But the reason I can do so many tricks is that I go to juggling club and hang out with jugglers who ARE good. Also, some of them pick on me for my deficiencies. I picked up Boston Mess to shut Sean up, and keep plugging away at 5 because of Josh. Janelle taught me Mill's Mess in half an hour, Burke's Barrage was the obvious next trick so I bugged Jolly until I got it... now I'm stuck on Rubenstein's Revenge. Nathan Peterson taught me how to shower with one off-hand comment ("Throw higher,") so now I can shower 4, box 3, 52512....

Reading juggling books help too but it's much easier to pick up a trick if you can see someone else do it first.

And the rule: work on a 2-ball trick, 3-ball trick, 4-ball trick, 5-ball trick, and 6-ball trick every day. There are some fairly hard 2-ball tricks out there: alternating penguin and behind-the-back throws with 2 in one hand, for example. Or the siteswap 501 - really hard until it clicks. Once it clicks, try behind-the-back 5s. Then penguin catches....

The first 6 ball tricks are 3 in one hand and a 6 ball flash.

So the easy way is to join an excellent juggling club: we have club guys and bounce guys and siteswap guys and way too many club passers and novelty guys (yo yos, rola bolas, like that) and beginners and pros....

Barring that... juggling conventions, I guess.

And learn siteswap.