What's a Diabolo? (Tutorial 1)-0
The modern diabolo was developed and popularized by the French engineer Gustave Phillippart and the English athlete C. B. Fry in the early 20th century. An earlier form of this prop, the Chinese yo-yo, has existed at least since the 17th century.
1 diabolo
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EJC2011 Arata Vertax
1 diabolo vertax routine by Arata Urawa
The IJA has had a 1 diabolo performance competition as part of the Individual Prop competitions since 2004. The first winner of that competition was Ryo Yabe.
2 diabolos
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2diabolo 24 Arata
2 diabolo sequence by Arata Urawa
The unofficial world record for 2 diabolos low (not validated by any world record organizations; no publicly available video) is 43 minutes and 27 seconds by Ivan Carrasco.
Other people who have done 2 diabolos low for over 10 minutes:
- Kristian Scharling Jørgensen - 32:04
- Matias Auramo - 23:00
- Austin Bruckner - 17:38
- Emil Lamprecht - 16:32
- Joshua Weiner - 15:54
- Mark Douglass - 11:30
3 diabolos
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3 Diabolo tricks by Ofek Shilton
3 diabolo tricks by Ofek Shilton
Other people who have done 3 diabolos for over a minute:
- Sebastian Haushofer - 30:00 low(claim)
- Ryo Yabe - 10:00+ low(claim)
- Yuki Kojima - 8:40 low(claim)
- Aaro Kontio - 5:30 high(claim)
- Sylvestre Dewa - 5:30 low(claim)
- Tony Frebourg - 3:20 high(claim)
- Yosuke Meguro - 2:02 high(claim)
- Janion Nevill - 1:55 low(claim)
- Austin Bruckner - 1:30 low(claim)
- Martin Rolletmeheust - 1:15 low(video)
Multiple diabolos can be juggled in siteswap patterns, where a 0 represents a pause with an empty string (making time to do a 360 or jump rope with the string), a 1 is a pause with a diabolo on the string (making time to do a sun), and 2, 3, 4 etc. are increasingly high throws.
4 diabolos
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Tony Frebourg 5 Pirouettes in Row with 4 Diabolos May 2011
Five connected 4 diabolo 4 up 360s by Tony Frebourg
Other people who have done 4 diabolos for over 100 catches:
- Guillaume Karpowicz - 7:32 high(video)
- Stevie Caveagna - 3:45 high(video)
- Robin Spinelli - 3:17 low,(video)
- Yu-Sung Chao - 2:26 low(video)
- Pieter Slachmuylders - 2:11 high(video)
- Jack Chen - 1:51 low(video)
- Kubo Yuichiro - 1:36 low(video)
- Sean Leow - 1:04 low(video)
- Yliang Chen - 204 catches low(video)
- Ryoto Mitani - 204 catches low(video)
- Tony Frebourg - 179 catches high;(video) 4:17 high(claim)
- Lena Köhn - 161 catches(claim)
- Ofek Shilton - 152 catches low(video)
- Valerian Kapeller - about 120 catches high(claim)
- Arata Urawa - 113 catches high(video)
Tricks that have been done with 4 diabolos include:
- Transition from high to low and back (video)
- Mini columns (video)
- Low 534 and 642 (video)
- Low 62 (video)
- Low around the leg 7333 (video)
- Fountain (video)
- High 5551 (video)
- High 7531 (video)
- 3 up 360 (video)
- 4 up 720 (video)
5 diabolos
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Tony Frebourg 66661 and Pirouette with 5 Diabolos 2010-0
5 diabolo tricks by Tony Frebourg
Other people who have juggled 5 diabolos high:
- Stevie Caveagna - 60 catches(video)
- Pieter Slachmuylders - 30 catches(video)
- Arata Urawa - 16 catches(video)
- Michael Zorzan - 12 catches(video)
- Lena Köhn - 10 catches(claim)
Etienne Chauzy was the first person to flash 5 diabolos low, in 2010.(video) In 2011, Robin Spinelli also flashed 5 diabolos low,(video) and in 2013 Ronnie Slowinski broke the record with 6 catches.(video) Later in 2013, Robin Spinelli posted a video showing 13 catches, and in 2014, a video from 2011 was uploaded, showing Robin doing 18 catches. In 2015, Robin Spinelli did 20 catches on video, and two days later, Ronnie Slowinski did 31 catches.(video) Pen Zen did 47 catches in 2016.(video) Liao Wang did 82 catches in 2017,(video) and 130 catches later the same year,(video) but his videos are no longer available. Ronnie Slowinski set the current world record for 5 diabolos low with publicly available video evidence with a run of 106 catches in 2018.(video) Guillaume Karpowicz(video) and Soon Yong Wei(video) can also do 5 diabolos low.
Tricks that have been done with 5 diabolos:
- High 66661 to a qualify by Tony Frebourg(video)
- High 645 for 3 rounds by Guillaume Karpowicz(video)
- High 5 up 360 (not qualified) by Tony Frebourg,(video) Pieter Slachmuylders,(video) and Stevie Caveagna(video)
- High behind the back flash by Stevie Caveagna(video)
- Low 64 (to a qualify) by Ronnie Slowinski(video) and Liao Wang(video)
- Low 645 for 2 rounds by Liao Wang(video)
- Low 753 by Pen Zen(video)
- Low around the leg by Liao Wang(video)
6 diabolos
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6 diabolos + New record
6 diabolos by Pieter Slachmuylders
Stevie Caveagna has also flashed 6 diabolos high.(video) Tony Frebourg has done 6 high for 7 catches, but the video is no longer available.
(Note: For a catch to be counted in diabolo juggling, the diabolo may be thrown either from the string or from the diaboloist's hand, but it must be caught with the string.)
See also
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- Diabolo category on Juggle Wiki
- Diabolo world records
External links
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- Diabolo article on Wikipedia
- Diabolotutorials.com - The largest collection of diabolo tutorials on the internet.
- Diabolotricks.net
- 2diabolo.net
- Artofdiabolo.com
- Planet Diabolo Project
- Diabolo.ca forum