Thanks dude! This was the exact video that I needed! So much curtail information for a beginner, it's super appreciated that you took the time to make this video!

Now I have to learn contact juggling.... Great...

@dawnqwerty

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking magician in crime.

Very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to film this.

This fellow reminds me of actor Montana Jordan who plays Georgie on the Young Sheldon sitcom. Excellent video on what works best in the beginning stages of contact juggling.👍

Thank you! I have a stage ball & fushigi ball, was looking to buy a sil-x... glad i'm making the right choice!!

I did what Floyd said, except all this information wasn't available to me whist I was starting out. I had to piece all this together from what I had read and with also an element of trial and error. Start out with a large weighty stage ball, like Floyd's silicone one, then move up to acrylics when you're not dropping it as much. I found that starting with an average multi-ball sized acrylic ball (60-70mm), after gaining a little proficiency with the rubber balls, was a lot easier than jumping straight in with a 100mm clear acrylic. Wow those big clear acrylics, everyone gawks at, weigh a ton! Great video!!

Great advice here this is exactly what i was after, I'm a fire twirler with 20+ years in the biz but new to contact work and was unsure about the sil-x its what ill go for for my practice ball now though after hearing that you recommend it thanks for the video !

I wish I saw your tutorial before my hubs and I picked up some balls. I really appreciate the way you get into detail and next payday, I'm going to take a look at the larger stage balls. I'm a tiny woman with small hands so I made a wild guess. I never took into account Mr. over here needing a larger ball. He hasn't had much of a chance to actually practice because of my mistake. Thanks again for your tutorials. :)

I started trying to learn contact juggling today...I now have the most bruised orange I've seen in my life.

Those chops just don't quit.

Finally! None of the other tutorials cover this. you rock!

If you wanna end up looking like this guy you better start contact juggling.

@flo7968

8 жыл бұрын

True :D

I'm just getting started, this was very helpful. Thank you!

Definitely gonna pick up some Sil-X stage balls. Would love to practice contact juggling along with my 3 ball juggling.

This was super helpful to a complete newbie!! Thank you!

Just to help anyone else out, I got a 100mm acrylic ball, I'm a 5'11 man but have pretty small hands, I found 100mm way too large so I bought an 80mm and it feels a million times better.

@CallOZooty69

9 жыл бұрын

I am the same height, I must have big hands! :D A 100mm is large, but not overly large. I found that working your way up through the size of ball helps your performance. So starting off with a small one and gaining a little proficiency with it, then moving on to a slightly larger ball; practicing with the smaller ball will help to gain stability and fluidity with the larger ball. The 100mm ball, when sat in the centre of my palm, sticks out a little over the edges or my hand; it was not possible to palm spin nor isolate with, when I first started CJ with acrylics! Now the 100mm ball is not a problem, and actually one of my favourites to work with :)

wow, thanks for the info....very helpful with some of the jargon and with picking a ball just starting out

this is really helpful in deciding what to use. im only just starting i hope with enough practice that i can get really good at it.

I like the part where he talked about "ball work."

Just the video I was looking for. I was looking for some starter tips and you gave me all I needed. Thanks! :D

Very awesome overview. I found a beginners guide to contact ball juggling in a used book store except it says nothing about the ball itself. Thank you!

I love the fact that you use so much time on trashing the tennis ball :)

Thank you for this, I've just bought myself that white one. I'll see how I do. Great help.

Informative! Just starting out, thanks for the direction!

The best weight is the one you feel comfortable with. It depends on where you go with your juggling. A 4 inch acrylic ball can weigh about 1.5 pounds, which can be heavy for small hands or thin fingers like mine. After much practice, I can comfortably use a 4 inch acrylic. However, I feel more comfortable using a 2.75-3.5 inch ball. If I'm working with a single ball, the 3.5 inch acrylic is my favorite to play with. However, for multiball work and palm spinning, 2.75 (about half a pound)

i'm so glad i watched your vid before hurting myself. I'm prone to rsi's already and bought these beautiful 4 inch glitter and water (i think it's water) filled balls from a dollar store. they probably weigh about 2-4 pds. kind of heavy. i'm a beginning hooper and was interested in learning some simple juggling tricks. i won't continue with these. i will probably knock myself out or bring back the tendonitis monsters or worse. lol you probably saved me, lol thanks so much.

awesome tutorials keep them coming

Thank you for the video. Definitely helpful!

excellent video. thanks. renegade juggling has an excellent dvd on contact juggling that I found.

Good video. Also, nice mugs in the background. ;)

This was so helpful! Thank you!

Thanx alot. Good Overview for starting this.

