WEBVTT - Juggling: What the Heck 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.799 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:18.040 Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry just 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.479 doing a little tandem juggling with my bra That's what 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.759 we're doing right now. Yeah. Yeah, I wish you guys 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.080 could see this because it was got pretty good right now. 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.319 Look at this half shower, half halfhower. Man, that was 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.120 a good one. Bro Se balls at once. Yeah, Jerry, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.480 come light these torches on fire, like wow, man, half 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.919 shower of rain and fire, this is really dangerous. Can 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.640 you juggle? No? But I want to after this. My 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.320 brother learned, of course. Of course. I'm sure he's born 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.880 knowing how to juggle. He came out of the womb juggling. Now. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.840 He learned back when I like in high school and 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.600 mastered it pretty quickly and now and he can still 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.520 juggle some. I think it's one of those things will 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.200 once you learn sort of the basics, you can always 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.000 do it, because apparently a lot of it comes down 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:09.360 to muscle memory, which is to say motor memory. Yeah, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.760 and in true Chuck fashion, I tried to learn to 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.360 juggle for about an hour and never finished. Did you 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.920 like see any progress over that hour? Yeah? I could. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.600 I could do the little one hand juggling two balls 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.520 with one hand thing, okay, But I did a lot 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.760 of chasing the ball. That's a problem, which apparently, if 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.119 you're a beginning juggler, you're gonna be throwing the ball 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.800 further and further away from you, just naturally chasing the ball, 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.320 and they call it chasing it. So what do they suggest? 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.640 They suggest that you learned to juggle close to and 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.960 facing a wall, because that way you can't move forward, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.639 or you'll just keep hitting your head and you'll scratch 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.200 your face up on the brick and quit juggling. This 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:51.600 is a Jonathan Strickland joint of tech stuff. It's reeks 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.600 of Strickland. It does like even if the byeline hadn't 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.360 been on there, I would have been like, this is Stricklin. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.920 But I remember when this one was made. It was 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.280 right when I got here, and like he there's a 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.120 video embedded of Strickling teaching you how to juggle. It smells, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.959 it reeks of bald head cream and bowling shirts. Yeah, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.520 and it also has an illustration by Marcus who clearly 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.280 always wanted to be a comic book illustrator because the 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.240 guy who's in the graph on how to juggle is 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:25.720 just totally ripped. Yeah, like a comic book here. I remember, Marcus, 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.120 it seems like a million years ago. It was so 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:38.360 juggling history. How long people been juggling? Uh, chuck. People 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:48.240 have been juggling since at least tomb exactly. They found 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:53.560 uh in Egyptian tombs, um hieroglyphics showing women toss juggling. 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.040 And there are many kinds of juggling, by the way, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.360 and we're mainly going to talk about toss juggling, which 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.680 is throwing something up in the air, throwing more things 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.120 up in the air than you have hands. Yes, that's 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.040 toss juggling. And there are, like you said, a bunch 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.320 of other kinds. But if you're a toss juggler, you 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.720 probably don't consider the other kinds real juggling. You're like, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.680 those are cool and everything, but that's not real juggling. Yeah. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.520 I asked my friend, our friend Brandon Ross from the 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.560 Stuff You Should Know Art Department, a juggler, very good juggler, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.120 and Uh I sent a message to him and did 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:27.920 not hear back. In time. I was like it sayesn't 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.120 here that modern jugglers poopoo things like taking a bite 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.359 out of the apple and like some of those old 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.400 school tricks. That is that true or not? And I 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.560 didn't hear back from him, so maybe, well, you know, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.720 it was on Facebook, okay, so he'll get to it 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.920 when he gets to it. So anyway, we're in ancient 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:49.480 Egypt to be exact. That's right. There were jugglers in 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.240 Greece and Rome and India and Thebes and Thebes in Europe, 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.560 and uh, I think four BC was when it was 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.480 actually written down that people were juggling. Yeah, supposedly in 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.960 the Talmud, a rabbi named Shimon ben Gone Maliel. Yeah, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.280 I think I probably nailed that. Probably he could juggle 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.720 eight torches at once. That's hard to believe because world 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:20.159 records today are like seven I think for clubs, is 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.159 it seven? I think so, yeah. But I mean, if 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.200 if this rabbi was juggling eight torches, that sounds like 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.239 it maybe pumped up a little bit throughout the years, 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.760 you know, like it was two and then it was like, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.440 oh it was eight. Although this was the time of miracles, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.760 you know, like enough oil to keep it going for 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.719 eight days a siege. Why not a rabbi who could 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.560 juggle eight torches. It seems kind of paltry by comparison. