Last week, I sent in an order for an acrylic contact ball and some other practice PVC balls. Contact juggling has always quite fascinated me but learning with tennis balls is very frustrating. I’ve moved on to using lacrosse balls for some time but a lack of community and people to learn from made me move on to other more interesting stuff fast. I think I’lll want to learn it proper this time and I have 2 friends who’d be doing the same. I’ve said I’d teach them the basics and I think it’d be fun, considering I know very little right now.
Not a lot of people know this but I’m a left-handed juggler. I can be considered ambidextrous I guess – I can write slowly with my left, I can sign checks with my left but ultimately, I use my right for most things. I juggle better with my left and I can’t do the Butterfly or a penguin catch with my right. Contact should be right up my alley I guess. I’m a very “soft-touch” juggler and I like very flowy moves. Will update when the balls arrive.
On a related note,
Okotanpe is my favorite contact juggler of all time.
Ah but the true test comes only when you play (computer games). For me, practicality forces me to use my left hand while my right is engaged in something else (say the number pad). Sometimes though, I too think I am ambidextrous. Which hand do you use?