Sports Center
Juggling
Learn to juggle, starting with three balls, then progress at your
own pace to learn new tricks and explore other props. A wide
variety of related object manipulation and circus skills are
available to be explored, including club passing, unicycling,
contact juggling, poi, diabolo, rolling globe and much more. The
instructor works with students individually and in small groups,
and many local jugglers are on hand to help as well. In addition to
surprising yourself and impressing your friends, juggling is
frequently used by sports trainers to help develop eye-hand
coordination, peripheral vision, and a range of other skills.
Juggling has been offered at Reed since 1979, which has fostered a
vibrant and dedicated juggling community in Portland. The local
jugglers host the Portland Juggling Festival at Reed College, a
weekend filled with workshops, special guests and shows. The
festival, which is free to the Reed community, attracts 500
jugglers and has been featured in the New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal.