How to Do a Thumb Hold for Juggling

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jeremy, with Expert Village. I'm going to go ahead and talk to you a little bit more about what you can do with your contact juggling. The next thing I'm going to teach you is the "thumb hold", which you use when you do a floating ball trick, you also use it when you use more than one ball, so it's a good thing to learn. This one, is basically, purely, optical illusion. What we're going to do is when we take the ball from the back of the hand to the front of the hand, we're actually going to close our thumb around it, and if you do it quick enough, and well enough, the optics of the ball itself, will hide your thumb. You can't do it too many times, or else the people figure out what you're doing, but if you do it once or twice, it looks like the ball is floating. It also gives you a chance, when you have more than one ball, to be able to hold one ball there while you're getting the other ball to the other hand. Other than that, if people can tell what you do, it means you're probably holding the thumb down too low so they can see it. Try and hold it up a little bit higher, just high enough that you have control of it, just make sure it's not so high that you actually can't hold the ball and it falls because that's also embarrassing."