Someone in the audience said “I noticed you are looking up when you are juggling, where are you looking?”

Luckily for me, she also recorded this so I get to share it with you all!

Watch the video below for the answer to this question:

If you’d like to learn to juggle, click here.

UPDATE: Price is back to it’s regular price of $19

International Juggler’s Day

This holiday is a special day to celebrate the skill of juggling, and those talented people who can juggle many balls and objects at a time. Common objects that you will find flying through the air above a jugglers head include but not limited to: balls, clubs, swords, plates, rings, flaming sticks, quarters, shovels, apples and everything else you can imagine.

Juggling is a skill and form of entertainment that has been around for thousands and thousands of years. Some of the earliest recorded history supplies proof that juggling was around during the early days of civilized Man. You can learn more about the history of juggling in Chapter 1 of Juggling Secrets: Learn How to Juggle Today.

April 18 is International Juggler’s Day

 How to Celebrate Juggler’s Day

Celebrate Juggling Day by watching a juggler at work. Better still, get several balls and give juggling a try. If you can’t juggle yet, you can learn today for less than $10 by clicking the “Buy Now” button below.

Celebrate With Luke Burrage this way…

One Milestone accomplished!

This was a huge milestone for the Juggling Secrets brand. I’ve been working to make my products the best in the market when it comes to teaching people about juggling and the benefits of juggling.

I’m so happy to get a lot of positive feedback on this book because it has taken a lot of time and research to put the book together and a lot of work to get it to that number 1 spot!

What Do People Think Of The New Book?

I’m so pumped to see these results coming in and am still looking to share this book with more people.

So far 19 people have left me 5 star reviews and over 45 people have “Liked” the book on Amazon’s page. That’s almost unreal to me that it’s spread this quickly! Thank you to everyone who has bought the book and has learned from it. I appreciate you all so much!

If you’ve always been on the fence about learning to juggle, this book will push you over the fence and teach you why it’s beneficial for you to learn how to juggle today.

If you’ve ever struggled with poor hand eye coordination it is most likely because you haven’t trained your body to be good at it. Just like anything in life, you need to dedicate some time to the proper practice of improving a specific task to see it improve.

Do you think professional golfers get better at golf without practice?

Improving your hand eye coordination is all about doing exercises to improve it. It doesn’t just miraculously happen over-night, it is a process that you go through and I’m here to give you some exercises to help you shorten the time it takes to see an improvement.

• Play with a Reaction Ball

• Marsden Ball Exercise

What is the Marsden Ball Exercise?

Basically you hang a painted ball from the ceiling and have your subject try to hit the colored dots on the ball with the matching colored stripes on a rolling pin.

Read more: http://www.visionhelp.com/vh_sports.html#ixzz1qWreapzr

• Learn to Juggle

Learning how to juggle is one of the easiest ways you can improve your hand eye coordination and one of the simplest exercises you can do today. You can learn to juggle in my book for a limited time at only $0.99 by picking up the Juggling Secrets: Learn How to Juggle Today book.

Or if you are more of a visual learner you can pick up the Juggling Secrets video course that will teach you all you need to know about learning to juggle.

Learning to juggle will help you in a lot of different ways because it has many more benefits than just improving hand eye coordination.

• Eat Food Items Rich in Zinc

This is because researches have shown that around 20 mg of zinc in a day can improve hand-eye coordination. Oysters, pumpkin seeds, whole grains, sunflower seeds, animal proteins, beans, nuts and almonds are rich in zinc, while legumes, whole grain breads and cereals block its absorption.

Jugglin Jim is in his own words “Ordained with hips like Shakira, I am a performer for all ages and all over the world. My dance moves are second to none and cheezier than the entirety of Wisconsin. My chin is my strength, it holds up to 120 lbs balanced. I do requests so challenge me!”

He can balance a ton of cool stuff on his chin like this refrigerator below:

I don’t know how to balance anything on my chin so I’ve gotta give him mad props.

