Juggle Today: Benefits of Juggling
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"Benefits of Juggling
This page is split into 3 sections which explore the Social, Educational and Physical Benefits of learning to Juggle and use Circus Skills props (eg diabolo, plate spinning etc). The words "juggling" and "circus skills" are interchangeable on this page. The art of throwing objects in the air such as balls, rings and clubs, as well as manipulating objects such as diabolo, devil stick, spinning plates all offer the same benefits for willing pupils! LATEST RESEARCH FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY (12 October 2009) - "Juggling Increases Brain Power" (BBC News article) EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS Improves and Increases:
Improves and Increases:
Improves and Increases:
The evidence for many Educational Benefits can be found in the book: Teaching Elementary Physical Education - by Robert P.Pangrazi. A great break in the daily routine - During extensive academic work periods (such as daily lunch breaks from work/studies), physically active study (such as juggling) can help students return to their work/studies feeling refreshed and more productive. Kinaesthetic and Physically active learners will love to learn juggling especially! If you introduce juggling breaks/intervals into your regular studies/school day, then you will see these types of learners improve academically! Appreciation of the Arts - Once you have seen how easy juggling is to learn the basics, then you begin to see how many hundreds of thousands of tricks are out there for you to master. Any time you see someone juggling, you then begin to appreciate the amount of time and effort they will have put into achieving such a routine! If students work on putting together a show at the end of their workshop, they begin getting a small glimpse of what it is like to work in the entertainment industry. Imagination and Creativity - once you get involved with juggling, you can let your imagination run wild and experiment with the tricks you have learned. You may end up inventing a new trick, or even just a different way of achieving a trick just by imagining different patterns and different routines that may be possible! Good for your brain - Studies have shown that people who challenge their brains and use them for complex tasks throughout their life have a reduced incidence of alzheimers disease. Helps Dyslexia - It has long been thought that juggling can help disabilities such as dyslexia, attention deficit disorders and hyperactivity. This is through the knock-on effect of all the other benefits such as improved concentration, problem solving etc. Improves Student Behaviour - Schools with juggling programmes tend to report quite satisfactorily that student behaviour has improved amongst the pupils who tend to create the most trouble. Problem Solving - Students learn to break each juggling trick down into its small component parts, learn each of the parts, then learn how to combine each part to form the trick. If they get stuck at any particular point in juggling, they can guarantee that someone more experienced will be able to offer advice to help further. Juggling Can Boost Brain Power - Learning to juggle can cause changes in the brain, scientists have found. Using brain scans, the researchers showed that in 12 people who had learnt to juggle, certain brain areas had grown. But three months later, during which time people stopped juggling, the brain had gone back to its normal size. To read more on this amazing discovery, please visit the article on the BBC News Website. The Brain Power article can also be found on the CNN website - Juggling good for the brain Contact Juggling can help RSI (repetitive strain injury): On a Jugglers forum on LinkedIn, I found the following comment: " I am a long time juggler with RSI in my wrists, and believe it or not I use Contact Juggling as physical therapy! (yep, its prescribed ). The gentle movements and heavy weight of the ball make for excellent therapy and muscle building. My PT was amazing and stated she would be teaching future wrist patients the art :) " (comment by Raven Lockwood) Some Further Articles/Research to Read (external research - links will open in a new browser window)
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