Roy Pomerantz - Types of Juggling

Roy Pomerantz - Types of Juggling There are six main forms of juggling used by modern jugglers. A few of them are comparatively simple, and within the reach of most hobbyists, while others are advanced, and take great skill to perfect.

The traditional and best-known form of juggling is called contact or toss juggling, and it involves throwing and catching objects, or props, in the air. Props such as balls, clubs, rings, diabolos, and devil sticks. More advanced and daring jugglers might also juggle such props as knives, flaming torches, and even chainsaws.

In traditional juggling the main objective is to keep your props in the air; if one drops and hits the ground, it's a mistake. You pick it up and start over. But in a style called bounce juggling, the juggler deliberately bounces the props, usually balls, off the ground.

The classic juggling style involves the use of three props. More advanced jugglers are able to introduce more than three objects, and the really advanced jugglers also juggle props of different sizes and weights. The more objects the juggler can get into the air without a drop, of course, the more amazing it can be. According to the Juggling Information Service Committee on Numbers Juggling, a drop is "a failure to catch an object that, as a result, hits the ground or any foreign object."

A juggler named Anthony Gatto juggled seven balls for eleven minutes and thirty-seven seconds before he dropped one, back in 2011. Five years before, he managed to juggle eight balls for one minute and thirteen seconds, and nine balls for fifty-four seconds. A juggler named Alex Barron juggled an astonishing thirteen bean bags in 2013, but this feat was so astonishing it is measured not by duration but how many times he caught the bean bags without a drop. He had fifteen catches.

Juggling is usually a solo endeavor, but it can be performed by multiple jugglers. The difficulty of the tricks usually goes to a higher level. A team of five jugglers managed to juggle twenty-five clubs with fifty catches in 2015. It's one of those things that must be seen to be believed.

There is a video of this feat on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/jonglissimo/videos/915448085168574/).

Roy Pomerantz is a juggler extraordinaire who began to juggle at a very early age. He learned to juggle after coming across a book about it in a local magic store. The book, Carlo's Book of Juggling, introduced him to the art and changed his life. He juggles balls, clubs, hats, devil sticks, hatchets, and many other objects. Roy Pomerantz loves to entertain people with his art, and says that it has made him happy throughout his life.