Blind juggling is juggling without being able to see the pattern. Like isolation, balancing, head bouncing, and spinning, this makes juggling more difficult by increasing the accuracy required.
Normally to demonstrate blind juggling, you need to wear a blindfold to show that you can't see the objects, but for some tricks, you don't even have to close your eyes to juggle blind. You can do blind overhead or behind the back patterns while looking straight ahead with your eyes open.
- Video: Joëlle Huguenin juggling 3 balls blind behind the back and overhead
Blindfolded 3-up
3 ball blind 3 up 360 by Haavard Hvidsten
5 balls blindfolded
5 ball blind qualify by Haavard Hvidsten
World Records[]
Blind juggling world records with publicly available video evidence:
- 3 balls blind: 32 minutes and 7 seconds by David Rush in 2021 (video)
- 4 balls blind: 159 catches by Matan Presberg in 2021 (video)
- 5 balls blind: 15 catches by Haavard Hvidsten in 2016 (video)
- 6 balls blind: 8 catches by Johnathan Mundell in 2020 (video)
- 7 balls blind: 8 catches by Johnathan Mundell in 2021 (video)
- 8 balls blind: 8 catches by Edvard Nårstad in 2021 (video) and Johnathan Mundell in 2023 (video)
- 3 rings blind: 224 catches by Cameron Ford in 2022 (video)
- 4 rings blind: 23 catches by Kenshin Tomie in 2021 (video)
- 5 rings blind: 6 catches by Kenshin Tomie in 2021 (video), Cameron Ford in 2023 (video), and Johnathan Mundell in 2023 (video)
- 6 rings blind: 6 catches by Kenshin Tomie in 2021 (video)
- 3 clubs blind: 19 minutes and 29 seconds by Niels Duinker in 2015 (video)
- 4 clubs blind: 16 catches by Erik Toll in 2020 (video)
- 5 clubs blind: 5 catches by Erik Toll in 2021 (video)
Unverified claims:
- 3 balls blind: 40 minutes by TheLally in 2007 (claim)
- 4 balls blind: 168 catches by Fletcher S (claim)
- 5 balls blind: 23 catches by DrUranium (claim)
- 7 balls blind: 8 catches by Xavier Bernier in 2022 (claim)
- 4 clubs blind: 25 catches by Felix Sürbe (claim)
Blind jugglers[]
Damian Pickering, who has been blind since age three, was taught by Barry Friedman to juggle 3 balls by bouncing them off his chest.
Nino Frediani was mostly blind his whole life, but kept it a secret because he preferred to be thought of as a speed juggler rather than a blind juggler.