Thank you so much Taylor this video has helped me become more consistent with my 5 ball pattern in 12 minutes then I have in the entire year I have been practicing.
Thanks, I'm exactly in this situation for more than three years. Target is one minute 5 balls but failing after 5 to max 15, sometimes 20 seconds and have not seen progress last year. I thought about giving up last couple of weeks... But just recognised that my 552 even not run a minute... Good point, learn to walk first. I'll give it a try again.
I’m still honing in my three ball cascade, and I think this video still is uplifting and helpful. I’ve been practicing for six months and am just getting to the point that I can juggle for a minute straight with no drops. Love your videos. Keep it up!
Years ago I worked on 5 until I could make 40 or 50 catches, then stopped doing 5 entirely for several years. Now working on 5 again. Can make 10 or 12 again. Thanks for the tips.
I learned to juggle 5 balls over the past year and a half thanks to your tutorial and everything you said is true. The best part is that the lessons you learn will stick with you and make learning other patterns/skills easier. I’m starting my 5 club journey and this video reminded me to master the prerequisites and continue practicing every day.
Yeah! Honestly it feels like once you can do 5b cascade, learning future number patterns becomes much easier. It’s still really hard, but you aren’t fighting to understand the timing and rhythm as much as when you first learn 5. It creates a nice foundation of understanding!
My tip is to practice infront of a bed or sofa, so that you can get your balls back without so much effort. Thanks for the video. It was fun to watch and will really help on my journey to 5. :)
This came up at the perfect time and is everything I needed to hear. I’ve been dialing my 5 ball flash for a couple weeks and can do it from either side now quite consistently but have only repeated the pattern a handful of times. As exciting as that is it’s debilitatingly frustrating plateauing so hard. Going back to the 4 ball exercise I’m seeing a ton of inconsistencies and it of course shows up in the hot potato exercise as well. Thanks for being arguably the best TH-camr to teach juggling out there 🙏🏼
Hey Taylor, great video as per usual and i always get excited seeing your videos. I got another mention about learning the 5 ball cascade. I personally found when people are learning or at that 5 ball endurance level. They seem to overly focus and breath too fast or not at all. Slow steady breaths is an important thing to look out for while maintaining all the other tips that you mentioned. The quicker the breaths. The less endurance you'll have dropping one of the balls. Juggling is therapy, a distraction and a form of meditation. The slower the breaths. The less time you think about breathing and focus on all the balls that are in the air
Thanks Taylor, your first five ball video got me started a few years ago, and this is the booster video I needed. I was having trouble getting more than 10 catches.
I am in the course of learning 5 ball cascade. Many thanks for your videos. Totally agree, daily practice and also learn 3 and 4 balls tricks on the way helps a lot. Clubs are also now in my repertoire. Your videos help a lot!
I tought myself 5 balls at age of 16 and still try to maintain that level, now that's over 30 years meanwhile...I still can do it, but it won't get easier with the years. I wish I could do 5 clubs. Taylor, thank you for your thoughts and your advice, that's really helpful. Greetings from Germany.
You know, I’ve been juggling 5 balls for a few years and always thought it was pretty solid but I think this video made me realize that I could work on making my pattern a little more consistent. Especially after the long break I took from juggling. Thanks Taylor😁👍🏼
Awesome video thank you! Been working on 5 for a little over a year following your videos and juggle man's videos, I can do a clumsy qualify at this point. This video was just what I needed right now!
Hi Taylor! I'm from Brazil and I'm learning english and juggling! Your videos help me a lot with the tricks and the lamguage! Thank u so much! Please do more tutorials, your videos are awesome!
Thanks for this (and all your tutorials and videos really, so interesting and useful)! I didn't start working on 5 for now, but it's been my next goal... Now I'm more confident into not rushing it and will definitely work on 552 and hot popato before I really try anything else. As i didnt start yet, I don't know how much it could be helpful for 5 balls learning. But what always worked for me when trying to learn difficult stuffs was setting easier milestones that feel like real accomplishments. I'm always working on different stuff at the same time too, so that I don't only get very frustrated on the one I can't do right bow, but also see progresses elsewhere. It has to stay fun. For example, it took me weeks to get a consistent 3 balls shower, but in the midtime I learned and practiced takeouts, burke's barrage and bettered my 4 balls fountain. This is how I intend to learn 5 balls: using the milestones that you advised, continue learning 3 and 4 balls tricks along the way, and taking the needed time 😊
Thanks Taylor! Been working on 5 balls for a consistent 10 months now and I thought something was wrong with me. I could to the 5 ball flash in about a month but to go consistently has been extremely hard.
