Matt has three balls in his hands, and he'll show you how to juggle them with the aid of Tom’s slow motion camera. MATT: / unnamedculprit | TOM: / tomscottgo We juggled in the GoPro Fusion video: • The GoPro Fusion is Br...
I taught myself to juggle a long time ago, but this video made me realize I'm doing the "scoop" thing with my hands and I usually end up walking forward. I'm going to have to go back and work on throwing it out of the side of my hand. Also, one way that I've found can be helpful in explaining the pattern of juggling to people who aren't familiar is that it's the same as a basic three-strand braid.
It took me about 2 weeks to learn to juggle, and another 2 weeks to learn with clubs... I went to a party not too long after where a guy tipsily said "can you teach me how to do it?" and despite saying "sure!" quite enthusiastically I knew deep down there was no chance... So we grab some fruit from the fruit bowl (it was the best we had at the time) and I show him pretty much this, 1 ball, moving to 2 balls, moving to 3 balls. He got the hang of 1 in about 10 seconds... Got the hang of 2 in about another 30... And was juggling 3 balls equally as well as me (if not better) in less than 3 minutes. I guess the moral of this story is this... If everyone has something that they're innately good at, pray yours is more useful than juggling. Edit: Posted this half way through before Tom's almost equally identical story haha :p
soo, I actually find juggling really easy (Matt's right, it's literally just throwing and catching) and I never probably "learned" it. Only thing I'm struggling with is when there are more than three balls which means, I can never be a juggle expert.. I guess I'm an unusefully skilled person, then.
Another tip for juggling: Don't look down at your hands! You don't know where the balls will land if you can't see the top of their arc. Counter intuitively, it's much easier to catch the balls if you look up at the top of their flight even if you can't see your hands at all.
Couldn't have put it better myself. There's also a hint of Python (film-wise) - throw a ball and catch it! He's not a juggler, he's a very naughty boy! ;-D
Sounds like the instructions i read in a book on how to fly. you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss, but you cannot miss deliberately you have to miss accidently.
I have no interest in juggling and still watched them teach it for 12+ minutes. It's like, they can put up a video of shredding the printed comments to the video and people would watch it.
This is my favorite Park Bench video. I HATE THAT IT IS. They've done technology, behind the scenes, filmmaking... THINGS THAT I CARE ABOUT but this one is so funny. Tom's timing for popping in and comments is so funny in more ways that I understand, like it got subconsciously funny. Matt's terminology, the great "Oh, I forgot about hands" with the video almost done I do not care about juggling, and yet, I will be rewatching this.
"I would like to apologize on behalf of... me." Something about the way Tom just nonchalantly strolls through the frame as he says that is so funny to me! 😂
I grew up around clowns. They kept trying to teach me to juggle. I have like 0 depth perception and very little hand-eye coordination, so it very much failed. I've known how to juggle for a decade - in theory. I still can't juggle. If you're looking for a punchline there isn't one. This is a true story.
"What is my face doing there?!" I would speculate that there was a moment as you started where you weren't sure if you could still do it, and the crazy open-mouthed smile is "Oh, Cool, I can still do this!"
The basic juggling pattern is call a cascade. When Matt started throwing one ball over the other two, that goes by a couple names. I know the trick as "tennis". When all three balls go outwards, that's reverse cascade. Or at least it is according to the one person and one book I have seen on the subject. I learned to juggle to help me quit smoking. Fun fact, you can't smoke or think much about smoking when you hands are full of balls... and no, the ball jokes never get old when you juggle.
The video where Matt attempts to be a real sports coach (and mostly does it) and where Tom fills in as an assistant who tries to help but wants to be the head coach.
i learned twirling a pen between my fingers with a sharp as hell pencil and later moved on to a lit cigarette, so i can confirm that the general idea of thsi method works.
Protip: it is all about the throw. Catching should eventually be the easy part because the ball just lands there. Focus your eyes at the top of the pattern, the brain works out the trajectory on its own. Relax, it will be a mindlessly fun trick after an hours work.
