Hand Juggling - Juggle 🤹🏽♀️
Supercharge the connection between your hands (whole body) and your eyes.
"Always be learning"
Juggling 5-balls is a signature of work ethic that can’t be forged.
Juggling and handstands will also teach you about what kind of an adult learner you are.
Can You Learn?
#1 How do you feel about new learning challenges?
#2 How do you react to not getting what you want?
#3 Do you make micro-adjustments or ignore results?
#4 Are you coachable?
#5 Are you consistent?
INDEX
#1 How To Juggle
#2 How To Progress
#1 How To Juggle
Juggling for more balls eg. taking the direct path to higher numbers in juggling.
Juggling for more complexity eg. using new tricks, timing and progressions.
Learning to Juggle 3 Balls.
Learn to 3 ball juggle for 15 seconds without moving your feet.
Train along >> 1-2-3 Ball Juggling
3 Ball Variations
4 Ball Juggling
Juggling 4 Balls
Congratulations! Starting your 4 ball journey means you're graduating from being the amateur to the pro. 4 ball is a different beast, it will require significantly more time, effort & commitment. But those who make it to the other side will always deeply understand something that the rest won't: the human brain's infinite capability to change and grow.
5 Ball Juggling
5-ball Juggling score
Combo challenges
All-round skills challenge
#2 How To Progress
1) Progression Games (HMV’S)
- HEIGHT - Go Lower = more speed. Go Higher = more accuracy.
- MOVE - Move forwards, backwards, sideways. Balance on one foot.
- VISION - Close one eye, dark, same background (white on white), into the sun etc.
- SURFACE - Bounce off a wall / floor / partner
2) Progress By Numbers
Can you do it once?
Can you do 25 throws from your non-dominant hand?
Can you get 25 throws (or the starting move) 10 times in a row?
If you can you can probably make 150 throws?
#1 BIG STRETCH - Have a new move you’re wanting to make once.
#2 GAINS - Have one 25 drill you’re working on.
#3 MASTERY - Have one 25 x 10 drill.
#3 Why Juggling? Juggle Philosophy
The deeper learning when you start to juggling is how quickly your brain can change.
Something that is "too hard" during minute 1 can be ridiculously easy by minute 5!
What if everything is like this?
What if I just need to concentrate and do the task until it becomes second nature?
Juggling balls also have the built in black and white feedback mechanism.
Most things don't give such clear feedback.
The balls are simply following the rules of physics!
What if the same is true with customers & body fat & all areas of life?
If we can seek direct & honest feedback often we can progress much faster in life.
As you juggle you will prove:
1. You can learn new things.
2. You can progress quickly with concentration.
3. You can teach others what you learn.
4. Your eye tracking skills will improve.
5. Your hand eye coordination will improve.
You can decide to use Juggling as a momentum builder by improving it daily and working from terrible to great over weeks and months or you can simply take the win of the 3-ball juggle.
Juggling For Money & Entrepreneurship:
It’s been shown in studies that becoming more ambidextrous and being able to use both sides of the body well increases verbal fluency, connection between different complex ideas and more. Handstands add to this even more.
It’s likely that people become more creative as the learn to juggle better also!
Juggling isn’t the only option but it’s a method that can always become more difficult.
Learning to 3 ball juggle stops creating brain gains once it can be done automatically with no effort but the act of striving for new skills will continually upgrade the brain.
#4 My juggling story. Olympic failure & Guatemalan Bars
I wanted to juggle when I was around 8. I could catch well at that time since cricket was one of my favourite sports growing up.
I found a juggling book that recommended using scarfs that would move slowly.
I think I butchered one of mums... but I couldn’t work it out. “I can’t juggle.” was the lesson.
At around 19 I was starting to make state teams in hockey and I was thinking I was an outside chance of making the Australian U21’s team. That would have put me on track to be a chance of becoming an olympic gold medalist with the Australian hockey team.
Like most athletes I battled with confidence. I fought very hard to get to state level after missing out on those teams all through the junior ages when I thought I was close or even that I deserved a place.
My point is that there were 2 people there who could juggle. They were both getting picked in Australian junior squads at the time (Pete Kelly & Darren Booth). Coincidentally Darren was also a Rubik’s Cube master, could do back flips and took on just about any puzzle. Darren Booth was a huge expander for my view of what a person could become. I thought he was more talented than me. . . That it was easy for him. But it opened a door in my mind that I eventually walked through.
I tried juggling and failed again. They either didn’t know how to teach me or didn’t want to but I learned again “I can’t juggle.” If was more curious I would have found a circus school or hounded them to teach me but I was still insecure. Maybe my brain just “wasn’t good enough.” I avoided the reward of success by avoiding the challenge of discomfort.
#5 Juggling Tests
3-ball Juggle Score
Day 1 = Your 15 Second Juggle Score.
5 minute juggle test!
Juggling 3 balls for as long as you can is a game we’ve played at events. From memory I won with around 25 minutes but sometimes history favours those writing the story!
#6 Juggling For Coaches
#6 Why juggling is a great tool to become a great coach.
- You learn to manage your frustration of people not executing better.
- You learn to be more observant of the emotions and experience of the player you’re working with.
- You build deeper trust with people by giving them skills for life and nurturing them through a challenge.
- You’re encouraged to keep learning... clients can pass your abilities if they work at it. You don’t hold the power like with weight training that takes many years. A determined client can learn to juggle 5 balls in 3-6 months.
"Embody the growth mindset"
#7 Juggle Blogs
From Gautum (working on his 6-ball)
Had a thought today when I was juggling that I don't think gets talked about enough -
Normally I'm guessing everyone juggles 5-10 minutes and then takes a 1-2 minute break to relax before going again, or picking it up the next day.
If you'd like to progress really fast, try out longer sessions, 30 minutes straight. No breaks, at all. Initially, it will feel like taking a break would really help you, that the more you go on in a single session, the more sluggish your brain gets with all this mental effort. The fatigue is only worsening your pattern and flow. Keep focussing. And before you know it...
you'll catch a second wind!
When that happens, you'll see CLEAR AND TANGIBLE difference in your abilities to juggle WITHIN that one session. It's like you're superhuman for a minute, you can see the balls better, interpret the pattern better, REACT to the pattern if it messes up somewhere and correct it midair.
Anybody who's done long distance running in their life knows what I'm talking about, you get tired, and tired, and tired, and then all of a sudden
you're more invigorated than ever.
That second push of energy, wherever it comes from, is magic.
Juggling is all about self belief and it helps us precisely because we can SEE the day to day improvements.
It's a physical manifestation of our ability to change and improve.
Knowing that we can change and improve makes us feel powerful.
Because juggling works like that, doing more of it actually makes us feel more energetic and more excited than if we did less of it, because we can see ourselves change improve that much faster.
So even though doing more should make you feel exhausted, it actually makes you feel more energetic and powerful.
I'd really love for you to give long intense sessions of juggling a shot. If someone tries this, I'd love to hear how it worked out for you.
Parkour athlete sharing his juggling ability.
Worth watching.
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