One thing that I've found really helps to solidify a pattern is watching your partner. This is especially helpful when your partner is more experienced than you. For example when I was first learning 7 singles I was really struggling but when I finally started watching my partner I found it much easier. It helped me match his pace but also helped me copy what he was doing.
I've become a juggler while around dozens of other jugglers, and passing is just second nature to me. There are so many points in this tutorial that I realized people who rarely get to pass don't know of. (up-downs, etiquette, etc.) This will help me teach a lot better.
I learned this way, but I now exclusively teach the 5-club ultimate way. I think it's better for a lot of reasons, but the biggest is in the uniformity of the pattern. Think of it this way, when you're learning to juggle, your basic cascade is every throw is exactly the same. This is how we should think of passing, the most basic passing pattern should be ultimates, because if the goal is to learn how to pass, then all those self-throws breaking up the passing is disrupting the learning. 5-club ultimates is the lowest pattern that has a time pressure because there's 1 more object than hands. We don't teach people half-shower or jugglers tennis first when they learn 3 balls, but that's kinda what we're doing when we teach 4-count and 2-count when they start passing. I find that when people learn the ultimates way, they progress much more quickly to 6 and 7 club ultimates and other ambidextrous patterns than those that learned the right-hand only method (myself included). It took me years to break a lot of bad habits from right-handed only passing. I'm looking forward to the 5-club ultimates tutorial because there's not a lot of good videos teaching that method, I've really only seen the passing pedagogy site, it seems like this is something that's really only taught in person.
I agree, I learned this way as well but prefer to teach the 5 Club Ultimates way for the reasons you mentioned! It's important to learn this way, but I find the 5C Ultimates so much easier and accessible for beginners. It allows you to learn how to throw and catch a pass without having to do a solo juggle at the same time :) And yeah as you said there are very little resources on the 5C Ultimates method, so I hope my tutorial on it will be helpful!
@@TaylorTries It also avoids some bad habits. A lot of beginner passers look up for the pass and then go back to looking at their own pattern for the self throws. When they look away, they end up following their own rhythm instead of looking at their partner and synching the timing from their feedback. With ultimates, the only place to look at is your partner and they must react to the incoming pass to clear their hand, if they predict the throw they end up throwing too early and getting collisions. Learning with ultimates makes the passer much more reactive, which is key to being a strong passer. They need to learn to hold onto the clubs until the incoming pass forces a throw to empty the hand. Occasionally, I'll even throw to the wrong hand to make sure they understand that their pass should be a reaction to the pass coming in, which keeps the pattern slow and manageable. This is also why I try to teach Jim's counts and mixed counts (4vs3, 3vs2, etc.) as soon as they can handle them. After my students learn 5-club ultimates, I assess their skills with solo juggling. If they can juggle a 3-club cascade while looking at me through it, I then teach them 3-count and color code the passes to make it easier for them. From there, learning 4-count and 2-count is pretty trivial. If they can't solo juggle a 3-club cascade while looking through, I just go straight to 6-club ultimates. It's not too much more difficult and it introduces them passing at the same time as their partner.
Awesome reference guide. I forgotten a lot of terminology and how things work since learning to pass awhile ago. I'm gonna watch this a few more times. Thanks Taylor! Thanks Mark!
Another outstanding tutorial. I'm still concentrating on ball juggling but hope dust off the clubs this Spring. So much to learn, so little time. Merry Christmas
I love passing, but since we moved to a small town in Europe followed by Covid lockdowns I've been unsuccessful in finding other jugglers. My hope now is for my 3 year old to start juggling ...
The best christmas present ever... a new video from my favorite youtuber ever You literally taught me all i know about juggling. I never would have found my passion if you never did youtube. :D
If you have a different colored club in your left hand and slow start, then on a 6 count it's always the odd colored club that is passed. That's how I got around losing count in the 6 count
Hahaha Mark tried to convince me to include that in the video but I found it too confusing so I gave up 😅 He will be pleased to see someone mentioned it hehehe
Something I have personally found really helpful whilst passing is trying to through "through" your partners hand as if they are a ghost and you are trying to get it behind them.
Very minor typo: safey should be safety. Thanks again for the video. Great stuff and makes clear the names people use for all of these aspects of passing. I usually do the 5 ball passing when people are starting out with balls. I think it helps them start out.
Hi Taylor this is Atticus Abraham I am a juggler magician and ventriloquist In Crossville Tennessee and thanks to you I am juggling 5 objects like balls and rings and I can’t really do 5 clubs yet but maybe you could make a tutorial on it.I have a lot of mentors my uncle,a professional juggler who does seven balls,my dad is my manager,and I know a magician named Matthew Durham who also juggles I would love to contact you soon and talk to you more about juggling
Great video! This is something I've really wanted to learn! Sorry, I have a really strange question that's kind of personal, so you totally don't have to answer, and I don't really expect you to. But would you happen to be anywhere on the ace and/or aro spectrum?
Deleted my previous reply because I realized I was mistaken. I currently identify as demisexual, and I didn’t realize that was commonly considered on the ace spectrum! So I suppose the answer to your question is yes ☺️
Nice video! Any chance we'll get some 7 club passing tips in the near future? It's one pattern me and my partner have never figured out and we don't have a teacher. I've heard it's just six with one person off by a half beat but we can't seem to make that happen.