Hey Taylor, thanks for sharing! I talked to you briefly at Mondo this year. I learned to juggle from your tutorials and have been subscribed on both accounts for a while now. I think you made a lot of great points in this video, and I can definitely apply these tips to my juggling. 6 has been pretty rough for me. I've been stuck on 57 catches of 6 fountain since March. It's been about a year of seriously training it, and I would often go months before improving by even 1 catch. I practice tons of siteswaps with 4 and 5. But lately I've been varying my props and have only been training 6 balls about once a week. I will try to start practicing every day again like you said. I know you mention 3 cascade with short dwell time and 552 as being the best exercises. I think they're great for learning 5, but I think practicing tricks like 534, 5551, and 55514 are helpful for getting rhythm down with 5. They were for me anyway. I learned 5 balls from your tutorial. With 5 rings, I made quick progress without having to practice that much by going through lots of siteswaps. So I would go through 3 and 4 and practice each basic site swap that has one 5, then two 5s, etc. So something like 522, 51, 531, 5511, 55500, 53, 534, 552, 5551, 55514, 55550. But different approaches may work better for different people. Despite having ran 5 balls for 1 minute and 42 seconds, and being able to do a whole bunch of siteswaps in and out of the cascade and even run them for a bit, I feel like I've got a ways to go before my 5 cascade feels totally locked in solid. But I still think training tricks like 645, 744, etc in and out of the pattern is very helpful for improving control with the base pattern. Honestly I think there's so much to be said about this and TH-cam comments may not be the best place for a lengthy conversation. But could you make a video on tips for 6 fountain? I think it is so much harder than 5 cascade.
Lots of high quality tips here that I'm really glad you mention. I think there are three main things that those that improve the fastest are doing correct. 1. Analyzing what they are doing. Basically being aware of what they are doing and how they could do better. This you mention great! 2. Practicing a lot, ofc. 3. Practicing at the correct difficulty level for YOU! And from my experience, the younger you are, the bigger the chance is that you're reaching a bit high and the older you are, the bigger the chance is that you get stuck in the mindset of that everything has to be perfect before you level up the difficulty, or that you simply don't believe that you can accomplish a certain difficult task. (Just running 5 balls vs. 3-4 ball drills for example). For the last one I understand the points you're making about the drills, which I think is important. But I don't think just going for tons of 5 is "the least effective way to learn it". I think a lot of specific practice is very important. BUT!! As you said, there's little point to JUST practice 5 if "you drop every 5 catches". I know you're kind of saying this, but just to clearify, do both! Not just 5 balls (if you're at a low level), and not just 4 balls drills (especially if you are at a quite high level). You have to practice what you want to learn (5 ball cascade), but remember that the lower your skill level is, the more important these drills are! Great video Taylor, again! :)
Glad to hear you agree with the tips! I know you’ve done a ton of work to get as good as you are so it’s nice to hear your feedback. To clarify on your last point, I didn’t say just ‘going for tons of 5’ is the least efficient way to practice. Though I do think doing 3 and 4 is a more effective way to learn 5, I don’t think you are necessarily inefficient if you only work on 5 ball stuff, as long as it is done intelligently. The exact thing I say is “muscling through five is the least effective way to learn it.” When I say muscling through I mean that just throwing 5 balls over and over without any intention or structure is the least effective way to learn it, and I believe that’s true (aside from perhaps just not practicing at all). Warming up, doing smart exercises, and intentionally analyzing and making adjustments is key in my opinion. That can be done with just 5 ball work, but I think including 3 and 4 ball exercises in that is an even more efficient way to do it. But all of that is better than ‘muscling through’ with mindless trial and error, in my opinion that is the least effective way to improve. As I go on to say right after that, “Do it more intentionally, build yourself up.” I think you and I are saying the same thing, so I just wanted to clarify that 😄
Working on 5 now. Challenged a juggling priest last July to learn 5 ball by this July. Gotten great tips at juggling club meetup but your tips are the best. Taking a break to tinker with Mills Mess when your tut popped up a couple days ago. Just love your style Taylor! ❤
Thanks for this video. I'm one of the people that can't do 5-5-2 consistently but decided to grind away at 5 anyway and you definitely called me out. I'll get back to working on those drills.
Just got my Taylor Tries juggling balls. They are so nice. I only got three, five balls would be too many... for now. Anthony Gotto told me personally that I never have to do anymore than three. The number of 3 ball patterns is nearly endless. But perhaps someday. Thanks Taylor you are awesome!
Lookin forward to integrating these tips into my sessions! I find it super helpful to know that you think the timeline can be about two years ish! I’m pretty new to juggling and don’t know any jugglers so everything I try is kinda blind in terms of how long it might take me to pick up! I’ve been having fun just goofin off and noodin with new tricks until they start to click, some take me one session and others take a month or more! I find it such a fun process of discovery! Anywho this is really a great video, thanks!
hi I just wanted to say hi grateful I am for you since you taught me how to juggle and I’m enjoying it so much! I really hope I can get better so I’ll continue watching your videos but for now you’ve truly inspired me
Thank you Taylor... i've been working on a 5 ball cascade for 5 years now... yeah, do i feel broken. Still, my goal this year, like the last 5 years, is to have it down by new years'... sooo... i will do as you instructed, suck it up, and learn the 552... jeeesh! 🙏🏼🤙🏼
Thank you! The idea of slowing down was exactly what I need right now. I am stuck between 7 and 9 catches and could directly improve. One more thing in life that goes better if you relax a bit... And for sure: Trying each day a bit... we all know this, right?
I think 5 ball cascade took me about 5 years to start getting consistent? Super satisfying in the end! As you said im sure i could have learned it faster but i just tinkered with it every once and awhile. Lots of great advice here!
Super video again Taylor! I used 552 also a lot for learning 5, and still use it to recalibrate my system if my timing is off occasionally ;-) I think patience and consistency are the most important parts, some nerd genes or better obsession cannot hurt either :-)
Great tips! Five ball is on my wishlist. I’m at a stage in life, where I’m not sure i’ll get there. I don’t intend to stop trying, though, and these tips should help.
