Juggling

“Sometimes I stopped for a while. But since I didn’t have anything better to do, I gave it another try. This continued for a couple of hours. I could still not juggle, but at some point I noticed some improvement, I sucked a little bit less! And then another thought popped into my head, “I still can’t do it, but maaaaaybe I could learn this” A couple of hours later and I managed 11 throws. That was so much fun! I was certain that I wouldn’t be able to learn this, but then… I actually did! It felt like magic to me.”

“I started juggling again about a year and a half ago after a 15 year hiatus. I went to the local flow group (that has a good overlap with the local juggling community). My first time back, I felt like I couldn't catch anything... but I kept going back, and after my second or third time back at the meeting, things started clicking again. The funny thing was that a bit later, at work, I knocked something off a table, and caught it before it dropped. Total autopilot.”

“Within the first week or two of college I saw my first 5 ball juggler practicing under the clock tower on the quad (besides my dad at a very young age). I was amazed. I was the best juggler I knew of at the time, but this guy was on a whole other level. I went up to speak with him and he directed me the Humboldt Circus that met twice weekly on campus and was an official HSU affiliated club with all the benefits of being such. We had free space to practice and and a HUGE closet full of props of all kinds. Balls, rings, clubs, diabolos, devil sticks, cigar boxes, whips, poi, staffs, unicycles, rola bolas, a walking globe, stilts, crash pads, clown noses, costumes, contact balls, everything made possible by creating a weekend run of a show every semester and charging a super affordable entrance fee to the students. I took to it all like a fish to water, especially the juggling. Club juggling was especially popular and I was soaking everything people threw at me, literally.”