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Learn_to_juggle_RINGS_-_Beginner_Juggling_Tutorial

Learn to juggle RINGS - Beginner Juggling Tutorial

Ring juggling tutorial

Painless_Ring_Juggling_(feat._Kathrin_Wagner)

Painless Ring Juggling (feat. Kathrin Wagner)

Ring juggling can be painful if you don't use the right techniques

Rings are flat, circular objects[1] with a large round hole in the middle, usually big enough to easily be placed around the juggler's neck. Their shape makes it possible to do tricks with them that can't be done with balls and clubs, such as pull downs and pancakes.

The earliest known record of juggling with flat rings is from the instructional book The Art of Modern Juggling, written in 1904 or earlier.[2] Flat juggling rings were not common until around 1930, and were originally made of wood. Previously, jugglers had used round-gripped metal rings,[3] and other circular objects such as plates and hoops. The first known use of plastic juggling rings was by Rudy Horn in 1945, and by the 1970s most juggling rings were made of plastic.[4]

Rings are generally more difficult to juggle than balls, because they're bigger so they have to be thrown higher, they're more affected by wind, and they can be painful to juggle. Rings can be easier in some ways though, and some people find rings easier than balls for numbers juggling. Rings are light, they're bigger so there's more to catch, while also being very thin so they can be juggled in a narrower pattern and collide less, they may have a slight boomerang-like effect that can make the top of the pattern wider and less collision-prone without making the bottom of the pattern too wide, they don't collide as badly as balls so it's easier to recover the pattern when they do collide, and they are the easiest prop to collect.

The highest number of rings that have been qualified (at least twice as many catches as objects) is 10, and the highest number of rings that have been flashed (same number of throws and catches as objects) is 13.[5]

3 rings[]

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3 RIngs Juggling Ⅲ

3 ring tricks by Takaaki Matsumura

A 3 ring cascade is a little more difficult than a 3 ball cascade, because rings are much bigger than balls, so they have to be thrown higher, and the technique for throwing rings is different from the technique for throwing balls. The 3 ring endurance world record is 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 45 seconds by Max Kuschmierz.(video)

Video: 3 ring juggling tutorial

4 rings[]

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4 ring juggling double blind kick

4 ring double blind kick by Jacob Weiss

4 rings are most commonly juggled in a fountain pattern (2 rings in each hand). The wimpy pattern is impractical for rings and clubs because of their size, though the reverse wimpy pattern with the rings turned sideways is less collision-prone. The world record for 4 rings is 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 5 seconds by Max Kuschmierz.(video)

Video: 4 ring juggling tutorial

5 rings[]

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WJF 7 Live! DVD Short Program Teaser

5 ring competition routine by Doug Sayers

The basic pattern for 5 ring juggling is a higher (and/or faster) version of the 3 ring cascade. 5 is the minimum number of rings used in the intermediate and advanced WJF competitions.[6][7] The overall championship includes a 5 ring freestyle (best trick) competition, and until 2015 it also included a 5 ring 360s competition (most 5 up 360s in 1 minute).[7] The world record for 5 rings is 58 minutes and 22 seconds by Caio Stevanovich.(video) Thomas Dietz claims to have juggled 5 rings for 1 hour.(claim at 1:15:00)

Video: 5 ring juggling tutorial

6 rings[]

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6 Ring Juggling Trick

6 ring breakdown by Jason Garfield

Severus Schaffer, who was performing with 6 plates in 1903, is the first person known to have juggled 6 ring-like objects.[8] The WJF overall championship includes a 6 ring freestyle competition[7] (first held in 2006). In 2008, the overall championship also included a 6 ring 1 minute 360s competition with only 360s in asynch patterns allowed (winner: Thomas Dietz).[9] The world record for 6 rings is 6 minutes and 55 seconds by Eivind Dragsjø.(video)

7 rings[]

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Sergei Ignatov 7 Ring Routine

7 ring routine by Sergei Ignatov

Frank Le Dent, who was performing with 7 plates in 1908, is the first person known to have juggled 7 ring-like objects.[8] Until 1984, the IJA Numbers Championships usually had no more than two divisions - one for 7 objects (competitors could use either 7 balls or 7 rings in the same division) and one for 5 clubs. Since 1984, the IJA has had competitions with a separate division for each prop, where competitors are scored higher for juggling higher numbers.[10] The WJF overall championship includes a 7 rings freestyle competition, and until 2015 it also included 7 ring isolated endurance (an endurance contest with competitors standing on chairs to allow only accurate, controlled patterns).[11] The world record for 7 ring juggling is 15 minutes and 6 seconds by Anthony Gatto.[5](video)

8 rings[]

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8 rings 8 up 360 qualify-0

8 ring 8 up 360s by Anthony Gatto

Frank Le Dent, who was performing with 8 plates in 1908, is the first person known to have juggled 8 ring-like objects.[8] 8 is the minimum number of rings used in the numbers endurance competitions at the IJA and the WJF.[12][7] The 8 ring juggling world record is 1 minute and 17 seconds by Anthony Gatto.[5](video) The following people have juggled 8 rings for at least 100 catches on video:

Other jugglers reported to have done at least 100 catches of 8 rings:

Tricks that have been done with 8 rings include:

9 rings[]

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9 ring pirouette Samuel Pauwels

9 ring 9 up 360 to a collect by Samuel Pauwels

Frank Le Dent, who was performing with 9 plates in 1908, is the first person known to have juggled 9 ring-like objects.[8] The first person to qualify 9 rings on video was Sergei Ignatov, in 1972. The first person to win the IJA's numbers endurance competition by juggling 9 rings was Albert Lucas, in 1984.[10] The following people have qualified 9 rings on video:

