In space, thrown balls move in straight lines…

(This video is from Roskosmos and is not owned by or a performance of the Space Juggler)

The human body can rotate in a cartwheel motion...

Put those together and rotate the camera to create Space Juggling.

 Here’s how it works…

 
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 Want to dig into these ideas on your own? Here’s a Wolfram Mathematica notebook uploaded to the Wolfram Community Forum. You can play around with the mathematics there.

https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2331903

If you’d like to just download that notebook. You can at this link.