How to Juggle with Arms

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jeremy with Expert Village. We're going to continue teaching some contact juggling moves. This next one involves using more of your body than just your hand. Once you have the butterfly figured out and how to switch hands, you're going to learn how to add your arms into the whole deal. Now this, a lot of it is just trial and error. Just go ahead and try and do it slow at first and what you're going to do is you're going to balance the ball as it goes down. The bigger the ball is, the easier it is to do it, so if you're having a lot of trouble with it, maybe, actually find a ball that's a little bit bigger and work your way down to something small. If that doesn't work, just, the faster the ball moves the actual easier it is to control on your arm. Don't do it so fast that it ends up rolling completely off your arm, but don't do it so slow that you don't have it in control whatsoever. So, what you do with this, you start from the back hold, you go ahead and you almost push your hand underneath the ball. As it gets up towards the elbow, it automatically has this part that curves and wants to go down, so you turn your hand over, and it goes down your arm, like this. Goes up, and then down. Now, your body has in a couple of places, natural holds that it wants to be, or that it's easy to stop a ball. One of them, of course, besides the hand itself, is at the elbow. You have a natural little hole, a little divot right here, so if you can get the ball controlled, when you turn it over, you can actually stop it on your elbow. It looks something like that, and that's just a sense of balance, you've got to get used to it. Once you have it like that, though, there is a trick you can do with it, where you actually pop the ball up and you catch it in your other elbow. Now obviously it's going to take a little bit of time, but go ahead and keep practicing, pop it up, catch it in the other elbow, roll it back down."