Content

• Method 2 of 2: Additional Techniques
• Tips

1 Learn to toss balls. The basic movement of juggling with four balls is called the "fountain". To get started, you need four balls. When you toss them into the air, the movement should be slightly outward. Which way depends on which hand you do it with. If you are holding the ball in your left hand, you need to toss it to the left. If the ball is in your right hand, toss it to the right.

• This movement will give the balls a boost and also create enough room for the rest of the balls.

2 Practice juggling with each hand. Now that you know how to throw, start practicing with each hand individually. Take two balls in your right hand. Starting a clockwise motion with your hand, toss one ball into the air. After tossing it, continue in a clockwise motion, still holding the second ball in your hand. After describing the bottom arc, toss the second ball. After describing the top arc, catch the first one. Continue moving in a circle: now the first ball is in your hand, and the second is in the air. Proceed further in the same way, alternating balls - they should be constantly in motion.

• When you become confident with this technique with your right hand, start training your left. For the left hand, you follow the same steps, but the movement is counterclockwise.
• If you are left-handed, you should start with your left hand. It will be easier to carry out coordinated movements with the leading hand.

3 Combine the movements. Once you've trained both hands, it's time to combine their movements in place into a synchronized "fountain". Take two balls in each hand. Begin the familiar circular motion with both hands. When your hands are in the center, toss one ball at a time and continue moving in a circle. Having described the lower arc, toss the second balls; after describing the top one, catch the first ones. Continue as long as you can.

• To finish, just catch two balls with each hand.
• If you find it difficult to do this for a long time, limit yourself to two or four circles for a start. Then practice doing six, eight, and ten. Soon you will learn to juggle without interruption.
• In the basic method of juggling with four balls, virtually each hand juggles two of them separately. The ball never flies from hand to hand.

4 Try making an asynchronous "fountain". In addition to the synchronous "fountain", you can learn how to perform asynchronous. Instead of tossing balls at the same time, make sure that the movements are constantly opposite. When you toss the ball with one hand, you catch the ball with the other. In other words, when the left hand moves up to throw the ball, the right hand, having just caught the ball, goes down.

• Alternating hands will make the element look like a real fountain. Plus, it will allow you to throw the balls closer together in the center. This will create an even more dramatic cascade illusion.

Method 2 of 2: Additional Techniques

1. 1 Juggle "columns". In addition to the basic "fountain", there are other interesting techniques in juggling with four balls. Take two balls in each hand. Toss the balls in each hand on the right, strictly vertically. Move your hand slightly to the left. Just before the first balls return to your hands, toss the second ones vertically. Then move your hands to the starting position to the right and catch the first balls.
   • To keep the "columns" moving without stopping, throw balls into the air just before catching the previous ones.
   • Unlike the "fountain", when performing "columns" the hand moves from side to side, and not in a circle.
   • You can also execute asynchronous columns. Do not throw balls at the same time, but do it with one hand at the moment when the other catches its ball.
2. 2 Try the circle trick. Take two balls in each hand. With your left hand, throw the ball in a large arc into your right hand (so as to catch it from the outside of your hand). At the same time, with your right hand, throw the ball in a straight line to your left hand (from the inside). Do this before you catch the ball flying in an arc. There will always be at least two balls in the air, although the moment you throw the ball from right to left, there will be three of them.
   • You can also make a "semicircle". To do this, throw the ball from the right hand to the left, not in a straight line, but along a small inner arc.
3. 3 Implement the diagonal pair juggling element. Take two balls in each hand.Now you will not leave them in the same hand, but throw them from hand to hand. To do this, one ball needs to be thrown a little higher than all the others. Hands should go in a circle in a mirror image - both inward and outward at the same time. Pick one ball in each hand and start in a circular motion. When they are in the center, toss these balls towards each other, but one higher than the other.
   • Continue to circle and, once again reaching the center, toss the second balls into the air towards each other, again throwing one above the other. When each hand passes the top of the circle, you must catch the ball thrown by the other hand with it.
   • In the process of circular movements, the balls will constantly move from hand to hand.
   • You can choose which hand to throw higher. Some find it more convenient to do this with the leading hand, while others do it the other way around. Choose the method that is most convenient for you.
4. 4 Learn the mill trick. The Mill is a modified version of the basic fountain, but more complex. You are not circumscribing circles, but crossing your arms one above the other. Take two balls in each hand. With your right hand, throw one ball to the left. Cross your arms in front of you so that the left is under the right, and toss one of the balls with it in the same direction as the first.
   • When the two balls are in the air, return your arms to their original position. The right hand should be in the same place from where you threw the first ball with it. Toss the second ball with your right hand. Cross your arms again, catch the first ball with your right hand and toss the second ball with your left. Return your hands to the starting position again, catch the first ball with your left hand and again toss the first ball with your right.
   • As in the fountain element, the balls will not fly from hand to hand. With each hand, you toss the same two balls, but alternate movements, crossing your arms.
   • If you are left-handed, you may find it more convenient for your right hand to go under your left, and the ball from your left hand flies in a large arc. Do as you see fit.
   • If this element is too complicated, first try making a "mill" with three balls.

Tips

• If you practice well the technique of juggling with two balls with each hand separately, it will be easier for you to act independently and throw the balls at different times.
• As always with juggling, the key to success is tossing evenly. Catching balls is relatively easy, since you are probably accustomed to catching many different objects since childhood. During your workouts, pay special attention to throwing the balls at the same height and at the same interval. The ability to catch will come by itself.