Bounce juggling

"Bounce" redirects here. For the article on bouncing a ball on the head, see "Head bounce".

Bounce juggling is juggling by bouncing objects (usually balls) off of a hard surface (usually the floor). Some bouncing tricks can also be done with rings and clubs.^[1] Bounce jugglers sometimes use portable surfaces to juggle on, since not all floors are suitable for bounce juggling. Objects can also be bounced off of surfaces tilted at different angles such as walls.

Since a dropped ball never bounces all the way back up to the height it was dropped from, maintaining a bounce juggling pattern requires the balls to be either lifted up with the hand after catching so they can be dropped from the same height every time, or thrown down at the floor to make them bounce higher than they would if they were just dropped. Juggling by lifting the bouncing balls is called a lift bounce, and juggling by throwing them at the floor is called a force bounce.^[2]

In some bounce juggling patterns, the balls bounce more than once before they are caught, but in the IJA Numbers competitions and in the official world records tracked by the Bounce Page, each ball thrown must bounce exactly one time before being caught. Since a stable pattern can be maintained by simply pushing the balls slightly to redirect them, without actually gripping them, any touch of a ball with a hand can be considered a catch in bounce juggling (as long as no catches have been missed yet).^[3]

Bounce juggling can be easier than toss juggling because the balls don't have to be thrown high,^[4] but numbers jugglers have been able to juggle more balls in toss juggling than bounce juggling, and most of the world records for solo bounce juggling are lower than the equivalent records for toss juggling.^[5] The highest number of bouncing balls that have been qualified (at least twice as many catches as objects) is 10, and the highest number of bouncing balls that have been flashed (same number of throws and catches as objects) is 12 (by Alan Sulc).^[6]

3 ball bounceEdit

The easiest way to bounce juggle 3 balls is a lift bounce version of the cascade.^[2] You can also juggle 3 balls in a force bounce cascade. Basic bouncing patterns are normally done with outside throws. In lift bounce patterns, the balls cross paths on the way down, and in force bounce patterns, the balls cross paths on the way up. The world record for the longest 3 ball bounce run with publicly available video evidence is 59 minutes and 51 seconds by Bill Coad, using a lift bounce pattern. The unofficial world record (not validated by any world record organizations; no publicly available video) for the longest run of a 3 ball force bounce is 20 minutes by Fritz Grobe.

4 ball bounceEdit

4 balls can be bounce juggled in a wimpy pattern (using crossing throws) or a fountain pattern (using non-crossing throws). For even numbers of balls, bounce jugglers usually use the wimpy pattern. The world record for the longest 4 ball bounce run on video is 26 minutes and 59 seconds (of a lift bounce) by Philippe Dupuis.

5 ball bounceEdit

The pattern for bounce juggling 5 balls is an asynch pattern, like the pattern for 3 balls, but faster. The 5 ball force bounce world record is 59 minutes and 30 seconds by David Nayer (he juggled for 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 8 seconds, but the video doesn't show the whole run continuously), and the 5 ball lift bounce world record is 27 minutes and 22 seconds by Basile Pucek.^(video) The following people have also bounce juggled 5 balls for at least 10 minutes:

• Bronkar Lee - force bounce for over an hour^(claim)
• Luis Vale - 29:26^(claim) (unofficial lift bounce world record)
• Tyron Colombaioni - 27:22^(video)
• Robert Wood - 13:06^(video)
• Jonathan Root - 15:00^(claim)
• Michael Battipaglia - force bounce for 10:00^(claim)

6 ball bounceEdit

A 6 ball bounce pattern is a faster version of a 4 ball bounce pattern. The 6 ball force bounce world record is 5 minutes and 48 seconds by David Nayer,^(video) and the 6 ball lift bounce world record is 6 minutes and 43 seconds by Philippe Dupuis.^(video) The following people have also bounce juggled 6 balls for over a minute:

• Tyron Colombaioni - lift bounce for 6:27^(video)
• Werner Riebesel - lift bounce for 5:57^(claim)
• Michael Battipaglia - 5:49^(claim) (unofficial force bounce world record)
• Jeff Clark - lift bounce for 4:00^(claim)
• Emanuele Marchione - lift bounce for 3:03^(video)
• Russ Peters - lift bounce for 1:24^(claim)
• Chris Hodge - lift bounce for 1:17, force bounce for 1:07^(claim)
• Robert Wood - lift bounce for 1:13^(video)

7 ball bounceEdit

L. A. Street was the first person to bounce juggle 7 balls.^[7] The Bounce Juggling World Records page lists the 7 ball lift bounce world record as 52 minutes by Antonio Bucci in 2001, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.^[8] The longest run of an 7 ball lift bounce with publicly available video evidence is 11 minutes and 20 seconds by Tyron Colombaioni in 2016. The 7 ball force bounce world record is 2 minutes and 15 seconds by David Nayer in 2015.^(video) The longest 7 ball bounce run achieved in the IJA Numbers Championships (before the starting number for the Ball Bouncing division was raised to 8 balls in 2006)^[9] was 350 catches by Malkenthin Hannes in 1995.^[10]

