Luke Burrage

Luke Burrage
Former 17-19 ball passing world record holder
Websites	www.lukeburrage.com YouTube: Luke Burrage Juggling.tv: lukeburrage Juggling Edge: lukeburrage Facebook: Luke Burrage Instagram: lukeburrage
Highest numbers juggled	9 balls qualified 11 balls flashed 12 balls flashed? (claim) 8 rings qualified 9 rings flashed 7 clubs qualified 19 ball passing flashed

 Luke Burrage (born 26 August 1980) is a British juggler, musician, entertainer and author. He was born in Kent, but lived much of his life in the Northeast of England. He has lived in Berlin, Germany since 2005, and he has performed on all seven continents.

Luke started juggling at the age of 11, and has been a professional juggler since 2003. He has performed with up to 10 balls and 7 clubs. Luke Burrage and Ben Beever formerly held the top world records for numbers ball passing - they flashed 17 and 18 ball ultimates in 2003,^(video) and 19 ball ultimates in 2008.^(video)

Luke has compiled a list of the Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers of each year since 2003, based on a yearly vote by the online juggling community. Luke is the only juggler who has been included on the Top 40 Jugglers chart every year since it began. He ranked 4th on the list in 2004.

At IJA 2004, Luke won the People's Choice Award, and placed in three competitions:

• Individual Props: 3 Balls - 2nd place
• Games: Backcross Endurance - 1st place
• Games: Advanced 3 Ball Open - 3rd place (tied with Michael Karas)

In 2005, Luke founded the British Young Juggler of the Year event, a show and competition that takes place at the British Juggling Convention.

Luke Burrage did not invent the tricks Luke's shuffle or Burke's barrage, but he did invent Luke's lobotomy and Burke's Burrage. Luke also invented beatmap notation.

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