Conquering The 7 Ball Cascade

Despite it's difficulty, there are alot of 7 ball jugglers, but if you can get 7 solid, you are getting up there. 7 balls is the last very common number, anything higher, starts to take years to master. some people can juggle 8 pretty well, and even 9. there are 5 people that can juggle 10 balls, officially (20+ cathces), but they cant do it every time. Anyway, you should probably have atleast 50+ catches with 6 before you start on 7.


Just as with 5 balls, you will encounter many problems when attempting 7. One advantage is that the problems are basically the same as the problems you had with 5. THey just take longer to get rid of. Atleast now, youl will now what to practice to help you achieve 7 ball glory. Before you go on to 7 balls you will want to have 6 balls to 50 cathces or so. The more you can do with 6., the faster 7 will go. If you can run 6 for 1 minute before working on 7, You would find it much easier, and less frustrating. But only you can decide when it is time to start workong on it. Basicaly these are the same as the tricks on the 5 ball page with 2 more numbers, but they will help you when you start out with 7.

1. 5 ball cascade- Make sure you have this solid, well, maybe not that solid, maybe 150-200 cathces, but it would be better to have done 5 for atleast a minute.

2. 5 ball flash with hand clap - to get the speed with 7, first throw up 5 very high and fast, clap your hands, and catch them all. when you can do that, throw them up, and then try to start going into a normal 5 ball pattern as they come down. When you can do that, try juggling 5, from that pattern, throw them up high, hand clap, and keep juggling. That will be the hardest, it is hard to get the 5 ball up fast enough since you would be juggling them a the speed of 5, not 7. get what I mean?

3. 6 ball fountain - you will want to run this for atleast 50 cathces to get some extra speed. The more speed you have, the easier it is to correct mistakes.

4. 4 balls in one hand- if you can flash 4 bals in one hand, in both hands, then you can flash 7, 4 in one hand will be helpful, since it is faster than 7, but not quite as hard (in my opinion).

5. 7 ball flash- First, try to flash 7, get the flash down before you go for more catches. the launch is the most imporant, if you have aperfect launchm then you will get a much better run.