I worked at a Sainsbury's in produce and managed to teach myself to juggle with loose apples in the stock chiller, all because I didn't want to do any work that day...
Are there *any* math/science/education RU-vidrs who can't juggle? Serious question. Brady Haran, Mathologer, Matt Parker... everybody juggles (and several have posted juggling-related videos).
James Grime (singingbanana) can juggle while riding a unicycle. Knowing that he did his PhD at the University of York, I wouldn't be too surprised if he was in the Jugglesoc there.
I've just realised a massive mistake I've been making for years thanks to this video! In primary school a friend taught me to juggle, but the way I learned was to throw the balls really (ridiculously) high so you have a lot of time to prepare for the next throw and catch. This resulted in me throwing the balls "forward" from my fingers rather than out the side of my hand as Matt explained. Looks like I have a bit of unlearning to do! Nice video :D
This is almost exactly how I learned. A good technique to help conquer 'going forward disease' is to position yourself in front of a door, like a closed wardrobe. When you're learning the basic cascade, the balls will bounce of the door back into your hands. That way you're not trying to master everything all at once. Doing this, I managed to pick up basic 3 ball cascade in a few hours.
Matt, if mills mess took you forever, I challenge you to try 441. It's simpler than mills mess in the sense that you aren't pretzling and untangling your arms. You will however, tie your brain in knots. Edit: the throwing order for 441 is left-right-pass right-left-pass.
Also when you are learning and throwing a single ball back and forth try to practise it so that it gets to eye level with every throw. Juggling is a lot easier when all the balls go to the same height and not too high or too low.
Guess what new skill I am going to learn during the COVID-19 quarantine! UPDATE 30.05.: I can now juggle for about a minute without dropping anything. I still have a ways to go but i'm getting there.
I "learned" to juggle 3 balls years ago, when I just picked them up and did it (had to practice a lot to get rid of "walking forward" and "rotating", though). But I never saw these these tricks! Time learn something new, thanks!
This makes me so happy. I spent twelve years off and on trying to learn, before I gave up on the standard perfectionism method. I taught myself basically what you two go over here (especially the couch trick!) and just got through with grim determination in the face of never being able to throw quite properly. In the three years since then, I've really not gotten better at throwing as much as I've gotten better at catching. I'm glad that other people are dealing with it in the same way I have been. One thing I would add is that sometimes it's better to jump to something harder to refine the basics, rather than go back to the isolated case. I pushed through to four balls straight away, without learning any other patterns. This is a bad plan, and it resulted in months of frustrating lack of progress until it suddenly fell into place. (I wish I'd thought of "just ignore the last ball") But the process of having to learn to do everything faster resulted in higher accuracy with three balls.
There are a lot of things which you can't do and then something just goes clunk and suddenly you can do it. I'm a violinist, and many string musicians have to take a long time to learn vibrato (a technique where the pitch wiggles, which helps hide the slight inaccuracies that inevitably occur when playing a string instrument). For me, I was playing, and was trying vibrato, which I was incredibly poor at, and then suddenly I did it again and it was good. It wasn't perfect, but from there I managed to develop a really good vibrato, and it just kinda clunked in.
Heard on Chris Moyles BWM had a youtube channel but I didn’t know it was with Tom Scott! Matt also advertised it as a bench sitting and talking channel but 5 seconds in they’re off it! smh 😛
Im currently learning to juggle whilst learning to say the words floccinaucinihilipilification and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. That's how I roll on a Saturday Night :P
Juggling is like riding a bike. It's really easy to explain. "Throw the balls and do not drop them." "Pedal the wheels, use the handlebars to turn." But they're both still difficult because there are actually a lot of complex calculations that your brain has to make. Eventually, though, your brain becomes really good at these calculations and sort of learns the algorithm behind it. That's why you feel that sudden "clunk" of going from not being able to do it to being able to do it. I'm not actually that smart I learned all of this from that one SmarterEveryDay video with the backwards bike.
It sounds like playing a yo-yo. I used to never be able to catch it until it clicked and then I'd nearly always catch it. Never tried juggling for more than a couple of throws, though.
