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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Annie, a teacher of six year olds wanted the best eye-hand coordination for her children. And she wanted to teach them how to juggle. They watched the Juggling Brain video every day and followed the 10 steps. At the end of the term the class gave a concert. Not only were the parents greatly surprised seeing six year olds juggle two balls, but the teacher had given the students an even greater present - better eye-hand coordination. So necessary for learning to read and write when they go to their next grade.

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Recently a 65 year old engineer followed the Juggling Brain video method for learning how to juggle, and surprised himself by catching the third juggling ball within half an hour. Did he have something to brag about at the next Rotary Club meeting! His message - “the key is the smooth throwing action I learned in Step 5 of the Juggling Brain video.”

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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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Tom told us how excited he was when his teacher said we are going to put on an end of term circus concert in May. “I learned how to juggle from the Juggling Brain video my Mom gave me for my birthday”. He told us he was already juggling three balls and was practicing the tricks. which is why he tried out for the role of the juggler in the show! He got it and began working on a routine. He would do turning around, juggling high and low, starting behind the back, bouncing off the knee. All tricks he learned from the Juggling Brain video. With the goal of the circus show in mind he sequenced the tricks, got a showman’s outfit, got some show stopping music together, and what do you know - became the star of the show. “I could only do it because of the Juggling Brain video,” Tom told us. “it gave me all the clues.”

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Next weekend text some friends to join you for a juggling party with your new Juggling Brain video. Add lots of colorful soft juggling balls, plenty of space. You’re set for some serious fun! Practice each step and encourage each other, with a prize for everyone who learns how to juggle two balls, a bigger prize for three balls, and a couple of prizes for tricks. There’s plenty of examples of tricks on the Juggling Brain video. You can do it in 24 hours. And that’s only the start of your weekend juggling parties. You can have them again to develop more skills, make up a routine, practice a two person act, and of course - have more fun!

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Seniors can be masters of three ball juggling. They have desire and motivation! Recently in one of our masters juggling classes a 74 year old man learned to juggle two balls in two sessions and three balls in four sessions! His secret? - he watched the juggling Brain video 14 times practising all the exercises in between weekly lessons. How determined are you to juggle three balls? All ages can do it.

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When beginning to learn how to juggle make sure you have a wide base to start with – feet astride- a juggler’s stance. You need good balance when juggling.  You are relying on your body balance mechanism to maintain your posture as your eyes are fixed on a moving target.  Check Step 7 in the Juggling Brain video for the juggler’s stance.  Generally we use our vision and vestibular system to maintain our balance but in juggling we rely on balance mechanism and information coming from our feet and ankles.

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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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If you have just learned to juggle 3 balls and find yourself continually walking forward as you juggle, it’s just natural.  Others have gone before you doing the same. It will come to an end, and you will learn to stand still and juggle. But in the meantime try standing in front of a wall or cupboard door as you juggle. Try not to hit the door or wall with your juggling balls.  It’s a brain trick.  Put up a barrier and your brain will try not to hit it, encouraging you to throw the juggling balls in front of you instead of out.  Another good idea is to go back a step, say to Step 9 of the Juggling Brain video, and practice juggling two balls in one hand, positioned in the juggler’s stance, as described in Step 7. (See post ‘Perfect Balance for Juggling‘)  Just do it in the juggler’s stance and it will become automatic as you are learning to juggle.

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