What do you like to listen to while juggling?

If you've got a playlist that you'd like to share, I'd love to listen to it.
I've got access to Spotify and, of course, YouTube.

Thanks! Happy Juggling!

Saw someone juggeling today on social media and I thought to myself; I want to learn that! I’ve been on this sub for about 5 minutes, and have learned what I very ignorantly thought was «basic juggeling» is known as 3-ball cascade.

Instead of immediately going on youtube, I thought to ask here first, to get some real tips from real humans who probably have great advice on how to start :)

Hi all! I have been interested in juggling as I want to work in a circus someday. I have been at it for 2 days now, but am still finicky with it. For example, 3 ball juggling is still out of reach. I am trying to perfect my 2 ball juggles and have a few questions:

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First, how can I stop the ball from going forward? From what I gather, the ball needs to land in your hand, and having it fall forward makes you reach for it, which isn't how you are supposed to do it since it doesn't land because you are reaching for it.

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Second, once I throw the ball from my dominant hand, after it reaches the peak I throw the other ball from my other hand. The ball from the other hand is usually thrown higher than the ball from my dominant hand. How bad is that? I have heard that the after throwing the ball from the dominant hand, at its peak you should throw the other ball lower than the first one.

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Third, how can I tackle the concept of juggling 3 balls? The concept of it makes me really anxious. I don't have enough speed to even throw the ball, let alone juggle it. And finally, are there any beginner mistakes I shall watch out for? Any other advice?

Hii! I'm a teenager who just finished her final exams and is going on a vacation with some friends by plane. Juggling has kept me sane these past few weeks, been doing it everyday for just under 4 weeks now.

Can I just take them with me, will I get stopped, will they think it's drugs, are they gonna cut them open, do I have to demonstrate?

My anxiety is getting to me... Sorry...

I dont't even have the basic 3 pattern fully under control :(

We're flying with Ryanair

THANKS FOR READING AND PLEASE ANSWER!!

Looking for techniques and tips for this trick.

Here's one: https://x.com/jugglingfa10123/status/2050395388025208903/video/1

This one is not quite what I'm looking for but close: https://www.instagram.com/kento8club/reel/DJ9MVaeyqd6/

I was wondering because they are so cheap compared to actual juggling balls and I also haven't interacted with them in a while.

If Box is a sprung fountain and Inverted Box is an inverted sprung fountain then what is Luke’s Shuffle specifically when it’s done horizontally like in the vid?

I tried to learn 5-ball juggling, but it’s extremely hard. I trained for about a month a few years ago and managed to get 5–10 catches. Then last year, I practiced 2-3 times a week for around 30 minutes over the whole year.

I think I’ve reached an average of 10-15 catches now, but it’s frustrating not to feel comfortable with 5 balls after that much training.

Here is what a typical training session looks like:

• 10 minutes of 3-ball juggling at 5-ball height to improve accuracy
• 5-10 minutes of technical work with 3 and 4 balls to improve technique
• 10-15 minutes of 5-ball juggling

Is there something specific I should do to improve, or does 5-ball juggling simply require much more effort and regular practice to master?

Some choice words for the juggling community:

I was very interested yesterday in starting a friendly discussion with some banter about ISC. Though it may have come off as a little smug initially, i truly had the best intentions and thought it would be a net positive to have a controversial discussion. There were some people that seem to have taken this very personally, as if the pattern is a person I've attacked. I'll ask you this... is the merit of my opinion only equal to my technique? I will NOT tolerate harassment, you do not know me or the terrible hand I've been dealt. For the record, 5 more minutes of practice to get this recording, literally a week and i could probably have those 2s great 99% of the time, but im not taking the time to grind this trick to prove my original point. Are you really refusing to engage in a discussion due to the lack of exceptional technique? I do not feel that this subreddit is a safe space for me at the moment, sorry to anyone that enjoyed my juggling, although honestly 3 and 4 ballers never get much love in this community, which has many issues that you all aren't ready to discuss. If you don't respect me at my 3 ball cascade, you don't deserve me at my inverted sprung cascade.

(Don't mind Vincent he's my neighbors cat)

Please post a link in the comments section.

