The Benefits Of Juggling
Would you like to improve your hand-eye coordination, focused concentration, and have a great experience? Try learning to juggle. Start with the three ball cascade. It is one of the easiest tricks to learn. Once you’ve mastered some fun patterns with three balls, try four, then five. Maybe you will even get to six and seven. While you're learning that, get some other juggling items, such as clubs and rings. Maybe even juggling torches. It will help you greatly with many skills and you will have fun once you can juggle with dexterity. There are many benefits you can get from juggling that you probably never knew about.
"Juggling improves hand-eye coordination, focused concentration, goal setting skills, and learning to juggle may even cause some areas of your brain to grow.” “Learning to Juggle helps with brain development, movement and vision as well.” “And yes juggling is a workout. Juggling works your shoulders, arms, upper back and more.” “While juggling you can burn almost 300 calories per hour, just about the same as walking." Just think if you juggle and walk at the same time!
"Juggling builds hand-eye coordination that improves reaction time, reflexes, strategic thinking, and concentration. Hand-eye coordination also builds catching ability, that could improve your athletic performances in many sports." If juggling improves hand-eye coordination and hand-eye coordination improves strategic thinking, does strategic thinking help you with chess?
It likely does!
“Focused concentration is another benefit you can get from juggling.” "Focusing on multiple objects in the air and the pattern at the same time works both sides of the brain." Thus helping focused concentration.
Does juggling actually make your brain bigger? A study in the journal Nature found “that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow. With each new trick you learn in juggling changes your brain structure even more. Juggling is shown to increase gray matter density in the brain, helping you to think faster and in new ways!” “Some people say juggling may help with reading skills as well.”
There was a certain boy who learned to juggle about seven years ago. His brother had taken up the skill and he was teaching him how to juggle. First the boy learned to juggle three balls then four then five. So far that's as many as he's gotten. But, his brother has a greater skill at juggling and can juggle an astonishing seven balls at the same time.
It has been fun over the years for the two brothers, they even have juggling records kept on paper for their house. If one of them gets a record the other tries to beat it. Sometimes he succeeds, other times he does not. Sometimes a record can go back and forth quite a bit.
They have performed in some talent shows as well, including this year (2023) where they took second place at the county fair. The brothers, known as the Dexterous Duo when performing, went on to perform at the State Fair. So not a month passed before they were wandering about the fairgrounds, awaiting the time for "showtime." When it was almost time for the Dexterous Duo to perform they went backstage. They practiced some before it was time to start performing.
He had made signs for the show instructing the audience what to do. He calls it: "audience control." After they had finished the final act, he held up two signs. One read: Stand up the other Clap.
That was the first year the Dexterous Duo had done a talent show for some years. Unfortunately, they didn’t win but it was a great experience them.
The boy didn’t learn to juggle because of the benefits, but after seven years of juggling you can probably imagine how much his hand-eye coordination has improved. It not only has helped him catch juggling balls, but footballs and baseballs too. Imagine what juggling could do for you! Imagine how good your hand-eye coordination would be. Imagine all the benefits you could get. Don’t let your chance go by!
Truly juggling has great benefits. "Estimates say only about 21 percent of the general public can juggle." And you could add to that. Juggling is a great and fun experience. You can even make your own juggling balls; find instructions online.
If you learned how to juggle just think of all the benefits you could earn. Maybe you don’t want to take the time out of your day to learn to master juggling. But if you do learn, it will be worth it. Not only will you get many benefits but you will have fun while you're learning; juggling for hours on end trying to beat a world record, or just a personal record of your own.
Just remember if and when you learn to juggle, it will be beneficial. You can find the time that is required. Try practicing fifteen minutes a day. But DON'T give up on the first day or the first week or month. What would have happened if the boy had given up? All of his great experiences that he has had in juggling would never have happened. Not only that, all the benefits that he has gotten from juggling would have been wasted. You don’t want to waste those benefits, do you? What benefits are you going to get from wasting time during your day? Next time when you don’t have anything to do, remember you could be learning to juggle and earning numerous benefits. The boy and his brother were more than willing to give juggling a try. The question is “Are you?”
Works Cited
Juggling Benefits for Students. City of Lakes Waldorf School.
Journal Nature study.
Iowa State University. Use it or lose it: Juggling to Sharpen your Mind (and Body).
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