We’ve all been to a circus or carnival where they have a person juggling chainsaws, knives or plates. With a few simple to follow steps you too can juggle – although we would suggest staying away from the chainsaws, knives and plates – at least until you get a little practice.

Juggling dates back several centuries and has been featured in circuses and side shows since 1768. Juggling can be accomplished by young and old, and is simply the act of keeping one or more objects in the air. Juggling involves hand/eye coordination, timing and simply following a geometric pattern while the objects are in the air. It sounds complicated, but it’s really not.

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So, how do you get started? The first step is to find something to juggle. Most jugglers learned how to juggle by using lightweight scarves. These items can be found at many locations including magic shops and juggling supply companies. The professional juggling scarves are weighted so that they rise and fall at a consistent pace. Consistency is very important in juggling, especially for beginners. If you can’t locate juggling scarves, then small balls or even crumpled up paper, that are all roughly the same size and weight, will be an adequate substitute. Once you mastered the technique of juggling you can juggle beanbags, pins, rings and other props.

Now that you have the items to juggle you are ready to go. First, give yourself room to move. In theory, you should be staying still while juggling, but the beginner usually ends up moving around quite a bit. So, make sure that you have room to move around without running into anything or anybody.

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To learn how to juggle, you must learn how the object rises and falls, and get used to the timing. To begin with just start with just 1 object. Put the object in either hand and toss it in the air so that it lands in the other hand. Then, toss it back and keep going until you get into a good routine and you get a good sense of how long the object takes to go from one hand to the other. Plus, you will notice that when you toss the object, it is following the same paths.

Now that you can juggle one object, let’s make it twice as difficult, by juggling two objects. Start with two in one hand and while only using just one hand, you will toss one object in the air. When the object reaches the top of its path and starts to fall, toss the other one up. When you catch the first object you threw, toss that one up, and continue to toss, catch and toss the objects. The way it will look is that when 1 object is coming down, the other object is going up. This takes a lot of practice, but it helps with the hand/eye coordination and with the timing.

Now, the big challenge! Let’s try juggling all three objects. Start with two objects in your right hand and one object in the left hand. Starting with the right hand that has two objects, toss one in the air to the left hand. When the first object is starting to fall (just like when we juggled two objects), you toss the object from the left hand to the right hand and catch the initial object. You then toss the second object from the right hand, catch and so on. Look at that – you’re juggling!

Juggling takes lots of practice to perfect and lots of dropped objects. That’s why we suggest staying away from the good China for a while! But, before you know it, you’ll be an expert and will get your juggling diploma. And, with enough practice, maybe you can break the record of juggling ten beanbags. 

Even if you don’t break any world records, juggling is a great stress reliever and with practice, at the very least you can entertain your friends and family. 

Additional juggling resources:

Juggling Tutorial: tutorial on juggling using various patterns.

Learn to Juggle: learn basic juggling skills using balls

Science of Juggling: using basic concepts to understand juggling

How to Juggle: animations showing some basic juggling patterns

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