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Bounce juggling

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Chris Hodge Juggling

Ball bouncing tricks by Chris Hodge

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Variant R Bounce Edition

Ring bouncing tricks by Kip Hunt

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Luke burrage club classroom 5 floor bounce 423

3 club 423 with bounced 2s by Luke Burrage

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. The earliest known bounce jugglers were William Everhart and L. A. Street, who were both performing bounce juggling in the 1880s.[2]

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.[3]

It's possible to do patterns where the balls bounce more than once before they are caught, but in the IJA Numbers competitions and in official world records, 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).[4]

Bounce juggling can be easier than toss juggling because the balls don't have to be thrown high,[5] though numbers jugglers have been able to juggle more balls in toss juggling than bounce juggling. 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]

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5 Ball Lift Bouncing A Tutorial

Lift bounce tutorial

World records[]

Bounce juggling world records must be done on a solid, flat, horizontal surface, with each throw bouncing only once before it's caught. A ball that bounces twice before it is caught is considered to have been dropped. 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 (while no drops have been made) may be considered a catch in bounce juggling.

Lift bounce[]

Number of balls Record Juggler Year Video
3 ball lift bounce 3 hours, 45 minutes, and 13 seconds Bill Coad 2019 YouTube
4 ball lift bounce 2 hours and 1 second Bill Coad 2019 YouTube
5 ball lift bounce 1 hour, 16 minutes, and 7 seconds Stefan Hinterreiter 2022 YouTube
6 ball lift bounce 25 minutes and 44 seconds Jonas Nürge 2021 YouTube
7 ball lift bounce 19 minutes and 30 seconds Jukka Sairanen 2021 YouTube
8 ball lift bounce 1 minute and 59 seconds Tyron Colombaioni 2019 YouTube
9 ball lift bounce 1 minute and 7 seconds Cao Kai 2021 YouTube
10 ball lift bounce 51 catches Mathias Ramfelt 2017 Vimeo
11 ball lift bounce 12 catches Eden Zak 2014 YouTube

Unverified claims:

Number of balls Unofficial record Juggler Year Source
7 ball lift bounce 20 minutes and 3 seconds Patrick McGuire Claim
52 minutes Antonio Bucci 2001 This was listed as a record on The Bounce Page, but no video evidence was provided.
8 ball lift bounce 4 minutes and 30 seconds Antonio Bucci 1988 This was listed as a record on The Bounce Page, but no video evidence was provided.

Force bounce[]

Number of balls Record Juggler Year Video
5 ball force bounce 1 hour, 13 minutes, and 37 seconds Oscar Carrillo 2022 YouTube
6 ball force bounce 35 minutes and 19 seconds Oscar Carrillo 2024 YouTube
7 ball force bounce 7 minutes Konstantin Kulyak 2021 YouTube
8 ball force bounce 4 minutes and 12 seconds Alan Sulc 2011 YouTube
9 ball force bounce 157 catches Alan Sulc 2022 Instagram
10 ball force bounce 18 catches Alan Sulc 2017 Instagram
12 ball force bounce 12 catches Alan Sulc 2008 YouTube

Unverified claims:

Number of balls Unofficial record Juggler Year Source
3 ball force bounce 20 minutes Fritz Grobe 1991 Claim

3 ball bounce[]

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3-4 bouncing balls by Eden Zak

3 and 4 ball bouncing tricks by Eden Zak

The easiest way to bounce juggle 3 balls is a lift bounce version of the cascade.[3] 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 3 hours, 45 minutes, and 13 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.

Video: 3 ball bounce tutorial

4 ball bounce[]

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 2 hours and 1 second (of a lift bounce) by Bill Coad.

Video: 4 ball bounce tutorial

5 ball bounce[]

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5 bouncing balls tricks by Eden Zak

5 ball bounce juggling tricks by Eden Zak

The pattern for bounce juggling 5 balls is an async pattern, like the pattern for 3 balls, but faster. The 5 ball force bounce world record is 1 hour, 13 minutes, and 37 seconds by Oscar Carrillo,(video) and the 5 ball lift bounce world record is 1 hour, 16 minutes, and 7 seconds by Stefan Hinterreiter.(video) The following people have also bounce juggled 5 balls for at least 10 minutes:

Video: 5 ball bounce tutorial
Video: Another 5 ball bounce tutorial

6 ball bounce[]

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6 Ball Bounce Juggling 12 Patterns

6 ball bounce patterns by David Cain

A 6 ball bounce pattern is a faster version of a 4 ball bounce pattern. The 6 ball force bounce world record is 35 minutes and 19 seconds by Oscar Carrillo,(video) and the 6 ball lift bounce world record is 25 minutes and 44 seconds by Jonas Nürge.(video) The following people have also bounce juggled 6 balls for over a minute on video:

Other people reported to have done over a minute of a 6 ball bounce:

7 ball bounce[]

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7 ball trickster

7 ball bounce tricks by Michael Battipaglia

The first person to bounce juggle 7 balls was L. A. Street, who used a force bounce pattern.[7] The first person known to have done a 7 ball lift bounce was Hovey Burgess.[8] The Bounce Juggling World Records page listed the 7 ball lift bounce world record as 52 minutes, set by Antonio Bucci in 2001, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.[9] The longest run of a 7 ball lift bounce with publicly available video evidence is 19 minutes and 30 seconds by Jukka Sairanen, set in 2021. The 7 ball force bounce world record is 7 minutes by Konstantin Kulyak in 2021.(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)[10] was 350 catches by Malkenthin Hannes in 1995.[11]

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

Unverified claims:

Bouncing tricks that have been done with 7 balls include:

8 ball bounce[]

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8 ball lift bounce run by Antonio Bucci

Kathi Gultini was the first person to bounce juggle 8 balls, in 1910.[12] The Bounce Juggling World Records page listed the 8 ball lift bounce world record as 4 minutes and 30 seconds, set by Antonio Bucci in 1988, but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.[9] 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 59 seconds by Tyron Colombaioni, set in 2019.

