Old Balance Tutorial

(Haz clic aquí para español.) More than a century ago, jugglers had three options for learning juggling: belong to a family of artists who would teach you; acquire some of the few and scarce juggling books that were available at the time; or keep an eye on the newspapers. The newspapers published some stories about jugglers, the arrival of artists …

Plate Juggling Tutorial

Plate juggling was a popular part of the Restaurant Juggling and Gentleman Juggling genres. You can read my previous article about Restaurant Juggling by clicking here. I’ve also written an article about numbers juggling with plates, which can be found here. In the following tutorial, we won’t cover technique on plate spinning, plate waltzing, or boomerang plates, but will instead …

Beginner Ball Spinning Tutorial

Ball spinning has been a popular form of juggling for well over a hundred years. In this article, I’ll attempt to teach you how to spin a ball, do arm curls, and spin two balls on one finger. Finding A Ball The first challenge can be to find a good ball. Here are several recommendations. First, you can try to …

Dynamic Plate Spinning Tutorial

In the past, I’ve written quite a bit about the history of plate spinning. You can click here, here, and here to read what I’ve written. Plate spinning is one of the oldest, easiest, and most popular forms of juggling. Today I will teach you various ways to get a plate spinning and some basic and not so basic tricks …

Knot Throwing Tutorial Video Collection

(日本語はこちら) The art of knot throwing has been a staple of the juggling world for a long time, but not much has been created in the way of teaching many of the variations of the skill. Therefore, I set out to create video tutorials for what I consider to be the ten best knot throwing variations. For these videos, I …

Toothbrush Spinning: The Skill You Can Learn In 15 Minutes

(日本語はこちら) Some tricks take hours, days, weeks, months, or years to master. Toothbrush spinning is not one of these tricks. If you have the proper equipment, you can probably learn it in a matter of minutes. Besides its ease of learning, it’s also quite portable, humorous, and novel. The skill can be added to a combination trick, taught as a …

Meteor Spinning – A Video Survey

Meteor Spinning is a very old form of juggling / object manipulation the utilizes two weighted objects attached by a long rope. The objects can be balls, bowls of water, torches, or other similar items. Originating in China, it started as a form of martial arts. You can click here to learn more about the use of the meteor as …

Mixed Prop Variations on 5[21][22]

One of my favorite toss juggling patterns is 5[21][22], which can also be thought of as 7[22]2[21][22]. If those numbers are confusing you, then you don’t know complex siteswap notation. Don’t fear, though, as I certainly didn’t know the siteswap for this pattern when I started to discover these tricks. Instead, I called this pattern the Piggyback Cascade, as one …