Impresses?
If not, I advise you – a little later, when you master the simplest “cascade” – walk with three fluttering balls along the park alley. Calm and slow. I think everything will become clear to you.
Of course, it is pointless to list all records. For all the short existence of this sport, there are a huge number of them. Virtuosos of all kinds of suits juggled and juggled for a while and a different number of objects, juggled in dance and on the run, on ropes and bicycles, alone and in whole teams. Bruce Sarafian of the United States achieved his highest score in 1995, juggling a dozen balls. Francois Chotard of France juggled nine balls with one hand. Even earlier, American Bobby May juggled 5 balls while standing on his head! Albert Lucas managed to cope with 13 rings, and Anthony Gatto juggled five clubs for 45 minutes…
Well, in addition to such famous names as Enrico Rastelli (an Italian born in Russia), David Kane, Michel Moshen, you can proudly remember numerous Russian juggling masters such as Sergei Ignatov, Alexander Kiss, Mikhail Rudenko, Alexander Frish, Evgeny Bilauer, Vladik Myagkostupov, Rudolf Levitsky et al.
Undoubtedly, in the history of working with balls you can find a lot of interesting pages and funny incidents, but the plus of today is that modern science has added to the sports component the discovery of the colossal benefit of juggling. Earlier generations could not even guess about this. And it was this circumstance that forced me to take up the pen, because I am convinced that, like writing, reading and physical education, juggling should also become an integral part of general education, helping millions of people to discover extraordinary abilities, increase immune and intellectual status.
Chapter 2 Right and left hemispheres, great ambidextras
To begin with, let’s be clear: a person who has more command of the right hand is called dextral (right-handed), and the one who more often uses the left hand is called senestral (left-handed). But there are people who are equally adept at both hands. They are called the curly word “ambidextras.”
Speaking of the predominance of the right hand, it should be noted that this phenomenon is common, and there are approximately 85 to 92% of dextrals in the world. Accordingly, the remaining category of people can be attributed to lefties. This is 8—15%. Natural ambidextria – a phenomenon in which a person with the same confidence owns the right and left hand, is very rare.
It is so arranged by nature that the right hemisphere of the brain mainly controls the left hand, and the left hemisphere – the right. As a result, some one hemisphere dominates, and we, walking through life, thoughtlessly use mainly our predominant hand. Indeed, it is easier and more convenient. Only here the result of this inequality is that over the years the gap between the skills of the right and left hands increases more and more, and the potential of the unclaimed hemisphere becomes noticeably weaker.
In the future, in order not to get confused with the names of the hands, we will agree to use the terms: “starting-non-start” and “leading-slave.” In this case, the starting-leading hand will, of course, be right for right-handed and left for left-handed.
Continuing to talk about the current state of affairs, we recognize that we are rebuilding the world around us rather harshly – counting solely on the dominant hemisphere. The arrangement of steering columns in cars, door handles, pencil sharpeners, buttons on suits and trousers, playing cards, designs of electric kettles, scissors, canned knives and even an ordinary corkscrew – all this is aimed at the right-handed population. If you are left-handed and write like everyone else – from left to right, but with your left hand, then you do not see the written text. Moreover, you grease the palm of the not yet dried ink from the handle. Great? In my opinion, not so much.
Nevertheless, the practice of retraining left-handed people in the “right manner” until recently worked everywhere. Even in the case of not the most difficult activities, for a left-handed person, the indicated process was quite difficult. It is not for nothing that the corresponding term appeared among psychologists: “dextrastress” – that is, stress caused by violent and uncomfortable retraining into diametrically opposite programs. Today, the situation, fortunately, begins to change for the better, and most scientists tend to believe that right-handedness with left-handedness is not a pathology at all.
In this sense, juggling can be safely called a school of comfortable and democratic adaptation for both left-handed and right-handed people. There is no imposed dominance of any of the hemispheres. Juggling establishes complete equality between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Everything that one hand knows how, over time, the other learns. Like neighbors on the school desk, hemispheres exchange all mastered secrets through the callous body in the brain.
So, teaching the starting hand to one trick or another, we are amazed to find that our wingman begins to do the same. Yes, this happens with some lag, but it also slowly masters the necessary technique.
As a result of training, we create symmetrical and quite equivalent neurochips, which just carry out the juggling process. This is a kind of collective parliament.
If someone believes that he lives well without all this canitel, you can conduct a small experiment. Take two leaflets and two pencils. Draw a circle with the right (starting) hand, repeat the same with the left on the adjacent sheet. It turned out pretty, didn’t it? And now in the same way draw a square, a triangle, a diamond, an eight. Write a short word – in printed letters, and then in capital. If your patience is enough for a whole line of words, touch your forehead. It is quite possible that by this time it will be covered with evaporation.
But!
Often changing your hands, you will notice how your driven (non-standard) hand will be more and more attentive to the work of the leading (starting) hand. In the most amazing way, she will adopt new skills, learn an unfamiliar! More precisely, neurons of the slave hemisphere of the brain will learn a new and unusual business. You will feel firsthand how your starting and leading hemisphere will help its neighbor, exhausted from unusual efforts. This is the same collegial work of the nascent DUAL-CORE and DUAL-HEMISPHERE processor! It is he who most clearly illustrates the advantage of the brain ambidextra.
By the way, the dominance of one hemisphere in the animal kingdom is not the most natural phenomenon. Accordingly, it does not paint people either. The conditions that we create for ourselves develop exclusively the starting hemisphere, and our second (driven) hemisphere practically sleeps. But it has its own unique features! But we do little to develop it, unwittingly contributing to increased “discrimination” between the right and left brains. As a result, even in situations where actions require increased control, our slave hemisphere is extremely ineffective. A paradoxical situation is created: the existing conditions of work and rest make both left-handers and right-handers suffer.
Therefore, there is no doubt that it is necessary to radically change the old approach to teaching children in preschool and school institutions. Without any stress, of course. The time has come for techniques that contribute to the natural and equal development of both hemispheres of our brain – with all their rich functionality, with increased memory and an increasing speed of thinking.
Learning should be built in such a way that the slave hemisphere of the brain becomes a full participant in solving life problems. A dual-core computer is more powerful and faster than a single-core computer, and something similar will happen to people. With Reading, Music and Juggling, we can develop both hemispheres of the brain equally. It sounds funny, but from a passive appendage – a half of your brain will turn into a faithful and full-fledged ally.
By the way, starting to juggle, I undertook to interview my acquaintances and very soon found out that many of them (usually the most wise and successful) – ALREADY own this art. By the way, my favorite writer