He’s going to be breaking 3 world records this year as well and you can find out about them here >

THE WORLD RECORD CHALLENGE

It’s going to help them improve their concentration, learn how to stay on task and help them find a better balance in their life.

When I was 8 years old I learned how to juggle and it has had a major positive influence on my life. It has helped me in numerous ways and I want to share some of these with you.

9 Reasons Your Child Should Learn to Juggle

• One of the first ways that juggling has helped me is that it helped me improve my hand-eye coordination to the point where I became a more aware point guard on my basketball team. It helped me to see the court better and made it a lot easier for me to dribble my way out of difficult situations on the basketball court.
• Juggling allowed me to learn how to balance my studies with playing sports and helped me understand the importance of time management and getting things done on time. If your son or daughter plays any sports in high school, they are going to need to learn how to balance their time and teaching them to juggle is one of the simplest way to help them understand how to juggle different agreements. 
• Juggling is a huge stress reliever. While going through college and all the essays that college required, a lot of my friends were going through a lot of stress. I had to do projects just like all the rest of my friends, but because I understood how juggling helped reduce stress I would take breaks during my studying and juggle. This allowed me to relax during the stress-filled times and helped me do better on these projects than I normally would have.
• Kinesthetic learners often have a hard time with learning. By teaching kinesthetic learners how to juggle, they are given an opportunity to excel and to prove to themselves that they can be the best in the classroom at something.
• Juggling is full of sequences. You need to understand where the throws need to go and when to make the throw  in order to make the juggling patterns work. Both math and science are full of sequences and juggling will help you to understand sequences better and you’ll improve at both math and science.
• It’s important for your children to be active everyday and juggling is one of the easiest ways to be active without actually realizing you are being active. By standing up and moving around while juggling, you are being active and thus burning calories. As a parent, you want your children to get tired out sometimes so they can fall asleep earlier. Juggling could become one of the daily activities that your child does that gets them active for 30-60 minutes a day.
• One of the simplest ways for a person to truly understand something is to teach it. If you teach your children how to juggle and they end up teaching others, it will reinforce what they know and will help them learn proper ways to teach. Teaching someone something is one of my all-time favorite things to do and I love seeing people learn new things.
• It’s important to do activities with both of your hands. By becoming ambidextrous, you will become more creative and strengthen the connection between your left and right brain. 
• Patience and persistence are 2 of the most important things that a person can learn. This is especially true for children. It’s important for us to learn that patience is a virtue and to realize that persistence always pays off. If you work hard with learning to juggle and learning juggling tricks, you will learn and master these tricks. When you are persistent with your work, you will accomplish it and this is important for anyone to learn.

If you want some free lessons on how to juggle, click here.

The hard part is that he has synced his juggling routine up with the music. This takes a lot of time to learn how to do and a lot of practice. If you’d like to learn to do a performance like this, you will first need to learn how to juggle and then learn juggling tricks.

If you’d like to learn how to juggle 3 balls I give away a free video that teaches you how to juggle 3 balls here.

I just finished reading the article, Juggling Enhances Connections in The Brain. The article shares something that hasn’t been spoken about too much in the US. It shares research from the University of Oxford about how learning to juggle leads to changes in the white matter of the brain.

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The research was funded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council and was published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It states that improved connectivity in parts of the brain involved making movements that are necessary to catching balls while juggling.

Dr Heidi Johansen-Berg of the Department of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford is the leader of this study and stated “In fact we find the structure of the brain is ripe for change. We’ve shown that is possible for the brain to condition its own wiring system to operate more efficiently.”

The researchers at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) wanted to see if changes in the white matter of the brain could be seen within a health adults brain while they were learning a new task or skill.

What is White Matter in the Brain?

White matter is a bundle of long nerve fibres that move electrical signals between your nerve cells and these nerve fibres connect different parts of your brain. Grey matter consists of the nerve cell bodies where the processing and computation in your brain is done. When you experience new things, there has been a change in the grey matter in your brain.

The excerpt below was taken directly from the article:

‘We have demonstrated that there are changes in the white matter of the brain – the bundles of nerve fibres that connect different parts of the brain – as a result of learning an entirely new skill,’ explains Dr Johansen-Berg.

