Learn Juggling from a Record Holder, Tips & Tricks

My name is Taylor Glenn, and I am the Guinness World Records title holder for the most juggling

tricks in a minute with three balls. And today, I'm going to teach you how to juggle

And a few tricks to get you started. You have to start with one. Keep it about where your hips are, and all we're going to do is we're going to throw

it up and catch it in the opposite hand. Now when you do this, you want to make sure that you're not throwing outside

You want to be scooping sort of inside, up and down. Almost like you're making a figure eight. Good

Now you're going to grab another ball, put one in each hand. Remember again, we're on hip height

And we're going to throw one up, and then the other one up. A lot of people when they start this, they want to throw and pass to the other hand

You don't want to do that. That's a whole other trick. It's pretty hard, so we're going to just stick with the basic

Make sure they go the same height. That's also really important. All right, now once you've gotten that down, grab a third ball

This is where the fun begins. So start with two in one hand, one in the other

The hand that has two is the one you're going to start with. We're just going to do that same thing we did

Up, up, catch, catch. But now when that second ball is coming down, throw the third ball

Up, up, up, catch. That is called a three ball flash. That means you've thrown all of the balls up and caught them all

Good job. Now to keep going, all you do is just throw another ball

Juggling is always just right, left, right, left, unless you're doing some advanced trick

So right, left, right, left, right, left. That's it. Now you can juggle

All right, so you've got three balls down, but you want to beat my world record, don't you

So let's learn some tricks. The first trick I'm going to teach you is called a half shower

All you're going to do is start with the three balls that we did before, but this time I

want you to take a ball, throw it on the outside of your pattern. It's just instead of a scoop like we did, it's now more of a rainbow arc

So starting to juggle, outside. Just start with one throw. So in order to do the half shower, all you do is every time you throw with one hand

you're going to do that rainbow arc throw. So every right hand throw will be over the top

This is a half shower. The cool thing about this trick is you can do it on both sides

You want to learn another one? So let's do one that's a little bit harder

This one is called a one up, two up. It looks like this

So in order to do this one, all we're going to do is we're going to start in our juggle again

We're going to throw one ball a little bit higher than usual. Now we have two balls left in our hands

Then we're going to throw those at the same time. So one ball up, two

From there, you just repeat. One, two, one, two, one, two, one, two

That's it. That is the one up, two up. Now there's a slight variation on the one up, two up that you can do that makes it look

way cooler. So this time when you do the one up, two up, instead of throwing both balls, you're going

to hold onto one and just follow the outside ball. It's kind of a cheap illusion, but it's really cool looking

Now from there, we can do something even cooler. We're going to do the two in one hand in columns

Now instead of lifting our ball on the outside, we're going to try to follow one of the balls

on top. This one's called the yo-yo. Start with our two in one hand, and now instead of following that outside ball, try to follow

the inside ball. Good start. Now all we're going to do is move that ball over the top of it

That's it. That's the yo-yo. It's really cool looking. It feels pretty silly, but it's awesome

All right, now you know how to juggle and you know three tricks. So all you need to do is learn 37 more to beat my Guinness World Records title

Hopefully you do