Juggling world records

Juggling world records comprise the best performances in the fields of endurance and numbers juggling.

Criteria

For ratification as a world record, the claimed record

• must be proved by video evidence, either available to the general public or
• must be proved by video evidence, available to the members of the former Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON)^[1] (active till 2012) or
• must be validated by organizations such as Guinness World Records.

Records begin where each object being juggled has been thrown and successfully caught at least once (e.g. 11 catches of 12 balls is not listed). This is known as a 'flash'. Where each object is thrown and caught more than once the term used is a 'qualify'.

Notes on defining the props

• Balls, which include beanbags, must be roughly spherical objects.^[2]
• Clubs, which include sticks and batons, must be long, roughly cylindrical objects.^[2]
• Rings, which include plates and hoops, must be flat, roughly circular objects.^[2]
• Bouncing balls must be bounced off a solid, flat, horizontal surface with just one bounce per ball between each throw and catch.

Solo juggling records

Props must be thrown individually from each hand, and counting of catches commences once all props bar one have been thrown. Multiplexing (throwing more than one prop at a time from the same hand) is not allowed. Catches are counted only for throws made while no props have been dropped. According to JISCON definition, a drop is "a failure to catch an object that, as a result, hits the ground or any foreign object. A drop is considered to have happened at the moment the object should have been caught or touched, not when it hits the ground."^[2]

Balls

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
14 beanbags	14 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	(Video on YouTube)
13 beanbags	15 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2013	(Video on YouTube)
12 beanbags	20 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	(Video on YouTube)
11 beanbags	26 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	(Video on YouTube)
10 beanbags	30 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2013	(Video on YouTube)
9 balls	55 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	(Video on YouTube)
8 balls	1 min 13 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	(Video on YouTube)
7 balls	12 min 51 s	Ofek Snir	Israel	2015	(Video on YouTube)
6 balls	9 min 17 s	Christian Hauschild	Germany	2014	(Video on YouTube)
5 balls	2 h 41 min 27 s	Ofek Snir	Israel	2016	(Video on YouTube) [3]
4 balls	2 h 46 min 48 s	Zdeněk Bradáč	Czech Republic	2010	[4]
3 balls	12 h 5 min	David Slick	United States	2009	[5][6]

Clubs

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
9 clubs	11 catches	Eivind Dragsjø	Norway	2016	(Video on YouTube)
8 clubs	16 catches	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	(Video on YouTube)
		Willy Colombaioni	Italy	2015	(Video on YouTube), [7]
7 clubs	4 min 12 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	(Video on YouTube)
6 clubs	7 min 38 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	(Video on YouTube)
5 clubs	53 min 21 s	Thomas Dietz	Germany	2005	[1]

Rings

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
13 rings	13 catches	Albert Lucas	United States	2002	[1]
12 rings	16 catches	Willy Colombaioni	Italy	2016	(Video on YouTube), (Video on YouTube)
11 rings	17 catches	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	[1]
10 rings	47 catches	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	[1]
9 rings	50 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	(Video on YouTube), [1]
8 rings	1 min 17 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	1989	(Video on YouTube), [1]
7 rings	15 min 6 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2011	[1]

Bouncing

Force Bounce

• 12 bounce balls for 12 catches by Alan Šulc in 2008.^[8]
• 10 bounce balls for 10 catches by Alan Šulc in 2008.^[8]
• 9 bounce balls for 98 catches by Alan Šulc in 2016.^[8]
• 8 bounce balls for 4 minutes 12 seconds by Alan Šulc in 2011.^[8]
• 7 bounce balls for 2 minutes 15 seconds by David Nayer in 2015.^[9]
• 6 bounce balls for 5 minutes 48 seconds by David Nayer in 2016.
• 5 bounce balls for 59 minutes 30 seconds by David Nayer in 2015.