Other people who have bounce juggled 7 balls for over a minute:

• Patrick McGuire - 20:03^(claim)
• Michael Battipaglia - 10:19^(video) (former lift bounce world record)
• Sylvain Garnavault - 6:00^(claim)
• Mike Byington - 1:05,^(video) 2:45^(claim)
• Tim Nolan - 2:09^(Guinness)
• Werner Riebesel - 1:27^(claim)
• Pete Matthews - 1:25^(video)
• Bronkar Lee - force bounce for 1:24^(video)
• Mathias Ramfelt - 1:22^(video) (former force bounce world record)
• Emanuele Marchione - 1:17^(video)
• Chris Hodge - 1:05^(claim)

Bouncing tricks that have been done with 7 balls include:

• Transition from lift bounce to force bounce and back (video at 41:10)
• Transition from lift bounce to toss juggling and back (video)
• Triple bounce (video)
• Column bounce (video)
• Duplex splits (video)
• 966 (video)
• Force bounce 5 up 360 (video)
• Backcross 5 up 180 (video)
• 7 up 720 (video)
• 7 up back handspring (video)

8 ball bounceEdit

Kathi Gultini was the first person to bounce juggle 8 balls, in 1910.^[11] The Bounce Juggling World Records page lists the 8 ball lift bounce world record as 4 minutes and 30 seconds by Antonio Bucci in 1988, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.^[8] Antonio did a run of 1 minute and 4 seconds on video in 2010. The longest run of an 8 ball lift bounce with publicly available video evidence is now 1 minute and 14 seconds by Tyron Colombaioni, set in 2016. Philippe Dupuis tied the record in 2018.^(video)

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash an 8 ball force bounce, in 2001.^[12] Alan Sulc was the first person to qualify it^[11] - in a video from 2004 he does 40 catches before the camera angle changes. Alan broke the record with 114 catches in 2006,^[13] and 208 catches in 2008.^[14](video) He set the current 8 ball force bounce world record, 4 minutes and 12 seconds, in 2011.^[6](video)

8 has been the minimum number of balls used in the IJA's Ball Bouncing Numbers competition since 2006.^[9] The first person to qualify 8 balls in the competition was Fritz Grobe, in the first Ball Bouncing Numbers Championship in 1993. The longest anyone has bounce juggled 8 balls in the competition is 123 catches, achieved by Christian Kloc in 2004.^[10]

Other people who have bounce juggled 8 balls for over 100 catches:

• Jay Gilligan - 1000 catches^(claim)
• Michael Battipaglia - 370 catches^(video)
• Robert Mosher III - 325 catches^(video)
• Eden Zak - 300 catches^(claim)
• John Jones - 202 catches^(video)
• Tony Frebourg - 130 catches,^(video) 1:49^(claim)

Bouncing tricks that have been done with 8 balls:

• Duplex fountain (video)
• Crossing duplexes (video)
• Triplexes (video at 3:45)
• Columns (video)
• 6 up 360 (video)
• 8 up 360 (video)

9 ball bounceEdit

When the Bounce Juggling World Records page was created in 2001, Antonio Bucci was originally listed as the 9 ball lift bounce world record holder, having done 9 for 30 seconds in 1988,^[12] but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.^[8] In 2007, Robert Mosher III did 32 seconds on video.^[15] Mathias Ramfelt did 35 seconds in 2011,^[6](video) and set the current lift bounce world record in 2017 with a run of 40 seconds.^(video)

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash a 9 ball force bounce, in 2001. His record of 9 catches was originally listed as the world record for that pattern on the Bounce Page, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.^[12] Eden Zak broke the record on video in 2004 with 11 catches.^[16] Alan Sulc broke the record with 14 catches in 2004,^[17](video) 15 catches in 2006,^(video) and 62 catches in 2008.^(video) He set the current 9 ball force bounce world record in 2016, with 98 catches,^(video) and claims to have done 9 for around 130 catches.

