Anthony Gatto — the best juggler in the world — has been throwing down torrents of juggling fire in the past week. Today (or maybe yesterday), he’s popped up:
-Seven Ball Shower.
-Nine Ring Run. (He names this ’9ringrunnnn’, emphasizing the run part of it)
-Five ball-routine.
The first is impressive, the second damn impressive, and the third just plain interesting. It’s interesting because I finally have not only a routine of Gatto’s, but a comparison point to other, more worldly jugglers. No other juggler I’ve seen can throw seven-club backcrosses, nine ring pulldowns over a ball bouncing on their head, or five club alberts–but most of the five ball tricks I’ve seen before.
This routine video, in some ways, pulls him down into a league more versed by others. The tricks are very similar to Thomas Dietz’s video number 2–where Dietz flashes pretty much every five ball trick in the book, in sequence, and without drops. Gatto’s routine is easily one of the most impressive I’ve seen, but not typical groundbreaking fare (though he did preface the video with ‘simple’). Man, isn’t juggling just great. But so is Qwantz–frick!!
Here ends the last juggling, ulimate, internet-related post for a good few weeks while I head off travelling New Zealand with Mum and Pops.