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Thanks for sharing that story. At 54 I feel like I'm a late starter too. I did learn to do 3-ball toss juggling when I was a kid, but never got beyond a few basics. But CJ just caught my eye last September and I've been playing ever since. I've been mostly using a 4" stainless steel ball, because it's so easy to work with, but I'm trying to switch over to 3.5" acrylics now, because they look better. Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:54:19 Hi Guys,
I just joined this group and thought you might be interested in my odd
Todd
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From: Kawika <d...@stagner.com>
To:Contact Juggling <Contact-Juggling@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Hello from Farragut, TN
I saw a college kid doing a couple simple contact juggling tricks
about four years ago. I was 61 at the time and my hands shook badly.
If I dropped something or knocked something over, I could no longer
catch it like I could when I was a kid.
I started juggling. Contact juggling and three ball juggling. For me
it was very slow going. I had never played sports and I had sat at a
desk job for 40 years. I was about 100 pounds overweight and convinced
that my life was just about over. After about a year of playing with
some rubber balls from a toy shop I decided to get serious and
purchased a set of 3" solid balls and began doing contact juggling
every day. I took up Tai Chi and combined it with my Contact juggling
moves. Today, after four years of daily contact juggling, I still am
not very good (I'm a very slow learner), but my hands no longer
shake, I'm 50 pounds lighter, I'm in better physical condition than I
was for most of my life, and if I drop something or knock something
over, I catch it.
little story.