Juggling world records

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This is a list of juggling records for solo juggling of clubs, balls, rings and bounce juggling balls, as well as the two person passing records for each of these four props.

The records for each section are split into three groups.

  • The "most official" record with each number. These records can be proved only by video evidence, either available to the general public or to the members of the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON).
  • The "unofficial" record with each number, where the record is equal to or beats the official record. These are usually personal claims by the named juggler, often with witnesses. It should be remembered that it is notoriously difficult to accurately count catches for any attempt beyond a flash without resorting to slowed down video footage.
  • Records with lower numbers of props. These records can last anywhere from 20 minutes to 12 hours so video evidence, even if it exists, is not easily available for anyone to check.

Notes on defining the four props:

  • Balls, which include beanbags, must be roughly spherical objects.
  • Clubs, which include sticks and batons, must be long roughly cylindrical objects.
  • Rings, which include plates and hoops, must be flat, roughly circular objects.
  • Bouncing balls must be bounced off a solid, flat, horizontal surface with just one bounce per ball between each throw and catch.

Records begin where each object being juggled has been thrown and successfully caught at least once. Eg. 11 catches of 12 balls is not listed.

The records listed below are taken from many sources, such as the JISCON page, the Bounce Page records list, the Juggling Record Database and more.


Contents

[edit] Solo Records

Props must be thrown individually from each hand, and counting of catches commences once all props bar one have been thrown. Catches are counted only for throws made while no props have been dropped (fail to be caught and held onto) and before either hand has accumulated more than one prop at a time.

[edit] Clubs/sticks

Solo club records from the JISCON page or with publicly available video evidence:

  • 9 sticks for 9 catches by Bruce Tiemann in 1996, Scott Sorensen in 1997 and Chris Fowler in 2003 (JISCON).
  • 8 clubs for 16 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2006 (JISCON) (video on www.anthonygatto.com).
  • 7 clubs for 4 minutes 23 seconds by Anthony Gatto in 2006 (JISCON).
  • 6 clubs for 7 minutes 38 seconds by Anthony Gatto in 2005 (JISCON) (Personal video clip).
  • 5 clubs for 53 minutes 21 seconds by Thomas Dietz in 2005 (JISCON).

[edit] Balls/beanbags

Solo ball records from the JISCON page or with publicly available video evidence:

  • 12 beanbags for 12 catches by Bruce Sarafian in 1996 (JISCON), Ben Beever in 2001 (publicly available video), Peter Bone in 2006 (JISCON) (publicly available video) and Brian Koenig in 2007 (publicly available video).
  • 11 beanbags for 15 catches by Bruce Sarafian in 2001 (JISCON).
  • 10 beanbags for 23 catches by Bruce Sarafian in 2001 (JISCON).
  • 9 balls for 54 seconds by Anthony Gatto in 2006 (JISCON).
  • 8 balls for 1 minute 13 seconds by Anthony Gatto in 2006 (JISCON) (publicly available video).
  • 7 balls for 10 minutes 12 seconds by Anthony Gatto in 2005 (JISCON).

Lower numbers:

Unverified Claims:

  • 13 beanbags for 13 catches by Peter Bone in 2005.

[edit] Rings/plates

Solo ring records from the JISCON page or with publicly available video evidence:

Unverified Claims

[edit] Bouncing

Solo bounce records with publicly available video evidence:

  • 11 bounce balls for 11 catches by Tim Nolan in 1990 (video).
  • 10 bounce balls for 39 catches by Robert Mosher III in 2007 (video).
  • 9 bounce balls for 32 seconds by Robert Mosher III in 2007 (video).

[edit] Passing Records

When passing, only the props thrown between two separate jugglers are counted. In some patterns (ultimates or one-count) all the throws are caught by the opposite juggler but in a few patterns each juggler makes some throws to themselves. If these self throws were counted, two jugglers could make a single pass to their partner and then go on to juggle solo patterns for as long as they wanted.

The JISCON only tracks club passing. The top records for ball and ring passing are not officially tracked by anyone but some video evidence is available for various numbers.

[edit] Clubs

Manuel and Christoph Mitasch, world record-holding club passers.
Manuel and Christoph Mitasch, world record-holding club passers.

Two-person club passing records from the JISCON page or with publicly available video evidence:

  • 14 clubs for 14 passes caught by Peter Kaseman and Darin Marriott in 2004 (JISCON).
  • 13 clubs for 13 passes caught by Peter Kaseman and Darin Marriott in 2004 (JISCON).
  • 12 clubs for 70 passes caught by Manuel Mitasch and Christoph Mitasch in 2007 video.
  • 11 clubs for 196 passes caught by Manuel Mitasch and Christoph Mitasch in 2007 video.
  • 10 clubs for over 600 passes caught by Manuel Mitasch and Christoph Mitasch in 2008 video.
  • 9 clubs for 1392 passes caught by Manuel Mitasch and Christoph Mitasch in 2007 video.

[edit] Balls

Two-person ball passing records from the JISCON or with publicly available video evidence:

[edit] Rings

Ring passing records from the JISCON or with publicly available video evidence:

  • 16 rings for 16 passes by Anthony Gatto and Ivan Pecel in 2006 video

[edit] Bouncing

Two-person bounce passing with publicly available video evidence:

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