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Home to all forms of throwing, catching, spinning, bouncing, and all manner of other manipulation

jugยทgle [dส’สŒgษ™l]

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.


Welcome to /r/juggling

Reddit's juggling community. A place for videos, articles, tutorials, discussion, questions, or just chat and gossip.

We welcome threads on juggling, circus, performing arts, and anything else that may be of interest.


Getting Started

Want to learn to juggle? There are many 3 ball juggling tutorials on YouTube, like this one, which is one of many submitted to the annual IJA Video Tutorial Contest. Or use the search bar or submit a question.

New! Thom Wall's guide to learning 5 balls, and...

Thom Wall's guide to learning to juggle - get help to learn from a bona fide professional.


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Hope everyone had a nice Halloween ๐ŸŽƒ I meant to post this last year on Oct.31 so here is some ghostly juggling now haha. ~Music: ZHU - Ghost In My Bed

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2024/11/01
04:16 UTC

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Formal 3 Ball

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2024/11/01
02:49 UTC

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Another fun combo...distracted in the kitchen again...dishes did not get done...again

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2024/10/31
23:23 UTC

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Singapore Shuffle Inspired Pattern

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2024/10/31
17:38 UTC

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Orbitz

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.

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2024/10/31
17:24 UTC

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Another round of mess in here would've put this over the top.

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2024/10/31
02:37 UTC

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Juggling in dreams

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?

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2024/10/30
21:16 UTC

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Poi juggling

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.

  1. 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?

  2. Any guidance on where to go from here based on the description of my current skill level?

  3. 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.

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2024/10/30
19:33 UTC

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A cool guide on juggling

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2024/10/30
17:36 UTC

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My IJA Tricks Of The Month

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2024/10/30
16:20 UTC

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Cool Tricks

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?

5 Comments
2024/10/30
08:29 UTC

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Join the club(s)

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2024/10/30
02:44 UTC

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Fully Recircled aka my juggling act

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2024/10/30
00:47 UTC

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Slackline 180 while juggling clubs

I just picked up clubs for the first time in February and the slackline in May. This is the hardest thing Iโ€™ve pulled off so far. Iโ€™m jamosmithlol on IG

12 Comments
2024/10/29
11:53 UTC

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Can't Juggle For More Than 4 Tosses

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.

22 Comments
2024/10/29
06:54 UTC

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Magnet Opus

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.

3 Comments
2024/10/29
05:41 UTC

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Have you seen this one before? Stumbled on this weird upside down alternating factory sort of thing. I feel like Iโ€™ve seen something like this before but canโ€™t remember where

17 Comments
2024/10/29
03:20 UTC

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Bawks Juggling

24 Comments
2024/10/28
18:13 UTC

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Hard felt balls?

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!

6 Comments
2024/10/28
12:46 UTC

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Monday Dumpday thread - please contribute anything of interest, no matter how trivial

Welcome to Monday Dumpday!

This is a scheduled weekly post in which you, dear subscribers, are invited to post anything that takes your fancy. Think of it as a place to put all those things which are too trivial, inconsequential, or off-topic to deserve their own threads.

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Suggested things to submit :-

Photos/pictures/scans

  • Trivia/gossip/tittle-tattle
  • Off topic stuff, but please, whatever you do, try to be interesting
  • Light-hearted banter/trolling/flaming ... so long as it remains friendly and creative
  • Stories, fiction, literature

โ€‹

Knock yerselves out!

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2024/10/28
09:00 UTC

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Your tips and tricks for recording practice?

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 doesnโ€™t do a clean recording of whatโ€™s 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 havenโ€™t played around with this solution, but there are third party apps around, that allow you to exactly do what #2 has in mind.

  • โ€žMideoโ€œ seems to be a solution some people are using, although it seems to be subscription based with a high pricepoint.
  • โ€žVideouโ€œ seems to check all the boxes of a great app for jugglers. I am a bit hesitant to give an app the ability to have access to my full camera roll. Does anybody have experience using this app?
8 Comments
2024/10/27
22:07 UTC

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Tips/exercises for learning a 4-ball shower?

8 Comments
2024/10/27
21:56 UTC

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Mellon Square

Video from a practice session in Mellon Square, Pittsburgh

3 Comments
2024/10/27
10:10 UTC

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Juggling convention bingo

What are good prompts for a juggling convention bingo card?

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2024/10/27
08:28 UTC

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Anyone else use a mouth stick with a ball? Just shortened mine and it is heaps easier to control...

Gettin better...

0 Comments
2024/10/27
06:49 UTC

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