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:52.560 Good point um. Through the Roman era, apparently that jugglers 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.280 were actually held in high esteem, but then they kind 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:59.000 of went down into pooper a little bit hilarious because 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:03.839 people associated with them like like magicians, as con artists. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.080 So I don't know if it was like, hey, look 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.200 at what this guy's doing while someone else is picking 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.560 their pocket, but that's kind of what it seems like 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.560 it might have been going on. Yeah, apparently you were 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.160 a con artist. Like you said, everybody knows that you 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.880 can't trust a juggler a juggalo, well at the right 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.119 at the at the at the time, that's how people 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.320 thought of jugglers. This seems to be during like the 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.800 Holy Roman Empire in the West, right then the medieval 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.120 era hits and suddenly jugglers start to become a little 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.480 a little less threatening and actually a little more clown like. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.760 Like Initially they seem to have been not revered necessarily, 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.440 but I thought of in fairly high esteem. Then they 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.480 went the opposite direction, and then they came back as clowns. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.640 I wonder how many like um behind closed doors, how 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.280 many like emperors and kings tried it out after seeing 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.400 it in the door, or just like morons with it, yeah, 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.000 and then had someone's head chopped off out of frustration. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.400 They took the chuck route. Although I didn't behead anybody, 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.320 but during the medieval era you could. If you found 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.920 a juggler, you probably also found something of a minstrel 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:15.279 or performer and all around entertainer who probably traveled from 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.160 town to town, maybe asking people to bring out there 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:22.640 dead for some side work perhaps, and then juggling corpses, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.640 that's right, which must have been a sight to see. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.560 And then in the seventeen hundreds they became more of 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.040 a circus act. And in the late eighteen hundreds of 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.520 nineteen hundreds, Vaudeville came along. Of course, any sort of 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.760 skill like that was big in vaudeville. And I did 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.040 not know this, but W. C. Fields was a juggler 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.600 in the vaudevillion days. I didn't know that. Before he 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.040 became just a drunk actor. And he's not the one 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.479 who raped anybody, right, who was it? I think that 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:55.240 was Fatty R. Fatty R Buckle. That's who it was. Yeah, 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.840 same ara, same guys. I looked it up and I 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:03.080 ran across um the Hollywood Hell Club. So apparently before 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.040 the brat Pack, before the rat pack, there was a 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:11.520 group of like early early Hollywood guys, Harold Flynn who 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.480 was a rapist. W. C. Fields, John Barrymore that just 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.720 raised hell in um, Hollywood in like the twenties. Errol 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.200 Flynn was a rapist, really accused rapist. I didn't know that. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.120 So then Vaudeville declines, Uh, circuses sort of decline a 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.760 little bit for a while, and then jugglers started hitting 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:36.920 the streets or as Jonathan Strickland said, or become mathematicians. Yep, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.080 we'll get to the math connection, which is LEGiT's foreshadowing, 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.800 but I don't know that. Like they formed their own 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.160 stage shows, performed on street corners, or became mathematicians. Those 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.200 were the three options if you were a juggler. Uh. 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.280 And then, of course, um in the nineteen forties, I 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.200 say of course because it's common knowledge that these are 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.880 when the juggling groups and conventions were formed. In Hell 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.680 the International Brotherhood of Magicians Uh decided you know, at 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.760 a meeting, Hey, guys like the jugglers got together and 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.760 had a few drinks and said, I don't like being 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.800 known as a magician. Yeah, you know, that's how the 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:17.560 jugglers tell it. The magicians were like, get the jugglers. Yeah, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.680 and then they went threw down their smoke bomb when 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.360 they were gone. So they formed and splintered off and 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.240 formed the International Juggling Association. Uh. And in nineteen sixty 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.400 nine they started holding championships and competitions Summer of Juggling. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.000 And in two thousand Jason Garfield, a very famous juggler, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.160 formed the World Juggling Federation and said, ESPN, you need 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.839 to put this stuff on TV. So once a year 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.160 they put it on TV progress along with the spelling 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:51.160 be and the dart competition. What else which I watched 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:58.040 the other day? Um, log rolling, yeah, lumberjacking sure, uh 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.040 law and darting no that's illegal. No more, it's like 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:06.080 cock fighting. Um so all right, let's get into it then. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.600 So we're actually gonna teach everybody how to juggle, like 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.680 no kidding, yeah, and if you're really into this, like, 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.760 we're gonna describe a lot of things visually, which is 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.560 always a train wreck for us. Um So, I would 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.440 recommend you do like I did and just get on 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.640 the old YouTube and look up what Cascade juggling looks like. