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Summary: Juggling with four clubs requires mastering the three-club juggle. Learn about four-club juggling with tips from an experienced performer in this free juggling video.
Isaac Shivers is a student in the Boston area who grew up in central Iowa, where he learned to juggle. He's been juggling for about three years. Isaac has been affiliated with the Des...read more
Juggling is a skill where objects such as balls, bowling pins or rings are thrown and caught in succession. This skill is often demonstrated at birthday parties, circuses and other entertainment events. Juggling has become an ever-popular hobby since the International Jugglers’ Association began a club for performing and non-performing jugglers. The benefits that hobbyists learning to juggle enjoy include improved hand-eye coordination, relief of stress, improvement of flexibility and sheer entertainment. The more clubs, the harder the juggling pattern. In this free juggling video series, an experienced performer demonstrates how to juggle with four clubs. Learn the foundations for four club juggling like three club patterns and two-in-one hand juggling. Find out how to fix common juggling problems, and practice several four club juggling patterns. Entertain friends and family using these instructional videos as a guide.
"In this series we're going to talk about how you can learn to pick up four clubs and juggle them. For this, before you even think about beginning this, you need to have a very, very clean three club pattern. You need to be able to juggle three clubs without thinking about it. Four club juggling is very hard, it's basically the beginning step into club numbers juggling. Now, a lot of people do numbers juggling with balls, where you'll juggle five, six, seven or even more balls. Club juggling is much harder when you do numbers because the pattern has to be so much larger, because you have to account for all the spins. Most times five clubs is a very impressive pattern. There are people out there who can juggle seven or more clubs, you can look them up online, they're amazing, I really recommend you go watch them. For now though, you shouldn't even worry about all that. For right now, if you want to learn how to four club, how to juggle four clubs, you just need to be able to have a really, really clean three club pattern and a lot of free time. The step from three clubs to four takes a lot of work, but it's totally worth it."
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