How did you learn to juggle?

Self-taught. Just keep practicing, that’s all I did.

Also, I recommend tennis balls. They’re not too heavy, not too light.

I honestly just watched a video of a guy juggling, and tried to emulate with a couple of vending machine superballs. Took a while, and I knocked some stuff over, but it made me the juggler I am today.

Not a very good one

I haven’t learned yet, but I plan on doing it the same way some people teach infants to swim. Basically, I’ll have someone throw flaming torches and running chainsaws at me. I will be forced to juggle to survive.

Juggling for the Complete Klutz

out of boredom as kids, with my twin brother. we used fruit. you start with two, get good at getting those going,then add the third. It’s really about practice

I took a course in college called Circus Techniques.

Juggling is not as hard as it looks. I found it was easiest to learn with bean-bags because they don’t bounce or roll away when you drop them. Also, start standing over a couch or bed, so you don’t have to bend down so much.
Start with one ball, tossing from one hand to the other with the ball peaking just above eye level.

When you can do this easily every time, try two balls, one in each hand. Toss with your strong hand first (right if you are right-handed, etc.), and when the ball hits it’s peak and starts down, toss with the other hand. The second ball should go up inside the arch of the first ball as it (the first ball) comes down. The rhythm will be toss-toss, catch-catch.

When you are solid with that, try it starting with your off-hand.

When you are solid with both hands starting, it is time to try three balls. Start with two balls in your strong hand and remember to toss the third ball. Once you get going your hands will make small circles, tossing on the inside and catching on the outside.

Stay loose and don’t try to grab the balls. Just cup your hand and let the ball fall into it. It might help also, to keep your eyes focused at the peak, and not follow the balls down. After that, practice makes perfect.

That is how I learned

@stump‘s directions are dead on and if you follow them you don’t really need a class or a book. Just make sure you get each step down before moving to the next. The transition to three balls will take a lot of practice and involve a lot of dropping, but once you get that you can start doing tricks and such too. If you want to, for example, toss a boll under your leg, just make sure the ball before that one gets tossed pretty high, that way you have a little more time for the trick.

I took a class in college called “the Theories and Techniques of Coaching.” Our final exam was to juggle three tennis balls for 10 seconds. The thought behind it was that if we could teach ourselves how to do something like juggle, we could teach anyone to do anything. We just practiced all semester long.

One tip that helped me was to face a wall and stand about 1.5 to 2 feet away. That will keep the balls close enough to you, in a vertical path. (otherwise, I’d be running all over the room chasing flying balls… that got old fast…) Also, what @stump said, don’t look down at your hands, try to keep your focus on the spot in front of your eyes where the ball changes directions.

I never learned to juggle. This is a problem that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

and I don’t intend to do anything about it.

Old man in village show me when he throw chicken, goat and cat out of house. I have to catch all and not let drop.

I had three bills to pay and only enough money to pay one in full so I paid a little on each. I had to get my children ready for school, get myself ready for work and get dinner started before I left in the mornings. You live that kind of life you learn to juggle by osmosis. Soon I was very gifted at juggling.