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.160 And they're four or five guys who have tons and 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.760 tons of videos. There's there's a few. There's one guy 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.520 that I believe is kind of the gold standard for 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:39.679 YouTube instructional juggling videos. His name is Adam Schomsky s 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.319 H O M. S K Y. And like, I'm sure 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.720 I watched him. That guy pops it into slow motion 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:49.600 for you. There's like um like graphics when like he 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.560 throws something straight up, you might not have caught it. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.320 So it says throwing straight up, he's good and he's 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.200 just doing it for the love of juggling. You can tell. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.760 I think they all do, I would hope. So I 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.080 don't know if you make a ton of money it's 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.800 a juggler these days, although there is, I should recommend 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.960 it's gonna wait till the end. There's a great article 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.240 on grant land dot com called Dropped by Jason uh 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:19.720 fagone and he details a big, long story on Anthony Gatto, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.480 who may be the best juggler on the planet. He 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.120 juggled for Circus a Oh, he had a bunch of 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.520 the records until recently, Yeah, twelve world records. And he's 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:33.640 amazing dude. Um, but he quit last year to run 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.880 a concrete resurfacing business after becoming disenchanted with the juggling scene, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.319 basically calling out all these kids. He stays saying, like, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.320 you film something a hundred times and only nail at 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.000 once and then you upload it to YouTube. That's not 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.080 the same. He basically his quote is if you can't 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:53.800 do a trick in three tries, you can't do it. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:55.880 He said, you may have done it, but it doesn't 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.640 mean you can do it. It's essentially what you're talking about. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.920 This guy story is the prime US for office space. Yeah, basically, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.240 but he's amazing. If you watch Anthony Gotto juggling, like 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.720 he will break the record for like, uh, let's say 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:15.120 a number of balls in a rain shower and um, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.520 for the amount of time though he won't like do 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.880 it for ten seconds, We'll do it for like ten minutes. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.719 And other jugglers are like, this dude is insane. How 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.680 long he can keep all these clubs and balls and 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.440 torches or whatever in the air. That's really funny that 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.480 you mentioned him, and what happened to him because I 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:34.240 noticed his records were like all mid two thousand's, the 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.600 most recent ones were, and I wondered what happened to 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.600 Anthony Gotto? Now I know you give the finger. It's 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.040 a really good article. Actually it's nick dropped on grant 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.559 land dot com. Alright, so how do you juggle? So, Chuck, 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.760 here's how you juggle. Basically, you want to start with 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.559 three balls, and if you have even half of a 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.120 brain half, you will make sure that those balls are 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:01.040 beam bags because bean bags are dead drops or they 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.360 dropped dead. You're not gonna chase them all over the room. No, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.280 when they fall, they just stay put. Hacky sacks are 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.360 good too, or you can buy, like my brother did, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.000 the Little um which are basically hacky sacks, a little 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:16.920 juggling kit. Yeah, the Complete Klutz's Guide to juggling, isn't that? 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.679 I think it was Before the Complete Idiots Guides, there 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.240 was something called like something for Klutzes and it would 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:27.960 teach you, like things how to how to juggle in um. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.720 So anyway, you start with three bean bags, which in 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.800 the juggling world what these are. Anything you juggled are 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.920 called props and specifically, bean bag falls under the category 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.080 of balls. Even though they're not necessarily balls, they're still 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.920 under the prop category balls because it's not a chainsaw 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.760 or a torch exactly, club, which would fall under the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.200 category of clubs. Um So for most of the time 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.080 we're gonna say balls. But just imagine as you're starting out, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.760 we're talking about bean bags. Okay, so you get three 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.559 of them, chuck, Yes, you take two and you put 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.880 them in a drawer to start. There's the first step 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.800 to learning juggling. Take two of your three balls and 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:11.640 put them away. Yeah, And strickling and experts say you 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.400 should literally start with tossing one back and forth to 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.520 get your arc down because the key is consistency. You 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.480 don't want to and you know, once you get good 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.480 you can do all sorts of things, but you don't 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.280 want to toss one being back up four ft and 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.959 one three ft when you're first starting out. You want 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:30.960 to kind of toss them all about the same. Yeah, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.040 And you need to learn your hand movements, which are 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.920 very important. Once you get hand movements down, you can 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.640 do variations on the hand movements, but ultimately there's a 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.720 basic hand movement that's a scooping motion. And um, the 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.400 easiest one to start with to start practicing is the 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.760 cascade pattern. Yeah, there's two main patterns, the shower and 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:53.280 the cascade, which we've joked about so far about ten times. