A rola bola is a two-piece balance board consisting of a board on top of a cylinder. The board can slide across the cylinder as the cylinder rolls from side to side. A person standing on the board keeps it balanced on the cylinder so the board doesn't touch the ground.
If you turn the cylinder so it rolls forward and backward instead of left and right, it's a transverse rola bola. A double rola bola has one cylinder that rolls side to side and another that rolls forward and backward, with one stacked on top of the other.
World records
World records for juggling while balancing on a rola bola:
Balls
- 5 balls: 5 minutes and 34 seconds by Louis Duncan in 2017 (video)
- 6 balls: 119 catches by Max Kuschmierz in 2019 (video)
- 7 balls: 101 catches by Adolfo Almonacid in 2019 (video)
- 8 balls: 17 catches by Matthew Quenon in 2019 (video)
- 9 balls: 13 catches by Chris Fowler in 2004 (video)
- 10 balls: 10 catches by Chris Fowler in 2004 (video)
Rings
- 5 rings: 2 minutes and 15 seconds by Willy Colombaioni in 2020 (video)
- 6 rings: 233 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2019 (video)
- 7 rings: 239 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2017 (video)
- 8 rings: 25 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2018 (video)
- 9 rings: 15 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2017 (video at 2:32)
- 10 rings: 10 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2018 (video)
Clubs
- 3 clubs: 23 minutes and 25 seconds by Julian Westphal in 2020 (video)
- 5 clubs: 3 minutes and 26 seconds by Willy Colombaioni in 2020 (video)
- 6 clubs: 18 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2019 (video)
- 7 clubs: 10 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2018 (video)
- 8 clubs: 8 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2018 (video)
Ball bouncing
- 5 ball force bounce: 31 minutes and 40 seconds by David Nayer in 2017 (video)
- 6 ball force bounce: 2 minutes and 28 seconds by David Nayer in 2016 (video)
- 7 ball force bounce: 208 catches by David Nayer in 2017 (video)
- 8 ball force bounce: 20 catches by David Nayer in 2017 (video)
- 9 ball force bounce: 12 catches by David Nayer in 2020 (video)
- 7 ball lift bounce: 189 catches by Mike Byington in 2007 (video)
- 9 ball lift bounce: 13 catches by Maria Choodu in 2016 (video) and Weam Rashed in 2016 (video)
Unverified claims:
- 6 ball force bounce: 2 minutes and 51 seconds+ by David Nayer in 2017 (claim)
- 8 ball force bounce: 22 catches by David Nayer in 2016 (claim)
- 6 ball lift bounce: 52 seconds by Fritz Grobe in 1991 (claim)
- 7 ball lift bounce: 51 seconds by Fritz Grobe in 1991 (claim)
- 8 ball lift bounce: 22 catches by Fritz Grobe in 1991 (claim)
Double rola bola
Records for juggling on a double rola bola:
Toss juggling
- 3 balls: 6 minutes and 20 seconds by David Nayer in 2020 (video)
- 4 balls: 23 catches by Dror Lotan in 2017 (video)
- 5 balls: 27 catches by Cate Flaherty in 2017 (video)
- 6 balls: 6 catches by Dror Lotan in 2017 (video)
- 5 rings: 6 catches by Tatevik Seyranyan in 2013 (video)
- 3 clubs: 120 catches by Tatevik Seyranyan in 2013 (video)
Bounce juggling
- 3 ball force bounce: 5 minutes and 14 seconds by David Nayer in 2020 (video)
- 4 ball force bounce: 6 minutes by David Nayer in 2021 (video)
- 5 ball force bounce: 7 minutes by David Nayer in 2021 (video)
- 6 ball force bounce: 163 catches by David Nayer in 2020 (video)
- 7 ball force bounce: 45 catches by David Nayer in 2020 (video)
- 8 ball force bounce: 11 catches by David Nayer in 2020 (video)