So today, I am very honored to have World Champion Juggler Vova teaching me how to juggle 3 balls!
Vova is a retired professional juggler.
He used to hold multiple world records, and he appeared on popular shows, such as ABC
Nightline and the TODAY Show on NBC.
That's right, let's do it.
This is what ultimately we're learning, right?
Where we're going to start with just a single ball, so just take this one and just kind
of follow what I'm doing, so what you want to do is you want to take like a little bit
of like a circular motion through it, and then you throw.
Throw from the middle like basically do like a little circle, and throw from the middle.
And try to throw it a little bit higher like maybe a little bit above your eye level.
But it's a little too much, something like, yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that.
Catch sort of where, where your shoulder is, right?
It's a circular motions over the middle and catch where your shoulder is.
Yep, do your eyes follow the ball?
Look at the top where the pattern is going to be, so like don't follow it all the way
down, but do track it when it's up here.
Oh don't look at me.
When it's up here, just don't don't lower your head.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yep, cool, it's pretty good.
The next thing you're going to want to do, and this is where everybody goes really wrong,
so when people have two balls they usually start doing this, that's kind of like the,
the uh, people just assume that's what you do, but that is not what you do, so instead
what you do, oh first of all you start with the kind of the same thing you just did, right?
But then after doing one, when the first one is at its apex, you throw the second one.
Okay, first up.
Yeah, so this is the, this is the tricky part.
How to avoid like handing it over, instead you throw one and then throw the other.
yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh okay, yeah, you're getting there, you're getting there.
Don't worry catch them so much, worry about setting up the throws correctly, and catches
will come.
Okay.
Oh, there you go, that's two balls guys.
Hahaha, okay, so now what you want to do is like start once with the right, and try to
do the same thing with the left too.
You just did one with your right, so do exactly the same thing but starting with your left.
Oh, the second throw ends up being kind of lower than your first one, so try to keep
them both at the same, same level roughly.
Oh!
So that one was starting with the left, yeah?
Still your second one is a little bit lower than the first one, so you want them to sort
of both kind of mirror each other.
They should be both about the same height, a little bit above your head, but like not
too far above your head.
Oh yeah, and keep alternating, keep alternating, okay.
Left first,
Yeah, it's much easier to, oh, that was perfect.
Yeah I actually wasn't expecting by left to catch it.
It lands on my hand.
Keep doing that until it feels pretty good.
Left first, oh, maybe, I have something in juggling maybe.
Like basically what you're looking for here is consistency, right?
So sometimes you get them just right, sometimes it's more like, like this, right?
Like one is lower than the other, uh sometimes one goes forward, right?
So what you want to do is like just keep doing it, and try to get it to the point where like
every one feels the same, so see if you can get 10 in a row.
10 a row.
Okay.
Right first, shoo shoo.
[Laughter].
He's doing the shoo shoo shoo shoo.
When you are on YouTube for too long you tend to do that.
Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo.
Right first, okay, left first.
Very good that was perfect.
Okay right first, okay left first, four, yeah.
Okay right first, five, left first, six, right first, seven, okay left first, eight, right
first, nine, left first, ten.
Oh stop, amazing, amazing.
Ten in a row guys, I'm doing better than I expected myself to do to be honest.
Let's move on to three.
With three you're gonna be holding two on one side, right?
And one on the other side.
Pretty much doing exactly the same thing you just did, right?
One, two, right?
And so actually maybe you first just do this a couple times, so start with two in the,
two in the right, go one, two, stop.
That's just, that's all.
Right left.
Yep, yeah, this is exactly, yeah, and then do it again.
Okay right left.
As the second one is reaching its apex, just throw the third one in the same way that you
threw the first one, so you go one, two, three, stop.
Okay, so right, left.
And then just one more.
And then one more, and don't even worry about catching it.
Just, just release it.
Okay, right, left.
Oh!
Does that count?
This is almost like four, you're just like, almost, almost, like you gotta catch it with
the left hand, right?
Okay.
That was so, so that's not yet a juggle, so a successful juggle is basically performing
as many catches as double the balls, so you want to do six, okay, so you wanna do six
to call it.
Really what you're looking for is one, two, three, four, five, six, stop, but what you're
doing right now is called the flash, so you basically just go one, two, three, stop.
So right, left, right, oh my God.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, so here's the thing, it's a trade-off, the higher you throw them the
more time you have, but also the higher you throw them, the harder it is to throw them
accurately, so it's easier to control your throw if they're lower, but then you have
less time, so like ultimately what you want to do ideally is throw them high and accurate.
Right left right.
That's it, that's it, that's it.
I think that's a flash, right?
That's a flash.
The idea is that you are the most stable when you're holding the balls in your hands, so
you want to maximize the amount of time holding them, and minimize the amount of time that
they're in the air.
What you are doing right now as you kind of go like do-do-do, and they're kind of all
in the air.
That way you have the least control.
What you want to do is like have just one, at the, in the air at a time, so that means
that the third throw actually happens when I catch the first ball?
Third throw happens when you just right before you're about to catch the second one.
There never was a time where all three balls are in the air.
There shouldn't be.
There shouldn't be a time, okay.
Unless there's a ball coming down, and you need to free up your hand.
That makes sense, yeah, I think when I throw it all three balls were at the air at one
point, okay, so, okay so right, left, right.
Perfect.
When the third throw is coming down, just throw the fourth, so one, two, three, four.
Okay, right, left, right, oh.
Right, left, right, left, yep, yep, yep, so your fourth throw is exactly the same, so you
already did it, you already did the second throw it's like do exactly that same thing.
Remember the circles that we did, right?
So you do a circle and you throw it, so it should be landing on the other side of your
body.
If it's landing on the other side of the body, it's easy to make the next throw.
Right now what you're doing is like it's kind of landing in the middle.
So right, left, right, left, yes, yes, nice, there you go, that was four.
That's four guys, that's four guys, so two more until I actually claim that I can juggle
three balls, but then, yes but do the four a few more times.
Left, right, left, right, hell yeah, that's perfect.
Okay, one more time, left, right, left, right, nice.
If your throws are perfect, and they're precise, it's very easy to just continue forever.
Right, left, right, left, right, left, how many?
That's six, that's six, that's six, right?
Yeeeeeahhhhhhh, I did it!!
I did it.
Yes!
I thought I'm gonna learn this for like 30 days or something by myself.
I'm so happy I actually did it.
Okay I'll do some tricks [Music]
[Music] Fine, I'll do a three up this one's easier.
Try it again.
Nice [Music] Right, left, right, left, right, yeah I'm getting ahead of myself, okay.
Right, left, right, left, right, left, six, six!
Right, left, right, left, okay so I get it two times just like how Vova get the muscle
up two times.
That's fair.
Alright sounds like it's a draw.
Yeah so thank you so much Vova for teaching me how to juggle three balls, I'm so happy
that I'm able to learn it right at a spot.
Without you breaking down step by step especially throwing the first ball and then two balls
I don't think that I will be able to learn it at the spot today, so I'm super super happy
and thank you so much.
You did it, you did a great job.
I think you did better than most people.
See you guys in the next video!
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