If you want to learn to juggle three balls & a host of tricks you've come to the right place. Here you will find detailed instructions on how to do over a hundred three ball tricks & patterns from the very simple to the very difficult. All tutorials are interlinked, if a particular juggling pattern involves a specific move that is explained in more detail in another tutorial a link will be provided.
If you are a complete beginner in the world of juggling you may want to read about Making your own juggling balls or Where to juggle. For your first step in juggling start with The Cascade. If you can already juggle just dive in anywhere.
The Basics
- The Cascade
- Over the top
- Under the arm
- High throws
- Clawing
- Two in one hand (inside, outside & columns)
Simple Tricks
- Juggler's Tennis
- Half Shower
- Reverse Cascade
- Three ball flash
- Overhead cascade
- Body bounces
- Columns
- The Yo-Yo (Plus Oy-oy & Dummy Elevator)
- Crossed arm reverse cascade
- Rainbow Cross
- Chops
- Roll along the arm
Special Throws
Special Catches
- Clawing
- Under the arm catch
- Under the leg catch
- Behind the back catch
- Behind the head catch
- Shoulder trap
- Neck Catch
- Foot Catch
- Elbow Catch (catch a ball in the crook of the elbow)
- Elbow Tip Catch (catch a ball on the tip of your elbow with the arm bent)
- Penguin Catch
- Fork Catch
Fork Tricks
Mills Mess & Variations
- Mills Mess
- Half Mess
- Fake Mess
- Mills Mess with reverse cascade insert
- Mills Mess with shower insert
- Mills Mess with spiral add on
- Spiral Mess
- 441 Mess
- 531 Mess
- Three reverses variation
- Inverse Mess
- Flo's Mess
- Mills Simultaneous 1 (Matt's Mess)
- Mills Simultaneous 2
- Mills Simultaneous 3
- Catch & throw under the opposite arm
- Boston Mess
- Mills Triplex
Shower & Box Stuff
- Shower
- The Box
- Swap Box
- 441 (Parallel Schizophrenia)
- Shuffle
- Luke's Shuffle
- Statue of Liberty
- Pass under shower
- Peter's Shuffle
- Eriksson's Shuffle
- Spiral
- Reverse Spiral
- Shower Cascade
- Push Box
Other Fancy Patterns
- The Crossunder
- The Reverse Crossunder
- Factory
- Relf's Factory
- Crossed arm Factory
- 531
- 45141
- 504
- Spiral
- Crossed arm tennis
- Burke's Barrage
- Burke's Slam
- Burke's Orbit
- Rubenstein's Revenge
- Mike's Mess
- Figure Eight
- Double Eight
- The Slice
- Carry to the opposite elbow
- Catch & carry over the top
- 423 Orbit
- The Follow
- Two hand weave
- Relf's Revenge
- Relf's Revenge 6
- Relf's Rubensteins
- Orinoco Flow
- Harrison's Hang
- Dave's Dilemma
- Reverse Chops
- Gandini follow/orbit
- Luke's Lobotomy
- Half Contortionist
- Sandbox Shuffle
- Magnets
- Rolf's Wave
- Jay's Jumble
Three in one hand Tricks
- Three in one hand (shower, cascade, reverse cascade & columns)
- Three in one hand multiplex pattern
- Three in one hand clawed multiplex pattern
Multiplex Tricks
- Split Multiplex
- Column Multiplex
- Orin's Multiplex
- Olas
- Six ball Multiplex Cascade
- Triplex
- Georgian Shuffle
- Singapore Shuffle
One Off Moves
Non 3 Ball Tutorials
Please note all diabolo tutorials have been moved to this Diabolo Page.
- Cross & Follow - Clubswinging
- Flourish - Club juggling
- Thumb Twirl - Club juggling
- Kick up - Club juggling
- Single Sticking - Devilstick
- Double Sticking - Devilstick
- Propeller - Devilstick
- Helicopter - Devilstick
- Standing Up: an advanced guide - er...standing up
Miscellaneous Bits
- How to make your own juggling balls
- Where to juggle
- A few thoughts about practising
- A page with a little bit more about these tutorials
- Personal trick log - List of tricks, combination moves etc. that I have found interesting. Siteswap literacy required.
- Inventing new tricks