Great video, I've wanted to start contact juggling for a while but was unsure what to get for a starter ball

Thank you so much you answered all of my questions :]

Thanks I have been using an orange for a few years now but now I realize that there are others, I never would have know thanks

thanks man, this was very helpful

Thanks Mr. Zamarripa (love your name), very informative!

I'm sure it's fine to work with. It's not so much a problem as it takes some time for your hands to build up the muscle strength and be comfortable with using that ball. I remember my first 4" ball felt like I had a bowling ball on my hand :(

Hey, I think I will get the Sil-X ball - thanks for the informative video! I actually found out about contact juggling just today, the Fushigi looked interesting so I looked it up and to my dismay, it doesn't float. Good thing I didn't buy it. But I'm interested in poi/skill toy things in general so it'll be fun. :)

Nice videos! I really want to get into contact juggling.

Ordered a 4” acrylic for my 7.5” hands thinking it’ll be perfect for a beginner. It’s pretty heavy. Going to practice with a Sil-X and a 3” acrylic instead.

Great info. Thanks!

Very easy to follow! Wish you could do tutorials on everything

LOL the acrylics he starts off saying the balls weight is perfect and a few minutes into it he changes his mind and says "the weights not TOO bad"

@FOREVERxSWIFT hah, I actually preferred and bought both! :D Anyways, choose a color that you like, they all look amazing (every color I've seen has always looked 10 times better than what they show in a picture online) Like I mention in the video, a good 4" stage ball is something you'll probably end up buying anyways, and it's pretty cheap. If you want to jump into acrylic straight away, I'd get a 3 or a 4".

@AkaCakeMaster No problem, thanks for watching! They are 2.75 inches, the cloest in mm would be a 70mm with 75mm (closer to 3") being a standard that many CJers start with.

@Dracomancer3 A lacrosse ball used to be the old standby for starting since they can be foud at sporting goods stores, they are a little small tho and with the ubiquity of stage balls at online jugglig stores it is usually better to shop online. As far as filled tennis balls go: much much worse than an empty. It alters the roll too much.

I have really tiny hands, but I'd still recommend a 4" for stage ball and a 3" for single ball acrylic with a 4" once you build up some hand strength

Thanks for the video!

Good tips!

I actually started out with Chinese zen balls when I was little (about 7 or 8 years old) They're great weight wise and size wise for beginners in my opinion, but they do have incredibly noticeable tell marks. They also make a lot of noise since there are bells inside them. I've since moved on to the fushigee acrylic balls, for better or worse, and I will often practice with fruits when available.

Veyr helpful! Thanks!

You don't have to at all, it's all up to personal style. Most people begin with single ball, if for only the reason that multiball still requires at least that first ball :D This is simplified if you make your first ball a 3" acrylic. It's convenient for 1 ball CJ and you will still be able to multiball with a set of 3" balls.

Thanks for the video, off to buy my first ball! (Small hands, Sil-x 2.75) at renegade. If you need some help with preventing RSI, I can highly recommend Sharon Butler's "Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (and other RSI)". I love it because it has a section on exercises to PREVENT injury, listed by profession. It's kept me working for the past 16 years! Thanks again for wonderful vids!

@TheElement04 Unless you have a juggling supply or magic store in your town, you may have to settle for sporting goods stores. Try picking up a lacrosse ball (standardized size and weight), a mini soccer ball for bodyrolls or even better if you can find it a rhythmic gymnastics ball.

Ty, now i know what kind of ball i need to buy to start contact junggling

all i could afford were lacrosse balls and they work pretty well but their surface texture makes multi ball juggling a lil tough

You know what they say about guys with small hands.. They have smaller balls.

@sean8144

8 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHA

@jajuggler14 The sloshing motion of the silicone lubricant can actually hinder a stall. However, it does help with catches (say, from outer elbow to the other outer elbow).

Thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you. :)

thanks a bunch for the Silx i was curious about it :)

I have this foam rubber baseball I use. I think it's good for a beginner like me .

those are some nice balls there man

@jajuggler14 Aside from that, Play is a prop company from Italy that is now producing a stage ball that has more heft to it. It clocks in at about 260grams and can be found at jugglingstore and neonhusky as a Contact Stage Ball.

@TheHaZMaTBand, I have small hands and use 2.75" acrylics. I should have bought 3" though, they look better in the hands

yes. i lovfe those. and if your new you can get a giant maybe 4.5" one and its mucgh easier

I dig, good video

for tennis balls, you cazn cut a hole in it (small one) and fill it with lead shot. then wrap it up in electrical tape. works great and lasts long great for practice

@illusionists1 , a 2.75 inch will run about $16. I'd go with a 3" though for about $20 and a 4" will cost around $36 usd

It's a 4 inch rubber stage ball filled with silicone lubricant called a Sil-X.

