Juggle some balls for once

Juggling work, two jobs, multiple classes throughout the week must be tough on most people but what if you tossed all that away and decided to juggle something else…such as some balls or clubs or perhaps rings?

I once looked at juggling like anyone else would, a clown that juggles 5-7 balls or clubs in the air with stripped color clothes and white makeup. The kind that works for the circus or at kids birthday parties or even the kind that shows up on national t.v. juggling apples or chainsaws. We have all seen them before, purposely shown the wackiness that jugglers are but there is more than what most people know.

Juggling is an art form that many people deny as for clowns only. The purpose of being able to manipulate multiple objects in the air helps both coordination and concentration. I’m not here to offer you a history lesson, for anyone that wants to know the history of juggling and it’s meaning then please feel free to check out juggling wiki. I just would like to inform the reader about how juggling has turned from clowns to mainstream art form.

You might have seen some jugglers near you, the kind that grabs what they can find whether it’s a cluster or oranges to some bottles and manipulate them in the air, juggling is the art of manipulating more than one object in the air in various movements, whether you toss a ball and catch it behind your back or juggle 5 balls in the air, each motion you create acts as a form of art that is unique to you.  Juggling can be a great workout as well, once you work with more than

Now juggling isn’t just about balls and clubs, it’s more about visual art. Everyone has a different style that suits to them that allows them to be unique. Some juggle to certain styles of music, some desire a challenge and work on “numbers” juggling which means they focus on working on continuously juggling higher and higher numbers of items (balls, clubs, rings, ect..) in the air without dropping. Some would rather just focus on 3 balls or clubs and using a minimal amount to their advantage to do quick spins and movements. You can tell from someones juggling style how their personality is as well.  The more disciplined jugglers usually have a calmer demeanor but have perfect accuracy and flowing movements while erratic jugglers are shown to be more erratic personalities or funnier people.

In general juggling has been shown as a simple act of tossing objects in the air and subjected to being called clowns and joked around but as we continue to push our limits of juggling, people will see that what was once a hobby can in turn change to become an art.

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