I know that just watching to be amazed, rather than learn, feels somewhat like cheating, but I'll never tire of seeing you casually do things that might as well be magic to me.
Thank you Taylor! I never juggled before but I watched this video and was able to juggle five balls! Genuinely this has some really great advice, especially the first tip. Will have to employ that this evening. Was cool to see dark Taylor there for a bit, I’ve never seen that before
I learned 5 ball cascade with your tutorial but I think I am strugling to get better so I appreciate a lot this video. Coming back to 3 and 4 balls exercices I have noted that where I live currently has a very low ceiling and it's very difficult not to hit it and then I realized that I only could some 5 balls catches because I rushed it in order to be able with less high so... I need to aply the 6th tip, high ceilings xD Again, thanks a lot for your tutorials, I lost the habit of juggling but got back to it when I discovered you
Hii Taylor. Im really happy u uploaded, i really love ur videos. I have learned 3 balls and other patterns , and also 4 balls , but i have a question. Can u go to 5 balls cascade by not learning 4 balls mills ? Cause, ive been trying to learn 4 ball mills but i get stuck in like little throws. I haven't been practicing it these months tho-😅. Im gonna start working on it! I really love juggling, and i really wanted to go to 5 ball cascade cause it sounds SO funn. Ur videos are really helpfull ,thanks so much ❤❤
Hey! I think 4 ball mess and 5 ball cascade are sort of similar in difficulty, but some people still find one much easier than the other. A lot of people never learn 4bmm, so you absolutely don’t need to learn it first! I honestly recommend working on them both, they’re both hard and take a long time, and they’re different enough that they won’t interfere with each other’s learning progress!
@@TaylorTries thanks so much for the reply. I really needed my question answered. Im gonna try 4bmm again, if i keep failing ill try the 5 ball cascade.
I live the work you’ve done with The Jugglers Guide, I think it will be a boon to the juggling community! I have a question about one of the products, but can’t find the Contact email for the site. Where can I ask that question?
Thanks for the tips! I’m nowhere near getting to five balls, but I think this’ll help with the other tricks I’m learning also. As a side note, are the new beanbags in the prop shop the same as your previous Zeekio pro balls? Thanks for all you do!
Nope! They are completely different beanbags. The Propworthy ones are meticulously designed by me, whereas the Zeekio ones were slight alterations to the original Zeekio beanbags. The Propworthy ones are intentionally less tight/full so they feel broken in right away, and they are also more durable. The new material also feels different, hard to explain exactly why but it’s a little more textured. The ‘Grip’ version is also really grippy in a wonderful way ☺️ Hopefully I can make a video on them soon!
HI Taylor, I am 65 and have wanted to learn Juggling since I was a kid. It has not come easy and wondering if there are people who just can't do it? Love your channel and looking for tips.
I’m 74. I started a few years ago. Progress was very slow. After almost a year I wondered if I just can’t do this. I now know about a dozen basic tricks and can hold up four for twenty or so catches. So I know now, retroactively, that I can do this. Now days working on a new pattern I wonder if I just can’t do this right now. :). Good luck with your juggling.
Hey Taylor, thanks so much for this. Really helpful. One little question: is 55550 as good an exercise for learning 5 ball as 552? I just find it much much easier for some reason.
I do hope to make one someday, but it’s a pattern that I personally need to re-learn again since I forgot how to do it. In the meantime, I’ve been trying to make tutorials on the more common tricks. But hopefully I can do Burkes Bender someday
@TaylorTries Do you plan on making more tutorials? I've been struggling to find other good tutorials. Your's are the only ones that are not grainy, are simple, actually show the trick multiple times, and do NOT over complicate things. Either way, I will be listening to your new podcast!
Hello Taylor and thank you for your advice which helped me a lot with 5 ball juggling. I started juggling very late, just before retirement. It took me several years to get there, now at around 60 throws. Needing all my concentration, I only count from time to time, in packs of 8, with the sound of each ball caught. My question is: what do you think of this video entitled "I learned to JUGGLE 5 BALLS in 25 DAYS for the ATHLETIC GAINS" by Thomas Underwood who, knowing only how to juggle a little 3 balls, would have managed to juggle for 10 seconds (>44 throws) in 25 days? I left him a comment expressing my doubt.
It’s certainly possible he could have achieved that, depending on his previous coordination experience (if he’s already learned a ton of other hand eye coordination activities it helps drastically), but even then it would have taken a lot of practice. So he may have put 10 hours a day in and gotten 200+ hours of practice in a month. Who knows! He also could have known three and four beforehand and fudged his progress for a video, because it’s a better story that way. Media and storytelling is never 100% true, especially that which is incentivized by money. I think the important thing is to not look too much to other people for comparison, especially on the internet and especially when it comes to progress or skill. Be patient with yourself, and keep checking in on your progress and evaluating where you feel it should be for you based on your life and experience. And if you worry you aren’t able to accurately measure your progress, seek guidance from someone who understands it well ☺️
great advice! I always try to juggle 5 too fast and too low, and really neglect the 3/4 ball exercises... curious also where you get those colorful beanbags!
