Juggling Crystal Sticks: Knee Bounce

Video Transcript

"In this video I'm going to be talking about another tassel spin trick, I call the knee bounce. Now if you remember, when you do a tassel spin, you're spinning like this instead of the standard spin. Now here first, I will just show you what I mean by the knee bounce. It's something like this, I get an overhand tassel spin and I bounce it off my far knee. Again, something like that, just like that. Now to break this down, what I do is I get the tassel spin starting at the top of the crystal stick and then I kick my left knee up and bounce the crystal stick just at the center so you get a lot of rebound off that hard part of your knee and let it bounce up with the same spin it came down to your knee with. Again, like that. One thing I might caution you against is doing this too hard. I've broken two or three sets of these babies by smacking my knee just a little bit too hard, trying to get a little bit too much height out of that. One really fun thing you can do is mix up the last video, which is under the leg with a tassel spin, with a knee bounce. Hopefully it won't look like that. Hopefully it will instead look something like this, under the leg, hopefully that won't be what happens either. One more try, under the leg, into a knee bounce, and just mix those two up until you can get those clean. And you can pull out some pretty cool tricks using the tassel of your crystal stick."