@SnaipaSpottage Should be fine, my pink one feels pretty light and is only 160 grams and yet it's one of my favorite balls. Just remember to practice each move as slow as possible. Lighter balls can be difficult to control at high speeds.

@DeI2anGeD Okay thanks for the help. Im on a tight budget, so I was only able to order myself some 2.5 aka 65mm. I got 4, hopefully I bought the right kind

@DtGrL100 Sil-X balls are produced by Play Juggling, an Italian company. You can purchase them in the US at jugglingstore and neonhusky

cool, thanks

Nice breakdown of the ball types man. I like the sil-x but just ordered a play stage ball. I've heard some folks say they don't want onlookers accusing them of having some gimmick in the ball that makes the "tricks" possible. So they don't use the sil-x for street performances.

Thanks

he knows his balls very well

Good review. Maybe in a future video you'll cover stainless steel balls, for practice and performance. They can be polished so that there are few tell marks from a distance, they're inexpensive, and light enough to play for extended periods.

@thepieguy34 , Go with a 4 inch. 3 will be a bit too light

i have had sil-x and the mb 125mm body rolling ball my self. mb was a far better ball but if you like the size of a 100 mm ball and dont want a liquid inside the you might try a dube extera thick contact ball. man i love mine and will never go back to sil x. i got ink on it and it washed off. the waight is great to. this is a extra heavy stage ball . loving it :) have fun and dont stop playing it keeps you young :)

@aslyter45 the ball inside is not placed exactly inside, and since im pretty sure the 2 balls have different weights, that means a center of gravtiy not in the middle, therefore when you spin fast, you can tell that it is spinning. The ball inside was a really stupid idea. The material is okay though

my friend briught his ball to school lst week and it was a tennis ball, what he did was to open it and put dirt in it then rap it in tape and it worker perfectly and he was telling me about this video but i want to know should i do wat he did or try and buy one of the balls cas i live jamaica

That orange killed me xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD i laufer too hard :'D

onions can be nice as they are round and rather heavy, but once the skin starts breaking, you have to peel it off. add to that a few hard drops and it (and your hands) will start to smell oniony.

@silverback7734 Right, I definitely agree with you on these points. I just meant they aren't absolutely terrible for toss juggling compared to their usage in contact juggling. Like, I can do The Box with tennis balls. A can not, however, do a bridge roll (outer elbow stall, roll up the arms over the head, transfer across, roll back down to an outer elbow stall on the other arm...) with a tennis ball. :D So, they are -definitely- worst for CJ than they are for toss juggling. Worst toss? Scarves.

@survivorman0824 There is a product called Novus fine scratch remover that you can get to remove scratches and abrasions. Costs about $4.

what am I doing with my life?

@thecosmosbear

7 жыл бұрын

Le'Onto P , You found yourself here for a reason. Commit! it's what the Goblin King would have wanted.

@Bazhul

7 жыл бұрын

hahahah thank you, very comforting!

@shibby1998

7 жыл бұрын

Erin Clark goblin king ! Goblin king !

sure, for practicing, but make sure you don't break anything, since they're kind hard and heavy! :)

lmao at the sideburns

@JOMIZZO to small and its got numbers on it to show when doing spin levitation!

@DreamsofCentaurs lol I totally agree;)

Great informative video. What size of hands would be considered small?

@DeI2anGeD That is true, and it is good for practice for beginners, right?

Okay :D Thanks for replying! :-D

THANKS!!! I will start practicing with my stage balls. Do the rythmic grmnasts who compete with contact body rolls and ribbons and hoops use the same kind of balls, i.e., stage or silicon? FWIW I have bony hands so I juggle with 3 and 6 inch koosh balls. They are soft, but asymetic, so they actually be mistraining me. Meigs

some oriental kid in a video got me here.this is some cool shit

to be honest when he did the weird tricks with the tennis ball it looked better than the ceramic and solid balls

Really awesome video very informative can you recommend me a site where i can get one of those i leave in the caribbean so i dont know where to shop for them thanks!

Hi. Great video! Question: Have you ever used the Mister Babache "Body Rolling" Ball? I was curious how the Sil-X contact juggling balls feel, and how they compare to the Body Rolling Ball (which I own)? Since the Sil-X ball is filled with the liquid, do you feel the liquid inside slows down the ball at all when using it, with the liquid "sloshing" around inside, making it a "slower" ball to use when contact juggling?