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.960 The shower is the one that you see on cartoons 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.560 when someone's basically just throwing balls in a big circle 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.760 and a big loop. Beautiful, beautiful, very cool looking. The 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.600 cascade looks kind of like fireworks if you like squint 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.720 your eyes and use your imagination. I never thought about that. Yeah, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.080 Like as the balls go up and they are out, 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.040 they're basically arcing outward across your body. Um, and it 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.200 looks just kind of like you know, one of those 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.840 big fireworks where like blows up and then like this 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.840 kind of trails downwards slowly. That's ultimately what it looks 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.000 like to me. Yeah, I get that. Yeah. So the cascade, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.080 you move your hands in a figure eight and um, 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.880 for the regular cascade, your right hand goes clockwise, your 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:38.560 left hand is counter clockwise alternating these tosses. If you 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.080 reverse that, it's called a reverse cascade. So the key 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.440 here just remember you're using one ball still, but you're 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.960 making a scooping motion. In towards your torso like in 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.560 towards yourself, not away from your body, but in towards 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.040 your body, right in front of your chest. Your your 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.160 feet are shoulder with a part because they always b 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.280 when you do anything. And you're tossing the thing up 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:08.400 into an arc in about just above eye level, that's 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.440 your that's the one that you start with. And you 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.640 usually start with your dominant hand, yeah, because that will 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.040 just probably be easier because you're more used to throwing 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.960 things with that hand. And I didn't see it anywhere, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.040 but I put two and two together in this article, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.920 and it looks like. It looks like so it could 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.560 be wrong everybody, but it looks like if you are 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.480 doing a cascade of any kind, reverse cascade, any anything 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.760 like that, whatever hand is going clockwise is the hand 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:38.400 that you throw in the highest arc above your eye level. Okay, 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.440 so you've got your one bag and you you make 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:44.360 a scooping motion with your right hand in a counter 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.360 in a clockwise motion, and you toss the ball or yeah, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.000 you toss the ball in an arc just above eye level, 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.080 and then it drops and you catch it in your 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.080 left hand. And then now in your left hand, you 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.680 toss it again, but this one should be slightly under 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.520 the arc of the first one. Yeah, it's moving into 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.960 counter clockwise motion, so that eventually, when you add more 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:08.840 balls and you have them all in the air, they're 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.000 not just bumping into each other at the same place. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.480 The one from your clockwise motion hand is going higher 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.760 and the one from your counter clockwise motion hand is 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:23.640 following just beneath the arc of the first ball. That's right, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.520 it's inside that ball's path. Yes. Uh, And you're gonna 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.480 at first be very frustrated because you're gonna want to 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.560 throw both of the balls at the same time when 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.480 you're just starting out with the two, just to get 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:39.160 used to the motion, because it's just that it's sort 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.480 of like if you've never played drums, it's hard to 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.400 make your right arm, your left arm, your right foot 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.160 your left foot do different things. Yeah, it's a bit 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.360 of a brain trick. I think some people catch on 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:54.040 quicker than others, obviously, But um, you want the two 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.960 tosses to be distinct and separate. And one way to 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.440 do this, Strickland says, is to count your tall like 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.280 toss one, toss two, toss one, toss two, and then 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.880 your little brother is gonna say, what are you doing 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:13.680 in there? Shut up? Nothing? Toss one right, Um, so 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.480 we might as well add the second ball. Now, are 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.800 you ready? We've just been with one ball because that one. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:24.639 Toss one is with your your clockwise hand. Toss two 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.720 is with your counterclockwise hand. You catch the second one, 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.640 your toss two with your clockwise hand. Toss one, toss two. 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.800 You're still just with one ball. Here. Now we're gonna 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.120 add too, So you have one in your left hand. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.920 You have when you're right we're doing a cascade, so 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:48.160 with your right hand you're making a clockwise scooping motion. Yes, right, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:54.720 uh yeah, I got it right. I wish people could 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.480 see this one. So this is delightful. So, um, we're 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.920 gonna throw the first ball, and as it reaches a 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.280 zenith just above our eyes, we're gonna throw the second 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.440 one just underneath the arc of the first one. Yeah. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.040 You know it's funny, is it. People that were walking 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.120 by my desk all day saw me doing the same thing, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.760 because you kind of do it to yourself to be like, okay, 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.199 I get I get the motion. Yeah, Like what is 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.600 struggling saying here? And we were using no bean bags, No, 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.400 just imaginary ones. Exactly. I didn't drop a single one. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.560 I'm a great imaginary chuggler. So chuck um with with 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.800 this toss one toss to Ultimately, what you're doing is, 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.280 let's say it takes a second for you to throw 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:40.479 one ball to your other hand. You throw the second 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.760 ball about the halfway mark of that first throw. So 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:48.320 every half second you're throwing a ball, is that the deal? 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.199 If you're fast, you are. Ultimately you're doing that. But 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.160 it doesn't even necessarily have to be a second. Let's 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:58.080 say it takes two seconds for it to go up 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.359 and then down. So every second you're throwing, every half 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:05.199 of whatever beat it takes for the ball to be 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:10.080 tossed and then come down, you're throwing a ball, right, okay, okay, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 Which means that when you finally had the third ball 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.159 in there, whoa, you can which let's go ahead and 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.399 do that now. Yeah, you want to hold two balls 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.200 in one hand, obviously, and uh they suggest to hold 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.280 the two and the dominant hand, although if you're having 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.800 a problem um making that third toss, they say, sometimes 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:31.960 switch it up and it may help to hold the 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.920 two in the non domination because some people just want 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.440 to hold one and you're really just throwing two with 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.080 another one in your hand, or else you're throwing one 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.560 and then two at once, which you don't want to 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.960 do either. Yeah, you're gonna be frustrated. It takes a 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.600 lot of time in practice. Like, don't give up like 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.160 I did when you didn't master it in one hour. Right, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.600 if you think that you're supposed to be mastering this 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:58.840 as we're speaking now, just covered like six months of work. 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.479 Now what you dmaster in a minute, though, is just 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.600 clicking on YouTube and watching videos of jugglers. Again, I'm 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.800 almost done. Yeah, okay, So with this cascade, you've got 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:12.560 the third ball, and just remember that every half of 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.680 a beat that it takes, you're throwing a ball. You're 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.359 constantly throwing a ball. The cool thing about the third 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.359 one is when you start with two balls in one hand, 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:25.000 you obviously start with that hand for tossing. You toss 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:27.080 it up in the air. As that one arcs, you 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.360 toss your left one, is that one actually toss your 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:32.760 third one, And about the time you're tossing your third one, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:37.040 your first one's landing. That's right, and you've just done 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.520 what's called a flash of juggling. That's right. And if 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:43.800 you have trouble catching at first, uh, don't worry about it. 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.240 They recommend just work on the tossing. And if you 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.399 drop the ball, and it's not a big deal at first. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.840 You just want to get that hand motioned down and uh, 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:58.000 learn basically the motion of the cascade. Uh. And again, 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.680 stand in front of a wall because you're gonna find 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.679 yourself chasing the bean bag forward because you're tossing it 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.760 further away from you. But be careful. Let's start with chainsaws. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.560 Let's start with chainsaws, which, by the way, are modified 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:16.520 their props. They're not using real chainsaws unless you're crazy. Well, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.560 they probably don't have the thing there like the Haunted 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.000 House chainsaws. All right, well, after this break, we are 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:42.920 going to get into variations on the cat scade. All right, Josh, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:48.679 you've got the cascade down, try the reverse cascade, which is, 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.960 like I said, just the opposite direction clock I'm sorry, 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.160 counterclockwise for your right hand, clockwise for your left. You're 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:59.560 scooping your hands inward instead of outward. I'm sorry you're 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.680 scooping oward instead of inward, right, which sounds weird, but 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:04.720 if you just do without balls, if you just do 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:07.680 your hands like that, it makes sense. Yeah, you can 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.160 just kind of do it in your imagination and then 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.760 just change directions. Yeah, and you wait a minute, I've 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:16.040 seen guys do that, right, It will feel like natural. Yeah. 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.480 The the only the only big differences here is with 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:23.880 your the hand that you throw in a higher arc 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:26.840 has changed, so your first throw is going to be 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.520 at a lower arc than the second throws. And your 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.400 hands are moving in different directions. So remember the hand 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:37.920 that's going in counter clockwise motion throws in the higher arc. 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:43.280 And that's that's called Josh's law. Okay. Um, So while 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.880 you're after you've mastered this, which will take a while, 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.560 as we've said a hundred fifty times, um, you can 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.080 start doing little tricks uh thrown in there because just 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:54.560 a regular juggler is gonna get very far in life. 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.879 Where you really make your dough is when you start 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:01.359 throwing in things like the half shower or the tennis move, 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:04.399 which is uh. And you know, if you look all 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.840