How to Do Cascade Juggling

Video Transcript

"OK, so we've learned how to juggle two balls, now we're going to move into three. Now at the beginning of that last lesson I showed you how to juggle two balls with two hands, so let's go back to that real quick. Like I said before, you're going to start by juggling one ball into the other hand before the ball that you threw from the first hand lands in this one you're going to toss the ball that was there into the other hand. That sounds very complicated, but I'll show you. That's basically what you're doing. You're switching the balls between the two hands by tossing them in an arc in the air. And so, like I said, you're going to get to the point where it's going to feel like you can add another ball. Once you hit that point, that's when you add the third ball. Now what I'm teaching you here is called the cascade pattern of juggling and this is what it looks like when you're ready for it. So what I'm basically doing is I'm tossing each ball from the inside to the outside. The basic toss, if we were to take both two, those two balls out would look like this. See how I'm coming on the inside and it's landing on the outside? The reason you come on the inside and toss it to the outside so that your other hand has enough time to toss the other ball inside and land on the outside. So in the end, it should look like this. Now when you first start you're going to be juggling really high up in the air so that you have enough time to concentrate and catch all the balls. That's good. Don't think you're not juggling because you are. It's just, you've just learned. Everybody starts really slow, and then eventually, what you want to do is, and like I said, in the very beginning you're going to toss balls everywhere. So a good way to start tightening your tosses is to throw them straight up in the air as high as you can in the beginning. Not as high as you can, but the higher you throw the balls the more time you have to catch them. And eventually you'll start working down, and working down, and working down, until you have a nice tight pattern just like this. Once you've hit this, then you're about ready to start learning tricks."