Juggling tutorial: 3-ball mills mess. Subscribe! bit.ly/17WKKbT This tutorial was shot at 300 frames per second with a Casio EX-F1, providing super slow motion playback ability.
Man, I wish CZcams was around when I was learning to juggle. I think I learned Mill's Mess the hard way. I already knew how to outside juggle, which seems to be part of the trick. Next I learned how to juggle with my arms crossed. Then, like Gary Larson said "A miracle occurs" and I could do mill's mess by swapping arms that are crossed.
Every ball changes hands with every throw. This is true of regular cascade and reverse cascade as well, so the siteswap notation is the same for all three patterns (3).
Man this was my favorite video when I was just starting out. Props to this guy’s tutorial! It allowed me to master the mills back in the day. Been juggling ever since and this was a major milestone in my improvements.
I'm not sure what you mean by rallenty. I can make the slow motion smooth because I recorded it at 300 frames per second with a Casio EX-F1. I used Sony Vegas to edit the video.
You were pretty much right on the money. I shot this with a Casio EX-F1 at 300 frames per second. The video normally plays back at 1/10 real speed, so to get normal speed I just speed the video up 10x. I edited it with Sony Vegas.
I am a french juggler and your video helps me a lot. I've try this trick for 2 weeks and i couldn't do it and then i saw your video and i do now. Thank you very much.
I remember watching your videos when I first tried juggling years ago! I dusted off the juggling balls and I’m back just for refreshers. Really, no other tutorials compare.
I just want to say thank you, these videos of yours have really helped me perfect and see every throw in action and how it should look. Diagrams on these patterns only go so far. I'm doing quite well with the "Mills mess" thanks to you.
@welshelf29 glad I could help. I have a bunch of other slow motion juggling tutorials. Most of them were posted a long time ago but search my channel for more tutorials.
When i first started learning this, it looked so complicated and cool. Now that I know how to do it, i “cant un-see” how simple it really is. At least it feels that way
This helped me - nailed the throwing pattern just now, took some 30 minutes for the first success. Those up-direction indicators really helped understanding what`s going on, what should I do, where to put hands. And, of course, slow-mo. Big thanks!
Thank you this is awesome. you may not be the best juggler in the world, but its a much better lesson than a lot of these so called tutorials on youtube.
The files that the camera produces automatically play back at 1/10 speed. If you want them to play in real-time, you have to speed them up 10x. So I use video editing software to do that. I used Sony Vegas Pro to edit this video.
Great, I learnt to do this trick in about 30 mins or something, nice vid. A tip to others - once you try to do the full pattern, notice that the ball you grab and move across to the other side is the same ball every time. Follow it in the video. I was leaving an extra beat in there.
mills mess is the kind of trick i never had to "learn". initially i thought it was just the same basic tosses and catches you use in other simple stuff like cascade/reverse cascade and then there's that under-hand throw. i was quite surprised to find out this is considered real fine juggling and tends to impress people.
Great video, this helped me and a friend a lot in learning Mill's Mess! The rest of your juggling video's are nice as well, we'll try the 3 ball multiplexing one next.. It looks hard though.. :-) Keep up the good work!
@TheJonnij I did something similar. I learned mills mess as shown in the video and then I saw a tutorial that looked different from what I was doing. So I was trying to re-learn it using the steps in the tutorial and after a while I figured out that I already knew how to do the pattern. It's funny how you can juggle a pattern but then you have to really practice to juggle only a subset of it.
Yes, they are koosh balls. They don't bounce or roll, plus I can pick them up with my toes if I don't have shoes on, so it's convenient to pick them back up after you drop them.
Yes! Thank you for making this tutorial, it was a very good way to learn this trick. At some point, something clicked and I am now able to juggle mills mess. I just have to get height and timing right, as that sometimes screws a streak up. Thanks again 😊
Yes that was indeed easy to fix. What I did before was i simply started from the cascade and directly did an under arm throw. What you're suppose to do is, right before you do the under arm throw you do a "over throw" as if you were gonna do the normal cascade backwards. You show us this in the tutorial with "straight up". I somehow missed that no matter how clear you made it. This might help someone else that learned it the wrong way at first.