The beanbags are new prototypes from my company Prop Shop! We have a few colors available right now on theJugglingstore.com and the rest are going to available soon 😄
God damnit do you have to be so spot on? I just wanna throw the five balls for 5 seconds and fail miserably. No but in reality you're so right. It's time to take it seriously, I've been taking up on juggling after 4 years of not throwin 'em balls at all. But I know already that this video will take me there if I've got the patience. Just have to find it, that's the hardest part.
I personally almost always recommend learning a pattern with balls before clubs, there’s just less to go wrong. So yeah, for 5 clubs I personally recommend learning 5 balls first. But there certainly have been people who skip balls and go straight to clubs, so keep that in mind. It’s called 552 because it’s two 5 height throws (right, left) then a 2, which is a pause, which makes you start the pattern again on the side that just threw (left, right) So it’s 5 (right), 5 (left), 2 (technically right, but no throw), 5 (left), 5 (right), 2 (left pause/no throw) - repeat. An easier way to think of it might be ‘right, left, pause, left, right, pause.’ I hope that helps 😅 it’s always hard to explain siteswap in words!
I'm learning 5 ball cascade for about 3 months and right now I'm doing mostly 7 catches, rarely 8. I gave 552 trick a try and found that it's harder than my 5 ball cascade. Cannot do more than 4 catches 😅
Juggling 5 balls holds kind of a weird place for me, as I did things "wrong", I think. E.g., I didn't figure out the under tricks / exercises until after I learned to juggle 5 balls. But I remember my intense juggling phase being, effectively, "I want to learn this trick", then metaphorically beating my head against a wall until it worked, then getting bored and moving on to the next trick. And 5 balls was easier, conceptually, than a variety of other tricks. Just a matter of getting good throws with good timing. But I also remember a _lot_ of time kneeling in front of a door, tossing the balls up, dropping everything, picking them up, and going again. Being able to get a consistent, accurate throw that's a bit higher takes a _lot_ of throws. Anyway, if memory serves, I was doing five balls after about 3 months of intense practice, and then seven balls after about 2 years of intense practice, after which I stopped being quite so interested in doing intense practice. As spending 15-20 hours a week on juggling is quite the commitment. And both of those would be at the stage of having the basics down, not any threat to win a local endurance competition. But I was _definitely_ learning lots of other stuff during the same time -- I was working on 3 and 4 ball tricks, and then would work on five balls, and it'd be an every day thing. So getting to five balls after two years of solid, but non-life-consuming practice does seem like a very solid pace. Anyway, I liked the advice here, and it all seems good, even if my experience wound up being different, for better or worse.
Everyone’s experience is definitely different! And your experience brings up the important point that time is a strange way to measure progress. Someone can say they learned 5 balls in a year, or two years, or three months, and the amount of actual hours within those time spans might be very similar. The year person might have practiced a half hour a day, the three months person might have practiced 3 hours a day. One person might also have way more experience with coordination activities, for another person juggling might be the first activity that involved throwing and catching for them. It’s definitely all relative! I do think regardless these tips would help anyone improve faster, but they certainly aren’t required to learn 5 😄 I didn’t do a lot of them when I learned 5, but I also had similar benefits that you seemed to have, like intense motivation and drive, more free time, and even physical flexibility and energy. Those can all definitely increase the speed at which you learn a pattern in juggling ☺️
Thank you so much Taylor this video has helped me become more consistent with my 5 ball pattern in 12 minutes then I have in the entire year I have been practicing.
Aw I’m so happy to hear that!! 🥰
Thanks, I'm exactly in this situation for more than three years. Target is one minute 5 balls but failing after 5 to max 15, sometimes 20 seconds and have not seen progress last year. I thought about giving up last couple of weeks... But just recognised that my 552 even not run a minute... Good point, learn to walk first. I'll give it a try again.
Tip# 6: watch this video every week ❤
I’m still honing in my three ball cascade, and I think this video still is uplifting and helpful. I’ve been practicing for six months and am just getting to the point that I can juggle for a minute straight with no drops. Love your videos. Keep it up!
Years ago I worked on 5 until I could make 40 or 50 catches, then stopped doing 5 entirely for several years. Now working on 5 again. Can make 10 or 12 again. Thanks for the tips.
I learned to juggle 5 balls over the past year and a half thanks to your tutorial and everything you said is true. The best part is that the lessons you learn will stick with you and make learning other patterns/skills easier. I’m starting my 5 club journey and this video reminded me to master the prerequisites and continue practicing every day.
Yeah! Honestly it feels like once you can do 5b cascade, learning future number patterns becomes much easier. It’s still really hard, but you aren’t fighting to understand the timing and rhythm as much as when you first learn 5. It creates a nice foundation of understanding!
Great to have you back doing instructional videos. You are by FAR the best juggling teacher on the net. Mas, Mas, Por Favor.
agreed...
Your tutorials are always so good! It's literally insane. And I wanted to point it out because you're awesome and it needs some extra appreciation! 👏🏼
My tip is to practice infront of a bed or sofa, so that you can get your balls back without so much effort.
