WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: Juggling: What the Heck 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.680 Hello friends, Chuck here on a Saturday, bringing your my 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.639 select pick for the week from January two thousand fifteen. 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.039 Jan is uh. It is one of our famous Colon episodes, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:17.079 Juggling Colon, What the heck learn all about juggling right now? 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.880 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:32.880 Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.600 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.680 just doing a little tandem juggling with my bra. That's 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.880 what we're doing right now. Yeah, yeah, I wish you 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.600 guys could see this because we've got pretty good cascade 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:49.360 right now. Look at this half shower, half shower, halfhower. Man, 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.440 that was a good one. Broe balls at once. Yeah, Jerry, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.160 come light these torches on fire. Wow man, half shower 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:05.039 of rain and fire. This is really dangerous. Can you juggle? No? 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.000 But I want to after this. My brother learned, of course, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.520 of course, I'm sure he's born knowing how to juggle, 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:13.840 came out of the womb. Juggling. Now he learned back 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.320 when it like in high school and mastered it pretty quickly. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.880 And now an he can still juggle some I think 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.400 it's one of those things. Well, once you learn sort 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.160 of the basics, you can always do it, because apparently 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.080 a lot of it comes down to muscle memory, which 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.880 is to say motor memory. Yeah, and in true Chuck fashion, 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.759 I tried to learn to juggle for about an hour 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.959 and never finished. Did you like see any progress over 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.080 that hour? Yeah? I could. I could do the little 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.040 one hand juggling two balls with one hand thing, okay, 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.680 But I did a lot of chasing the ball. That's 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.520 a problem, which apparently, if you're beginning juggler, you're gonna 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.600 be throwing the ball further and further away from you, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.080 just naturally chasing the ball, and they call it chasing it. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.280 So what do they suggest? They suggest that you learn 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.800 to juggle close to and facing a wall. Yeah, because 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.160 that way you can't move forward or you'll just keep 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.840 hitting your head and you'll scratch your face up on 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.880 the brick and quit juggling. This is a Jonathan Strickland 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.239 joint of tech stuff. It's reeks of Strickland. It does 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.400 like even if the byeline hadn't been on there, I 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.880 would have been like, this is Strickland. But I remember 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.799 when this one was made. It was like right when 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.480 I got here, and like he there's a video embedded 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.519 of Strickland teaching you how to juggle. It smells, it 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.840 reeks of bald head cream and bowling shirts. Yeah, and 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:34.240 it also has an illustration by Marcus who clearly always 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.880 wanted to be a comic book illustrator, because the guy 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.680 who's in the graph on how to juggle is just 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:46.040 totally ripped like a comic book. Here. I remember, Marcus, 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.480 it seems like a million years ago. It was so 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:58.720 juggling history. How long people been juggling? Uh, chuck. People 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:08.560 have been juggling since at least tomb exactly. They found 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:13.880 uh in Egyptian tombs um hieroglyphics showing women toss juggling. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.360 And there are many kinds of juggling, by the way, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.639 and we're mainly going to talk about toss juggling, which 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.000 is throwing something up in the air, throwing more things 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.440 up in the air than you have hands. Yes, that's 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.360 toss juggling. And there are, like you said, a bunch 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.639 of other kinds, but if you're a toss juggler, you 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.040 probably don't consider the other kinds real juggling. You're like, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.000 those are cool and everything, but that's not real juggling. Yeah. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.800 I asked my friend, our friend Brandon Ross from the 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.240 Stuff you Should Know Art Department, clearly a juggler, very 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.120 good juggler, and uh I sent a message to him 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:47.720 and did not hear back in time. I was like, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.080 it doesn't here that modern jugglers poopoo things like taking 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.280 a bite out of the apple and like some of 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.600 those old school tricks. Is that true or not? And 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.800 I didn't hear back from him, So maybe crickets, I'll 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.720 fall Well, you know, was on Facebook, Okay, so he'll 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.520 get to it when he gets to it. So anyway, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.800 we're in ancient Egypt to be exact. That's right. There 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.680 were jugglers in Greece and Rome and India and Thebes 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:17.520 and Thebes in Europe, and I think four BC was 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.080 when it was actually written down that people were juggling. Yeah, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:26.279 supposedly in the Talmud a rabbi named Shimon ben Gummlil. Yeah, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.560 I think I probably nailed that. Probably he could juggle 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.960 eight torches at once. That's hard to believe because world 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:40.479 records today are like seven I think for clubs, is 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:44.400 it seven I think so. Yeah, But I mean, if 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.520 if this rabbi was juggling eight torches, that sounds like 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.559 it maybe pumped up a little bit throughout the years, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.080 you know, like it was two and then it was like, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.760 oh it was eight. Although this was the time of miracles, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:01.080 you know, like enough oil to keep it going for 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.840 eight days assuring a siege. Why not a rabbi who 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.880 could juggle eight torches. It seems kind of paltry by comparison. