Your Own Juggling Balls
Build Balloon Balls
-Juggling Basics (Animations)
-Juggling Basics (Videos)
- Build Balloon Balls
Your Own Juggling Balls - Intro Step 1
Make Great Throws - Intro Step 2
Throw Catch - Intro Step 3
Learn to use Both Hands - Intro Step 4
Add a third Ball - Intro Step 5
Improve Your Technique
Ball Tricks
- 1) Outside Throws
Your First Trick - Columns
- Columns - Cheating
A fun variation on Columns - Jugglers Tennis
- Mills Mess
Crossed Arm Maddness - Passing
Juggle with a friend - Showers and Half Showers
- The Box
A more challenging variation on Columns - The Reverse Cascade
- Three Ball Flash
- Two Balls in one Hand
Bounce Juggling
- 1) Toss Bounce intro
Learn to Juggle off the ground - 2) Forced Bounce
Bounce Juggle Faster - 3) Five Ball Bounce Juggling
Diabolo
- 1) Diabolo First Step
Learn to Spin the diabolo - 2) Tilt Correction
Keep your Diabolo level - 3) Diabolo Throws
Throw and catch the Diabolo - Bottom of the String
Your string has a top & a bottom! - Cats's Cradle
String Figures - Diabolo Around The Arm
Orbit your arm - Half Way Around
- Stick Grinds
Catch it on the hand stick - Suicide
Throw the Handstick - The Elevator
Climb the string - The UFO
The Diabolo floats above the sticks. - Whipping
Super Spin Accelleration
Four Balls
Top Tips...
- Use Sharp Scissors or the balloons may tear
- Use 9" or 12" Balloons
- Keep lots of extra Balloons on hand
- Add another balloon at anytime to repair little holes, or change the color
- When learning some tricks it's helpful to change the colors of the balls, to make it easier to keep track of which ball is going where.
Make Your Own Juggling Balls
Juggling balls are fairly inexpensive, and are available at a wide variety of retail stores, and online dealers. However, if you just can't wait for a delivery, You can make a set of decent beginner balls from basic supplies.To make your own Set of juggling balls, you will need the following...
- A dozen or so 12" Round Balloons (Helium grade are best)
- Birdseed, Rice , or other similar material to fill the beanbags
- Scissors
- An Empty Bottle
- A Funnel
Step One
Each Ball is made from three balloons. Two of these should have the balloon's filler neck cut off. Leave the third balloon intact, for the time being.Step Two
Use a funnel to pour 4 or 5 ounces (1/2 of a cup) of birdseed into the empty bottle. Then partially inflate the intact balloon. While pinching the balloon's neck to prevent any air from escaping, carefully stretch the balloons opening over the bottle. No air should escape when you let go -If it does, go back and try again. Now tip the balloon/ bottle combination upright, so the birdseed drains from the balloon, into the bottle.Step Three
Remove the balloon that's full of birdseed from the bottle, and slowly let the air out. You can now cut the filler neck off this balloon and set it with the opening facing up on a solid work surface..Step Four
Take one of the extra balloons without a neck, and slip a finger from each hand through the opening. Gently stretch the opening, till you can fit several fingers from each hand into the balloon. Stretch the opening till it's larger than the filled balloon, then bring the stretched out opening down over top of the seed-filled balloon. When you let go, the second balloon should completely enclose the filled balloon.Step Five
Repeat Step four to add a third Balloon. Make sure the exposed opening on each layer faces in a different direction, so seeds won't escape.Make two more balls this way, and your ready to juggle.
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