Thanks for the video. It was fun to watch and will really help on my journey to 5. :)
This came up at the perfect time and is everything I needed to hear. I’ve been dialing my 5 ball flash for a couple weeks and can do it from either side now quite consistently but have only repeated the pattern a handful of times. As exciting as that is it’s debilitatingly frustrating plateauing so hard. Going back to the 4 ball exercise I’m seeing a ton of inconsistencies and it of course shows up in the hot potato exercise as well. Thanks for being arguably the best TH-camr to teach juggling out there 🙏🏼
Hey Taylor, great video as per usual and i always get excited seeing your videos. I got another mention about learning the 5 ball cascade. I personally found when people are learning or at that 5 ball endurance level. They seem to overly focus and breath too fast or not at all. Slow steady breaths is an important thing to look out for while maintaining all the other tips that you mentioned. The quicker the breaths. The less endurance you'll have dropping one of the balls. Juggling is therapy, a distraction and a form of meditation. The slower the breaths. The less time you think about breathing and focus on all the balls that are in the air
Thanks!
I teach tennis, swimming and other sports and I must say you are an outstanding instructor and motivator. Juggling Princess.
Aw thanks Bruce!
Thanks Taylor, your first five ball video got me started a few years ago, and this is the booster video I needed. I was having trouble getting more than 10 catches.
Excellent tips, love it. Especially, « only 3 in the air »
Your tips and tutorials have been THE MOST HELPFUL for me on my juggling journey. Thank you for being so wonderful, Taylor!!!
Oh man, I feel called out here haha. I needed this kick in the pants!!
I am in the course of learning 5 ball cascade. Many thanks for your videos. Totally agree, daily practice and also learn 3 and 4 balls tricks on the way helps a lot. Clubs are also now in my repertoire. Your videos help a lot!
Taylor you are amazing! Currently learning to juggle 5 balls and have been making lots of progress thanks to your amazing tips and tutorials!!
I tought myself 5 balls at age of 16 and still try to maintain that level, now that's over 30 years meanwhile...I still can do it, but it won't get easier with the years. I wish I could do 5 clubs. Taylor, thank you for your thoughts and your advice, that's really helpful. Greetings from Germany.
You know, I’ve been juggling 5 balls for a few years and always thought it was pretty solid but I think this video made me realize that I could work on making my pattern a little more consistent. Especially after the long break I took from juggling. Thanks Taylor😁👍🏼
Awesome video thank you! Been working on 5 for a little over a year following your videos and juggle man's videos, I can do a clumsy qualify at this point. This video was just what I needed right now!
You are a good teacher! Thank you for making this video.
Hi Taylor! I'm from Brazil and I'm learning english and juggling! Your videos help me a lot with the tricks and the lamguage! Thank u so much! Please do more tutorials, your videos are awesome!
I so needed to hear this, perfect timing. thank you!
Im not really strugglin with 5 but im learning it for a while and gettin better but the first tricks are really hard to get consistent on my oppiniom
Thanks for the practice tips! I will work on this.
Great advice and tips Taylor! Tks!
Hi Taylor, thank you so much for your videos, they are really appreciated! 🥰
very useful! Especially the tip of slowing down!
Every video seems to get just better and better !💫💫
So many good advices, thank you!
Reassuring and sensible, I am plateauing at a crappy 5 ball flash, this is a good reminder to think more and not just repeat
It is great to see you make a new video again! Keep it up!
Thank you! Great tips - especially the patience and doing some sort of practice every day. I'm so glad I found your tutorials!
Thanks for this (and all your tutorials and videos really, so interesting and useful)! I didn't start working on 5 for now, but it's been my next goal... Now I'm more confident into not rushing it and will definitely work on 552 and hot popato before I really try anything else.
As i didnt start yet, I don't know how much it could be helpful for 5 balls learning. But what always worked for me when trying to learn difficult stuffs was setting easier milestones that feel like real accomplishments. I'm always working on different stuff at the same time too, so that I don't only get very frustrated on the one I can't do right bow, but also see progresses elsewhere. It has to stay fun. For example, it took me weeks to get a consistent 3 balls shower, but in the midtime I learned and practiced takeouts, burke's barrage and bettered my 4 balls fountain. This is how I intend to learn 5 balls: using the milestones that you advised, continue learning 3 and 4 balls tricks along the way, and taking the needed time 😊
Thanks Taylor! Been working on 5 balls for a consistent 10 months now and I thought something was wrong with me. I could to the 5 ball flash in about a month but to go consistently has been extremely hard.
Hey Taylor, thanks for sharing! I talked to you briefly at Mondo this year. I learned to juggle from your tutorials and have been subscribed on both accounts for a while now. I think you made a lot of great points in this video, and I can definitely apply these tips to my juggling.
6 has been pretty rough for me. I've been stuck on 57 catches of 6 fountain since March. It's been about a year of seriously training it, and I would often go months before improving by even 1 catch. I practice tons of siteswaps with 4 and 5. But lately I've been varying my props and have only been training 6 balls about once a week. I will try to start practicing every day again like you said.
I know you mention 3 cascade with short dwell time and 552 as being the best exercises. I think they're great for learning 5, but I think practicing tricks like 534, 5551, and 55514 are helpful for getting rhythm down with 5. They were for me anyway. I learned 5 balls from your tutorial. With 5 rings, I made quick progress without having to practice that much by going through lots of siteswaps. So I would go through 3 and 4 and practice each basic site swap that has one 5, then two 5s, etc. So something like 522, 51, 531, 5511, 55500, 53, 534, 552, 5551, 55514, 55550.
But different approaches may work better for different people. Despite having ran 5 balls for 1 minute and 42 seconds, and being able to do a whole bunch of siteswaps in and out of the cascade and even run them for a bit, I feel like I've got a ways to go before my 5 cascade feels totally locked in solid. But I still think training tricks like 645, 744, etc in and out of the pattern is very helpful for improving control with the base pattern.
Honestly I think there's so much to be said about this and TH-cam comments may not be the best place for a lengthy conversation. But could you make a video on tips for 6 fountain? I think it is so much harder than 5 cascade.
Great Video!! Thank you!!
Lots of high quality tips here that I'm really glad you mention. I think there are three main things that those that improve the fastest are doing correct. 1. Analyzing what they are doing. Basically being aware of what they are doing and how they could do better. This you mention great!
2. Practicing a lot, ofc.
3. Practicing at the correct difficulty level for YOU! And from my experience, the younger you are, the bigger the chance is that you're reaching a bit high and the older you are, the bigger the chance is that you get stuck in the mindset of that everything has to be perfect before you level up the difficulty, or that you simply don't believe that you can accomplish a certain difficult task. (Just running 5 balls vs. 3-4 ball drills for example).
For the last one I understand the points you're making about the drills, which I think is important. But I don't think just going for tons of 5 is "the least effective way to learn it". I think a lot of specific practice is very important. BUT!! As you said, there's little point to JUST practice 5 if "you drop every 5 catches". I know you're kind of saying this, but just to clearify, do both! Not just 5 balls (if you're at a low level), and not just 4 balls drills (especially if you are at a quite high level). You have to practice what you want to learn (5 ball cascade), but remember that the lower your skill level is, the more important these drills are!
Great video Taylor, again! :)
Glad to hear you agree with the tips! I know you’ve done a ton of work to get as good as you are so it’s nice to hear your feedback.
To clarify on your last point, I didn’t say just ‘going for tons of 5’ is the least efficient way to practice. Though I do think doing 3 and 4 is a more effective way to learn 5, I don’t think you are necessarily inefficient if you only work on 5 ball stuff, as long as it is done intelligently. The exact thing I say is “muscling through five is the least effective way to learn it.” When I say muscling through I mean that just throwing 5 balls over and over without any intention or structure is the least effective way to learn it, and I believe that’s true (aside from perhaps just not practicing at all). Warming up, doing smart exercises, and intentionally analyzing and making adjustments is key in my opinion. That can be done with just 5 ball work, but I think including 3 and 4 ball exercises in that is an even more efficient way to do it. But all of that is better than ‘muscling through’ with mindless trial and error, in my opinion that is the least effective way to improve. As I go on to say right after that, “Do it more intentionally, build yourself up.”
I think you and I are saying the same thing, so I just wanted to clarify that 😄
@@TaylorTries I thought you meant that as well! I think we 100% agree!😊
Big facts! This helps a bunch 🙌🏾
I'm on this journey right now, thanks for the motivational and educational video. 5 clubs next!
Absolutely brilliant video! You hit me where it hurts and I love that. ❤❤❤
Mum wake up! Taylor uploaded
Hi Taylor, may I know your current 5-ball cascade PR? Last I saw was 3:45
Working on 5 now. Challenged a juggling priest last July to learn 5 ball by this July. Gotten great tips at juggling club meetup but your tips are the best. Taking a break to tinker with Mills Mess when your tut popped up a couple days ago. Just love your style Taylor! ❤
Thanks for this video. I'm one of the people that can't do 5-5-2 consistently but decided to grind away at 5 anyway and you definitely called me out. I'll get back to working on those drills.
Just got my Taylor Tries juggling balls. They are so nice. I only got three, five balls would be too many... for now. Anthony Gotto told me personally that I never have to do anymore than three. The number of 3 ball patterns is nearly endless. But perhaps someday. Thanks Taylor you are awesome!
Lookin forward to integrating these tips into my sessions! I find it super helpful to know that you think the timeline can be about two years ish! I’m pretty new to juggling and don’t know any jugglers so everything I try is kinda blind in terms of how long it might take me to pick up! I’ve been having fun just goofin off and noodin with new tricks until they start to click, some take me one session and others take a month or more! I find it such a fun process of discovery!
Anywho this is really a great video, thanks!
I was LITERALLY watching your 5 ball tutorial yesterday haha
Like many others in the comments I truly feel this one is made directly for me :) Thank you!
Muchas gracias! Te veo desde Argentina :D
hi I just wanted to say hi grateful I am for you since you taught me how to juggle and I’m enjoying it so much! I really hope I can get better so I’ll continue watching your videos but for now you’ve truly inspired me
Thank you Taylor... i've been working on a 5 ball cascade for 5 years now... yeah, do i feel broken. Still, my goal this year, like the last 5 years, is to have it down by new years'... sooo... i will do as you instructed, suck it up, and learn the 552... jeeesh! 🙏🏼🤙🏼
Thank you! The idea of slowing down was exactly what I need right now. I am stuck between 7 and 9 catches and could directly improve. One more thing in life that goes better if you relax a bit... And for sure: Trying each day a bit... we all know this, right?
THanks for your motivation.
Thank you for this!!!
Talor,thank you for your wisdom.
I think 5 ball cascade took me about 5 years to start getting consistent? Super satisfying in the end! As you said im sure i could have learned it faster but i just tinkered with it every once and awhile. Lots of great advice here!
Thank you so much
Super video again Taylor! I used 552 also a lot for learning 5, and still use it to recalibrate my system if my timing is off occasionally ;-) I think patience and consistency are the most important parts, some nerd genes or better obsession cannot hurt either :-)
Thank you for this excellent video!
