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!
You are learning how to juggle 3 balls - brilliant idea - but the balls are flying everywhere. Some of us are impulsive with our throwing skills. Try slowing down the pace at which you throw each ball in the air. This will give you more time to control the direction of throw in a rainbow arc - just right for you to catch with the other hand. Refer to Step 5 of the Juggling Brain video for conscious control of the arc from the right and left hands - and get it right.
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.
You may find inside the house too confined to learn how to juggle, with low ceilings and too much furniture to get in the way. Why don’t you learn how to juggle outside where there is more room and you can throw the balls higher. Find a good spot preferably on soft grass with plenty of room around and stand facing away from the sun. Firstly you will get the light on the juggling balls and also you will not be blinded by the light of the sun as you throw the juggling balls into arcs.
Practice throwing the ball up at different heights until you find the most natural height just for you. Remember to factor in the wind strength. With too much breeze this will affect the juggling balls as you try to control the direction of the balls. Help yourself to succeed. Create the right environment for learning how to juggle!
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Want a real challenge? Golf balls are smaller and harder than soft juggling balls, so they might bounce out of your hands. But You Can Do It! Start with two; get the feel of them and have plenty of room around with people far away. Move to three over a couch. One business man found fame juggling three golf balls in front of his golf buddies! Were they impressed and envious! So he told them: “Get the Juggling Brain video and we will all become famous. See you on YouTube!”
Juggling not only exercises the body but stimulates eye function. Watching the balls keeps the eye muscles more flexible, and makes eyes coordinate more efficiently together. There are six eye muscles and just as you need to strengthen your biceps by exercises and repetition, so your eyes need practice to spot a target and move smoothly in pursuit. What do we need for reading? Eyes! What a fun way to keep your eyes in shape for your favorite fiction book!
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.
When trying to juggle three balls you need colours that catch your eye. Vibrant colours you can see easily and clearly. Bold colours such as red, green, blue, and orange are easily seen. With single colours you can spot and say the colour as you are learning to juggle. Or if someone is teaching you, the teacher can say throw the red, then green, then gold ball in sequence. It is better to have ball colour different from walls or ceiling if you are juggling inside. The juggling ball is easier to see and catch when it stands out from the wall colour.
When trying to juggle three balls you need colours that catch your eye. Vibrant colours you can see easily and clearly. Bold colours such as red, green, blue, and orange are easily seen. With single colours you can spot and say the colour as you are learning to juggle. Or if someone is teaching you, the teacher can say throw the red, then green, then gold ball in sequence. It is better to have ball colour different from walls or ceiling if you are juggling inside. The juggling ball is easier to see and catch when it stands out from the wall colour.