Compliments to the maker/makers of this video. Thank you so much for the slow motion help with this trick. And playing playing one of my favorite songs by Opeth. Damnation is just an amazing album. I can't compliment or thank you enough!! :D
TY for this Video. I have watched some Mills mess tutorials. But never made it... After watching your Video it worked step by step and now i can this trick ;) TY
There is another way to learn the Mills Mess, and that's by learning the windmill. Learn how to do the windmill with both hands... Basically, the Mills Mess is the windmill back to back.
one thing that helped me learn the box was this guys video but also what i did i already new what i think is called full shower or shower where you jungle in a circle i only new it counter clockwise so i taught my self to do it the other way then when i tryed the box it was really easy but thats just me might not help everyone
once i was doing mills mess without even realizing, i found it helped to have three different coloured balls one goes under in an arc, one is on to in an arc and another is is the middle weaving a figure of eight
@TheJonnij yeah i did pretty much the same as you. except i didn't think it was continuous under the arm throws. i'd seen someone doing mills, without knowing that it was mills, and i thought, "right, juggle, but keeping crossing + uncrossing arms" only later did i realise. mills mess isn't continuous under-the-arms, that is chops
Wow I reallllly love this video. This combined with another one on just the basics made it so easy to learn =]. Took me about 4 hours and now I can confidently do it for ~20 seconds. More practice and it shall be natural feeling I reckon :). Thankyou. Subbed and liked =D
This video and some comments on it got me into Opeth. Now Damnation, the album that this song is from, is tied with Ride the Lightning as my favorite album of all time. And, I can do the Mills Mess lol and four ball juggling, but still can't juggle 5 balls.
@ltsjack 3 ball mills mess is loads easier than a 5 ball cascade. in my opinion, 3 ball mills mess is probably about the same level as juggling a 4 ball fountain. But everyone finds certain things harder than others.
I will constantly click 0:23 and see that one. If i understand it correctly it's that move with both hands that you're simply combining, just like i did, or thought i did.
@Capricornwhite i think its harder than i fountain .Maybe its as hard as a fountain variation like fountain-outside throws maybe.For most people it is definetly harder than a normal fountain.
Last spam comment from me: another thing that might be easy to get wrong: you're suppose to catch the incoming ball while you still have your arm under the other.
It turns out I've been doing Mill's Mess the wrong way for a while. It was easy to switch but I was surprised, the way I'd been doing it moved the balls in the same pattern... My way of doing it doesn't use any reverse throws (i.e. left hand throwing to the left) from the hand which is crossed over- it's sort of like two windmills together...
@emilyunderpressure1 Could be Burke's Barrage. I learnt that naturally in my juggling, it is similar to mills mess, then i addapted it and then could do mills mess.
Hee, man! Super thanks for just uploading this video, I could tell my parent proudly that I could do the Mills Mess, after I watched this video! I will tell my friends that this video is very helpfull!
Man, I wish CZcams was around when I was learning to juggle. I think I learned Mill's Mess the hard way. I already knew how to outside juggle, which seems to be part of the trick. Next I learned how to juggle with my arms crossed. Then, like Gary Larson said "A miracle occurs" and I could do mill's mess by swapping arms that are crossed.
Every ball changes hands with every throw. This is true of regular cascade and reverse cascade as well, so the siteswap notation is the same for all three patterns (3).
Man this was my favorite video when I was just starting out. Props to this guy’s tutorial! It allowed me to master the mills back in the day. Been juggling ever since and this was a major milestone in my improvements.
I'm not sure what you mean by rallenty. I can make the slow motion smooth because I recorded it at 300 frames per second with a Casio EX-F1. I used Sony Vegas to edit the video.
You were pretty much right on the money. I shot this with a Casio EX-F1 at 300 frames per second. The video normally plays back at 1/10 real speed, so to get normal speed I just speed the video up 10x. I edited it with Sony Vegas.
The song is Windowpane by Opeth.
The fact that you managed to help such a stupid person like me to learn this trick shows your craft. Thank you very much.
I am a french juggler and your video helps me a lot. I've try this trick for 2 weeks and i couldn't do it and then i saw your video and i do now. Thank you very much.
Yes they are Koosh balls. I ordered them online. They're hard to find in stores these days but toy stores used to sell them.
Sir,your videos are well,hossom juggling
I remember watching your videos when I first tried juggling years ago! I dusted off the juggling balls and I’m back just for refreshers. Really, no other tutorials compare.
I just want to say thank you, these videos of yours have really helped me perfect and see every throw in action and how it should look. Diagrams on these patterns only go so far. I'm doing quite well with the "Mills mess" thanks to you.
@welshelf29 glad I could help. I have a bunch of other slow motion juggling tutorials. Most of them were posted a long time ago but search my channel for more tutorials.
Even more happy when I opened it and it was Opeth playing! Thanks ^ _ ^
really nice video man! I was with a lot of troubles on learning this trick but now with your video I'm almost doing it! Perfect slow motion!
When i first started learning this, it looked so complicated and cool. Now that I know how to do it, i “cant un-see” how simple it really is. At least it feels that way
This helped me - nailed the throwing pattern just now, took some 30 minutes for the first success. Those up-direction indicators really helped understanding what`s going on, what should I do, where to put hands. And, of course, slow-mo. Big thanks!