Great tips! Five ball is on my wishlist. I’m at a stage in life, where I’m not sure i’ll get there. I don’t intend to stop trying, though, and these tips should help.
I know that just watching to be amazed, rather than learn, feels somewhat like cheating, but I'll never tire of seeing you casually do things that might as well be magic to me.
Thank you!
Perfect timing! I really need to get back into juggling, I’ve been off for far too long
TH-cam sent me this video notification 19 hours late.. anyway, TAYLOR UPLOAD AHHHHH
Thank you Taylor! I never juggled before but I watched this video and was able to juggle five balls!
Genuinely this has some really great advice, especially the first tip. Will have to employ that this evening.
Was cool to see dark Taylor there for a bit, I’ve never seen that before
I learned 5 ball cascade with your tutorial but I think I am strugling to get better so I appreciate a lot this video. Coming back to 3 and 4 balls exercices I have noted that where I live currently has a very low ceiling and it's very difficult not to hit it and then I realized that I only could some 5 balls catches because I rushed it in order to be able with less high so... I need to aply the 6th tip, high ceilings xD
Again, thanks a lot for your tutorials, I lost the habit of juggling but got back to it when I discovered you
Super cool video 🔥
You are sou great!! Thank youu
Hii Taylor. Im really happy u uploaded, i really love ur videos. I have learned 3 balls and other patterns , and also 4 balls , but i have a question. Can u go to 5 balls cascade by not learning 4 balls mills ? Cause, ive been trying to learn 4 ball mills but i get stuck in like little throws. I haven't been practicing it these months tho-😅. Im gonna start working on it! I really love juggling, and i really wanted to go to 5 ball cascade cause it sounds SO funn. Ur videos are really helpfull ,thanks so much ❤❤
Hey! I think 4 ball mess and 5 ball cascade are sort of similar in difficulty, but some people still find one much easier than the other. A lot of people never learn 4bmm, so you absolutely don’t need to learn it first! I honestly recommend working on them both, they’re both hard and take a long time, and they’re different enough that they won’t interfere with each other’s learning progress!
@@TaylorTries thanks so much for the reply. I really needed my question answered. Im gonna try 4bmm again, if i keep failing ill try the 5 ball cascade.
Wooo the videos are coming back
Hello! What camera and lens do you use? What program do you use to edit? Your videos are very beautiful.
Going back to hot potato and 552 because what you said makes perfect sense (and let's not kid ourselves I always do what you say in your videos).
I may have qualified 7 balls as I continue to learn how to juggle and on day will have it a video! Thanks for your dedication!❤
Hi, do you have a video on how to juggle seven balls?
Not there yet, still practicing 4 ball, but I love the tips. I'll get practicing. Thanks, Juggling Princess
I live the work you’ve done with The Jugglers Guide, I think it will be a boon to the juggling community!
I have a question about one of the products, but can’t find the Contact email for the site. Where can I ask that question?
Your back!!!
Thanks for the tips! I’m nowhere near getting to five balls, but I think this’ll help with the other tricks I’m learning also.
As a side note, are the new beanbags in the prop shop the same as your previous Zeekio pro balls? Thanks for all you do!
Nope! They are completely different beanbags. The Propworthy ones are meticulously designed by me, whereas the Zeekio ones were slight alterations to the original Zeekio beanbags. The Propworthy ones are intentionally less tight/full so they feel broken in right away, and they are also more durable. The new material also feels different, hard to explain exactly why but it’s a little more textured. The ‘Grip’ version is also really grippy in a wonderful way ☺️
Hopefully I can make a video on them soon!
@@TaylorTries Awesome, I'll have to try them out! Thanks.
HI Taylor, I am 65 and have wanted to learn Juggling since I was a kid. It has not come easy and wondering if there are people who just can't do it? Love your channel and looking for tips.
I’m 74. I started a few years ago. Progress was very slow. After almost a year I wondered if I just can’t do this. I now know about a dozen basic tricks and can hold up four for twenty or so catches. So I know now, retroactively, that I can do this. Now days working on a new pattern I wonder if I just can’t do this right now. :). Good luck with your juggling.
Hey Taylor, thanks so much for this. Really helpful. One little question: is 55550 as good an exercise for learning 5 ball as 552? I just find it much much easier for some reason.
Please make a tutorial for Burke's Bender 3 ball trick.
Now I have lost count of how many times I've requested you, I'll still wait.
I do hope to make one someday, but it’s a pattern that I personally need to re-learn again since I forgot how to do it. In the meantime, I’ve been trying to make tutorials on the more common tricks. But hopefully I can do Burkes Bender someday
@TaylorTries Do you plan on making more tutorials? I've been struggling to find other good tutorials. Your's are the only ones that are not grainy, are simple, actually show the trick multiple times, and do NOT over complicate things. Either way, I will be listening to your new podcast!
Hello Taylor and thank you for your advice which helped me a lot with 5 ball juggling. I started juggling very late, just before retirement. It took me several years to get there, now at around 60 throws. Needing all my concentration, I only count from time to time, in packs of 8, with the sound of each ball caught. My question is: what do you think of this video entitled "I learned to JUGGLE 5 BALLS in 25 DAYS for the ATHLETIC GAINS" by Thomas Underwood who, knowing only how to juggle a little 3 balls, would have managed to juggle for 10 seconds (>44 throws) in 25 days? I left him a comment expressing my doubt.
