[tim]

Get some beanbags. Or if you don't have beanbags, use some pairs of rolled up socks. Start practicing over a bed or sofa (so when you drop it isn't so far down to pick up.)

Take a ball (i'll call them balls form now on, no matter what they actually are) and toss it to a point slightly over your head and to the opposite side of the body. So, basically, it ought to be proceeding up at an angle, sort of like if you were drawing a triangular line from your hand to that point. Allow it to fall and catch it with your other hand. Now repeat the exercise by throwing it from that hand to an equal point opposite as in the first attempt. Kind of the mirror reflection now. Again, let it fall into the other hand from that which you threw it.

Alright, so now you have the hang of it. The idea is that you have two distinct points to which you are consistently throwing the ball in order to transfer it from one hand to the other.

Now, you add a second. The temptation here is to throw one ball up and the other directly across to the other hand (just to get rid of it.) Don't do that! It is a more complicated maneuver (which you'll learn later.)

Instead, toss the first ball up to its proper point. When it reaches it's climax and just begins to fall, you throw the other ball up to its proper point. (Just like before, but with two balls, now, instead of only one.) So it's toss, toss, catch, catch. Just try it in "sets" like this until you have it solid.

Once you can handle that, you're ready to add in the third. Start with two balls in your dominant hand. Toss one up, then the one from that other hand as that first ball starts to fall, and finally the third as the second is about to fall. Catch each in order. One time through is called a "set." If you can do it, then you can just keep going.

Once any ball reaches its climax and starts to descend, you throw a ball from the opposite hand (thus making room to catch the one which is falling) to the opposite point. Forever and ever (or until you decide to stop and just catch them all). Amen.