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:12.880 Good point um. Through the Roman era, apparently that jugglers 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.600 were actually held in high esteem, but then they kind 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.320 of went down into pooper a little bit hilarious because 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:24.160 people associated with them like like magicians, as con artists. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.400 So I don't know if it was like, hey, look 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.520 at what this guy's doing while someone else is picking 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.880 their pocket, but that's kind of what it seems like 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.840 it might have been going on. Yeah, apparently you were 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.359 a con artist, Like you said, sure, everybody knows that 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.839 you can't trust a juggler a juggalo, well at the 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.599 right at the at the at the time, that's how 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.480 people thought of jugglers. This seems to be during like 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.640 the Holy Roman Empire in the West, right then the 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.880 medieval era hits, and suddenly jugglers start to become a 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.360 little a little less threatening and actually a little more 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.560 clown like. Yeah. Like, Initially they seemed to have been 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.280 not revered necessarily, but I thought of in fairly high esteem. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.440 Then they went the opposite direction, and then they came 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:13.159 back as clowns. I wonder how many like um behind 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.919 closed doors, how many like emperors and kings tried it 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.360 out after seeing it in the door, or just like 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.159 morons with it, yeah, and then had someone's head chopped 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.000 off frustration. They took the chuck route. Although I didn't 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.160 behead anybody, but during the medieval era you could. If 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.640 you found a juggler, you probably also found something of 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:34.920 a minstrel or performer and all around entertainer who probably 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.120 traveled from town to town, maybe asking people to bring 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.760 out there dead for some side work perhaps, and then 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.520 juggling corpses, that's right, which must have been a sight 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.440 to see. And then in the seventeen hundreds they became 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:52.919 more of a circus act, and in the late eighteen 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.760 hundreds and nineteen hundreds vaudeville came along, and of course 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.960 any sort of skill like that was big in vaudeville, 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.680 and I'd did not know this, but W. C. Fields 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.919 was a juggler in the vaudevillian days. I didn't know 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.480 that either, before he became just a drunk actor. And 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.280 he's not the one who raped anybody, right, Who was it? 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.960 I think that was Fatty R Fatty R Buckled, That's 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.600 who it was. Yeah, same Aarras, same guys. I looked 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.880 it up and I ran across um the Hollywood hell Club. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.200 So apparently before the brat pack, before the rat pack, 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.400 there was a group of like early early Hollywood guys, 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.400 Errol Flynn who was a rapist, w C. Fields, John 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:39.160 Barrymore that just raised hell in um Hollywood in like 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.640 the twenties. Errol Flynn was a rapist, really accused rapist. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.720 I didn't know that. So then vaudeville declines, uh, circuses 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.240 sort of decline a little bit for a while, and 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.679 then jugglers started hitting the streets, or as Jonathan Strickland said, 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:59.160 or become mathematicians. Yep, we'll get to the math connection, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.440 which is yet, but I don't know that. Like they 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.080 formed their own stage shows, performed on street corners, or 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.960 became mathematicians. Those were the three options if you were 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.080 a juggler. Uh. And then of course, Um, in the 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.600 nineteen forties, I say, of course, because it's common knowledge 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.600 that these are when the juggling groups and conventions were 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:24.320 formed and held. The International Brotherhood of Magicians UH decided, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.600 you know, at a meeting, Hey, guys like the jugglers 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.440 got together and had a few drinks and said, I 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.520 don't like being known as a magician. Yeah, you know, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.200 that's how the jugglers tell it. The magicians were like, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:39.120 get the jugglers. Yeah, and then they went threw down 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.800 their smoke bomb when they were gone. So they formed 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.200 and splintered off and formed the International Juggling Association. Uh. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.960 And in nineteen sixty nine they started holding championships and 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:55.080 competitions Summer of Juggling. And in two thousand Jason Garfield, 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.040 a very famous juggler, formed the World Juggling Federation and 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.679 said ESPN and you need to put this stuff on TV. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.480 So once a year they put it on TV progress 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.440 along with the spelling b and the dart competition. What 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.040 else which I watched the other day? Um, log rolling, yeah, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:21.520 lumberjacking sure, uh law and darting no, that's illegal. No 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.680 more it's like cock fighting. Um, so all right, let's 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.679 get into it then, So we're actually gonna teach everybody 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.240 how to juggle, like no kidding, Yeah, and if you're 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.440 really into this, like we're gonna describe a lot of 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.439 things visually, which is always a train wreck for us. