What is the single, most incredible feat of juggling you have ever witnessed? In person, or in video?
I really don't know what to say here, there is so much... So I'll hold my opinion until other people chime in.
I've got a fairly strong feeling that we had a thread with almost exactly that title before. But I just tried a few searches and couldn't find it. Maybe my memory's stretching back to RJ days.
Anyone else remember this?
Brook Roberts - - Parent #
I remember a thread about this on RJ a long time ago and think I remember my answer too! (I anwered seeing dietz multiplex from 6 ball fountain to 6 hall hi-mid-low shower, but it was a long time ago and I couldn't find the thread again).
First thing that comes to mind is I believe from "28 years of Thomas Dietz".
Where the girl drops a club and Thomas catches it to go from 6 to 7 clubs (or from 5 to 6?)
http://ezine.juggle.org/2013/12/08/the-greatest-juggling-tricks-of-all-time-part-1/
http://ezine.juggle.org/2013/12/20/the-greatest-juggling-tricks-of-all-time-part-2/
http://ezine.juggle.org/2013/12/31/the-greatest-juggling-tricks-of-all-time-part-3/
David Cain
mike.armstrong - - Parent #
The steal and return from a five club cascade in Get the Shoes' Matrix/kung fu routine
GTs did pop into my mind too.
http://juggling.tv/2514 ...for the uninitiated.
That whole (dropless!) routine is something I would really love to have seen live.
Is that signature trick topped (in the gym) by this variant, which left me open-mouthed? https://vimeo.com/85896096#t=4m49s , Not a blind, backwards pass, but huge skill and coordination still involved. Bonus points for being a winning entry in Emily's competition too.
D'oh! Somehow managed to write that it wasn't a blind, backwards pass, when in fact it was too, just not an underhand one...
Little Paul - - Parent #
I'll chuck Bobby Mays match/cigarette trick in there, as it looks like nothing but is bastard hard.
Bobby May's trick is indeed amazing. I have tried many, MANY times to catch a cigarette in my mouth from a backcross and only get it very rarely.
I also heard that Enrico Rastelli could juggle 3 matches using only hand and wrist movement. Catching them with his thumb and index.
Anyway... A few on my list:
-7 Club 7-Up 360 (Gatto and Vova)
-11 Rings with a Headbounce (Gatto)
-11 Ball Qualify (Alex Barron)
-Gatto just Running 10 rings comfortably
-Anyone headbouncing 2 balls (actually have only seen 2 or 3 people do it - is it more common than this?)
-Toby doing 5 club Mills (better than anyone else, and comfortably)
I've also heard of someone (don't know who) doing a behind the back blind mill's mess. Is there any video of this?
I approve of your list. The 2 ball head bounce is not common at all these days. I can only think of Gatto running it for a reasonable length of time. I know that Lewis Kennedy can run it a bit. I got up to 13 bounces when I used to work on it, but that was exceptional. Best footage of a 2 ball head bounce has to be Evgeni Biljauer. I did see an old video of someone doing 3, but obviously not for long.
On the renegade stage at EJC in Svendborg, Denmark, Thomas Dietz did a routine. At the end (maybe after a very short break) he picked up 5 balls and juggled them on stage for 1 hour with clean finish. It wasn't that interesting to watch on it's own but after a while he moved to the back of the stage and continued whilst other acts came on and performed. At one point the lights briefly went out for one of the other acts and he kept the pattern going.
I'm not sure if his target was an hour but someone shouted that was the current record so he stopped then. We later found out the record had just recently been beaten so he didn't get it but so what, we knew we'd seen something amazing.
Cedric Lackpot - - Parent #
IIRC Tommi holds the 5b endurance record with a time of around 3hr 45min!
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