Tricks that have been done with 9 rings include:

10 rings[]

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Albert Lucas 10 Ring Qualify

10 ring qualify by Albert Lucas

Francis Brunn is generally considered the first person to have flashed 10 rings, though there is one earlier report of another German juggler, Freddy Zay, having juggled 10 rings on a unicycle.[13][14][15][16] 10 is the highest number of rings that have been qualified in any of the numbers endurance competitions at the IJA[17] and the WJF. The following jugglers have qualified 10 rings on video:

Other jugglers reported to have qualified 10 rings:

Tricks that have been done with 10 rings:

11 rings[]

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11 rings pull down!!-0

11 ring flash with a pull down by Rudolf Levitskiy

Albert Petrovski was the first person to flash 11 rings, starting with the last ring held in his mouth.[20] He started performing with 11 in 1963.[13] No one has successfully juggled 11 rings in the numbers endurance competitions at the IJA and the WJF, which require a qualifying run,[17] or even qualified 11 rings on video in practice. The following jugglers have all flashed 11 rings on video:

Other jugglers reported to have flashed 11 rings:

Tricks that have been done with 11 rings:

12 rings[]

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Anthony Gatto 12 Rings World Record

12 ring flash by Anthony Gatto

12 is the highest number of rings that have been performed onstage. The earliest account of juggling with 12 circular objects is from the Symposium by Xenophon, which describes a girl juggling 12 hoops in ancient Greece. (The Symposium is a Socratic dialogue meant to discuss philosophical ideas, not to record historical events, so this account is likely fictional.) The following jugglers have flashed 12 rings on video:

Jian Wen Qian(claim) and Scott Sorensen(claim) both claim to have flashed 12 rings, but don't have video evidence. Jean-Philippe Deltell has flashed 12 rings in a multiplex pattern.(video)

13 rings[]

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Albert Lucas - 13 Rings

13 ring flash by Albert Lucas

Albert Lucas was the first person to flash 13 rings. He succeeded on his tenth try on his first day attempting 13. He submitted the video to JISCON in 2002,[5] and he also showed it to jugglers at the IJA festival that year,[25] but the video wasn't made available to the general public until more than two decades later. Albert used a synch 14 ring pattern for 13 rings: (e,e)(e,e)(e,e)(e,e)(e,e)(e,e)(e,0), starting with 8 rings in his hands and 5 in holsters.[26]

Willy Colombaioni claims to have flashed 13 rings in the same pattern, catching all of them before falling down on the floor. He has posted a video, but it doesn't show the whole attempt continuously.

In 2024, Danyl Lysenko was the second person to flash 13 rings on video. He was the first to publicly release a video of it, and the first to use the cascade pattern for 13. He started with 9 rings in his hands and 4 in holsters. About a month after that, Albert Lucas allowed his own 13 ring flash video from 2002 to be published on the internet for the first time.[27]

14 rings[]

Albert Lucas has claimed to have flashed 14 rings on video, but he didn't want to share the video because it didn't show the whole pattern.[28] In 2013, Albert showed a video of a 14 ring flash (with an edit in the middle switching to a different camera angle) to jugglers at the Japan Juggling Festival.[29]

Ameron Rosvall can run a 5-plex pattern with 14 rings,(video) and Rudolf Levitskiy has flashed a 14 in a duplex pattern.(video)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/records/rules.html
  2. ↑ http://ezine.juggle.org/2015/09/01/unanswered-juggling-history-questions-part-1/
  3. ↑ https://www.juggle.org/juggling-treasures-discovered-from-the-late-1800s/
  4. ↑ https://www.juggle.org/the-history-development-and-innovation-of-juggling-rings-updated-and-revised/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
  6. ↑ https://www.thewjf.com/ioc/
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 https://www.thewjf.com/aoc/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 https://www.juggle.org/numbers-juggling-with-plates-and-discs/
  9. ↑ http://www.thewjfstore.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=62_75&product_id=84
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/
  11. ↑ http://www.thewjf.com/allevents.php
  12. ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/files/2015/04/NumbersRules2015.pdf
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 http://ezine.juggle.org/2014/12/03/juggling-firsts-part-three-rings-hoops-and-miscellaneous/
  14. ↑ https://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-2/34-2,p14.htm
  15. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/help/numbers/records/rings-10.html
  16. ↑ https://www.juggle.org/the-greatest-juggling-tricks-of-all-time-part-1/
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/numbers-records/
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 http://wayback.archive.org/web/19970613223149/http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
  19. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010815193101/http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
  20. ↑ http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/25-11/25-11,p3.htm
  21. ↑ http://wayback.archive.org/web/20000818120347/http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
  22. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030220114516fw_/http://www.anthonygatto.com/records1.htm
  23. ↑ http://www.juggling.org/help/numbers/records/rings-12.html
  24. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050119061550/http://www.bogleg.com/records/members.php?juggler=91
  25. ↑ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.juggling/MkUy-vnrioI/F2a84ec1SFwJ
  26. ↑ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.juggling/MkUy-vnrioI/C1aSuj0yKvIJ
  27. ↑ https://www.juggle.org/the-first-public-video-of-albert-lucas-historic-13-ring-flash/
  28. ↑ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.juggling/MkUy-vnrioI/bmKN3cTtXkYJ
  29. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingHome/permalink/1520949798129631/?comment_id=1521196401438304&offset=0&total_comments=62
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