Strangely enough, juggling knives.

I saw an expert demonstrate how the most basic knife juggling technique (juggling two knives) can be done.

It’s a bit anti-intuitive, but to start off,you need to get the following items

1. A REALLY sharp knife
2. eye protection
3. oil

The reason for the sharp knife is that if the knife is blunt, it can get lodged into your skin and stay there for a while, increasing the risk of infection. If the knife is sharp, it just slips through and the cut is less irregular and easier to heal.

You begin by applying the oil to your hands, then you need to practice shuffling the knife around. Just try spinning it around and tossing it into the air and catching it.

A good tip for catching it is focusing on your elbow, don’t pay attention to the knife. If you focus too much on the knife, your hands might end up in the wrong place and you might get sliced. If you focus on your elbow, the hand placement becomes simpler and you can grab the handle easily.

Once you mastered catching and handling one knife (a process which can take around 5 hours up to a day, depending on how good you are at managing your hands), you can move on to two knives.

To juggle two knives, you need to train yourself to track two objects at once, a good guide for doing that can be found [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF7pk0Nvt9s) (A bit of stuttering and the intro is VERY long, but the video is generally helpful). Once you got that bit nailed down, you need to start doing what you did before, but now you need to do it with two knives.

It’s OK if you don’t catch one of the two knives as they fall down, but it’s recommended that you try to maintain both knives in the air. Over time, you’ll become adept at keeping both knives in the air and voila! You’ve learned how to juggle knives.

Pro tips:

– Don’t wear gloves, they will lull you into a false sense of security and make you more prone to making mistakes, this is a very common issue in many knife juggling circles and has lead to several hospitalizations in the past year alone.

– Always remember to apply oil, or else you will fail to throw the knife in the air and you might accidentally stab yourself, once again, this is a problem in many knife juggling circles.

– It’s common practice to have a juggling partner with you at all times to handle the juggling when you can’t take it anymore, you just simply toss the knife over to them and they will catch it. It’s ok if your partner is not trained, since basic human reflexes can handle catching simple objects, such as knives.

– When catching knives, remember to make them spin very fast, that way, the momentum will help keep it suspended in the air for a longer amount of time, giving you more time if you have slow reflexes.

– Juggling knives with dogs around isn’t recommended, as the dogs will often try to catch the knives in mid-air and hurt them in the process. Good knives are very hard to come by.