Hello everybody! I just joined the juggling edge for the first time.
i'm very excited.
Joseph the juggler - - Parent #
Follow up on what I just said.
My name is Joseph, i'm 14 years old I have been juggling for a little less than 3 years and
my goal is to qualify 9 balls before i'm 15. I only have 44 days left.
I was wondering if any of you have any tips on juggling 9 balls.
Hi Joseph, welcome to The Edge.
I never got beyond a barely-qualified 7-ball run, and a flash of 8, and probably 9 (can’t remember). I gave up on numbers juggling long, so I’m not the one to give you tips, I’m afraid. But good luck!
Joseph the juggler - - Parent #
Alright well since you gave up on numbers juggling do you know any cool tricks?
What's your coolest trick?
Juggling 5 snowballs for a literal answer ;-) , but maybe The Bungay Trick is quite nice.
I'm one of the people doing it at 1m54s-2m31s in the 2006 video here:
https://tlmb.net/blog/bungay-balls-up-videos/
Hi & welcome!
Guess, the first hurdle is having two more balls in hands ( when coming from 7b ) which rearranges the whole arrangement , unless you do with floating first ball on top.
i started with smaller balls, 5,5 cm.
getting all thrown and six caught is then already a first little success.
after correcting single always the same ball(s) going astray, you'll soon get 7 gathers regularly.
from there for me it was a long journey meeting all requirements of shape, timing, aiming, tuning, and the way i launch in crescendo mode and doing a strong initial hop fromout very bent knees.
i found, that going for 8 gathers level or for rethrows sometimes aren't anyway "melted", but i have to downright intend either for making it happen.
hopefully i will before long be able to rely on automized good launches into a viable pattern allowing for rethrows into all caught.
next stage then, much more occasion to focus on aiming into pattern's top only, the simplicity of it...
guess a good deal in going for 9b is individual, depending where you come from ( 8b skipped or not; 7b level; brute force or reflecting and analysing; throwing technique rather nimble or with power; other, time invested, circumstances ).
so, be welcome to ask specific (or general) questions!
Joseph the juggler - - Parent #
Thanks for all the information. Now there is one thing I would like to know, it's how do
you do not hurt yourself when trying to qualify 9 balls? I always stretch before I juggle
but my left arm always gets so torn up. it's been 4 days since I last hurt my left arm
from trying to train for a 9 balls qualify and it still hurts. So I have taken of 4 days
of numbers juggling. I know if I stop my practice sooner I will not hurt myself but I just
can't, because i'm so into it. That is the problem I have on my hands. Any tips on what
to do?
RustyJuggling - - Parent #
I think when you've got a consistent strain like that one of the best things to do is analyze your throwing technique. A lot of times there's more tension than there needs to be, especially with numbers juggling. If it's in the shoulder you might isolate your elbows when making attempts, or if it's the wrist you might try to stiffen the wrists a bit. Things like that, depending on what parts of your arms are taking the brunt of the stress.
And if you do find something to tweak with your technique, it's good to practice it with lower numbers as well as when attempting the nine.
Little Paul - - Parent #
I’ve just watched your most recent YouTube video, I think one thing was noticeable straight away which may explain your left arm strain.
Your right shoulder hunches higher than your left.
This asymmetry means your throws aren’t the same height, and your left arm has to work harder trying to maintain the height as a result.
This is noticeable for your patterns with 5 balls or more, if you watch the peaks of the throws in the video you can see it.
Try concentrating on your posture, and with both hands throwing from the same height, and do that with all the numbers you’re working on.
Fixing this with 5 will help your 7. Fixing it with 7 will help your 9
Hope that’s useful!
Joseph the juggler - - Parent #
Oh man, thanks a lot. I did not notice that.
w...also in the vid your right elbow is out more ( in consequence of that posture of yours ).
If it's due to an anatomic asymmetry ( e.g. skoliosis, kyphosis, uneven or torn or twisted pelvis and-or spine ), which it looks like, I wouldn't recommend forcing symmetry, but finding what's most comfortable for you - could be e.g. doing with your right foot behind, ( torso then somewhat twisted ), or e.g. inclining yourself to that side with left foot on tiptoe. Another approach would be to exercise turning\twisting your torso only, both ways round with, say, 5b that you've hotten down already; and maybe also swaying from side to side ( changing weight from foot to foot ) without turning\twisting your torso, the pattern staying within the fixed frontplane. These exercises should imo "emancipate" your juggling from being constrained \ restrained \ tweaked by your posture, and provide more control over that dimension.
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With 9b your last balls are mostly lower than the early balls up. ( it's not so much with 8b ) . . . as if you'd be lacking the force to get on height. In that case, or anyway, it might be a good idea to not get into debt of height with so high early balls, but start either these lower in order to save some effort for the later balls, or even overall the whole pattern lower ( when you feel speedy ).
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I'd also suggest to not do seven, eight and nine too much, but make 7 or 9 your priority and spend notably less on the other amounts. Rather 7, because you seem to be exhausting yourself a lot on 9, with little gain for hard effort that would maybe be better invested in progressing with 7. Or else try to get effort out of your 9b by doing lower, and-or by stopping launches on early bad throws.
I recently used to do two runs of exercises to "define" every single first throw out of 9 well:
• stop on each, do only the first, first two, first three, ... with focus only on, and aiming the one in question well,
• same, but go on throwing the rest ... keeping focus on the ball in question, tracking where it flies within the whole pattern launched. ( this is soas to not learn to stop too much by the first exercise but doing that throw while going on throwing in its "original" context so to say ).
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