Hello, everybody!
Today we're going to learn my painted three-ball
juggling tutorial.
So for this, you're going to need to grab some balls.
If you don't have any balls,
perhaps you can grab somebody else's.
OK, take one ball,
hold it out in front of you,
turn it around
drop it on the floor!
OK, get used to that!
That's going to happen a lot.
But that's fine--that's normal.
Everybody does it.
I do that too.
That will be fine.
OK. Lesson two: one-ball juggling.
Take one ball.
And you're going to throw it
in an arc
about eye height,
so like this.
You're going to throw it in an arc
from hand to hand
about up here.
OK, if you're doing that,
brilliant--you're a natural,
one-ball juggling. Well done.
So let's go on
to two-ball juggling.
So, take two balls.
Now you're going to throw the same.
It's going to be an arc,
about eye height, from hand to hand.
Now, you could do that at the same time.
It could look like this.
RIght? But we're not going to do that.
We're going to do it staggered.
We're going to do it at different times.
One-two.
So it looks like this.
One-two.
Staggered--one-two.
Different times, one-two.
One-two.
Up-up.
Now,
some people do it like this.
Right? So this is a common mistake.
Some people will try and shift the other ball
from hand to hand like this.
Right--so it goes around in circles.
If you do that,
I'm going to come round your house
and stamp on all your toys.
OK? That's NOT how you juggle two balls.
OK--jugglers throw up.
This is what you do.
Up-up.
They both go up in an arc,
up-up.
Now, some people like to imagine
a square in front of them,
and you're throwing
to the opposite diagonal--
to the opposite corner on the square,
like that.
Diagonally, like this.
So it's one-two, different times,
staggered, one-two.
One-two.
OK!
If you can do that, you've got two-ball juggling.
Now I'm going to show you three-ball juggling.
You're gonna--you can practice it,
you can try it,
and then you can go back down to two
if you want to practice a bit more at two.
And then you can go back up and go back down.
Anything you want.
So, three-ball juggling.
Now, we're going to do what we did before
for the two-ball juggling.
One-two.
But just before
you catch the second ball,
I want you to throw
the third.
One-two-three.
I don't even care if you catch it!
OK? Don't even care.
One-two-three.
Boom. All I want you to do
is to get used to throwing that third ball.
Don't hold onto it
with dear life.
I want you to just get used to throwing it away.
If you've got something in your hand,
throw it away.
If there's something in the air,
catch it.
Basically two rules of juggling.
Right.
So its one-two-three,
and your natural instinct
is to go and try and catch it.
Now
all I can say next is
"And repeat."
And I wish I had something better to say for that,
but just before you catch
the second ball,
you throw the third.
Just before
you catch the third ball,
you throw the fourth.
And repeat.
Just before you catch the fourth ball,
you catch--or you throw--
the fifth.
So it's--the balls are swapping
in your hand,
like this.
So it's one-two-three-
swap-swap-
just repeat.
And eventually it will
smooth out
and it will become more natural
like this.
There are basically four
juggling tricks,
and all other tricks
are built out of these four basic juggling tricks.
First of all,
there is two balls in one hand.
There we go.
I'm juggling two balls
in one hand,
and if you can see that,
they're going round each other
in a circle.
Try that again.
There you go--two balls in one hand.
Now, ideally,
you want to be able to do this
in both hands--
right hand and left hand.
So hopefully
you should practice
doing it in your left hand as well,
and your right hand,
and your left hand.
OK.
Juggling trick two:
columns.
OK, this one's called 'columns.'
You're going to throw the balls
up and down like that.
Two balls in one hand,
but you're throwing them
in a column.
OK? So they go
vertically up
and my hand underneath
is moving between them.
So it's like this
moving in columns.
And again,
ideally,
you want to be able to do this
in the left hand as well.
Oh, there you go, there you go!
I dropped one. Right.
The third juggling trick.
The third juggling trick is throwing underarm.
OK, so we're juggling
we're juggling three balls,
and now watch the red ball, OK?
So here it is.
OK, there's the red ball.
Watch the red ball.
I'm going to throw it underarm.
OK, there's the red ball.
And I'm going to throw it
underarm.
Underarm. I'll do that again.
Take the red ball
I throw it
under the other arm.
Finally, the fourth juggling trick
is overarm.
So this is more like a lob.
Sort of this--like that.
And it's an overarm.
I'll do it with the red ball again--
there's the red ball.
And I throw
overarm.
Do that again.
Overarm.
I can do that with both hands.
And there you go!
Those are the four basic juggling tricks.
Those are just to keep you entertained
while you're learning to juggle three balls.
And if you can learn these,
all other tricks are built
from these four basic tricks.
So if I start doing things like this,
right--
I'm just
mixing up
the tricks that I've already
learnt.
Those are basically--the four basic tricks.
And that's it. That's my three ball tutorial.
And I'll see you later.