Nine Balls

An Unofficial, Informal List of Personal Records
Last Updated - 1999/3/8

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#:NAME: 9 -BEST 7 -BEST PROPS USED: SOURCE:
(catches) (catches)
1 Toby Ayer 20 200+ large squeeze-its N2 - email
2 Cyril Bartolo 16 N3 - Ben S.
3 Ben Beever 19 smallish beanbags N3 - Rob Street
4 Bob Behsman 9 N3 - Ben S.
5 Dan Bennett 25 300+ fergie bags N2 - in person
6 Todd Blair 9 N4
7 Peter Blanchard 44 259 2.3" cotton fergie bags N2 - email
8 Charles Brookman 18+ ? 70g fergie bags N3 - David Cairns
9 Ken Burke 36+ ? (45 throws) N3 - Ben S.
10 David Cain 9 squeeze-its N4
11 Matt Cantrell ~35 weighted tennis balls N3 - Ben S.
12 Ed Carstens 20 100+ fergie bags N2 - email
13 Joey Cousin 40+ ? leather fergie bags N2 - in person
14 Jeffrey Daymont 9 N2 - in person
15 Andrew Denton 9 150+ ? W2 - Ben S.
16 Nathan Dorrell 30+ ~300 2.5" homemade beanbags N3 - Gary Varney
17 Michael Ferguson 28 ~200 fergie bags N2 - rec.juggling
18 Alan Fetters 9 N4
19 Dick Franco 9 N2 - email
20 Sean Gandini 27 ~270 N2 - email
21 Jason Garfield ~35 ? LaDue beanbags N3 - Alan Morgan
22 Anthony Gatto 200 1000+ "super pinkies" (thrifty balls) D2 - Juggler's World Summer '92, p.24
23 Steven Geddes ~16 ? N3 - Ben S.
24 Matt Gerdon 9 52 homemade cloth beanbags N2 - email
25 Billy Glidden 9 N3 - Ben S.
26 Fritz Grobe 9 LaDue beanbags N2 - in person
27 Paul Halter 11 37 2.15" cloth beanbags W2 - Dan Kane
28 Morten Hansen 24 N2 - in person
29 Steve Healy (aka JAG) 13 44 flying clipper 8-panel suede bags N1
30 Mo Hendon 9 ~50 2.3" corduroy fergie bags W2 - Zac West
31 Steve Holditch 33 ~400 2.5" ultra leather fergie bags N2 - email
32 Nathan Hoover 9 32 2.2" corduroy fergie bags N2 - email
33 Rudy Horn 18 70 N3 - Michael Horn
34 Josiah Jones 22 N3 - Gary Varney
35 Jack Kalvan 13 ~110 small fergie bags V2 - in person
36 Dan Kane 15 75 2.15" cloth beanbags W2 - Paul Halter
37 Victor Kee 25+ ? large stage balls W3 - Ruslan Fomienko - Ben S.
38 Rod Kimball 12 N3 - Ben S.
39 Sue Kirby 45+ ? W3 - Fran Favorini - Matt Gerdon
40 Arthur Lewbel 14 ~135 todd smith beanbags N2 - email
41 Albert Lucas 9 N4
42 David Lucas 9 N4
43 Hanna Lundgren 14 leather fergie bags N2 - in person
44 Randy Lyman 9 N4
45 Haggis MacLeod 18+ ? N3 - Ken Chu
46 Darin Marriott 24 ~144 2.5" fergie bags N2 - email
47 Rick Moll 9 140+ juggler's prop shop bags (plastic fill) N2 - email
48 Alan Morgan 19 195 2.3" corduroy fergie bags N2 - in person
49 Dave Morton 13 N3 - Ben S.
50 Leif Pettersen (aka Mayja Flinch) ~25 ~75 2.2" cotton fergie bags N2 - email
51 Gregor Popovich 18 D2 - Juggler's World 37.4 p.9
52 Mike Price 9 N4
53 Steven Ragatz 9 N2 - rec.juggling
54 Tony Robbins 9 N4
55 David Sallee 9 N3 - Ben S.
56 Bruce Sarafian 61 2.25" juggler's prop shop bags V2 - in person
57 Ben S 13 93 2.25" juggler's prop shop bags N2 - in person
58 Scott Seltzer 12 99 3" cloth beanbags, loose fill N2 - email
59 Jimmy Shafer 23 W2 - Gary Varney
60 Donnia Ray Smith 9 ? D2 - Juggler's World 37.1, Spr. '85, p.14
61 Scott Sorensen 30 200+ medium cotton fergie bags N2 - email
62 Jon Stadler 9 N3 - Ben S.
63 Neil Stammer (aka Andrew Allen) 27 ~360 N3 - H. Nuttall
64 Jim Strinka 14+ ? D2 - Juggler's World 34.2, Feb.? '82
65 Jim Swenson 9 35 2.4" ultra-leather fergie bags N2 - email
66 Geoff Thorpe 9 N3 - Ben S.
67 Bruce Tiemann (aka Boppo) 21 240 2.4" leather fergie bags N2 - email
68 Dana Tison ~35 ~360 juggler's prop shop bags N2 - email
69 Eric Uhrhane 11 2.2" cotton fergie bags W2 - Gary Varney
70 Rob Vancko 9 N4
71 Gary Varney 9 65 2.3" leather fergie bags N2 - in person
72 Dave Ward 9 50 2.3" corduroy fergie bags W2 - Boppo
73 Greg Warrington 21 202 75g homemade beanbags N2 - email
74 Robert York 9 D2 - Juggler's World 34.2, Feb.? '82
 
JUGGLERS OF THE PAST:
75 Pierre Amoros 18+ ? billiard balls D2 - 4000 Years of Juggling Vol. I, p. 90
76 Tom Knox-Cromwell (Chinko) 9+ ? D2 - Juggler's World 39.2
77 Lucy Gillet 9+ ? D2 - 4000 Years of Juggling Vol.I, p.223
78 Jenny Jaeger 9+ ? small balls - performed P2 - 4000 Years of Juggling (Vol.I, p.226)
79 Frank LeDent 18+ ? "the mysterious american" D2 - Juggler's World 39.2
80 Bengt Magnusson 18+ ? N2 - rec.juggling
81 Bobby May 9- ? D2 - See footnote #2
82 Enrico Rastelli 9+ ? possibly skipped to 10? D2 - 4000 Years of Juggling
83 Dick Richton 9+ ? D2 - Juggler's World 39.4
84 Massimiliano Truzzi 18+ ? performed regularly P2 - Natural History 12/79, p.51
85. Xiong Yiliao 9+ ? China 221+? B.C. D2 - Zhuang Zi by Xu Wugui, Chapter 24

Footnotes:

1. Sergei Ignatov is described in 4000 Years of Juggling Vol.II, p.100 as doing a flash of 9 balls caught in nets. However, I asked Sergei and Karl Heinz Ziethen about it and they both said it was a mistake, that Sergei has never worked on nine. I personally believe that, given some beanbags instead of those huge stage balls, he could flash nine with little effort.

2. Juggler's World Spring '90, p.30
However, in the documentary by Lippe, May only mentions doing 8.

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