Absolutely! 7 clubs isn't too tough once you figure it out but it can be weird to learn without proper help. Ill try to make a tutorial on it in the near future if I can get Delaney to do it with me :D If it helps, the way I always try to get the timing right is to have Juggler A (holding 4 clubs) throw a double to Juggler B, and when their double is at it's peak then Juggler B throws a double. From there the timing should be pretty correct and you just throw -double spin pass / self - over and over. I always had a hard time understanding the "half beat" thing so I always just look for the first throw to be at it's peak and throw when it starts falling. Not sure if that helps at all :)
At the moment I usually use Radfactor Russian balls, but when I use beanbags I use the Taylor Tries Pro beanbags. They’re not too soft or too hard and have a great feeling to them :)
Gol-durned millennials -- IT'S A SHOWER!!! :) Great tutorial. I learned a few things about how to better teach, and a couple things my old-school brain needed to update. Thanks!
I've never seen people practice 6 beat patterns. Always 4, with 2 beat being in mass group patterns. Surprised you didn't mention some people call 2 beat solids.
One thing that I've found really helps to solidify a pattern is watching your partner. This is especially helpful when your partner is more experienced than you. For example when I was first learning 7 singles I was really struggling but when I finally started watching my partner I found it much easier. It helped me match his pace but also helped me copy what he was doing.
I've become a juggler while around dozens of other jugglers, and passing is just second nature to me. There are so many points in this tutorial that I realized people who rarely get to pass don't know of. (up-downs, etiquette, etc.) This will help me teach a lot better.
Can you teach back to back passing
I learned this way, but I now exclusively teach the 5-club ultimate way. I think it's better for a lot of reasons, but the biggest is in the uniformity of the pattern. Think of it this way, when you're learning to juggle, your basic cascade is every throw is exactly the same. This is how we should think of passing, the most basic passing pattern should be ultimates, because if the goal is to learn how to pass, then all those self-throws breaking up the passing is disrupting the learning. 5-club ultimates is the lowest pattern that has a time pressure because there's 1 more object than hands. We don't teach people half-shower or jugglers tennis first when they learn 3 balls, but that's kinda what we're doing when we teach 4-count and 2-count when they start passing.
I find that when people learn the ultimates way, they progress much more quickly to 6 and 7 club ultimates and other ambidextrous patterns than those that learned the right-hand only method (myself included). It took me years to break a lot of bad habits from right-handed only passing. I'm looking forward to the 5-club ultimates tutorial because there's not a lot of good videos teaching that method, I've really only seen the passing pedagogy site, it seems like this is something that's really only taught in person.
I agree, I learned this way as well but prefer to teach the 5 Club Ultimates way for the reasons you mentioned! It's important to learn this way, but I find the 5C Ultimates so much easier and accessible for beginners. It allows you to learn how to throw and catch a pass without having to do a solo juggle at the same time :) And yeah as you said there are very little resources on the 5C Ultimates method, so I hope my tutorial on it will be helpful!
@@TaylorTries It also avoids some bad habits. A lot of beginner passers look up for the pass and then go back to looking at their own pattern for the self throws. When they look away, they end up following their own rhythm instead of looking at their partner and synching the timing from their feedback. With ultimates, the only place to look at is your partner and they must react to the incoming pass to clear their hand, if they predict the throw they end up throwing too early and getting collisions.
Learning with ultimates makes the passer much more reactive, which is key to being a strong passer. They need to learn to hold onto the clubs until the incoming pass forces a throw to empty the hand. Occasionally, I'll even throw to the wrong hand to make sure they understand that their pass should be a reaction to the pass coming in, which keeps the pattern slow and manageable. This is also why I try to teach Jim's counts and mixed counts (4vs3, 3vs2, etc.) as soon as they can handle them.
After my students learn 5-club ultimates, I assess their skills with solo juggling. If they can juggle a 3-club cascade while looking at me through it, I then teach them 3-count and color code the passes to make it easier for them. From there, learning 4-count and 2-count is pretty trivial. If they can't solo juggle a 3-club cascade while looking through, I just go straight to 6-club ultimates. It's not too much more difficult and it introduces them passing at the same time as their partner.
I recently learned scrambled Y it was great
Awesome reference guide. I forgotten a lot of terminology and how things work since learning to pass awhile ago. I'm gonna watch this a few more times. Thanks Taylor! Thanks Mark!
Great video, could you teach more partner juggling
Awesome video (as usual), Taylor! Can’t wait to try this out being a fellow juggler myself 😃!
Another outstanding tutorial. I'm still concentrating on ball juggling but hope dust off the clubs this Spring. So much to learn, so little time. Merry Christmas
Incredible madam...... You are my inspiration.....
I love passing, but since we moved to a small town in Europe followed by Covid lockdowns I've been unsuccessful in finding other jugglers. My hope now is for my 3 year old to start juggling ...
It finally came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ps can you upload this whole week?
