Pain from clubs!
nomis
I just started juggling clubs yesterday(px3)...
How much does it usually hurt in the start? I feel quite a lot of pain
from the clubs : P Have been juggling enogh to make the 3 club cascade
decently solid...!
Im afraid that i catch them too much with my fingers and not the whole
hand.
Could someone make a comment on clubs, pain and if catching them wrong
could have something to do with it...!
Thx
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edward
>
> Hi!
>
> I just started juggling clubs yesterday(px3)...
>
> How much does it usually hurt in the start? I feel quite a lot of pain
> from the clubs : P Have been juggling enogh to make the 3 club cascade
> decently solid...!
>
> Im afraid that i catch them too much with my fingers and not the whole
> hand.
>
> Could someone make a comment on clubs, pain and if catching them wrong
> could have something to do with it...!
>
> Thx
>
Yes it's a lot of pain at first! I've only juggled real (Non newspaper)
clubs for a couple of months but I have two tips.
(1) Always trim your fingernails, getting a nail smashed and ripped apart
is something you do not let happen twice.
(2) Make sure that the way you catch a club is smooth, My left hand was
using a bad style to I got this bruise and it just doesn't help juggling
at all to have.
The number of times your club yourself in the face and so on decreases so
that's not as big a worry as these.
I'm sure there's much more to make sure of but that's the two most
important for me. There's a chance that excessively practicing backcrosses
can tear your shoulder ligaments but someone that actually knows a bit
more about the human body could hopefully say more about this.
I can't think of anything else useful to say, hopefully it's a start.
RossB
>
> Hi!
>
> I just started juggling clubs yesterday(px3)...
>
> How much does it usually hurt in the start? I feel quite a lot of pain
> from the clubs : P Have been juggling enogh to make the 3 club cascade
> decently solid...!
>
> Im afraid that i catch them too much with my fingers and not the whole
> hand.
>
> Could someone make a comment on clubs, pain and if catching them wrong
> could have something to do with it...!
>
> Thx
>
PX3s have some of the softest handles out there. The pain will go away
with time. It's really about how you are throwing the club. You will learn
to throw it properly. You will improve this quickly.
isaac
Pain is generally a good sign that something is going wrong, either
catching or throwing wise (after all, bad throws beget bad catches).
Perhaps it's an acclimatization thing I don't remember, but I'd say
it's more likely to be a technical problem.
sjestme
your other juggling was, so timing in general might be an issue.
The big tip about catching clubs is turning your hand so that your
thumb is pointing as far out and over as you can make yourself do it.
If that position puts your little finger higher than the thumb, that's
good. That is not natural, you have to make yourself do it all the
time and especially when learning. That opens your hand flat, with
nothing curled up in the way of the club (such as those fingernails
Edward mentioned).
The angle the club lands is also something to adjust, usually about 30
deg. to the side. Cocking your hand inward at the wrist in that flat
position will allow the handle to align from the lump on your palm
below the index finger to the big lump on the other edge of the palm
where it joins the wrist. Most people have lines on the skin in that
same direction, because the palm skin folds there. When the handle
strikes that way, the fingers will be flipped around the handle
quickly and automatically along the natural folding of the hand.
If your hand is resisting the club, not easing down with the catch, it
will hurt more. Heavier clubs hurt more, and make you more tired more
quickly so make more mistakes. Narrow handles will hurt more, and can
be wrapped with racquet or bicycle tape to be fatter and softer when
beginning. Some clubs do not have a taper to the handle so are
thicker; and the common advice is to catch high on the handle where it
is fatter and is rotating slower.
After that, you just keep at it, wisely, until your hands develop the
toughness for any tool. Rings, btw, are worse. Meanwhile, please
consider protecting your teeth and your glasses, and always wear solid
shoes. There is no part of your anatomy that is completely safe from
clubs. They weigh at least half a pound, and are spinning around too.
When two hit together, they bounce too fast to even blink in time.
.
nomis
Thanks, helped me... I have a pretty solid 5 ball cascade and can do most
things with balls under that... The pattern was not hard for me to learn,
and i can easely juggle them now. Yet i dont, it hurts too much! I will
try from the start with one club and adjust the technic... Hopefully it
will get better...
edward
Now you've scared me :) Who's knocked teeth out doing club juggling?
(And I'm a bit worried about chopping my fingers off with those rings..)
Pol Hanrahan
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> PX3s have some of the softest handles out there. The pain will go away
> with time. It's really about how you are throwing the club. You will learn
> to throw it properly. You will improve this quickly.
>
Yeah the handle are nice, but i used to get so many bruises on my hands
from the
knobs! And when they'd hit that one special spot on top of your wrist,
killer!