Thomas Dietz
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Thomas Dietz from Germany is a rising star partly due to the videos highlighting his outrageous technical skills. How outrageous? Dietz concludes video #6 by throwing db97531 and returning to the 7-ball cascade! Dietz is performing some of the most technically complex high-numbers routines in the world today.
In Video #2 Dietz performs a long dropless routine with five and six balls, as well as five clubs.
Here is his Balls Juggling Video #6
In this one he does a technically demanding 7-ball routine.
Dietz holds the unofficial endurance record of 3 hours for 5 balls; holds the official record for 5 clubs with a run of over 53 minutes, besting Gatto's long standing 45 minute record; and has juggled 7 balls for 5 minutes. In this video he juggles a 5-Ball Mills Mess for 10 minutes.
Other Dietz tricks caught on film include:
- Juggling three balls overhead while blind, standing on one leg, and balancing a beanbag on his head.
- 6b High-Low Shower in Statue Of Liberty position.
- 5b two stage Pirouette under a low roof.
- Catching a speeding arrow in mid-air.
Icecold
Well actually I don't know much about him at all, but what I can say is he did 7 balls for 5 minutes, an extreme routine with 5 balls which you can find on lutkus's site, 100 catches with 8 balls, and I hear he has had some good runs with 9 balls.
The most extreme juggler, one of the many siteswap masters.
norbi
I agree ice, crazy siteswaps, he even managed db97531 -- is he the first (or maybe second) person to ever pull this off?, and it wasn't even dodgy, it was perfect! 8-ball Half-shower as if he doesn't actually care, with a trick put in for good measure. He truly is an incredible juggler.
Is "Juggling Tips by Thomas" too much to ask? Can we get some biographical information on him? Is he really part of the German Bio-Engineering Program of the Cold War era?
schani
Thomas did NOT catch that arrow, it was just special effects. I don't think anybody has the reflexes to catch an arrow fired from a bow like that, and I'd never shoot with anybody standing in front of me! All the juggling tricks are real though, of course.
