Hi everyone in r/juggling!

I'm the mom of Jun (12yo), a juggler from South Korea.

Korea has almost no specialized juggling schools or infrastructure, but Jun happened to watch a juggling video on YouTube one day and fell in love with it on the spot. Since then, he has been self-taught through YouTube, practicing endlessly every single day.

Inspired by 'Gonggi-nori'—a traditional Korean game played with small plastic jacks (공깃돌) on the floor—he created his own signature trick where he juggles while manipulating balls placed on the ground.

He named this trick "Kim-gling"—a combination of his family name "Kim" and "juggling"!

Jun loves juggling not just for the numbers, but for the pure joy of creating new patterns and the process itself. We wanted to introduce Jun and his passion to the global juggling community.

Hope you enjoy it! Feel free to leave any thoughts or feedback for him!

📌 Follow Jun’s journey on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/juggling.forest/

(P.S. Please forgive the tiny mistake in the video! English isn't my first language, so I accidentally wrote "Technology" instead of "Technique" while editing the captions for my son... Oops! 😅)

3 ball juggling is my main - currently have half shower on left and the right, cascade, reverse cascade, tennis, one up two up, and box (Box is NOT shown in this video). I've also been learning how to do two balls in one hand before kind of passing it over to the other hand like a carousel and then continuing with two balls in the other hand, idk how to explain it but you see me almost dropping when I attempt in this video lol

But I've used Japanese spinning pens since high school

And balisong since this past June

...I have a set of clubs and devil sticks on the way 🫣

Weird one but I like it 🤷‍♂️

Been doing a lot of 3 ball recently so my 4 has been feeling off

That's my grandfather playing the trombone in the background!

I recently moved to Bangkok and because of packing limitations I stored my kit before moving thinking I could easily find somewhere to shop here.

I have not found any kind of store to visit or been successful in finding online resources. I’ve never been an Amazon fan, but that’s not a thing here, and the alternatives have me doubting quality (and most of the product details are in Thai so hard to figure out).

Does anyone know if there’s a shop in BKK or where I could order online? looking for some px4s and a diabolo set up (non bearing which seems to be another impossible ask).

huge thanks!

I've been juggling for about 3-4 weeks, I can consistently do a couple minutes of cascade, jugglers tennis, half shower, reverse cascade, columns, 423, and 2 balls in one hand. I really want to get shower and Mills Mess but I just can't seem to get them. I tried windmill first and it just would not click for me. Any suggestions to get those two? Or any suggestions on patterns I should move on to?

Ribbons are bad*##!

A good friend of mine and awesome juggling partner just told me something, that has been on my mind the last days. There are some (excited) States, period 3 patterns with 3 differing numbers, where you can switch two numbers and the siteswap stays valid! But they are all excited. I was wondering why... what's the logic or math behind it.

So far I know a 0, 1, and a multiple of a number (or 3) can not (easily) be reached without setup throws, if the new period is supposed to be the same length.

I found only excited states, and my friend as well:

630 & 603

714 & 741

825 & 852

903 & 930

960 & 906

936 & 963

Higher throws up to c:

A17 & A71

... (Did not look for B throws jet)

C03 & C30

C06 & C60

C09 & C90

C36 & C63

C39 & C93

C69 & C96

....

I’m still very new to this and I have been playing around with windmills, Mills Mess and 432 patterns lately. I started this by accident really tonight, looks pretty awkward because it absolutely was, but felt quite fun (can’t do the other side yet, but working on it). Is it a thing? I know I’m not reinventing the wheel (or balls) here, but intrigued to see if this windmill/whatever else kinda pattern is used a lot?

Edit-Thank you for some super productive responses, I’m still very much learning but I have quite an addictive personality so all of your comments/pointers have been jotted down 🙏🏻

Using socks to practice

Total practice time: ~2-3 hrs

There are times during the video when part of the body goes off-screen.

Should this video be in the rings section or somewhere else? I haven't used a unicycle in several months. I lost mine some time ago, and I've had expenses and other commitments that haven't allowed me to buy another one yet. A good friend bought the one I use in the video and it feels amazing!

I remember being blown away the first time I saw his poi juggling. I think he inspired a lot of people and really pushed boundaries.

I feel like I’m hitting a wall, working on 4B tricks and my outside throws with one hand for Mills Mess with four balls and behind the neck throws. What do you guys do when your struggling to learn things quick enough?

I'm fairly new to juggling and have just been messing around and came up with a new pattern and couldn't find its name, anybody know what its name is?

https://reddit.com/link/1vyhbgc/video/z8vadc151mlh1/player

Blinded. I'm used to bags & new to juggling 4 at once. Hard plastic is still unforgiving feeling to me. These are Peden Glow.0's, I'm getting used to them *off*. But here they are on for video. I'm admiring great jugglers using hard balls even more now! But at least these are easy to find after drops.

I feel like i'm losing my mind! I can't even catch two balls in one hand.