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 Most Popular Juggler of 2012 | |
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Wes Peden (born May 9, 1990) is a juggler from Rochester, New York. His father, Jeff Peden, taught him to juggle when he was five. Wes started performing with Jeff at age eleven,[1] and he has performed in 18 countries including Japan, Israel, Australia, and Iceland, and won awards from the International Jugglers' Association and the festival Cirque de Demain.[2] Wes was voted the world's most popular juggler in Luke Burrage's Top 40 Jugglers poll four years in a row, from 2007 to 2010,[3][4] and again in 2012.[5]
In 2007 Wes moved to Sweden to attend the Dance and Circus University of Stockholm, where he studied juggling most often with Jay Gilligan, and also with Luke Wilson, Ben Richter, Samuel Gustavsson Eric Longequel, Ivar Heckscher, Michael Moschen, Tom Johnson, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Malin Stattin, and Maksim Komaro. He also learned a lot from his classmates Elias Larsson, Peter Åberg, and Viktor Gyllenberg. While in school Wes met Patrik Elmnert and started working with him in the summer of 2008. Wes graduated the school in 2010, and he now lives in Stockholm and works around Europe and America making juggling shows and videos.[1]
World records
Records with publicly available video evidence:
- 5 club slapbacks: 23 catches in 2012 (Synthetic video at 18:12)
- 6 club backcrosses: 12 catches in 2006 (video)
- 6 club halfshower: 38 catches in 2012 (Synthetic video at 17:10)
Former world records:
- 13 club passing: 26 passes caught with Patrik Elmnert in 2009 (video) (current record: 30 passes caught by Dominik Harant and Manuel Mitasch)
Unverified claims:
- 5 club backcrosses: 320 catches in 2007 (claim)
- 6 club flats: 12 catches in 2006 (claim)
- 7 club (8x,6)*: 16 catches in 2008 (claim)
Competitions
Wes won the following IJA and WJF competitions.[6][7]
IJA 2004:
- Stage: Juniors
WJF 2:
WJF 3:
- 4 Club Freestyle
IJA 2007:
- eXtreme Juggling: 7 Balls
- eXtreme Juggling: 6 Rings
- eXtreme Juggling: 4 Clubs
- Games: 4 Ball Mills Mess Endurance
- Games: 3 Club Slapback Endurance
- Games: 4 Ball Shower Endurance
- Games: 5 Club 744 Endurance
IJA 2013:
- eXtreme Juggling: 5+ Clubs
[[Video:Peden to Sweden (full video)|thumb|left|640px| Peden to Sweden, a video Wes made in 2006 and sold online to make money so he could go to circus school in Stockholm, Sweden.]]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://papermacheanimals.tumblr.com/real
- ↑ http://www.wespeden.com/?page_id=6
- ↑ http://www.lukeburrage.com/audio/Juggling%20Podcast%2040%20-%20Top%2040%20Most%20Popular%20Jugglers%20of%202007.mp3
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/user/lukeburrage/videos
- ↑ http://youtu.be/qJvum_FlW0k
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/championships.php
- ↑ http://www.thewjf.com/allevents.php
- ↑ http://www.thewjfstore.com/2005convention.php
- ↑ http://www.thewjfstore.com/2006overall.php