Prodigy

Sometimes when you teach something to someone, it's more like they already know and you're just reminding them.  That's how it was yesterday when I taught Junior to juggle. I usually expect to spend an hour drilling the basic moves, before we even start with three balls.

In junior's case he had the basic throw down in minutes. And he learned a two ball switch in just a few minutes more.  It seemed way too early to introduce the third ball, but he had the switch down cold, so it was time.

I reviewed the basic moves with him, then told him go for it. And on the first toss. He got a solid one, two three sequence.  He stopped then, shocked. There's a look you see on a person's face when they get it for the first time.  The look that says, "I didn't know it was going to feel like that".  Junior had that look, and it was a happy thing to see.

We juggled for about an hour after that, me working on clubs and a new pattern, Junior working on the three ball throws.  His hands get high, still, because he's reaching up for the balls.  This makes his throws go out ahead of him, so he's a sprinting juggler, but a juggler none the less. That's him in the pic, right hand column.

Count one more juggler in the world today.