Awesome Juggling

Kateryna Nikiforova is an expert at bounce juggling, a type of juggling that involves bouncing objects off of a hard surface. Here, she shows off her coordination and timing using a set of angled bounce surfaces. We love this color-embellished video of one of her routines too.

Taylor Tries shows off a fun and different perspective on her juggling skills with this mesmerizing top-down view. She says that it makes it look like she’s juggling giant gumballs, and we agree. Check out more of the same point-of-view here and here.

The CableEndy is a robot that uses a cable-driven mechanism to manipulate and stabilize an object at its center. To show off its mechanical prowess, its makers at B&R Automation and Brno University of Technology created this demonstration that shows how it can toss and catch a tennis ball with amazing precision.

You would think that juggling balls when they’re attached to fishing line was kind of cheating. But juggler Daniel Rosenfeldt quickly proves us wrong with the precision choreography (and lack of tangled strings) in his orbit juggling routine. While he calls his routine “Starcatcher,” the light-up spheres kind of look like giant fireflies.

Juggler Dan Foley recently posted a video of himself tossing about three metal lawn chairs, each with its legs set ablaze. The clip caught the attention of the Ellen show, and they asked him to put together an “audition” clip before his appearance on the talk show. He did the stunt even better this time around.

We have a hard enough time keeping two balls in the air at the same time, but this robotic contraption is able to deftly juggle five balls at once. It’s even smart enough to detect when a ball is intentionally dropped and resumes without skipping a beat.

(PG-13: Language) For his 31st birthday, Cirque du Soleil performer Thom Wall celebrated the occasion by assembling a reel of 31 different tricks that put to good use his juggling skills, balance, and manual dexterity. That knife trick.

A visually stunning promo for Cascade Juggling in which fiery bits of steel wool were spun into the air. The film was then slowed down and played backwards to spectacular effect. Its maker assures us they didn’t start a forest fire.

Another impressive performance from Enra, combining projected animations with live action – in this case precisely matching the timing of Yusaku Mochizuki’s diabolo juggling with the digital images on screen.

We didn’t even know that this was a thing, but it is. Watch as pen spinners Ian Jenson and PPM demonstrate their incredible manual dexterity sending their writing instruments twirling around their fingers like tiny batons.

Juggler Lindzee Poi uses four rings to create optical illusions. Matching his movements with the song Comptine d’un Autre Été from the Amelie soundtrack, Lindzee made it seem like the rings were suspended in midair.

While he hasn’t managed to keep them in the air for more than a few seconds, we’re still duly impressed by Alex Barron’s ability to toss 13 balls into the air, and catch every single one of them. In fact, he throws in two bonus catches.

Grantland takes us inside this awesome juggling variant – a sport in which competitors must keep three objects in the air without having them knocked out by their adversary. Then again, it is almost April Fools’ Day.

LiveLeak member dcmfox shared this video of a busker in what seems to be Germany as he entertains passersby with his slick football juggling skills. He can probably keep the ball off the ground the entire day.

Our jaws dropped when we saw Ravi solve a Rubik’s cube while juggling it. And now here he is juggling and solving three cubes at the same time. We might as well have our jaws removed for good.

(NSFW: Language) We’ve seen someone solve a Rubik’s Cube with one hand while juggling with the other. But Ravi here solves a cube while also juggling it. What manner of wizardry is this?!

Japanese stage performer Ouka puts away his rings, and picks up some blocks, for his latest act – a live interpretation of Tetris. He never seems to complete a row though.

Director Lukas Chmiel turned the juggling prowess of Soccer Art member Kamil Drzewucki into a truly tantalizing work of art in this well-shot clip. Music is by Felkon. (Thanks Grzegorz R.!)

You might be as amazed as we were to find that dubstep is the perfect soundtrack for juggling. Then again, it could just be the serious skills of Lauge Benjaminsen that make the clip work.

Our brains started to hurt about 4 seconds into this 2:30+ clip of Japanese performer Ouka as he contact juggles using just a simple set of rings, and a whole bunch of talent and coordination.

Now that we’ve seen this talented kid and his super rockin’ performance with a diabolo, what we suspected is confirmed: walking and chewing gum at the same time isn’t really a skill.