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash an 8 ball force bounce, in 2001.[13] Alan Sulc was the first person to qualify it[12] - in a video from 2004 he does 40 catches before the camera angle changes. Alan broke the record with 114 catches in 2006,[14] and 208 catches in 2008.[15](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.[10] 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.[11] In practice, Christian has bounced 8 balls for 218 catches.(video)

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

Bouncing tricks that have been done with 8 balls:

9 ball bounce[]

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9 balls. Mathias Ramfelt

9 ball lift bounce run by Mathias Ramfelt

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,[13] but no video evidence was provided to verify that record.[9] In 2007, Robert Mosher III did 32 seconds on video.[16] Mathias Ramfelt did 35 seconds in 2011,[6](video) and 40 seconds in 2017.(video) Cao Kai did 53 seconds in 2017,(video) and set the current lift bounce world record in 2021 with a run of 1 minute and 7 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.[13] Eden Zak broke the record on video in 2004 with 11 catches.[17] Alan Sulc broke the record with 14 catches in 2004,[18](video) 15 catches in 2006,(video) 62 catches in 2008,(video) and 98 catches in 2016.(video) He set the current 9 ball force bounce world record in 2022, with 157 catches.(video)

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.[11] Christian won the bounce competition in the IJA's online Numbers Championships in 2021 with a run of 128 catches,(video) but that's not counted as the competition record since it wasn't a live competition.

Other people who have qualified 9 ball bounce juggling:

Unverified claims:

10 ball bounce[]

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10 balls Mathias Ramfelt

10 ball lift bounce world record by Mathias Ramfelt

Tim Nolan was the first person to flash a 10 ball bounce, in 1988.[12] He did 14 catches of a 10 ball lift bounce, and his record was listed in the Guinness book of world records.[19] 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.[13] In 2004, John Jones broke the record on video with 19 catches.[20] Eden Zak did 23 catches in 2005,[21] becoming the first person to qualify a 10 ball bounce on video.[12] In 2007, Robert Mosher III broke the record during the IJA Numbers Championships, with 29 catches,[11](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.[22] Christian Kloc is the only other person who has qualified a 10 ball bounce in the IJA Numbers competition, which he did in 2009.[11](video) Alan Sulc was the first person to flash a 10 ball force bounce, in 2008.[6](video) The official force bounce record of 10 catches was equaled by Henrik Veres in 2013(video) and Tony Garcia in 2014(video) before Alan Sulc broke the record with 18 catches in 2017.(video)

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

11 ball bounce[]

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11 ball lift bounce world record by Eden Zak

In a video from 1990, Tim Nolan attempts a flash of an 11 ball lift bounce in a synchronous 12 ball pattern - (cx,0)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)(cx,cx)*. The Bounce Page listed this as a record of 11 catches[23] even though Tim dropped while collecting, with the Bounce Page webmaster citing the fact that uncontrolled touches count as catches in bounce juggling according to the standard IJA Numbers rules.[24] However, the IJA rules also say the attempt is over when you drop while collecting, and no further catches should be counted after that, which would mean this attempt was not a successful flash. In a video from 2008, 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, so that doesn't count as a flash either. Eden Zak was the first person to do at least 11 catches of an 11 ball bounce on video, getting 12 catches of a lift bounce cascade in 2014.

12 ball bounce[]

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Alan Sulc - Weltrekord mit 12 Bällen 2008-0

Force bounce juggling with up to 12 balls by Alan Sulc

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 also[]

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References[]

  1. ↑ http://ezine.juggle.org/2015/03/13/bounce-juggling-with-rings-and-clubs/
  2. ↑ https://www.juggle.org/updates-of-david-cains-past-articles/
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.juggling.org/bin/mfs/JIS/help/balls/bounce-faq.html?4#threezero
  4. ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/files/2015/04/NumbersRules2015.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/bin/mfs/JIS/help/balls/bounce-faq.html?4#onezero
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 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. ↑ https://historicaljugglingprops.com/hovey-burgess/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.juggling/n-iBftA85lg/iHE7tVgeC_EJ
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060712075902/http://juggle.org/festival/2006/2006numbers-rules.php
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20130204012129/http://www.bouncepage.com/competition.html
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 http://ezine.juggle.org/2014/11/17/juggling-firsts-part-one-balls-and-ball-bouncing/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20021211041242/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  14. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20061207214921/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  15. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090420132528/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  16. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071027091357/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  17. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20041015005153/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060623070348/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  19. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?ei=ji8aU7aZCsTn2wWIpoHoBw&id=lPb45rGVTDEC&dq=guinness+records+1988&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=tim+nolan
  20. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040614182206/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  21. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050306143324/http://www.bouncepage.com/records.htm
  22. ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/numbers-records/
  23. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20040806064923/http://www.bouncepage.com:80/records.htm
  24. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.juggling/c/XbMxQVT7L2I/m/3wvKqfWs0YkJ
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