One Handed Toss Juggling Techniques

Video Transcript

" Hello! My name is Melissa Shank, and on behalf of expertvillage.com, today I’m giving you some strategy techniques to learn how to juggle. This next clip, is called the one hand toss. Now, of course to juggle you usually juggle with 3 balls; that’s the basic means of juggling. We need to first start off with one ball, so get rid of your other 2 and just start off with one ball. What I mean by this is one hand toss, what we want to do, and make sure again you get a decent ball. I really do recommend something without a bounce, so that if you do drop it, it’s not going to roll away on you, but something that has a very nice feel to it and has some weight to it. Let’s do this one hand toss now. What you’re trying to achieve is this: You want to throw the ball up and you want to be able to catch it. But when you release it with your hand, you want to give it a bit of oomph so that your hand sort of tosses it up. But you’re working on your height, and every time you throw up in the air, you end of getting it to about the same height. So you’re tossing it. You don’t want to have to chase it around. So, when you throw it up you want to be able to pretty much catch it in the same spot. Just keep practicing this one hand toss over and over, and you’ll see sometimes you don’t always do it correctly. The one hand toss. Get the feel for the ball so that it bounces out of your hand. You can really feel it kind of toss up in the air. When you toss it with your one hand going up, pretend of imagine there is a string in your hand and that it’s coming right back down like one of those games you used to play with the paddle and the ball when you were a kid. Practice that and we’ll get into the two handed toss next. "