Lift Bounce

• 11 bounce balls for 11 catches by Tim Nolan in 1990.^[8]
• 10 bounce balls for 39 catches by Robert Mosher III in 2007.^[8]
• 9 bounce balls for 35 seconds by Mathias Ramfelt in 2011.^[8]
• 8 bounce balls for 1 minute and 14 seconds by Tayron Colombaioni in 2016
• 7 bounce balls for 11 minutes and 20 seconds by Tayron Colombaioni in 2016
• 6 bounce balls for 6 minutes and 43 seconds by Philippe Dupuis in 2016
• 5 bounce balls for 25 minutes and 53 seconds by Tayron Colombaioni in 2016
• 4 bounce balls for 25 minutes and 14 seconds by Tayron Colombaioni in 2016
• 3 bounce balls for 52 minutes and 41 seconds by David Jonsson in 2016

Passing records

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

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 other patterns each juggler makes some throws to themselves. The reason for excluding self throws is that two jugglers could make a single pass to their partner and then go on to juggle solo patterns for as long as they wanted therefore undermining the record for 'passing'.

Balls

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
21 balls	21 passes	Dave Leahy Dan Wood	United Kingdom	2014	(Video on YouTube)
20 balls	24 passes	Dave Leahy Dan Wood	United Kingdom	2013	(Video on YouTube)
19 balls	22 passes	Dave Leahy Dan Wood	United Kingdom	2013	(Video on YouTube)
18 balls	26 passes	Dave Leahy Dan Wood	United Kingdom	2012	(Video on YouTube)
17 balls	33 passes	Doug Sayers Benjamin Thompson	United States	2013	(Video on YouTube)
16 balls	47 passes	Doug Sayers Benjamin Thompson	United States	2015	(Video on YouTube)
15 balls	91 passes	Peter Kaseman Doug Sayers	United States	2012	(Video on YouTube)
14 balls	22 seconds (195 passes)	Doug Sayers Benjamin Thompson	United States	2012	(Video on YouTube), [nb 1]
13 balls	54 seconds (475 passes)	Ori Roth Ofek Snir	Israel	2016	(Video on YouTube)
12 balls	48 seconds (454 passes)	Peter Kaseman Doug Sayers	United States	2012	(Video on YouTube), [nb 2]
11 balls	2 min 34 s (1478 passes)	Stefan Brancel Samuel Simon	United States	2012	(Video on YouTube)

Clubs

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
14 clubs	18 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2015	[10]
13 clubs	30 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2013	(Video on YouTube)
12 clubs	101 passes	Daniel Ledel Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2016	[11](Video on YouTube) Video on YouTube of a run with insufficient video evidence (138 passes)
11 clubs	1 min 3 s (237 passes)	Christoph Mitasch Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2010	(Video on YouTube)
10 clubs	3 min 17 s (682 passes)	Dominik Harant Daniel Ledel	Austria	2011	(Video on YouTube)
9 clubs	7 min 1 s (1392 passes)	Christoph Mitasch Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2007	(Video on YouTube) [1]

Rings

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
18 rings	19 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2015	(Video on YouTube).
17 rings	17 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2013	(Video on YouTube)
16 rings	24 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2011	(Video on YouTube)
15 rings	35 passes	Chris Hodge Danny Hodge	United States	2015	(Video on YouTube)
14 rings	59 passes	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2013	(Video on YouTube)
13 rings	23 seconds (171 passes)	Thomas Dietz Dominik Harant	Germany  Austria	2015	(Video on YouTube)
12 rings	31 seconds (215 passes)	Dominik Harant Manuel Mitasch	Austria	2013	(Video on YouTube)
11 rings	2 min 44 s (1201 passes)	Thomas Dietz Dominik Harant	Germany  Austria	2056	(Video on YouTube)

Notes

1. ↑ In 2012, Chris Hodge and Andrew Hodge set the 14 ball passing record for a 2-count pattern. The 199 catches mentioned in that video include self-throws (an alternate counting method used by the IJA).
2. ↑ In 2011, Chris Hodge and Andrew Hodge set the 12 ball passing record for a 2-count pattern. The 579 catches mentioned in that video include self-throws (an alternate counting method used by the IJA).

References

External links

• JISCON the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling
• Juggling World Records - Collection of world record videos