The best christmas present ever... a new video from my favorite youtuber ever
You literally taught me all i know about juggling. I never would have found my passion if you never did youtube. :D
Thanks, i want more vidéos of passing , continue please
I learnt a lot, thank you Taylor and friend
4:11 I often let my hand slide to the knob.
Great tutorial as usual. Makes me miss passing with a group.
Absolutely wonderful and awesome tutorial Thanks a lot
Great tutorial. If I can ever get my daughter to start practicing, we’ll definitely try some of these passes.
If you have a different colored club in your left hand and slow start, then on a 6 count it's always the odd colored club that is passed. That's how I got around losing count in the 6 count
Hahaha Mark tried to convince me to include that in the video but I found it too confusing so I gave up 😅 He will be pleased to see someone mentioned it hehehe
@@TaylorTries LOL Mark is wise :p
Something I have personally found really helpful whilst passing is trying to through "through" your partners hand as if they are a ghost and you are trying to get it behind them.
As if the hardest part of this isn't finding someone to juggle with XD
#accurate :D
Hey u are u still jamming kendama I hope so an I hope u have a grate Christmas 🎄 an happy new years 😊
Very minor typo: safey should be safety. Thanks again for the video. Great stuff and makes clear the names people use for all of these aspects of passing. I usually do the 5 ball passing when people are starting out with balls. I think it helps them start out.
Hahaha DANG IT. There always has to be one mistake in the tutorials I guess 😅
Thank you very much, will have to find a partner soon
Hi Taylor this is Atticus Abraham I am a juggler magician and ventriloquist In Crossville Tennessee and thanks to you I am juggling 5 objects like balls and rings and I can’t really do 5 clubs yet but maybe you could make a tutorial on it.I have a lot of mentors my uncle,a professional juggler who does seven balls,my dad is my manager,and I know a magician named Matthew Durham who also juggles I would love to contact you soon and talk to you more about juggling
By the way I’m only twelve years old and won a talent contest in my home town and it is all thanks to you thanks bye
Mob love from kenya 🇰🇪
Hello! What balls do you recommend?
Hello, good afternoon, somewhere where they teach sircos and juggling classes here in the United States.
Ball passing please😊 I'm so bad with clubs lol
Where is 5 clubs ultimate passing video you spoke of?
Great video! This is something I've really wanted to learn!
Sorry, I have a really strange question that's kind of personal, so you totally don't have to answer, and I don't really expect you to. But would you happen to be anywhere on the ace and/or aro spectrum?
Deleted my previous reply because I realized I was mistaken. I currently identify as demisexual, and I didn’t realize that was commonly considered on the ace spectrum! So I suppose the answer to your question is yes ☺️
@@TaylorTries That's so cool!
Is there a passing club in Salt Lake City?
Nice video! Any chance we'll get some 7 club passing tips in the near future? It's one pattern me and my partner have never figured out and we don't have a teacher. I've heard it's just six with one person off by a half beat but we can't seem to make that happen.
Absolutely! 7 clubs isn't too tough once you figure it out but it can be weird to learn without proper help. Ill try to make a tutorial on it in the near future if I can get Delaney to do it with me :D
If it helps, the way I always try to get the timing right is to have Juggler A (holding 4 clubs) throw a double to Juggler B, and when their double is at it's peak then Juggler B throws a double. From there the timing should be pretty correct and you just throw -double spin pass / self - over and over. I always had a hard time understanding the "half beat" thing so I always just look for the first throw to be at it's peak and throw when it starts falling. Not sure if that helps at all :)
Awesome!
Hey Taylor :) What beanbags did you use for the shower and 4 ball mills mess (among others)?
At the moment I usually use Radfactor Russian balls, but when I use beanbags I use the Taylor Tries Pro beanbags. They’re not too soft or too hard and have a great feeling to them :)
@@TaylorTries Thank you :) also by shower and 4 ball mills I meant the tutorial but I forgot to type it 😅 which ones did you use in those videos?
Gol-durned millennials -- IT'S A SHOWER!!! :) Great tutorial. I learned a few things about how to better teach, and a couple things my old-school brain needed to update. Thanks!
Our club has made our base pattern a 3 count
Hi tailor
hi
In my youth I passed juggling balls with my brother.
I've one question. I learned the 5 ball Mills mess and now I don't know this :
Is a fake mess with five balls possible ?
Definitely possible! I’ve never seen it but I’d assume you’d do it with a 726 siteswap ☺️
@@TaylorTries thank you Very much
I've never seen people practice 6 beat patterns. Always 4, with 2 beat being in mass group patterns.
Surprised you didn't mention some people call 2 beat solids.
I've actually never heard the term solids before! good to know some people use it, I'll put it in my notes for future terminology videos :)
@@TaylorTries in pretty sure that's what mid west uses. Been 6 years since I've been with others for terminology
Me wanting to do this and realising I don’t have a partner and clubs 😂
please reply to my comment because im going through a hard time at the moment and i would really appreciate it
please reply to my comment because im going through a hard time at the moment and i would really appreciate it
please reply to my comment because im going through a hard time at the moment and i would really appreciate it
please reply to my comment because im going through a hard time at the moment and i would really appreciate it