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It’s a great way to improve hand-eye coordination. A few minutes of this and you’re whole team will be juggling. Plus they’ll really gel as a team - great for the first pre-season practice.
Do this with whiffle balls (or bean bags) or reduced injury balls or tennis balls without gloves. Older ages can use baseballs and gloves.
First, find out who can juggle 3 balls on their own. Get someone to demonstrate while you announce that the whole team’s going to learn to juggle - more than 3 balls!
Now get the 3 balls back (you should have a bag with 10 or 12 whiffle balls in all).
Start by tossing a ball to one of your players. Get them to call out their name as they catch it then toss it to another player (who calls out his name). That player tosses to another player who calls out his name, and the round continues until everyone has caught a ball and it’s ready to get tossed to the first player again.
Once every player has caught this first ball and called their name, start a second round - each player tossing to the same target person only this time the player tossing must call out the name of the target. That round continues.
Here’s the juggling part. After two complete rounds, continue, but as the first ball is still making its round, start a second ball in the same route (with same call-outs). Then add a third ball to the route, and a fourth.
Keep this up for a few more rounds, then continue, but now everyone calls out the name of the person they’re getting the ball from. And you continue to add another ball every round or so.
With a team of 12-15 you should be able to get 6 - 8 balls making the rounds at the same time - that’s at least 6 balls in the air all at once! You’re team is juggling, just like you said it would! | |
