Refine moves you can do, establish strong basic patterns. Identify new moves and connection sequences you want to learn for WJF 22

Routines are created. April is spent refining the routines, working on individual moves and 5 run throughs of each routine per practice session

Routine is finalized. You should have put your whole routine together by now and be able to run through it without drops. Your training sessions should remain the same with the addition of running through all the routines five to ten times at the end of your practice session

Qualification video deadline. You must have submitted 5 run throughs of each routine on video as follows: Record an unedited video of your competition routines. In your try out video, you must demonstrate five (5) total run throughs per routine with no edits. Two run throughs with ZERO drops, one run-through with no more than 1 drop, one run through with no more than 2 drops, and one run through with no more than 3 drops. You do not need to wear a uniform in the video. Music is required if you have choreographed moments in your routines.

Alternate every other day as follows:

Day 1: Warm up. Then practice every move ten times in a row, then run your routines five times each.

Day 2: Warm up, then run through your routines ten times. After running through the routine ten times, spend as much extra time as needed focusing on the moves you had the most problems with and work out the problems. By running through the routine 10 times, you’re practicing each move once, ten times as opposed to each move 10 times, once, which simulates how well you will be doing each move in competition. So you get an accurate result of how well each move will be done the ONE time you plan on doing it in your routine

Each day should start with a cold run-through of all your routines. COLD - no warming up your juggling. Your body should be warmed up, just not your juggling. Warm up your body with five to ten minutes of low impact cardio (stationary bike, jogging, high knee sprints, bodyweight squats and lunges, squat jumps, whatever) followed by another five to ten minutes of light full body stretching. Then run through your routine without warming up your juggling. After that cold run-through, warm up your juggling the way you normally would and then practice only the moves that you had problems with during your cold run through. Continue to alternate every other day with normal move practice followed by 5 run throughs of the routines, and then the other day of running though the routine ten times.

Both days should start with a cold run-through to see where the most problems exist so it looks like this:

Day 1: Body only warm up, cold run through, then practice moves you had trouble with (not just drops, but anything that was a struggle outside of perfection), then confirm the other moves are solid with 5 perfect executions of each in a row, and then ending the session with 5 run throughs of each routine.

Day 2: Body only warm up, 10 routine run throughs starting with a cold run through of each routine.

At this point since you’ve been training just about every day and running through your routine each day your hands and arms should feel like they’re warmed up and ready to perform your routine at any hour of the day. A sense of confidence in your juggling should always be present regardless of how much time, if any, you’ve had to warm up - provided your hands haven’t been in freezing temperatures

The day of the competition
Competition show starts at 2:30pm

Warm up just as you do before your normal practice sessions and then run though each move three times. Then go through your whole routine once. You should not need to do individual move practice at this point.

This all must be timed perfectly so that you have enough time to fit in your warm-up, but also so there’s not much time spent waiting after you’ve warmed up and before you actually compete. Better to have to wait than to be rushed, so after you’re fully warmed up, continue to stay warm with some light to moderate juggling every few minutes before you compete - but don’t work on moves that drain your strength and energy - just enough juggling to feel ready to perform your routine at any moment