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.040 Um So I would recommend you do like I did 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.480 and just get on the old YouTube and look up 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 what cascade juggling looks like. And they're four or five 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.040 guys who have tons and tons of videos. There's there's 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.719 a few. There's one guy that I believe is kind 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:58.040 of the gold standard for YouTube instructional juggling videos. His 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.160 name is Adam Shamsky h O M s k y. 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.960 And like, I'm sure I watched him. That guy pops 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:09.080 it into slow motion for you. There's like, um like graphics. 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.400 When like he throws something straight up, you might not 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:16.199 have caught it. So it says throwing straight up, he's good, okay, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:18.000 and he's just doing it for the love of juggling. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.000 You can tell. I think they all do, I would hope. So. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.280 I don't know if you make a ton of money 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.600 as a juggler these days, although there is I should 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.800 recommend it's gonna wait till the end. There's a great 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.600 article on grant land dot com called Dropped by Jason 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:39.200 uh Fagon, and he details a big, long story on 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.400 Anthony Gatto, who may be the best juggler on the planet. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.320 He juggled for Circus a Oh, he had a bunch 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.600 of the records until recently. Yeah, twelve world records and 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:53.160 he's amazing dude. Um, but he quit last year to 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:58.240 run a concrete resurfacing business after becoming disenchanted with the 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.480 juggling scene. They basically calling out all these kids you 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.320 stay saying like you filmed something a hundred times and 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.480 only nail at once and then you upload it to YouTube. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.040 That's not the same. He basically his quote is if 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:13.800 you can't do a trick and three tries, you can't 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.800 do it. He said, you may have done it, but 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.160 it doesn't mean you can do it. It's essentially what 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.600 you're talking about. This guy's story is the premise for 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:25.040 Office Space. Yeah, basically, but he's amazing. If you watch 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:30.439 Anthony Gotto juggling, like he will break the record for like, uh, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.040 let's say a number of balls in a rain shower 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.360 and um, for the amount of time though he won't 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.160 like do it for ten seconds, he'll do it for 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.200 like ten minutes. And other jugglers are like, this dude 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.520 is insane how long he can keep all these clubs 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.080 and balls and torches or whatever in the air. That's 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.360 really funny that you mentioned him and what happened to him, 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.199 because I noticed his records were like all mid two thousand's, 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.840 the most recent ones were, and I wondered what happened 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.920 to Anthony Gotto? Now I know it's the Finger. It's 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.360 a really good article. Actually it's Nate dropped on grant 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.880 land dot com. Alright, so how do you juggle? So Chuck, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.079 here's how you juggle. Basically, you want to start with 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.920 three balls, and if you have even half of a 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:17.439 brain half, you will make sure that those balls are 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.360 beam bags, because bean bags are dead drops or they 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.680 drop dead, You're not gonna chase them all over the room. No, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.480 when they fall, they just stay put. Yeah. Hacky sacks 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.679 are good too, or you can buy like my brother did, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.280 the Little um which are basically hacky sacks, a little 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:37.080 juggling kit. Yeah, the complete Klutz's Guide to juggling, isn't 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.840 that many. I think it was before the Complete Idiots Guides, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.200 there was something called like something for klutz Is and 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.160 it would teach you like things how to how to 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:49.400 juggle dexterity. Yeah, interesing. Um So, anyway, you start with 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.800 three bean bags, which in the juggling world what these are. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.360 Anything you juggled are called props, and specifically bean bag 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.959 falls under the category of balls. Even though they're not 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.360 necessarily balls, they're still under the prop category balls because 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.160 it's not a chainsaw or a torch exactly club, which 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:10.960 would fall under the category of clubs. Um So for 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.800 most of the time we're gonna say balls. But just 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.319 imagine as you're starting out, we're talking about being bags. Okay, okay, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.120 So you get three of them, chuck, Yes, you take 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.800 two and you put them in a drawer to start. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.200 That's the first step to learning juggling. Take two of 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:30.560 your three balls and put them away. Yeah, and strickling 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.440 and experts say you should literally start with tossing one 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.719 back and forth to get your arc down because the 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.160 key is consistency. You don't want to and you know 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:41.920 once you get good you can do all sorts of things. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.920 But you don't want to toss one being bag up 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.040 four ft and one three ft when you're first starting out. