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jugยทgle [dสสgษl]
verb (-gled, -gling): to perform feats of manual or bodily dexterity, as tossing up and keeping in continuous motion a number of balls, plates, knives, etc.
noun: the act or fact of juggling.
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First time filming myself after about a year of practice. Thought I'd share. A bit messy in places as my brain can't keep up with them orbits.
I haven't juggled in about 2 months (courtesy of a new job and lots of other responsibilities) and I've dreamt about juggling 3 times since. But the thing is, in all of those dreams, I can't even qualify a 3 ball cascade! The dreams always consist of me wanting to juggle, trying to juggle, and then embarrassingly running after the balls with people around me silently judging me. It's giving me the same vibes that running in dreams gives me.
Just thought it was a fun experience to share. Did anyone else experience something similar?
I've recently been spending more time with juggling poi rather than just spinning.
I'm very comfortable with the pendulum cascade and wallplane cascade. Recently started doing some behind the head spins on the first beat of the hand I just caught with w the wallplanes, if I worded that coherently.
Can hit some reverse beat cascades, but still working on running that cleanly.
Also, started working on no beat cascades last week and have been seeing some progress, but probably have a lil while before I'm running it.
Fellow poi jugglers, I have a few questions for you.
I'm currently juggling contact poi with 10.6 mm hybrid tethers.
How important do you find it/how big of a difference does it make to juggle with static tethers? Big enough difference to warrant spending the money for 3 new poi?
Any guidance on where to go from here based on the description of my current skill level?
do you have any favorite teachers? Do they have a patreon? Bow juggler is my go to, ofc, but just curious.
Thanks in advance!
Love my ball and club juggling, but poi shit just hits differently.
I recently started juggling as part of a school assignment (best assignment ever, I love juggling) and I would like to learn some tricks. I can do relatively well getting around 20 tosses right each time and was wondering what some cool tricks I could learn are. Additionally, should I be learning tricks or focus on juggling?
I just picked up clubs for the first time in February and the slackline in May. This is the hardest thing Iโve pulled off so far. Iโm jamosmithlol on IG
I recently starred learning how to juggle balls and can juggle 3 balls for up to 15 tosses. For some reason I currently can't get higher than 4 passes. It may be from fatigue as I've been practicing all day but I just wanted to be sure.
I was trying to hunt down the video for Emil Dahl's magnet opus that inspired so many up and coming jugglers at the time. Unfortunately the only thing I've found are all reddit threads with dead YouTube links.
Hey guys, I saw some balls in Switzerland. They were small, quite heavy and quite hard, but had a soft felt shell.
They felt amazing, juggled really well, but were really expensive.
Stupidly, I only took a photo of the price card, bit you can see the balls slightly.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a ball with similar properties. I already regret not buying them!
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Hey People of r/juggling! Since the user u/martinaee just shared his hack on recording video with the current music playing in the back I wanted to ask what are your ways of recording during practice?
Things I use from time to time: #1 My usual way to record while still have music playing on IPhone, is to use picture mode, picking the format I want to film in (4:3, 16:9, square) and hold the button until it starts to film and slide it to the right to lock it into recording. This way you can record, while still blasting music on your headphones or speaker. It doesnโt do a clean recording of whatโs playing it uses the microphone of your device. I sometimes synced the track later on on my computer to have good quality. In iOS 18 you can also enable playback while using the video mode in the camera settings.
#2 Madman u/martinaee s method: do a screenrecording of your camera while playing music. Pro: Music is synced real time to what you record. Cons: The square of the autofocus keeps popping up as you can see above. You could fix the autofocus to one point.
#3 I havenโt played around with this solution, but there are third party apps around, that allow you to exactly do what #2 has in mind.
Video from a practice session in Mellon Square, Pittsburgh
What are good prompts for a juggling convention bingo card?
Gettin better...