Juggling world records Facts for Kids

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

Criteria
Solo juggling records
- Balls
- Clubs
- Rings
- Bouncing
Passing records
- Balls
- Clubs
- Rings

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 validated by organizations such as Guinness World Records

Up until 2012 any record must have been proved by either of the two methods above or by video evidence, available to the members of the former Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling (JISCON). JISCON is no longer active.

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'.

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.

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."

Balls

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
14 beanbags	14 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	()
13 beanbags	15 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2013	()
12 beanbags	20 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	()
11 beanbags	33 catches	Alex Barron	United Kingdom	2017	()
10 beanbags	39 catches	Tom Whitfield	United Kingdom	2020	()
9 balls	55 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	()
8 balls	1 min 13 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	()
7 balls	16 min 25 s	Adolfo Esteban Cardenas	Chile	2019	()
6 balls	25 min 17 s	Adolfo Esteban Cardenas	Chile	2019	()
5 balls	2 h 41 min 27 s	Ofek Snir	Israel	2016	(),
4 balls	2 h 46 min 48 s	Zdeněk Bradáč	Czech Republic	2010
3 balls	12 h 5 min	David Slick	United States	2009

Clubs

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
9 clubs	11 catches	Eivind Dragsjø	Norway	2016	()
8 clubs	16 catches	Anthony Gatto	United States	2006	()
8 clubs	16 catches	Willy Colombaioni	Italy	2015	(),
7 clubs	4 min 24 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	()
6 clubs	7 min 38 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	()
5 clubs	53 min 21 s	Thomas Dietz	Germany	2005	Verified by JISCON
4 clubs	58 min 06 s	Ameron Rosvall	Sweden	2019	()
3 clubs	3 h 43 min 14 s	Robert LeBoeuf	United States	2019	()

Rings

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
13 rings	13 catches	Albert Lucas	United States	2002
12 rings	16 catches	Willy Colombaioni	Italy	2016	(), ()
11 rings	21 catches	Lysenko Danila	Ukraine	2020	()
10 rings	47 catches	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005
9 rings	50 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2005	(),
8 rings	1 min 17 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	1989	(),
7 rings	15 min 6 s	Anthony Gatto	United States	2011	(),

Bouncing

Force Bounce

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
12 bounce balls	12 catches	Alan Šulc	Czech Republic	2008	(),
10 bounce balls	10 catches	Alan Šulc	Czech Republic	2008	(),
		Henrik Veres	Hungary	2013	()
		Tony Garcia	Spain	2014	()
9 bounce balls	98 catches	Alan Šulc	Czech Republic	2016	()
8 bounce balls	4 min 12 s	Alan Šulc	Czech Republic	2011	(),
7 bounce balls	2 min 15 s	David Nayer	United States	2015	()
6 bounce balls	5 min 48 s	David Nayer	United States	2016	()
5 bounce balls	59 min 30 s	David Nayer	United States	2015	()

Lift Bounce

Equipment	Record	Juggler	Nationality	Year	Ref(s)
11 bounce balls	12 catches	Eden Zak	Israel	2014	()
10 bounce balls	51 catches	Mathias Ramfelt	Norway	2017	(Video on Vimeo)
9 bounce balls	40 s	Mathias Ramfelt	Norway	2017	(Video on Vimeo)
8 bounce balls	1 min 14 s	Tyron Colombaioni	Italy	2016	(Video on Facebook)
7 bounce balls	11 min 20 s	Tyron Colombaioni	Italy	2016	()
6 bounce balls	6 min 43 s	Philippe Dupuis	Canada	2016	()
5 bounce balls	56 min 09 s	Liam Ryan-O'Flaherty	United States	2019	()
4 bounce balls	2 hour 0 min 01 s	Bill Coad	United States	2019	()
3 bounce balls	3 hours 45 min 13 s	Bill Coad	United States	2019	()

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'.