3 Ball Cascade
From JuggleWiki
This pattern is how most people do learn to juggle.
Two balls are up at the same time, all the time: that's the hard part.
If each toss is not to where you need to catch it,
...there is no time to look to reach for it.
Both hands make the same motion, around and around:
There are many demonstrations and tutorials available, including:
Begin Juggling at this website
2-ball Cascade at this website
Matt Mangham's KingsCascade a video with explanations and similar animations
Rob Abram's Wildcat Jugglers QuickTime videos with explanations and slow-motion
Colin Eberhardt's Juggling Database with other animations and explanations, links to prop vendors, and a thousand videos
What you do next is not a set route, but developing this pattern is a good tactic.
To increase your speed, toss lower:
To increase your accuracy, toss higher:
...and toss more narrow:
To increase your catch reliability, toss wider:
You will find it very difficult to walk while juggling:
especially for turns, your tosses must lead in the direction you will be moving.
Make sure there is nothing for you to trip over or slip on.
Talking or singing while juggling is great training for performing,
as is "looking through the pattern" to something else, starting perhaps with a distant large mirror.
You can add a flourish which is something out of the pattern you do once
(a good way to learn all new moves).
This is called One High:
Most of the Basic Tricks are Cascade, with other tosses and catches used,
and that takes you toward Intermediate Level juggling.
