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Cory Black

Cory Black

Cory Black is a Seattle-based professional freestyle footballer and juggler (Cory Freestyle) who performs at festivals, corporate events, and toured with Flynn Creek Circus.

Sep 15, 2026

15:30
What is more difficult to learn? What's the learning curve for each?
15:36
Let's see, I would say freestyle is harder to start just because juggling with your feet is not intuitive at all versus everyone's caught a ball before.
15:44
So you can make a lot more quick progress with juggling.
15:50
In terms of tricks, I think they're very similar difficulty.
15:52
But the thing for me is freestyle, you're more likely to pull a muscle, you're more likely to hurt yourself and you're going to get really tired because you're jumping around versus juggling.
16:01
It's just your arms.
16:01
So a lot of times I just want to juggle because I don't want to have to do all the warmup and stuff.
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17:14
so the transition from a competitive style to a performance style like how do you make that shift because there's obviously they sound like very different art forms almost

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