4 Club Juggling - Getting a Handle on It!

Before learning to juggle with 4 clubs, it is essential that you can at least have a solid 3 club cascade pattern. This will get you used to juggling with clubs as well as getting the right spin, accuracy and timing. The other strong suggestion is that you learn to juggle with 4 balls, as this will help you get used to the pattern, the accuracy and the timing.

Double Spins: The first thing that needs worked on is being able to throw a club so it spins twice in the air before being caught again. When you are juggling with 4 clubs, every throw will be a double, so it may be worthwhile spending some time going through all the 3 club tricks you know and trying them out with double instead of single throws. This will give a whole new lease of life to your old tricks! It is worth noting that it is best to throw the club twice as high so that it spins at the same speed as with the single throw, rather than try to keep the same single club height and throw it twice as fast. It's much safer, and also gives you more thinking time! You may find it easier to start with a normal cascade pattern then introduce one double spin, and build your way up from this, or just try from a 3 club start - the choice is yours, but it needs practiced lots and lots as it will affect every throw you make with your 4 club patterns!

Numbers Club juggling (eg 4+ clubs) is much harder than with balls or rings as they take up more room and have to do a certain amount of spin so that you can catch them again. It will therefore take a bit more time and energy to learn properly, but keep practicing and persevering and it will be achieved!

How to hold 4 Clubs: No problem, you already know this one! When you have juggled with 3 clubs, you have always started with 2 clubs in one hand. Practice starting a 3 club cascade with your weaker hand holding the 2 x clubs to get you warmed up for holding 4 clubs.

4 Clubs are juggled using a pattern called The  gclub

 Fountain. You learn by juggling with 2 Clubs in just your dominant hand, then you can practice using just your weaker hand. It may be helpful to have 2 Clubs which are one colour and 2 Clubs which are another colour, so that you can make sure that these Clubs do not cross over to the other hand.

The same "fountain" rule applies for any even number of objects you care to juggle (eg 6 clubs is 3 club juggling in each hand, 8 balls is 4 ball in each hand etc).

2 Clubs in One Hand Tricks

Try learning these tricks with just 2 clubs before you try doing a 4 Clubs Juggling Fountain. Although it is possible to do with single spins, please get used to doing double spins as it will make life a whole lot easier for you!