Hey everybody its Shug here.....
Today what we're gonna do is I am gonna challenge you. That's right you to learn how to do some three ball juggling
So what I'm gonna have you do here because we're social distancing is just go ahead and move back a little bit from me
I feel like we're crowding each other here. And today we will start
With one ball now if you're a right-hander
Your left hand is going to give you trouble if you're a left-hander like me. Your right hand is gonna give you trouble
so you're gonna have to work a little bit on your
Non-dominant hand which for me is my right it took me a little longer to learn to make that throw
Come cleanly over to my left. It would want to throw out towards you
So what you want to get that throw so it's going exactly in a little plane sideways here
You don't want the throws going out here and then back here focus on the white ball
You can see that the white ball goes into my right hand comes across to my left hand swings about my bellybutton
arcs over to my right again
Arcs back to my left. All the balls are going about the same height and
That is the key of what we're looking for here. I know I'm not throwing like this
Keeping the throws a little lower than you would really do when you're learning
Actually, I'd have you throw it higher than your forehead when you're learning
So a little bit of the drudgery of learning to juggle is getting a proper body position
you don't want to be standing like this because what's gonna happen is your throws are gonna
You know
They're gonna be harder to do you'll want your body squared up and even is you just want to have your feet a little wider
Or about shoulder width apart
Your arms for three ball juggling you're gonna kind of slightly have your elbows out
You don't want to be like this your elbows are gonna slightly
Be out a little bit now. I'm exaggerating it here and you want your hands not down here
You want to keep your hands up about chest level you have a little bit easier time catching the ball then down here
Take a minute. Make sure you're always in this position when you start it will really truly help you
So let's get a ball. I happen to have a juggling beanbag here
If you don't have that what a lot of people use is a tennis ball
And we always used lacrosse balls the cross balls
Have a great weight to them another one grab a pair of socks out of your drawer. Take those socks by the top and just
Wad those socks into a ball
Kind of mash it a little bit and a lot of people have learned throwing a pair of socks
alright next thing before we start throwing the ball a little coaching for you and in the beginning just
Five, you know five minutes throwing one ball gets like a long time. So do your five-minute exercise
Two or three times a day every day and you will get there
What I want you to do is be able to throw this one ball back and forth
catching it cleanly
Ten to 20 times that's gonna set you up for some juggling success. Your feet are about shoulders width apart
Your knees aren't locked. You're flexible. Your hands are about chest high. They're angled in a little bit in the direction of the throw
So now we're going to get ready to throw the first one and I'm gonna throw it and catch it
Now I'm going to do
That throw back over and the important thing is that that ball is going the same height
this is your first step in this is you don't want to throw one over this way and then
Dribble it over this way because that's gonna be your tendency. So if you're right-handed this throw will probably go
Okay, and then you'll throw this ball weird and end up reaching out here to catch it. Keep those throws
The same height this is what you're shooting for here
Let's not get in the habit of going here and then here here and then here are way up here and then one other
So I have my right hand out here ready to accept it and I talked to my ball and say hello there juggling ball
I'm just gonna toss you right over and that right hand is gonna catch you
boom
Hello juggling ball. I'm gonna throw you from my right hand to my left
And every time you make a throw here in the beginning and catch it
Take a moment relax
Take a moment to enjoy that catch right now. We're just trying to get it over. We're not even shooting for this yet
This is your goal by the end of a couple of days or maybe at the end of the day
when we get to three balls
People think that you're watching him. You can't really watch every ball. I'm kind of sort of staring up here. I can see them all
Going on there. All right, so it's it's not that hard. I'm not really watching one particular ball
I'm sort of staring right here through the pattern. So this is why we really want to perfect
This one ball throw that gets us to where we're confident with the one ball back and forth
So when we move to two and three we got that part down and in the next video
We will cover the juggling of two balls
Here's your little clue
Of what's happening? I
Want you to listen throw throw catch catch what we're not getting is this
That's what they call the the gallop so hopefully that's gonna give you something to do today while you're on lockdown
What's just me showing off? Yeah, I'd like to show you how I take care of the virus
Tried that once with my face mask on I wish I'd have been filming Matt
Please do not do what I do do not replicate what I just went and done
You know what I'm creeping myself out here