It’s certainly possible he could have achieved that, depending on his previous coordination experience (if he’s already learned a ton of other hand eye coordination activities it helps drastically), but even then it would have taken a lot of practice.
So he may have put 10 hours a day in and gotten 200+ hours of practice in a month. Who knows!
He also could have known three and four beforehand and fudged his progress for a video, because it’s a better story that way. Media and storytelling is never 100% true, especially that which is incentivized by money.
I think the important thing is to not look too much to other people for comparison, especially on the internet and especially when it comes to progress or skill. Be patient with yourself, and keep checking in on your progress and evaluating where you feel it should be for you based on your life and experience. And if you worry you aren’t able to accurately measure your progress, seek guidance from someone who understands it well ☺️
Plz do 3 ball shuffle tutorial
Do you have a tutorial for doing hot potatoe?
great advice! I always try to juggle 5 too fast and too low, and really neglect the 3/4 ball exercises... curious also where you get those colorful beanbags!
The beanbags are new prototypes from my company Prop Shop! We have a few colors available right now on theJugglingstore.com and the rest are going to available soon 😄
@@TaylorTries thank you!!!
Do you recommend any drills or siteswaps (similar to the hot potato and 442 from this video) to work towards 7 ball?
Super interesting! 🤩😀
Your previous lives were just too awesome💫!.....it will be great if you restrt doing them
Thanks a lot Taylor, I try to follow your tips (: btw. nice hair U looking good :)
Since this video came out, I quit being a baby about it and learned 552... it took a hot minute. Doing something related to 5 every day 😊
God damnit do you have to be so spot on? I just wanna throw the five balls for 5 seconds and fail miserably.
No but in reality you're so right. It's time to take it seriously, I've been taking up on juggling after 4 years of not throwin 'em balls at all. But I know already that this video will take me there if I've got the patience. Just have to find it, that's the hardest part.
I will get it I promise.
It's not just hard to *learn* 5 balls - even after you learn, it's hard to *improve*! I have been stuck at 20-40 catches for years now!
Do you recommend club jugglers learn 5 ball to help their eventual attempt at learning 5 clubs? Why isn’t called 552 if it’s right right left left ?
I personally almost always recommend learning a pattern with balls before clubs, there’s just less to go wrong. So yeah, for 5 clubs I personally recommend learning 5 balls first. But there certainly have been people who skip balls and go straight to clubs, so keep that in mind.
It’s called 552 because it’s two 5 height throws (right, left) then a 2, which is a pause, which makes you start the pattern again on the side that just threw (left, right)
So it’s 5 (right), 5 (left), 2 (technically right, but no throw), 5 (left), 5 (right), 2 (left pause/no throw) - repeat.
An easier way to think of it might be ‘right, left, pause, left, right, pause.’
I hope that helps 😅 it’s always hard to explain siteswap in words!
Please do Boston mess
I'm learning 5 ball cascade for about 3 months and right now I'm doing mostly 7 catches, rarely 8.
I gave 552 trick a try and found that it's harder than my 5 ball cascade. Cannot do more than 4 catches 😅
Why can't I run a mile?
Well, can you walk?
Nooooo.
:D
Love it!
Juggling 5 balls holds kind of a weird place for me, as I did things "wrong", I think. E.g., I didn't figure out the under tricks / exercises until after I learned to juggle 5 balls.
But I remember my intense juggling phase being, effectively, "I want to learn this trick", then metaphorically beating my head against a wall until it worked, then getting bored and moving on to the next trick.
And 5 balls was easier, conceptually, than a variety of other tricks. Just a matter of getting good throws with good timing.
But I also remember a _lot_ of time kneeling in front of a door, tossing the balls up, dropping everything, picking them up, and going again. Being able to get a consistent, accurate throw that's a bit higher takes a _lot_ of throws.
Anyway, if memory serves, I was doing five balls after about 3 months of intense practice, and then seven balls after about 2 years of intense practice, after which I stopped being quite so interested in doing intense practice. As spending 15-20 hours a week on juggling is quite the commitment. And both of those would be at the stage of having the basics down, not any threat to win a local endurance competition.
But I was _definitely_ learning lots of other stuff during the same time -- I was working on 3 and 4 ball tricks, and then would work on five balls, and it'd be an every day thing. So getting to five balls after two years of solid, but non-life-consuming practice does seem like a very solid pace.
Anyway, I liked the advice here, and it all seems good, even if my experience wound up being different, for better or worse.
Everyone’s experience is definitely different! And your experience brings up the important point that time is a strange way to measure progress. Someone can say they learned 5 balls in a year, or two years, or three months, and the amount of actual hours within those time spans might be very similar. The year person might have practiced a half hour a day, the three months person might have practiced 3 hours a day. One person might also have way more experience with coordination activities, for another person juggling might be the first activity that involved throwing and catching for them. It’s definitely all relative!
I do think regardless these tips would help anyone improve faster, but they certainly aren’t required to learn 5 😄 I didn’t do a lot of them when I learned 5, but I also had similar benefits that you seemed to have, like intense motivation and drive, more free time, and even physical flexibility and energy. Those can all definitely increase the speed at which you learn a pattern in juggling ☺️