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You only need three balls to do the whole workshop. Everything here is what we actually use, with a note on what it does for your learning.
Props
Start Here: 3-Ball Set
Three matched balls — the whole workshop needs nothing else.
Same size, same weight, so every throw feels the same. This is the set the audio guide assumes you have.
View on Amazon →Beginner Beanbags
Soft, low-bounce, filled with millet.
They land with a thud instead of rolling under the sofa. Fewer chases means more repetitions, and repetitions are the whole mechanism.
View on Amazon →Juggling Scarves
Slow-falling squares for the first hour.
Scarves hang in the air long enough for your prediction system to catch up. Best first purchase if the drops are getting demoralising.
View on Amazon →Stage Balls, 70mm
Bigger, brighter, easier to track.
Larger diameter gives your visual system more signal to work with. Good once the cascade is nearly there.
View on Amazon →Juggling Rings
For when three balls stop being interesting.
Different weight, different arc, same brain. A clean way to reopen the prediction gap after the pattern gets automatic.
View on Amazon →Practice Mat
Keeps the drops quiet and the balls in one place.
Mostly for apartments and downstairs neighbours. Also stops the pause between attempts from stretching out.
View on Amazon →Read alongside
A few juggling books for when three balls stop being hard, and the learning books the workshop's science comes from.
The Complete Juggler
The standard reference for every pattern past the cascade.
Once three balls are automatic, this is where the next prediction gap comes from. Diagrams for hundreds of patterns, ordered by difficulty.
View on Amazon →The Juggling Book
A friendly three-ball primer with no assumptions.
Good companion reading for chapters one through five — it repeats the same grip and throw cues in print, which helps them stick.
View on Amazon →Juggling: The Art and Its Artists
The long history of throwing things and catching them.
Pure curiosity fuel. Reading about people who spent decades on one pattern reframes what a three-hour struggle actually costs.
View on Amazon →Make It Stick
Why easy practice feels productive and teaches you nothing.
The research behind desirable difficulty — the same reason the workshop keeps pushing you back to the edge of your ability.
View on Amazon →Peak
What deliberate practice actually means.
Ericsson's work is where the 'practice at the edge, with feedback' idea comes from. Every drill in this workshop is built on it.
View on Amazon →The Talent Code
Myelin, repetition, and why fumbling is the point.
The popular account of the myelin story the workshop tells in the middle chapters. Read it after chapter six for the fullest version.
View on Amazon →Flow
The original account of the state you're chasing.
Challenge just above skill, clear feedback, no self-talk. That's the last hour of the workshop, described first here.
View on Amazon →Everything in one place
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