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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what its worth (and probably not much since there is way more to the sport), my kid was the one that made it to 1239 at age 9 and 1 month.  He just beat his record recently and made it 2135.  He is still 9 years old.  Yet at a recent club tryout, he was on the bubble between the top two teams.  He is a technical player and has a great first touch but juggling doesn't guarantee anything.  It doesn't help that he is one of the smallest players on the team.  In the US, we still have a fascination with size and strength.  Maybe because most of the other popular sports in this country require those two things.[/quote]

There is a point of diminishing returns with juggling and 2000 is probably well past that point.

To most high level players juggling is just an expectation. It is a level of comfort and control of the ball. It develops first touch. But among top players it is not a separator, it is the expectation. There is no magic number that will separate one player from another. A kid who juggles 3000 times is not necessarily a better player than the player who can only reach 150. But if they are both good players with good touch juggling helped them along the way.

There are two types of kids, those who [b]can[/b] juggle and those who [b]won't[/b] juggle. Anyone who dedicates time can juggle. These arguments really just boil down to some parent of a kid who simply will not juggle and then tries to defend their kid by attacking kids who do juggle.

If you want to replace juggling with wall ball, that is fine. If you can dedicate the time to different footskills homework that will work too. But a kid must be doing extra work with the ball on their own to develop touch. Juggling just happens to be one method that requires the least amount space, equipment and it doesn't need a friend or teammate. Just you and the ball.

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