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What does Contact Juggling means?
Contact juggling is a style of juggling which uses balance and precision to move the objects being juggled, in contrast to "toss" juggling in which a juggler throws the objects into the air and catches them rapidly. A good example of this is Jareth the Goblin King's manipulation of glass orbs in the movie Labyrinth.
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Why should you learn contact juggling?
Contact juggling is an extremely rewarding activity, maybe you’ve already practiced contact juggling at some point in your life. If you’ve ever tried to bounce an apple off your biceps, or balance a soccer ball on your back, you’ve already performed this unique art.
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How to choose Contact Juggling Balls?
There are two different types of contact balls. The first kind is a stage ball, which is a squishy, light ball. The second kind is an acrylic ball, which are the clear balls that you see more often. Acrylic balls look way cooler, but are a bit heavier. I recommend practicing with a squishy ball for awhile, as they are much bouncier and won’t scuff when dropped. Acrylic balls will scuff if dropped enough times.
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How to choose the suitable juggling ball size for beginner?
The ideal choice to buy can vary person to person. The size and the weight of contact juggling balls are the main variables that will determine the best fit for you. The classic ball is 75 mm, the most popular size of contact juggling ball. It has some heft to it, and is very sturdy.
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How to Start Your Contact Juggling?
What's the Contact Juggling? How to Start Contact Juggling?
Contact Juggling is a style of single or multiple ball manipulation also called Dynamic Manipulation and Sphere play, seen repeatedly in the movie Labyrinth. A practiced contact juggler will eventually be able to roll, spin, toss and pass the ball back and forth, looping and bobbing it over the fingertips, palms, the tops of the hands, arms and other parts of the body in a graceful dance.
1. The Cradle
Hold your favored hand out, palm down with fingers extended and touching. Dip the straightened middle finger down slightly to make a cradle for the ball. Place and leave the ball on top of the fingers near the second knuckles of the first, middle and ring fingers. Keep it there for several minutes at a time to get used to it. Move your hand around, up and down as the ball is cradled on top of it, adjusting for inertia. Find the cradle on the tops of both your hands and become very accustomed to the ball being there.
This is intrinsic to DSJUGGLING contact juggling.
2. Palm to Cradle Over the Edge (transfer)
Hold the ball in your open palm, set on the upper, meaty part between the third and second knuckles.
Now, keeping the fingers together and straight (but not tense), give the ball a very slight lift up and pivot your open hand inwards, still underneath the ball so that it rolls over the outer edge of your index finger and lands in the cradle position on the top of your hand. Hold it a few moments.
Now rotate it back to your palm with the opposite pivoting motion, dropping the plane of your hand back down if you need to. Practice until the ball moves as little as possible while your hand moves under it.
Eventually there will be "sweet spots" where you instinctively feel it and perform the move effortlessly.
3. Palm to Cradle Over the Tips (transfer)
Set the ball in the open palm as in step 2, the ball will roll over the fingertips.
Hold the ball in your open palm with the fingers together and gesturing towards ten o'clock (left) or two o'clock (right), depending on which hand you're starting with (it should look like you’re about to shrug with one arm). Then, using your elbow for a counterbalance (get your upper arm working, too), steadily swing your open palm in towards you with a windshield-wiper, arching kind of motion and let the ball roll over the tips of the fingers (just between the first and middle fingers) and on to the cradle position (top of the hand). Once the ball comes to rest on the cradle, pivot/swing your arm in the same arc back to the starting position and allow the ball to pass back over the fingertips to the palm. The ball should ultimately go over without the fingers being spread too far apart, you can also try learning this transfer with the ball first cradled in front of you and arc it out to the palm.
4.The Butterfly
This is the previous palm-to-cradle-fingertips transfer done back and forth rhythmically so that the ball travels in a fluid figure-eight or windshield wiper motion as it glides to-and-fro.
The only difference is that your elbow should be free to move around a lot more to support a fluid motion. To get a well-rounded figure-eight, lift the ball in a small, inward curve from your palm as the ball passes over it back to the cradle. Start off slowly and deliberately so you can get used to the move and watch it. The butterfly looks its best, though, when done snug and sleek. Once you've really got it, try reversing the direction of the figure-eight.
