Club juggling.

When I bought my first set of clubs, I had already juggled balls for several years and had a fairly solid five ball cascade. I wanted to start over with something new, and learn the easy stuff again. Well, it wasn't as easy as I had hoped, but it was fun! Club juggling feels 'bigger' than ball juggling. You need a lot of space juggling clubs, you break things easily, they make more noise when they hit the floor... This all makes you feel a little bit more important :)

If you're thinking of buying a set of clubs, know that they are very expensive. Maybe you want to make some instead?

When you start practicing the three club cascade, the easiest way is to juggle three balls, then replace the balls with clubs, one by one.

First be familiar with just one club. Hold it in your hand, not by the end of the club but closer to the middle. This gives you more control of the club. Throw the club from hand to hand, making one whole revolution before you catch it. When it feels natural, pick up two beanbags and juggle a cascade with two balls and a club. This will let you relax between the club throws without loosing the rythm.

When you feel you're good enough at that, replace one of the beanbags with another club and juggle. Now you need to throw the clubs faster to be able to throw two clubs in a row, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

When you're getting bored, pick up all three clubs and give it a shot. To start with two clubs in one hand, you hold them like this:

This is how you hold the clubs with your right hand.

This is how you hold two clubs with your right hand. In your left hand they should be held mirrored.

When you can do the cascade, you'll want to learn some tricks. Throw clubs with a double spin. You'll probably need to be outside or in a room with a high ceiling. Throwing under the leg is not very hard. You could also start working on two in one hand. The one up, two up is a good practice for that. If your hands get too bruised or everything seems too difficult at the moment, you could practice some non-juggling club tricks, the kickup or flourishing for example.

If you are good at the Mills Mess with balls, you can try to do it with clubs. It takes a little while, but it's definitely worth it. Since you have done most of the work when you learnt it with balls, it's not as hard as it looks.