improve my juggling

Since I’m not doing anything besides staying at home being a lazy lump for May, I’ve had plenty of time for it. I haven’t quite gotten up to once a day yet, but then again I’ve had a busy week (wedding of a friend, 21st birthday, etc.). Going to a meeting of the Atlanta Jugglers Association helped; I learned a few new things and I’ve been practicing more since then. I couldn’t go last week because of the poor air quality (forest fires to the south…yuck, smoke), but I hope to go again this week. Also helping have been the gifts my family so generously gave me for the aforementioned birthday…I got some beanbags (a little small, might get some of the bigger size), a 3” acrylic, a 73 mm steel contact ball, and some rings. Also, my girlfriend gave me a nice kite poi set. So far the poi have resulted in more bruising than anything, but I almost have one trick down.

Right now, at the start of the summer, I can:

• Juggle 3 balls proficiently in a cascade with a couple of tricks, & not at all in a fountain.
• Juggle 2 balls proficiently in the left hand, weakly in the right.
• Juggle 3 clubs pretty decently.
• Contact juggling-wise I can do a really basic 1/2 butterfly with my right hand, and all I can really do with the left is balance.
• I can spin a diabolo okay and do a couple of tricks, but not very well.

I hope to get a Poi pretty soon, as well as a larger acrylic that will hopefully make CJ easier. Since it’s the summer, though, I’ll have no excuse not to practice more.