How many jugglers are there in the world

We move to two, you end up with a little line, this one further out goes first. Three is a little triangle. I like to release this one first. Four, so some people stack it on top, which maybe you do for lower numbers, but we're gonna go high, so we can't do that quite yet. You end up with this little diamond. Five, I like this kind of trapezium shape. Six in one hand, suddenly you get this pretty ugly two lines of three deal.

This one, as you can see, is pretty compressed. This is probably the worst one to release. If you get up to 14, then you just shove the last two on top. Really any time, you can shove the last two on top, but with 14, we're forced to go like this. I do these little setup throws to try and get them in the right position. He's over six feet tall, and he's got big hands.

But what about there rest of us? Like that? Ah ha! Missing a ball. There's the beauty of something called side swap. So side swap is a way of notating juggling patterns. So you could throw balls at different heights when you juggle, and the way jugglers typically denote those different heights is they do it based on how high you'd have to throw to juggle a certain number of balls.

So for three balls I can do it really low, like this, right? If I pick up five balls, just 'cause there are more balls, I have to throw it higher to do the same thing. So what side swap lets you do is combine throws from different numbers of balls, and you just call those throws the number of balls. So, a simple one, for example, with four balls, would be something called five three four.

And so if was just doing four, right, and they all go the same height. So this is lots of fours over and over again. What I can do is I can throw one ball higher, to be a five, and one ball lower to be a three, and then go back to four.

So that's like five three four. You can see there's a five ball throw and a three ball throw. And then you can either do five three continuously, or you can mix it up. And yeah, what's fun about that is now, if you want to tell your friend, hey, I found this great new juggling pattern, you just give him a list of numbers, and then they can do it. Or they can try and learn it, at least. Side swap is a way that you can, that some people practice higher numbers using a lower number of balls.

In this pattern you're actually throw, one hand is doing the work of five balls. One hand is doing exactly is doing half of a five ball pattern, and the other hand is doing a one ball pattern.

Which is just that. The raw physical act of it, like the speed at which you have to move your hands, the weight that you have in your hands at the beginning, is on a different level. People tend to see, in the juggling world, going from an even number to an odd number as being substantially harder than going from an odd number to an even number. With even numbers, you can throw them in pairs, which means you can get your whole body involved.

With 15, you'd have to do it asynchronously. The biggest question mark for me is probably whether someone has the physical ability to practice 15 enough to be able to do it, or have enough attempts to be lucky enough to catch 15 balls. But he's eager to see it challenged. Yeah, do I ever think someone will do 15 for a flash? I like to think someone will do I mean, you compare this to like the meter sprint, or a marathon or something, where countless people have optimized themselves as hard as they can, and trained for it.

I think there's more to go in juggling for sure. Rudy too would continue juggling and have a storied and long career. Learn more about Rudy by clicking here. Albert Lucas is likely known to most current day jugglers for his accomplishments with numbers juggling, joggling, and impressive showing at the IJA Convention. However, he was also a child prodigy juggler. Albert began juggling at the age of 3, and was trained by his father Albert Moreira. He performed 3 clubs at the age of 4, as well as combination tricks.

Lucas booked a four year world tour opening for Liberace at the age of 8. Albert showed up at the IJA Convention as a ten year old and juggled seven rings for over a minute, winning the Numbers competition that year! Like the others in this category, Albert Lucas has enjoyed a very successful juggling career in his adulthood as well.

Below is a video of Albert at the age of 8 or 9. Vladik Miagkostoupov learned how to juggle at age 6 from his father Anatoli Miagkostoupov, a famous Russian juggler.

Vladik had trained in dance and acrobatics previously. By nine, he was already performing professionally. He won the IJA Juniors Championships at the age of 11, and the Individuals Championships at the age of 13 the same age as when Gatto won the same title.

He continues to perform outstanding routines with Cirque Du Soleil today and juggles 7 clubs and 9 balls. Click here and here to see videos of Vladik when he was young. Gena learned to juggle from her father, a talented Russian juggler, shortly before her sixth birthday. And skill and hours of practice aren't always enough; according to expert jugglers, the current world records were likely made possible by a decent amount of luck. BY Michele Debczak.

For a closer look at the physics of juggling, check out the video below. The need for either speed or height increases rapidly with the number of objects juggled.

These temporal constraints on juggling are summarized by Shannon's theorem. He defines relations that must exist among the times that the hands are empty or full and the time each ball spends in the air. Shannon presented his theorems in a paper he wrote in the s entitled Scientific Aspects of Juggling.

Here he provides the first mathematical basis of juggling. The uniform juggle The variables Shannon uses to form his theorems are: D - the dwell time time a ball spends in a hand between when it's caught and when it's thrown F - the flight time time a ball spends in the air between when it's thrown and when it's caught V - the vacant time time a hand is empty between throwing one object and catching the next H - number of hands involved B - number of balls juggled He also only concentrates on uniform juggles: A uniform juggle is one without multiplexing no two or more balls may be caught in one hand at the same time and with all dwell times the same, all flight times the same and all vacant times the same.

Most basic patterns three-ball cascade, four-ball fountain etc. This theorem is schematically represented for the three-ball cascade fig. Robots that juggle Insights into human juggling have led researchers to try to duplicate the movements with robots.