Nate Seefeldt was the first person to qualify a 9 ball bounce in the IJA Numbers Championships, achieving 20 catches in 2001. Jonathan Root also did 20 catches in IJA competition in 2002. In 2003, the competition record was broken by Christian Kloc with 21 catches, and then by John Jones with 25 catches. In 2004, it was broken again by John Jones with 27 catches, by Nate Seefeldt with 29 catches, and by Christian Kloc with 30 catches. Christian won the 2005 Numbers competition with 37 catches, and did 49 catches in the 2007 competition.^[10]

Other people who have qualified 9 ball bounce juggling:

• Tyron Colombaioni - 214 catches^(video)
• Johan Wellton - 121 catches,^(video) 40 seconds^(claim)
• Tirist Asefa - 102 catches^(video)
• Philippe Dupuis - 88 catches^(video)
• Erkin Saralaev - 56 catches^{(video at 0:34)}
• Tony Frebourg - 55 catches,^(video) 46 seconds^(claim)
• Katya Nikiforova - 49 catches^(video)
• Ilja Smyslov - 41 catches^(video)
• Frida Brinkmann - 34 catches^(video)
• Fernando Pose - 23 catches^(video)
• Maria Markova - 23 catches^(video)
• Weam Rashed - 21 catches^(video)
• Doug Sayers - 20 catches in competition

Unverified claims:

• Eden Zak - 75 catches^(claim)
• Jeff Clark - 24 catches^(claim)
• Chris Hodge - 22 catches^(claim)
• David Nayer - force bounce for 20 catches^(claim)
• David Granados - 18 catches^(claim)

10 ball bounceEdit

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash a 10 ball bounce, in 1988.^[11] He did 14 catches of a 10 ball lift bounce, and his record was listed in the Guinness book of world records.^[18] When the Bounce Juggling World Records page was created in 2001, it listed Chris Ivey as the 10 ball lift bounce world record holder, with 18 catches, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.^[12] In 2004, John Jones broke the record on video with 19 catches.^[19] Eden Zak did 23 catches in 2005,^[20] becoming the first person to qualify a 10 ball bounce on video.^[11] In 2007, Robert Mosher III broke the record during the IJA Numbers Championships, with 29 catches,^[10](video) and later that year he broke the record again with 39 catches.^[6](video) Mathias Ramfelt set the current world record in 2017 with a run of 51 catches.^(video) In 2008, Robert set the current IJA competition record for ball bouncing with 31 catches of 10 balls.^[21] Christian Kloc is the only other person who has qualified a 10 ball bounce in the IJA Numbers competition, which he did in 2009.^[10](video) Alan Sulc was the first person to flash a 10 ball force bounce, in 2008.^[6](video) The force bounce record of 10 catches has been equaled by Henrik Veres in 2013^(video) and Tony Garcia in 2014.^(video)

Other people who have bounce juggled 10 balls for at least a flash:

• Nate Seefeldt - 13 catches in competition
• Jonathan Root - 13 catches in competition prelims
• Erkin Saralaev - 10 catches^(video)
• Sampion Bouglione - 10 catches^(video)
• Tyron Colombaioni - 10 catches^(video)
• Jason Kollum - 10 catches^(claim)

11 ball bounceEdit

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash an 11 ball bounce. He did 11 catches (11 consecutive catches/touches) of a 11 ball lift bounce in a synch 12 ball pattern - (cx,0)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)* - in 1990.^[6](video) Eden Zak broke the world record in 2014 with 12 catches of a lift bounce in a cascade pattern.^(video) In this 2008 video, Alan Sulc attempts an 11 ball force bounce and makes 11 catches, but he uses his foot to start the pattern and only makes 10 throws with his hands.

12 ball bounceEdit

Alan Sulc is the only person who has flashed a 12 ball bounce. He did 12 catches of a 12 ball force bounce in 2008.^[6](video)

See alsoEdit

• Bounce juggling category on Juggle Wiki
• Ball bouncing world records
• The Bounce Page

• Toss juggling
• Rolling juggling

External linksEdit

• The Bounce Page
• The Origins of Ball Bounce Juggling on eJuggle
• Bounce Juggling with Rings and Clubs on eJuggle

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ http://ezine.juggle.org/2015/03/13/bounce-juggling-with-rings-and-clubs/
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} http://www.juggling.org/bin/mfs/JIS/help/balls/bounce-faq.html?4#threezero
3. ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/files/2015/04/NumbersRules2015.pdf
4. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/bin/mfs/JIS/help/balls/bounce-faq.html?4#onezero
5. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6} https://web.archive.org/web/20120717065702/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
7. ↑ http://ezine.juggle.org/2013/11/30/the-origins-of-ball-bounce-juggling/
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.juggling/n-iBftA85lg/iHE7tVgeC_EJ
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} https://web.archive.org/web/20060712075902/http://juggle.org/festival/2006/2006numbers-rules.php
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4} https://web.archive.org/web/20130204012129/http://www.bouncepage.com/competition.html
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3} http://ezine.juggle.org/2014/11/17/juggling-firsts-part-one-balls-and-ball-bouncing/
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3} https://web.archive.org/web/20021211041242/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061207214921/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090420132528/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071027091357/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20041015005153/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060623070348/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
18. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?ei=ji8aU7aZCsTn2wWIpoHoBw&id=lPb45rGVTDEC&dq=guinness+records+1988&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=tim+nolan
19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040614182206/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
20. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050306143324/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
21. ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/numbers-records/