A group of young healthy adults, none of whom could juggle, was divided into two groups each of 24 people. One of the groups was given weekly training sessions in juggling for six weeks and asked to practice 30 minutes every day. Both groups were scanned using diffusion MRI before and after the six-week period.

Juggling is one of the best ways to enhance the connections in your brain. If you want to improve your brain, it’s smart for you to learn how to juggle.

Now this is going to be for those of you who have learned how to juggle 3 balls but are now curious about what you can do now. What other tricks are there to learn and how long is it going to take for me to learn these tricks?

In the Juggling Secrets course, I take you by the hand and teach you how to learn new tricks and start sharing your new talent with the world.

The 3 ball cascade is the basic juggling pattern that I teach and can be considered one of the first tricks that people learn. The cascade pattern isn’t as much of a trick as it is a pattern of juggling just as the shower pattern is a different pattern.

You can see the difference in the images below:

Cascade Pattern:

Shower Pattern:

(Screenshots from the Juggling Secrets course)

Now that you know the difference between the cascade and the shower pattern, let’s talk a little about different tricks that you can learn. I’m only going to touch on a few basic beginner tricks in this post because I go into more detail in my course.

Reverse Cascade

The Reverse Cascade is simply the opposite of the normal cascade. In the cascade pattern, the balls are always thrown underneath each other. When you do the reverse cascade, the balls are thrown over the top of the previous ball thrown.

To do this, you will want to imagine that there is an open box right at your eye level in the center of your body. You want to throw all of the balls up and into this box and then caught by your opposite hand. If you have trouble with this, practice the same way you learned the 3 ball cascade from the free 3 ball juggling video. You’ll practice with 2 balls and then go onto 3 once you’ve mastered 2.

Two Balls in One Hand

There are a lot of patterns that you can learn once you master juggling 2 balls in one hand. I’m going to let you know up front that this does take some work and a decent amount of practice. Juggling two balls in one hand is all about throwing the balls from the inside to the outside of the pattern as shown from the image below:

After mastering 2 balls in 1 hand, you will be able to learn Columns and will be able to juggle 4 balls!

Columns

Columns is all about mastering 2 balls in 1 hand. The difference here is that instead of throwing the balls in a circular movement,  you will be throwing the balls up and down in a line. If you picture a ladder going straight up and down, that is what the balls do during columns.

There are several patterns you can attempt, and they each require a fair amount of practice, but the good news is that later on, by juggling 2 balls in each hand, you will be able to do 4 ball juggling, so persevere!
Columns: Throw one ball up, move your hand across and throw the next ball up, then return your hand to catch and throw the first ball and then catch and throw the second ball. Each ball is going up and down in it’s own straight line, just like an elevator/lift!
Anti-clockwise or Clockwise

The Yo-Yo

The yo-yo trick is one that is a very simple concept, but can take some time to get good at. The reason for this is that keeping the distance between your hand and the juggling ball that’s flying through the air can be difficult. You can see in the image below how it looks like my top hand has a string from it that’s pulling the other ball up. (This image is from one of the videos in the course so you can’t watch it unless you buy the course)

Eating the Apple

This is a favorite for a lot of young kids as well as the older crowd. It often gets more applause than tricks that truly are more difficult (like juggling 5 balls). The truth is that it’s a very simple trick if you can juggle 2 balls in one hand. All you need to do is juggle 2 balls and one apple. Every time the apple comes to your strong hand, bring your hand to your mouth and take a bite out of the apple. It’s recommended that when you are first learning this to focus on just kissing the apple so you don’t end up punching yourself in the teeth with an apple. To have enough time to take a bite out of the apple, you are going to need to do 2 balls in 1 hand for a few throws. .

Once you’ve mastered these tricks, there are plenty more tricks that you can learn that will take your juggling experience to the next level.

If you want to save time on learning all these tricks, you can shorten your training time by learning the secrets of juggling from my video course Juggling Secrets.