How to Juggle Clubs Without Spins

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This next one is pretty hard. It's a different type of spin because there is none, so it's a different tension of the wrists and a different movement of the arm. Generally when spinning a club, the tension of your wrist is relative to the amount of spin that the club is making, usually in the way that you have to tense your wrist more to spin more. In this case it's the opposite. To throw what's called a 'flat', your wrist needs to be very tense in a backwards position. This is a very difficult throw and takes a lot of practice. As always, start with one club. You'll find that the club may tend to skew outward or inward. Like this, or like that. It's better to have it skew outward than inward because if it's inward, it's very difficult to catch. If it's outward, the handle actually falls in the appropriate place. But, ultimately you want it to be as straight as possible so that when you have more clubs they all can pass each other very well. This is a very hard trick to teach and a very hard trick to understand without someone showing you in person, but the ultimate goal is to be able to do this. So, start with one at a time. That was two. One. I can't do one at a time. There we go. Then two, and then move on to doing short runs of everies, until you can eventually get it fairly solid. Things that help me when trying to approach flats are thinking about my hands sliding up it as I release it, as if I was releasing kind of to get away from it. This helps just balance the club, so if I throw normally its intention is to spin, but I'm stopping the spin with the sliding of my hand. As I said, it's a hard one for me to teach you guys, especially through a video, and it's hard to articulate how exactly you make a flat throw when you're doing it. But, it's a lot of fun and can create some very interesting dynamic when mixing up different spin throws and then you suddenly throw a flat. So it's a good trick to learn and it has a lot of possibilities. Good luck.

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