Sometimes the juggling ball continues to fall out of your hand when catching the ball. Go back and do more hand exercises using both hands developing fine motor skills, especially in the area of touch, as demonstrated by Lincoln and Emelia in Juggling Brain video Step 2. This is to help the message to get quickly from your hand to your brain to prompt you to close your hand over the ball. After you consciously do this for practice, it will become natural and you will be able to concentrate on juggling 3 balls, which is what you want to do!

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You are learning how to juggle. Great! You won’t regret it. Here is a hint about learning with both hands. Once you have learned to throw a juggling ball leading with your right hand, it is important to practise leading with your left hand and vice versa. You may find this awkward to begin with, but juggling requires both hands to be able to throw the ball straight in an arc in the air to land accurately in the other hand. Watch Lincoln in Step 5 of the Juggling Brain video, as he throws the juggling ball with either hand. The better your non-preferred hand is, the better you are able to juggle three balls.

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To begin juggling one ball our eyes need to practice fixating on a moving target. Fixing both eyes on the target stimulates the visual system and from there smooth pursuit of the moving ball is required where the ball moves up and over to our other hand. This is where you start in Step 1 of the Juggling Brain video. Sounds easy doesn’t it. Take your time to teach this skill to your eye muscles. They may not have had this experience before.  Later on when more advanced you need only look at the ball at the top of the arc. But first you need to learn to look at the ball all the way. This applies to all ages. Remember, the eyes have it! What could be easier for step 1.

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