a time without taking a five minute break. It allows your brain to process so that your muscles, it's called muscle memory, your muscles figure out exactly what pattern you're trying to do. Now a common problem when you?re trying to do three, if you're catching all the balls, is you're running after them. You'll start throw it and they'll get farther and farther forward. Now the reason that usually happens is because you're not actually throwing side to side, you're letting the ball roll off the fingers and because it's rolling off the fingers it's going forward, and an easy way to stop that from happening is to stand in front of a wall. Not very good for performances, but in this case, for learning, standing in front of a wall is a good idea because if you start throwing it forward, what happens is you try and catch the ball, you punch the wall, negative reinforcement, you'll learn to keep those balls a little closer."