Thank you this is awesome. you may not be the best juggler in the world, but its a much better lesson than a lot of these so called tutorials on youtube.
Starting without your hands crossed made learning this so much easier. So did the 300 fps. Thanks.
The files that the camera produces automatically play back at 1/10 speed. If you want them to play in real-time, you have to speed them up 10x. So I use video editing software to do that. I used Sony Vegas Pro to edit this video.
I think, this video is best Mills' Mess Tutorial with slow motion on youtube. Thanks a lot. I do Mills' Mess now...
I could watch this for hours. It soothes me so much.
Great, I learnt to do this trick in about 30 mins or something, nice vid. A tip to others - once you try to do the full pattern, notice that the ball you grab and move across to the other side is the same ball every time. Follow it in the video. I was leaving an extra beat in there.
wow, i´m really surprised now. i didn´t expect to learn mills mess that fast. best tutorial i could find. thanks a lot !
mills mess is the kind of trick i never had to "learn". initially i thought it was just the same basic tosses and catches you use in other simple stuff like cascade/reverse cascade and then there's that under-hand throw. i was quite surprised to find out this is considered real fine juggling and tends to impress people.
Great video, this helped me and a friend a lot in learning Mill's Mess! The rest of your juggling video's are nice as well, we'll try the 3 ball multiplexing one next.. It looks hard though.. :-)
Keep up the good work!
THANKYOU! All the other videos I watch on how to do this trick are aweful! I finally found one that teaches me well! Bravo!
Thank you. Keep practicing and you'll get it down smooth.
Thanks, I think I just learned to do Mills mess because of your video. Seriously, your method is very simple and awesome!
Thanks for these slow motion tutorials/vids. Found this really helpful for understanding what goes on in the trick :)
I just watched this because of the awesome slow motion playback. I have no plans on learning how to juggle.
Thanks, yes, the voting is still going on until October 20.
THANK YOU!!! I spent so much time on other tutorials which over-analysed the pattern. Your was simple, and brilliant! I cannot thank you enough!
@TheJonnij I did something similar. I learned mills mess as shown in the video and then I saw a tutorial that looked different from what I was doing. So I was trying to re-learn it using the steps in the tutorial and after a while I figured out that I already knew how to do the pattern. It's funny how you can juggle a pattern but then you have to really practice to juggle only a subset of it.
even in slow motion it goes so fast
this is the best tutorial for learn the mills mess
thanks a ton! this is much easier to understand than many other tutorials on youtube.
thanks to u I learnt a lot of tricks :) thanks man, u and MrEtsiM are the 2 best tutours on youtube for juggling
Yes, they are koosh balls. They don't bounce or roll, plus I can pick them up with my toes if I don't have shoes on, so it's convenient to pick them back up after you drop them.
To compress the video? I used Sony Vegas and rendered the video as a .wmv 3MBPS.
Thank you soooo much for this none of the other tutorials I looked at made any sense at all but this one is great!!!!
Yes! Thank you for making this tutorial, it was a very good way to learn this trick. At some point, something clicked and I am now able to juggle mills mess. I just have to get height and timing right, as that sometimes screws a streak up. Thanks again 😊
Yes that was indeed easy to fix. What I did before was i simply started from the cascade and directly did an under arm throw. What you're suppose to do is, right before you do the under arm throw you do a "over throw" as if you were gonna do the normal cascade backwards. You show us this in the tutorial with "straight up". I somehow missed that no matter how clear you made it. This might help someone else that learned it the wrong way at first.
Compliments to the maker/makers of this video. Thank you so much for the slow motion help with this trick. And playing playing one of my favorite songs by Opeth. Damnation is just an amazing album. I can't compliment or thank you enough!! :D
the slowmo helped a lot! i think i have it down, having only known the cascade and columns before hand.
He also made a version 2 but IMO this is enough its pretty easy to learn. You don't need 9 steps.
I think this way of learning it is the easiest, at least for my part. Thanks man.
TY for this Video. I have watched some Mills mess tutorials. But never made it... After watching your Video it worked step by step and now i can this trick ;)
TY
Thank you so much men I don’t know how to appreciate you enough. I just learnt it in just two hours.🙏🤝
I learned so quickly with this video! It took me 2 hours to get pretty decent at it! You should make allotta videos like this!!
I found this very helpful, been working on this pattern for like a week now. Thanks!
There is another way to learn the Mills Mess, and that's by learning the windmill.
Learn how to do the windmill with both hands...
Basically, the Mills Mess is the windmill back to back.