- On the outward motion of the butterfly (when the ball rolls on to the palm) be sure not to cup or grasp the ball before you roll it back over to the cradle. Even when in the palm, the ball should be visible.
- Mastery of the butterfly leads to more flashy, intermediate moves such as the top to top butterfly pass.
Brian Coveney
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2024
It’s nice and pretty.
Glendi
Reviewed in Mexico on July 6, 2023
Dice 100mm y me llego de 80 mm
Kevin
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2023
This just looks cool, like a crystal ball. I don't know how to contact juggle, and it seems quite difficult to learn, but even just sitting on my desk it looks cool. It's very clear and has no defects. You could use it for cool effects for photography even if you don't want to learn to juggle with it.It's quite heavy- much heavier than I expected. You could easily injure yourself or break things if you drop it. And I drop it a lot while trying to learn to juggle.
Clark Griswold
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2023
This is a very cool looking sphere. It is perfectly clear so you are unable to tell if it is being rotated. This is what gives the illusion that it is floating around your hands instead of rolling around your hands. It is quite heavy though so don't drop it on your foot. It comes wrapped in a little cling wrap inside a bag inside a cardboard box and that's it. Apparently it's not that fragile though as it was fine when unwrapped. It's going to be fun learning how to use it.
Integrity Reviews
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023
Juggling with this? No way! It is far too heavy and too big and too smooth.Do you want a small crystal ball to look into the future? Then this is perfect.I took three photos just to play around. One with a red battery behind it, one with the light of a flashlight behind it. And just a plain one showing how the clear material distorts/reflects light around it.The ball arrived undamaged, and I am a bit surprised because of the way it was packaged. The ball itself was wrapped in plastic wrap like the stuff you use on leftovers at home. This was placed in a regular ziploc bag, which was then put in a thin paperboard box. Maybe I just got lucky, but this seems to me to be wholly inadequate protection.As a novelty item is this is a neat toy. Not sure if it has any practical use though (aside from looking into the future of course!).
Adam Tumminaro
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2023
If you have seen the movie Labyrinth, you know exactly what this is. This one is bigger than the one seen in the movie (I rewatched it to verify this). Even if you never learn to manipulate it around your hands like the Goblin King, it's a beautiful desk piece. The acrylic has imperfections if you look closely, but there's nothing to complain about. It looks really nice.I'd definitely keep it away from windows or in a bag for storage. It looks like this thing can focus light pretty well, too.
TheFunBunch
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023
I've always wanted an acrylic body juggling ball. This one is nice and heavy, crystal clear, and beautiful. I'm going to need to practice to get better but between practice I have it sitting on glass candle holder on display with my crystal collection and it looks phenomenal! It slipped out of my hands and I dropped it and panicked that I copied it or scratched it but it was perfectly fine. Thank goodness! I love this juggling ball it can be so many things in my world from its purposeas a juggling ball to a crystal, to making people think I'm a psychic with a gazing ball! This would be a cool unique gift for that person that has everything, I BET they don't have one of these!
Karl
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2023
I have very large hands and so I opted to go with this large a ball. It arrived in great shape and is totally clear. It's also quite heavy and that's going to take some getting used to. I've been working on basic moves and making progress. For most, I'd look at a size or two smaller even if you were only wanting to work with one ball. For multiple balls, definitely smaller until you got a fair amount of experience. I work with this while on a mat to lessen the chance of cracking or chipping when I drop it. It seems on par for other similar sized acrylic balls.
Customer Review
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2023
I have no idea what prompted me to order this clear acrylic juggling ball and try to figure out how to use it. It weighs about 1.5 pounds and is a very pretty clear ball of acrylic. So I am supposed to be able to master with practice rolling, tossing, and passing the ball back and forth, looping and bobbing the ball over my fingers, palms hands, and arms. HA HA HA HA! So I am trying and practicing over my mattress or huge floor bean bag as I am afraid to drop it on my hardwood floors. I have no clue what I am doing but following the webpage instructions and YouTube Videos. I am retired and have nothing but time and this keeps me occupied and moving. I wish it came with a stand. It came wrapped in saran wrap in a white box that was not very sturdy as it was out rolling around in the bubble envelope wrapped in saran wrap. I recommend giving this a try. I will update my review in a few months after more practice.
Louisa Lau
Reviewed in Canada on July 12, 2021
Exactly as described, on time shipping
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