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.280 You want to kind of toss them all about the same. Yeah, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.320 and you need to learn your hand movements, which are 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.240 very important. Once you get hand movements down, you can 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.880 do variations on the hand movements, but ultimately there's a 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.040 basic hand movement that's a scooping motion. And um, the 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.720 easiest one to start with to start practicing is the 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:10.040 cascade pattern. Yeah, there's two main patterns, the shower and 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:13.560 the cascade, which we've joked about so far about ten times. 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.319 The shower is the one that you see on cartoons 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.880 when someone's basically just throwing balls in a big circle 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.080 and a big loop. Beautiful, beautiful, very cool looking. The 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.920 cascade looks kind of like fireworks if you like, squint 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:29.040 your eyes, use your imagination. I never thought about that. Yeah, 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.400 Like as the balls go up and they are out 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.080 there basically arcing outward across your body. Yes, um, and 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.280 it looks just kind of like you know, one of 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.040 those big fireworks where like blows up and then like 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.680 this kind of trails downwards slowly. Yeah, that's ultimately what 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.240 it looks like. To me, Yeah, I get that. Yeah, 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.520 So the cascade, you move your hands in a figure 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:53.160 eight and um. For the regular cascade, your right hand 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:57.960 goes clockwise, your left hand is counter clockwise alternating these tosses. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.000 If you reverse that, it's called a reverse cascade. So 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.800 the key here just remember you're using one ball still, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.840 but you're making a scooping motion in towards your torso 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.240 like in towards yourself, not away from your body, but 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.080 in towards your body, right in front of your chest. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.160 Your your feet are shoulder with apart, because they always 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.080 should be when you do anything, and you're tossing the 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.920 thing up into an arc in about just above eye level, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.680 that's your that's the one that you start with. And 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.760 you usually start with your dominant hand, yeah, because that 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.040 will just probably be easier because you're more used to 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.760 throwing things with that hand. Right. And I didn't see 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.720 it anywhere, but I put two and two together in 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.760 this article, and it looks like, oh, it looks like 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.440 so I could be wrong everybody, but it looks like 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.240 if you are doing a cascade of any kind, reverse cascade, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.600 any anything like that, whatever hand is going clockwise is 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.920 the hand that you throw in the highest arc above 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.520 your eye level. Okay, so you've got your one bag 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.560 and you you make a scooping motion with your right 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:07.200 hand in a counter in a clockwise motion, and you 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.520 toss the ball or yeah, you toss the ball in 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.480 an arc just above eye level, and then it drops 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.240 and you catch it in your left hand, and then 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.800 now in your left hand you toss it again. But 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.120 this one should be slightly under the arc of the 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.840 first one. It's moving in a counter clockwise motion, so 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.960 that eventually, when you add more balls and you have 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.120 them all in the air, they're not just bumping into 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.080 each other at the same place. The one from your 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.960 clockwise motion hand is going higher and the one from 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.240 your counter clockwise motion hand is following just beneath the 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.080 arc of the first ball. That's right, it's inside that 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.000 ball's path. Yes, uh, And you're gonna at first be 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.840 very frustrated because you're gonna want to throw both of 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.680 the balls at the same time when you're just starting 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.520 out with the two, just to get used to the motion, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.200 because it's just that sort of like if you've ever 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.800 played drums, it's hard to make your right arm your 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.080 left arm your right foot your left foot do different things. Yeah, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.000 it's a bit of a brain trick. I think some 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.639 people catch on quicker than others, obviously, But um, you 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.720 want the two tosses to be distinct and separate. And 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:19.359 one way to do this, Strickland says, is to count 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.440 your toss like, toss one, toss two. Ye, toss one, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:26.640 toss two, And then your little brother is gonna say 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.960 what are you doing in there? Shut up nothing, toss 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.720 one right. Um, so we might as well add the 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.400 second ball. Now, are you ready that we've just been 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.920 with one ball? Yeah, because that one toss one is 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.280 with your your clockwise hand. Yeah, toss two is with 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.560 your counterclockwise hand. You catch the second one, your toss 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.240 two with your clockwise hand. Toss one, toss two. You're 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.240 still just with one ball here. Now we're gonna add two. Okay, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.920 So you have one in your left hand, you have one. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.920 You're right or doing a cascade, so with your right 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:12.359 hand you're making a clockwise scooping motion. Yes, right, huh, yeah, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.600 I got it right. I wish people could see this one. