Juggling 4 Balls: Fountain

Series Summary

Juggling is a skill where objects such as balls, bowling pins or rings are thrown and caught in succession. The first known record of juggling is illustrated on a second millennium B.C. Egyptian tomb wall. Court jesters and court musicians were known to juggle in the Middle Ages in Europe, and in the 18th century jugglers started performing in modern circuses. Today juggling is performed on stages across America and on cruise ships around the world, but it is also a national pastime enjoyed by Americans of all ages. In this free video series on juggling, a professional juggler shows how to do beginning four-ball juggling. Learn to do helpful three-ball patterns, synchronous juggling and various four-ball patterns. Get tips adding the fourth ball, cleaning up patterns, switching between patterns and going behind the back. Find out how to do half-showers, site swaps, the 53, the 534, the 7333, 7441 and 7531.

Video Transcript

"So here we're going to talk, start talking about preparing for learning the four ball fountain. Now the four ball fountain is the most common four ball pattern. Just to give you an idea it looks something like this. That's the four ball pattern; four ball fountain usually called. To begin learning this we're really going to have to isolate your right and your left hands. What I want you to do is work on juggling two in each hand like this for a really long time. A very long time actually until it's basically perfect. Until you can do this and not really think about it and then do that with your other hand. And do it until you don't really have to think about it. Just juggling two in each hand really clean because four balls is literally just two in each hand at the same time. Now you can bring it back together and make it look cooler but you go to remember it's really just juggling two in each hand at the same time making those throws as clean as possible. So first thing to work on is this over and over and over again."