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"I know, last week was weird or disgusting, but at least a lot of you got to ride an elephant," Dick said to start off class. "This week, we're going with something a little simpler in concept, but much harder in execution. And I'm not even going to talk about how it ties into life because that should be pretty obvious."

"This week, we're talking about juggling," Dick said, picking a red colored balls off the ground, leaving a blue ball and a yellow ball by his feet. "There are two keys to juggling. First is hand eye coordination. You throw a ball in the air so that it's level with your eyes and then make sure you know where it's going to land." The red ball flew in an arc from his right hand to his left. He tossed the ball quickly back to his right hand and threw it in another arc toward his left hand. "And then you do it again, and again, and you keep on doing it until you know exactly how to get the ball from one hand to the other without having to look."

Dick threw the red ball high as he bent down to grab the yellow ball from the ground. As he rose, he caught the red ball in his left hand. "Two balls is pretty much the same thing. Take the ball in whichever hand is your dominant hand," Dick said, holding up his right hand, "And throw it the same way you did before. But right before it hits your other hand, take that ball and toss it to your main hand, again, keeping everything at eye level." Dick demonstrated and it looked easy. "Don't worry, you're going to mess it up a few times as you figure out how to not throw the second ball right into the first. And if you start having to take steps to catch the balls, you're throwing a little wildly. If that happens, take it a little slower and see if you can get some concentration back."

Dick juggled the two balls for a little while longer just so everyone could see how he did it. Once he figured everyone had seen it long enough, he stopped juggling and bent down to grab the blue ball.

"If anyone gets to this point before our time is up today, I'll be surprised. If they master it, I'll be impressed," Dick said. He showed the red ball in his right hand and the other two in his left. "This time, you're going to start with the subordinate hand. You're holding two balls in it. Throw one of them first. Just like before, throw the ball in your dominant hand before the first ball lands, then repeat with your other hand, and just keep this going for as long as you can."

Dick started juggling the three balls like an expert for just a minute before continuing his lecture while juggling. "It takes a lot of practice to get a feel for this, but once you have that, it's a breeze. Then you can start moving on to more balls, juggling pins, knives, things on fire, even chainsaws if you're either really good or completely mental. But you can't rush it. Because once you start trying to juggle too much at once..." Dick let one ball go just a little wild, so he had to overcorrect on the next one, which led to the next ball going wild, and within a couple more throws, all the balls landed on the ground. "... everything's just going to fall apart.'

"Obvios activity time! Grab a couple balls and start practicing. You can team up if you want to, if anyone whips a ball into someone else's face, that's a detention."

[OOC: The link above has gifs! Gifs of diagrammatic juggling!]

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"Brainstorming," Sam said. "For my webshow."

"Is that a show broadcast on the internet or something to do with spiders?" It was important to ask these questions.

"The first one. Spiders don't photograph well when your tech producer's a weenie."

Sorry Freddie.

"That would make it hard. So you're some kind of internet celebrity?"

"I'm the awesome kind of internet celebrity," Sam said. "My best friend and I get 900,000 some viewers a week."

"That's an insane amount of viewers," Jack said, obviously impressed. "What's your show about?"

"You know, cool stuff. Anything that looks neat or random or makes people laugh."

"Like juggling squid?"

"Now you're getting it."

He started juggling again. "Sounds cool. How often is the show?"

"Every week. Friday nights on iCarly.com. You should check it out."

"Carly being your friend's name or your secret internet alter ego?"

"Nah, she's my friend. If we called it the Carly and Sam Show I'd have to do a lot more work on it."

"You get the perks without the name right?"

"Worldwide fame and popularity, free trip to Japan. . . . Yep. It's good to be me."

"I can't argue with that. But you can't juggle," he pointed out. "That's just sad."

"I can totally juggle." No. No she couldn't. She flung the balls into the air again and managed not to catch a single one.

Big olympic finish!

"It's all in how you present it."

"I'm sold on that presentation. You managed to stick the landing."

"That's the most important part."

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