The Juggling Discussion thread

[qqwref]

I used to do a bunch of ball juggling, although I stopped doing it a while ago. I managed to flash a 7-ball cascade once and could get up to around 50 catches of 5 balls, and also knew quite a few 3-ball patterns, but near the end I was more interested in siteswaps and juggling simulators (the theory) than actually manipulating the objects. I can still do some stuff now without having practiced for a while, so it's a cool skill to be able to randomly use.

At my freshman year talent show I solved a cube one-handed while juggling two balls in the other hand. Even though I dropped a ball once, people were still very impressed. It's a pretty cool trick and a lot easier than it sounds (i.e. if you can juggle two balls in your non-OH hand for long enough to do an OH solve, you can probably do it in the first few tries). I'm very impressed by Mike's ability to do a blindfold solve while juggling in the other hand, and also by a report from someone else (Ravi?) who did a 4x4 OH while juggling.

 

[cmasirius]

I just learned to juggle, as a New Year's resolution! I learned to juggle for the same reason that a lot of people are saying. I like the challenge of doing something that most people don't do. I like the hours of practice. I guess I just don't like being bored and juggling and cubing take up the time nicely. I have to say, I was surprised to see this thread.

 

[xXzaKerXx]

I just learned to juggle, as a New Year's resolution! I learned to juggle for the same reason that a lot of people are saying. I like the challenge of doing something that most people don't do. I like the hours of practice. I guess I just don't like being bored and juggling and cubing take up the time nicely. I have to say, I was surprised to see this thread.

yes, i was thinking of making this thread for a while now, but i don't have the time. thanks all for replying in this thread. i didin't expect it to be so popular.

 

[macky]

Just sharing a run of 8-club passing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9lmP-FtmjI

We're trying to work up to 9.

 

[MoRpHiiNe]

Juggling?

Just wondering, does anyone here juggle as well as cube?
To me the two just seem to fit together, although I only just started juggling, they seem to be a good fit =P.
I made a quick little video of me juggling, though I only just started a few days ago so it's pretty bad, but I plan on practicing a fair bit now so hopefully I get better soon .

So yeah just interested if anyone does juggle too, maybe you could attempt something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkzgjOKeLs

Something along these lines will be my goal =D.

 

[Owen]

Macky is quite good at juggling. He likes to show it off at the awards ceremony of his competitions.

 

[aronpm]

So yeah just interested if anyone does juggle too, maybe you could attempt something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkzgjOKeLs

Something along these lines will be my goal =D.

To the next level:

Spoiler

and...

Ravi is a beast

And here's Mike's juggling BLD solve, similar to the video you linked:

 

[Tomk]

I first learnt to juggle about four years ago (compared to cubing maybe three years ago?) and are on the cusp of getting five balls solid. I can juggle clubs and rings but these take a back seat - I only really value clubs for passing and very rarely have anyone to pass with. Rings I learnt for completeness.

I love contact juggling - which has an even steeper learning curve than toss juggling. Though I only got my first ball a year or two ago I am already quite competent. Does anyone else here CJ?

I haven't actually been on this forum for a while, though I still cube occasionally. I designed a website which contains a variety of juggling tutorials, and remembering that so many people here juggle (from a while back), I thought it was a good a place as any to ask for feedback. I was going to make a thread but I noticed as soon as I made it to off topic I was greeted by a juggling thread! If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them. If you have moans about "this doesn't work properly", please include your WEB BROWSER and VERSION, and explain problems clearly.

 

[blakedacuber]

Picked up my thuds for th first time in about a year and still can easily do 100+ catches wana get back into jugglin'.... so what should i "learn" or advance onto next?4balls?3clubs?3rings?

 

[blackzabbathfan]

I've recently started contact juggling

 

[blakedacuber]

Contact Juggling looks really fun and so does joggling ( I'll give it a try once the weather gets a bit better). are there any "main" forus fo juggling? Like for cubing this would be a main forum and so would twistypuzzles

 

[MoRpHiiNe]

Picked up my thuds for th first time in about a year and still can easily do 100+ catches wana get back into jugglin'.... so what should i "learn" or advance onto next?4balls?3clubs?3rings?

Hey Blake, you should check out my new video, my progression video and attempt to learn some of these tricks =].

I learned almost in the order of appearance, not quite though.

 

[MoRpHiiNe]

Oh and also, I've been unable to find an active forums for juggling, I shall try again now though =D.

 

[kbh]

I can juggle with 5 balls
I can also juggle with 4 clubs

I also have tried to solve a rubiks cube during juggling but thats hard...

 

[Mike Hughey]

The most active internet place for juggling is probably still the newsgroup rec.juggling. The easiest method to access it is probably IJDb: http://www.jugglingdb.com/news/.

It's still pretty active, and IJDb generally will point you at a lot of the best internet resources for juggling.

There are some other forums out there, but they don't seem to have the activity that rec.juggling has.

 

[cubizh]

David Calvo and his juggling solves:

 

[peterbone]

I made my own beanbags over the weekend.

 

[blakedacuber]

I made my own beanbags over the weekend.
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What did you make them out of? and how?

 

[garcijo]

I can do some tricks with 4 balls, but I'm more into contact juggling and diabolo

 

[tim]

How is it that people just toss in "and I can do continuous backcrosses", like it's nothing? The most I've ever done is something like 20. 7 balls is much easier for me than 3 ball continuous backcrosses. I find continuous backcrosses really difficult - I've spent a lot of time practicing them, and they're still very shaky.

I've now spent about two months on 3 ball backcrosses (two times a week for about 20 minutes each) and its only a matter of one or two hours of practice until I can throw them continuously. On the other hand: I have a really hard time learning 7 balls. What's wrong with you, Mike? o_O