One Handed Arch Juggling Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Melissa Shank, and on behalf of expertvillage.com, today I’m giving you some strategy techniques on learning how to juggle. Alright, we’ve just learned the one handed toss, and we’re getting to the two handed toss. Before we get to that, we’re going to go still with one ball, and we’re going to call this the one ball ark. So get rid of those two balls once again, we still just need one ball to get this going. Now, with the one handed ark, what jugglers tend to think about sometimes is, we refer to it as the jugglers box. Now, think about an actual sort of square. Okay, now that is your box, your juggler’s box. When we were throwing our ball up with the one handed toss, we were just going up in the air. If you’ll imagine that box being rather tall. We were throwing it up and it was hitting the one side of the box. What we want to do it to create an ark, so that at the top of the box the ball goes up, over in a ark, and ends up in your opposite hand. You want to be able to do this much in a same way that we were throwing the one ball up and catching it in the same spot. You want to be able to throw that ball up in an ark and have it land in this hand without that much trouble. So you want to toss it up and catch it, toss it up and catch it, toss it and catch it. You can go back and forth with one hand as well, with the other hand. Up and catch, up and catch. Practice that ark back and forth. You don’t want to have to run around, so when you are juggling you want to stand with your feet straight together. Usually you stand legs feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent and again, very loose feeling. Up and over, up and over. Practice that ark, very important. We’re almost there. We’re getting to the two handed toss, coming up next. "