Thread: Juggling Tutorial Video by Gnome

I made a new thread for this because I was worried that the copious amounts of .gifs in my .gif thread would slow down the video for some people.

Anyways, here it is - my juggling tutorial. I think most everyone should be able to learn to juggle from this, given enough drive. If you're having a lot of trouble at any point, it would be great if you could film yourself practicing and send me a link or post it in this thread. Maybe I could give you some extra, personalized pointers.



Hope that helps!

Listen to what gnome says - don't juggle with tennis balls. They will piss you off to no end because you'll be dropping them and chasing after them each time. Pretty much the only reason learning the cascade took me more than a day to learn.

Anyway juggling isn't as hard as its reputation.. I can do pretty much any 3 or 4 ball trick except burke's barrage. Some 5 ball stuff too.

Nice, jhnnyman! You should try to learn Burke's, it's one of the most fun tricks to do in my opinion. Especially if you can already do mills mess and rubensteins, orbit or even just crossed-arms, it's only a little step farther.

If enough people express interest, I could try to make some tutorials for more advanced tricks. They get hard to explain, though, without one-on-one feedback. There's a lot of intuition going on, and everyone gets to understand the trick in different ways.

Awesome, Gnome! Thanks a ton! I'm downloading this so I can watch it as many times as I need to learn it, once I get home and find something to juggle.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Awesome, Gnome! Thanks a ton! I'm downloading this so I can watch it as many times as I need to learn it, once I get home and find something to juggle.

Awesome! Keep me posted on your progress. It's great to see others excited about juggling!

Will do! I can't wait to go ball up some socks...or something.

I am trying to learn Burke's, well it's just hard to wrap my mind around it. But meanwhile that damn 2-ball Terrorist is distracting me (google it), it's incredibly annoying that I can't do a 2-ball trick =P

I can see that advanced tricks are hard to explain, and I haven't found any tutorials that explain them well. For example, burke's barrage..

Originally Posted by jhnnyman

that damn 2-ball Terrorist is distracting me

Yeah, haha I love that move! It's great practice for four and five ball speeds. I did it for a few seconds in the two-ball section of my 'hardest tricks' video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzNSvakq7q8)

I actually just taught Burke's to a guy in my school, so I've had some practice trying to explain. Maybe if you're still having trouble later I can try to make a good tutorial on that for you. I don't know if I'll be able to, though, it's tough to explain

Originally Posted by thegnome54

Maybe if you're still having trouble later I can try to make a good tutorial on that for you. I don't know if I'll be able to, though, it's tough to explain

You can make a video if you want, but you don't have to

edit: holy shit lol, I just did five cycles of the Terrorist =|

That's pretty much how I juggle.
Although I can't do it how you do in the avie.

Heh, I followed your actions on the video and I can now do the three ball cascade. I need something heavier than socks, though... mine tend to fly off every now and then.

Great tutorial.

Originally Posted by CoLd BlooDed

Heh, I followed your actions on the video and I can now do the three ball cascade. I need something heavier than socks, though... mine tend to fly off every now and then.

Great tutorial.

Awesome! I recommend you try that coin trick, if you have some pennies lying around. I'm excited for you

I Cant Figure Out How To Ball Up A Sock Ll

Originally Posted by AmazeO XD

I Cant Figure Out How To Ball Up A Sock Ll

Haha, alright...

Lay out a sock flat, and start rolling it up (like a sleeping bag) from the toe up towards the opening. Once you get close enough to the opening, push the rolled-up bit through the opening (like, open up the top part of the sock and push the roll upwards through it). You should end up with a little bit of the "mouth" of the sock inside-out, covering up that rolled up bit.

If this is too light, try putting some coins into the sock before rolling it up.

Your video Pic in this Forum inspired me to Google juggling. I bookmarked the page and never got back to it.
SO anyways, How awesome for YOU to have created one. Thank you!

Well I already am in trouble. All I had were golf balls. Actually I got the hang of it pretty well - with 3 that is.
I had it going and I took my eye off the ball, literally and crash.

Maybe my wife won't miss that antique uuuh thingy.?