Learn to Juggle

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Reasons to learn to juggle:

1. Juggling is cool

2. Juggling is cool

3. You want to attract the ladies (No guarantees on this one. Ladies, if you want to attract the fellas juggling will work like a charm. In the US at least, most jugglers are male.)

4. You want to learn how to do something cool

5. You want to impress your friends for about 10 seconds

6. You have too much free time (ie: you're in college)

7. You have a lot of nervous energy and you can't find your yo-yo.
(When you find it check out howtoyoyo.com btw)

8. You have other important things that you should really be doing

9. Someone gave you a set of juggling props

10. Juggling is cool

Some juggling photos 

Ballerina by Barbaking

Ballerina

Mad guy in Covent Garden by Ed.ward

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DSC_0338.JPG by sparr0

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Roby Berousek at the Festival du Cirque de Namur 2009 by Margot Wolfs by Margot Wolfs

Roby Berousek at the...

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How To Juggle 

What you will need:
3 balls (or scarves)- it will be easiest with juggling beanbags, but you can use anything. You will have the most success with balls that won't bounce or roll away. Tennis balls with a little rice inside work well. Just cut a slit in the side, put some rice in, and then wrap the slit closed with electrical tape.

Determination- Juggling will take some practice, so make sure you actually want to learn to juggle before you start.

Practice- Most people can learn to juggle in a day or so with proper instruction. Some people can learn in an hour, but there are FAR fewer of those people on the planet. If you keep working at it, you'll get it. Anyone can learn to juggle if they want to. For real.
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Step One: Start with one ball. Toss it back and forth from hand to hand in a nice arc that is just above eye-level. The point of this is to try to get your throws consistent enough that they are symmetrical from both hands. In other words, when you throw from either hand, you can easily catch the ball, and it is going about the same height each time. Do this until you get good results and are bored, which shouldn't take very long.

Step Two: Hold one ball in each hand. Throw first one ball and then the other in a nice arc to the opposite hand. Do NOT throw one ball and then hand off the other ball. Both balls must make a nice arc above eye-level, at the same height, and should be catchable. You throw the second ball when the first ball just starts to come back down. The second ball should fly under and just inside the incoming ball so that they make the shape of a sideways figure eight in the air. This may take a little practice. Alternate which hand starts. Right, left. Left, right. Right, left and so on. Continue with this until you can either do it well, or you get bored. Keep in mind though you will have better success with the next step if you can do this step first.

Step Three: Hold two balls in one hand, and one ball in the other. Start with the hand with two in it. Throw the first ball in an arc above eye-level, when the first ball just starts to come back down throw the second ball. When the second ball just starts to come back down, throw the third ball. Repeat.

At first you may want to just do three throws and three (or fewer) catches. Slowly build up the number of throws you try, and the number of catches will slowly build up to as you get better

Links 

Internet Juggling Database
Juggling resource containing event information, articles, links, videos, and club listings.
Juggling Information Service
Juggling help, list of jugglers' home pages, picture gallery, festival information, club and organizations list, magazine information, and software.
Juggle Mania
About, forum, and tricks.
Crazy Tie Guy
How to juggle, juggling tricks, instructions on making your own juggling beanbags and clubs, juggling routines, juggling stories.
Juggling World
Biography, booking information, guestbook, tricks, photo gallery, and links.
The Passing Database
Provides information and tutorials on many aspects of club passing; including rhythms, feeding, stealing, and other tricks.
World Juggling Day
Introduction and contact information.
Juggling
Provides information about juggling tricks, patterns, notation, and theory. Also offers a shareware download of the JuggleKrazy animation software.
Jochen Voss - Juggling
Personal page, including details of the mathematics of juggling, and ladder diagrams for a rangs of two-person passing patterns
Vete's Juggling Page
Devil sticking, juggling balls, clubs, and bouncing balls. How to make balls, clubs, and cigar boxes.

Buy some juggling related books 

Circus Techniques: Juggling, Equilibristics, Vaulting

Amazon Price: (as of 12/25/2009) Buy Now

Elga Learns to Juggle

Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 12/25/2009) Buy Now

Circus techniques: Juggling, equilibristics, vaulting

Amazon Price: (as of 12/25/2009) Buy Now

Some juggling mentions in blogs 

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