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.439 So this is delightful. So, um, we're gonna throw the 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.320 first ball and as it reaches its zenith just above 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.800 our eyes. We're gonna throw the second one just underneath 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.520 the arc of the first one. Yeah, you know it's funny, 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.040 is it? People that were walking by my desk all 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.480 day saw me doing the same thing, because you kind 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:35.159 of do it to yourself to be like, okay, I 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.040 get I get the motion. Yeah, like why is struggling 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.920 saying here? And we were using no bean bags, no, 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.720 just imaginary ones. Exactly. I didn't drop a single one. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.880 I'm a great imaginary juggler. So chuck um with with 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.080 this toss one toss to Ultimately, what you're doing is, 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.600 let's say it takes a second for you to throw 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:00.800 one ball to your other hand. You threw the second 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.080 ball about the halfway mark of that first throw. So 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.640 every half second you're throwing a ball, is that the deal? 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.480 If you're fast, you are Ultimately you're doing that. But 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.480 it doesn't even necessarily have to be a second. Let's 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.960 say it takes us two seconds for it to go 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.240 up and then down. So every second you're throwing, every 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.320 half of whatever beat it takes for the ball to 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.359 be tossed and then come down, you're throwing a ball, 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.360 right okay, okay, which means that when you finally had 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.040 the third ball in there, whoa, you can which, let's 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:37.840 go ahead and do that now. Yeah, you want to 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.480 hold two balls in one hand obviously, and uh they 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.840 suggest to hold the two and the dominant hand, although 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:49.440 if you're having a problem um making that third toss, 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.240 they say, sometimes switch it up and it may help 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.479 to hold the two in the non domination because some 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.639 people just want to hold one and you're really just 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.920 throwing two with another one in your hand, or else 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.399 you're throwing one and then two at once, which you 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.800 don't want to do either. Yeah, you're gonna be frustrated. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.400 It takes a lot of time in practice. Like, don't 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.199 give up like I did when you didn't master it 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.160 in one hour. Right, if you think that you're supposed 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:17.560 to be mastering this as we're speaking, we just covered 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.000 like six months of work. What you can master in 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:24.000 a minute, though, is just clicking on YouTube and watching 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.120 videos of jugglers. Again, I'm almost done, okay, So with 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.800 this cascade, you've got the third ball, and just remember 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:34.760 that every half of a beat that it takes, you're 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.840 throwing a ball. You're constantly throwing a ball. The cool 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.520 thing about the third one is is when you start 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:43.359 with two balls in one hand, you obviously start with 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.000 that hand for tossing. You toss it up in the air. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.560 As that one arcs you toss your left one. Is 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:50.960 that one actually tossed your third one, And about the 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.560 time you're tossing your third one, your first one's landing. 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:58.199 That's right, And you've just done what's called a flash 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.440 of juggling. That's right. And if you have trouble catching 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:05.440 at first, uh, don't worry about it. They recommend just 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.520 work on the tossing. And if you drop the ball, 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:11.159 and it's not a big deal at first. You just 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.720 want to get that hand motion down and uh learn 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.560 basically the motion of the cascade. Uh. And again stand 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:20.320 in front of a wall, because you're gonna find yourself 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:24.240 chasing the bean bag forward because you're tossing it further 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:29.080 away from you. But be careful. Yeah, don't start with chainsaws. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.880 Don't start with chainsaws, which by the way, are modified 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:36.840 their props. They're not using real chainsaws unless you're crazy. Well, 0:21:36.880 --> 0:21:39.879 they probably don't have the thing there like the Haunted 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.320 House chainsaws. All right, Well, after this break we are 0:21:43.359 --> 0:22:06.280 going to get into variations on the casscade. All right, Josh, 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.040 you've got the cascade down, try the reverse cascade, which is, 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:15.280 like I said, just the opposite direction clock I'm sorry, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.480 counterclockwise for your right hand, clockwise for your left. You're 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.439 scooping your hands inward instead of outward. Right. Oh, I'm 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.920 sorry you're scooping outward instead of inward right, which sounds weird. 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:27.919 But if you just do without balls, if you just 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.800 do your hands like that, it makes sense. Yeah. You 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.159 can just kind of do it in your imagination and 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:35.920 then just change directions. Yeah, and you wait a minute. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.359 I've seen guys do that, right. It will feel like natural. Yeah. 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:43.160 The only the only big differences here is with your 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:48.200 the hand that you throw in a higher arc has changed. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.399 So your first throw is going to be at a 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.840 lower arc than the second throw, that's all. And your 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:56.720 hands are moving in different directions. So remember the hand 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:01.240 that's going in counter clockwise motion through in the higher arc. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:06.600 And that's that's called Josh's law. Okay. Um, So while 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.200 you're after you have mastered this, which will take a while. 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.879