First Class
I held my first official juggling class yesterday (Sunday) at Rubber Soul Yoga. Sadly, our generous benefactor and fellow juggler, Cal, was under the weather and unable to attend. But in all other regards the class was quite successful.
Six students showed up representing a nice range of skills. Everyone seemed to work quite diligently, and seemed to make good progress. The practice space at Rubber Soul was quite ideal. Very high ceilings, good lighting, and even padded floors to ease the mental anguish of drops!
I’m excited about the class and have a few new ideas brewing:
- I definitely need to work on promotion and get some posters and flyers made up. Business cards would also be a good asset — something I can hand out if I happen to be juggling in public.
- A juggling 101 handout of new students would be good resource. Some tight, clean prose on juggling basics and a 3-5 panel illustration to be used as a reference guide.
- A second handout with basic three-ball tricks would also be good to have. Target this at new jugglers who know only the cascade. Perhaps a second, intermediate, and even possibly a third, advanced, handout to come. It might be a good idea to brainstorm some ideas for 4, 5, 6 object handouts; clubs and rings; siteswap and other advanced-juggling-concepts handouts.
- Make props! I need to pick a material and make at least one set of bean bags. Something that is good quality and durable which I could sell to new jugglers at a low cost. The ideal case would be to make at least 7 bags so, in the meantime, I can start attempting to flash 7.