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Yeah I said weeks for a reason. It's a process of creating new connections in your brain in order to bypass the control from the slow and clumsy conscious and deliberate control of movements to the fast and fluid autopilot. Like learning to touch type. The screwy part about juggling is you can't slow down to decrease the difficulty like you could if you were learning to play an instrument or something like that. You can throw the balls a little higher but that's of limited usefulness. There's definitely a learning wall from practicing what feels like stupid baby time-wasting 2-out-of-3 ball juggling to adding in the third ball and not having enough hands free anymore.
I fucked it up and learnt how to do it wrong the first time so I had to unlearn that at the same time.
It's worth sticking with if you have the patience though. The first time I successfully made the full rotation of a really challenging pattern it literally felt like my brain was throwing the switch on a whole new path of neurons that had finally connected. Most pronounced natural high I've ever had.
There's a whole mathematical notation for the patterns if you really get into it but I bounced off that aspect.
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