@almostskater008 Not really. With tennis your arms never cross and there are no under-arm throws.
awesome video and awesome song. the hardest part for me is getting used to throwing the ball up and not across.
omg finally i learnt mills mess!!! thank u :)
really good, breaking it down with slo-mo really helps :)
@allofyourdreams I never have made a basic 3-ball cascade tutorial. Maybe I should.
one thing that helped me learn the box was this guys video but also what i did i already new what i think is called full shower or shower where you jungle in a circle i only new it counter clockwise so i taught my self to do it the other way then when i tryed the box it was really easy but thats just me might not help everyone
once i was doing mills mess without even realizing, i found it helped to have three different coloured balls one goes under in an arc, one is on to in an arc and another is is the middle weaving a figure of eight
Epic tutorial, between this one and "Three Ball Mills Mess Tutorial", I finally got he hang of Mills' Mess :)
Very nice with the slow motion that really helped a lot
@TheJonnij yeah i did pretty much the same as you. except i didn't think it was continuous under the arm throws. i'd seen someone doing mills, without knowing that it was mills, and i thought, "right, juggle, but keeping crossing + uncrossing arms" only later did i realise.
mills mess isn't continuous under-the-arms, that is chops
Wow I reallllly love this video. This combined with another one on just the basics made it so easy to learn =]. Took me about 4 hours and now I can confidently do it for ~20 seconds. More practice and it shall be natural feeling I reckon :). Thankyou.
Subbed and liked =D
excellent choice in music
Stayed just to ear the music... Opeth is a great band
Thanks, I learned this trick in a day thanks to this video.
thank you! I just learned it in 1 hour while I tried to understand it with the normal working. this helped me a lot!
Finally nailed it with this tutorial, however the other one got me close. Now if I can only get the Box.
Thank you for posting this tutorial! I'm about to learn Mill's Mess with this video! Great work an the music fits!
Awesome music and of course juggling.
This video and some comments on it got me into Opeth. Now Damnation, the album that this song is from, is tied with Ride the Lightning as my favorite album of all time. And, I can do the Mills Mess lol and four ball juggling, but still can't juggle 5 balls.
This different way of starting will do the trick for me, I'm sure. Thanks ashomsky
theres a video of steve mills explaining this trick, is a reverse cascade with one ball doing an under the arm in every throw
@ltsjack 3 ball mills mess is loads easier than a 5 ball cascade. in my opinion, 3 ball mills mess is probably about the same level as juggling a 4 ball fountain. But everyone finds certain things harder than others.
Great video, excellent song choice!
OPETH !!! I personally prefer juggling to anaal nathrakh.. but you sir.. have won my subscribe
@ltsjack For me, 3 ball mills' mess is a lot easier. I'm still not very good at 5 ball cascade, but I can do 3 ball mills mess all day long.
I TOTALLY GET IT AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO OH MY GOD IT'S SO HELPFUL
I will constantly click 0:23 and see that one. If i understand it correctly it's that move with both hands that you're simply combining, just like i did, or thought i did.
@Capricornwhite i think its harder than i fountain .Maybe its as hard as a fountain variation like fountain-outside throws maybe.For most people it is definetly harder than a normal fountain.
Awesome choice of music man! Hell ya!
really cool slow motions
Last spam comment from me: another thing that might be easy to get wrong: you're suppose to catch the incoming ball while you still have your arm under the other.
Really, thanks for this, I got it!
The music really works with the slow motion too, gotta love Opeth ;)
Opeth-Windowpane
amazing video..thank you! all i need is to practice more the cascade so i can move onto this :)
It turns out I've been doing Mill's Mess the wrong way for a while. It was easy to switch but I was surprised, the way I'd been doing it moved the balls in the same pattern...
My way of doing it doesn't use any reverse throws (i.e. left hand throwing to the left) from the hand which is crossed over- it's sort of like two windmills together...
this is the best way to learn it!
@01mentholatum windowpane by opeth according to the information to the right of the description (theres a link to get it from itunes there too btw)
@emilyunderpressure1 Could be Burke's Barrage. I learnt that naturally in my juggling, it is similar to mills mess, then i addapted it and then could do mills mess.
awesome, came for juggling and I remembered that you have pretty awesome skate videos jaj
In Mills Mess the one ball always stays on the outsied if you know what i mean.
great music too!
Thanks a lot from Mexico!!!
Hee, man! Super thanks for just uploading this video, I could tell my parent proudly that I could do the Mills Mess, after I watched this video! I will tell my friends that this video is very helpfull!
Nice, why someone would put a dislike on this video? I can't understand it...
Me neither
Maybe they don't like juggling. Or more generally they don't like people. Who cares.
they didn't they just turned there phones upside down and like it again :)
Thats a very good tutorial. Now..i must just get it into my head. :) Practise practise!!! :D
very good tutorial
I was so amazed to hear this song, holy shit
Great video, very helpful. But the like was because the Opeth's song.
thumbs up for excelent slowmo quality ;)