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Juggling

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When I was about 13 I used to get in trouble all the time for not doing the dishes to my stepmothers (or anyone elses) satisfaction. My typical punishment was to be sent to my room. Typically, that sucked. We lived in a cool place with tons of fun stuff to do outside. However, one time I made the most out of a bad situation and decided to learn to juggle. I practiced with two baseballs for quite a while before moving onto three. Alot of the times I missed a ball (or two) and they would bang on the floor (which resulted in me getting in trouble again). However, I did learn to juggle three balls. It has been 20 years since that fateful summer day and I can still only juggle 3 balls.

I can do some tricks and change-ups of the patterns in the juggling - but nothing like this guy. He is pretty amazing. According to the video caption his name is Chris Bliss. I don't know if his juggling is any more amazing than any other professional jugglers - but he is the first one I have seen do some of his moves so they impressed me. I am going to have to work on some of them, particularly when he throws two balls up from the same hand.. I thought that one produced a cool effect.