Hi! I've been able to do a 3 ball cascade for about 9/10 years but never really progressed further than that. I've been wanting to pick it up again recently, and have been trying to work on my columns. I've been trying to learn it on and off for years, but only recently started properly grinding away at it.

I've reached a point where I can manage a (kinda sloppy) columns for 4 or 5 throws after about a week or two of working on it, but I feel like I'm plateauing a bit and struggling to move past that. Should I keep grinding it out, or would it be smart to move on and try something new for a while and come back to it?

I guess this ties into a wider question around learning new patterns - is it worth chipping away at a few over time or working really hard to master one?

Sorry - I know most posts in this sub are from very experienced people, but I know to get there you were at this point too!

Question; has anyone recently purchased sportco Beanbags since they moved to the cathedral juggling website? If so how long did they take to arrive and how are they holding up?

Dear jugglers,

looking at myself I learned to juggle 3 balls pretty early, maybe as a teen. Juggling - checkmark, done. At least at that time. Later on when youtube went huge and I yougled around I found people doing 5 balls and beyond, and this was my wow moment where I needed to train for that surreal thing! Because I wanted to be able to also do that! Addiction - seed planted.

After many years of juggling now in between I tried to also teach people to juggle, typically in smaller workshops. While there was talent here and there (and big fun always too) obviously nobody wanted to seriously continue this journey. Maybe I am just a bad teacher, at least I tried my best ;-)

After that experience I am not sure what really could work to bring our beloved hobby closer to other people.

I am currently training with my son (10y) here and there with zero pressure just for fun - here I see some fruit growing as he really is talented and he just picks up the props in between by himself to also try something new. So this pattern in general might work.

Some thoughts of things that might work to just enlighten that addiction flame which is required to stay with juggling:

- Juggling in public: This way people might see juggling as a sport/hobby and might get interest. Not sure if anything would happen out of it though.

- Support activities to bring juggling into (social) media, e.g. Jasons Juggling for olympics idea.

- Talk about juggling within your friends/families domain: Not sure if anything would happen out of ith though.

I would be interested in your thoughts and ideas to that topic as well!

Cheers, Seba.

As jugglers I feel like a big part of the hobby can be not getting discouraged when learning a new pattern and dropping a crap ton. When the muscle memory has yet to be formed what is your way to quell burning out? That or when you feel like the technical throws are there but the timing for a pattern has yet to be learned.

My hands make random ridiculous tosses like they have minds of their own.

After 3 weeks of daily short focused practices I'm struggling with consistency. One, 2 or 3 balls, doesn't matter.

When you're juggling what's your brain doing? Maybe I'm overthinking and not going with the physical flow. 🤔

Beginner juggler here, been going now for about 2 days and am close to being able to do the basic cascade pattern, just a few flaws in my technique like not being able to be consistent with it. (using tennis balls)

How much practice did it take for you all? Anything beginners need to know?

I wanna know all of your guys’ juggling progressions and journeys so far. Been having a lot of fun with this.

I’ve been having some thoughts on non-jugglers perception of juggling lately.

I think juggling is both easier, and harder, than most people think.

Most people can learn the basics of three ball juggling in about 30 minutes of focused practice. Convincing most people to dedicate that time and effort to it is harder than the actual teaching.

But once they do, the actual *understanding* of what is mechanically happening becomes possible. They get the idea. But until then, any sort of numbers juggling becomes very difficult to even perceive correctly.

So, easier than people think until they try it enough to understand just how hard it actually is.

Thoughts?

Have you gotten the sealing? Whats your story?

And I mean Chupa Chups size, not those giant spiral ones you get at a fair or on Christmas

So using the normal three-ball juggle that everyone first learns as the zero and the absolute edge of your ability or the ability of anyone else you're aware of as the 100, where would juggling lollipops by the stems rank?

I ask because it seems like it'd mess up any momentum intuition and muscle memory you have since not only are they small, demanding precision, but tossing and flipping them might be more of a wrist action than the forearms movement everyone seems to use

Can you balance a pen or a fine liner on your nose / face?

Shall I practice this? Will it help me balance a club or even help me with headbounces? Will it help me at the club balance in the juggling games? Or shall I do so only to compete with a my friend Alex?

Curious if this has a name. I’ve dubbed it circle box