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Anthony Gatto | |
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Anthony Gatto (born Anthony Commarota on April 14, 1973)[1][2] is an American juggler who holds 10 official, JISCON-verified world records,[3] and is regarded by many as the most skilled juggler in the world.[4] He was voted the world's most popular juggler in Luke Burrage's Top 40 Jugglers poll in 2003 and 2005,[5][6] and has been in the top 40 every year since the chart was first compiled in 2003.[7] He is the only juggler who has ever won the Golden Clown award at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo[8], and he is the only juggler who has been featured on a Topps trading card.[4][9]
Anthony was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Ellicott City, Maryland.[10] He started juggling when he was almost four years old,[11] and won the IJA Junior Championship at the age of eight in his first year competing.[10][12] He was trained by his stepfather[1] Nick Gatto, a former vaudeville entertainer and member of the Los Gatos acrobatic trio,[10] who had had years of training as a coach in several fields, including boxing and gymnastics.[13] Anthony began performing professionally in Las Vegas at age ten. He has performed in the Cirque du Soleil shows Kooza (2007-2009) and La Nouba (2010-2012).[14][15] In 2014, it was discovered that Anthony has retired from performing[16] and now runs a concrete resurfacing business,[1][17] which he started in August 2012.[18][19]
World records
Records verified by JISCON:[3]
- 7 rings: 15 minutes and 6 seconds in 2006 (video)
- 8 rings: 1 minute and 17 seconds in 1989 (video)
- 9 rings: 235 catches in 2005
- 10 rings: 47 catches in 2005
- 11 rings: 17 catches in 2006
- 6 clubs: 7 minutes 38 seconds in 2005 (video)
- 7 clubs: 4 minutes 23 seconds in 2005 (video of a slightly shorter run)
- 8 clubs: 16 catches in 2006 (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
Records with publicly available video evidence:
Isolation
- 9 balls isolated: 46 catches in 2011 (video)
- 7 clubs isolated: 238 catches in 2011 (video)
Balancing
- 8 balls with ball balance: 40 catches in 2007 (video at 0:40)
- 8 balls with club balance: 48 catches (video)
- 8 balls with pole balance: 24 catches in 2007 (video)
- 10 balls with ball balance: 10 catches in 2009 (video)
- 8 rings with pole balance: 47 catches in 2007 (video at 7:22)
- 9 rings with pole balance: 20 catches in 2007 (video at 6:17)
- 10 rings with club balance: 10 catches in 2007 (video at 10:47), tied with Pavel Evsukevich (in 2013), Willy Colombaioni (in 2015) and Laido Dittmar (in 2015)
- 6 clubs with pole balance: 30 catches in 2006 (video at 8:12)
- 7 clubs with ball balance: 43 catches in 2007 (video at 2:50)
- 7 clubs with club balance: 44 catches in 2006 (video)
Head bounce
- 6 balls with head bounce: 141 catches in 2000 (video at 15:33)
- 7 balls with head bounce: 129 catches in 2006 (video)
- 8 balls with head bounce: 31 catches in 2009 (video)
- 9 balls with head bounce: 18 catches in 2006 (video)
- 7 rings with head bounce: 75 catches in 2005 (video)
- 8 rings with head bounce: 61 catches in 2006 (video)
- 9 rings with head bounce: 31 catches in 2007 (video at 2:46)
- 10 rings with head bounce: 14 catches in 2009 (video)
- 11 rings with head bounce: 11 catches in 2005 (video at 1:10)
- 5 clubs with head bounce: 115 catches in 2007 (video)
- 7 clubs with head bounce: 28 catches in 2009 (video)
- 2 ball head bounce: 62 bounces in 2006 (video at 1:13:42)
Halfshower
Overhead throws
- 7 ball overheads: 59 catches in 2009 (video)
- 6 club overheads: 6 catches (video)
Body throws
- 4 club back-to-front body throws: 4 catches in 2005 (video), tied with Ameron Rosvall in 2010 (video)
- 5 club back-to-front body throws: 5 catches in 2006 (video at 58:55)
Spins
- 360 qualified with the most rings: 8 rings, 8 up in 2008 (video)
- 360 qualified with the most clubs: 7 clubs, 7 up (video), tied with Vova Galchenko in 2008 (video)
- 720 qualified with the most rings: 7 rings, 7 up 2-stage in 2009 (video), tied with Laido Dittmar in 2015 (video)
- 1080 qualified with the most rings: 6 rings, 6 up 3-stage (video at 1:31 - Note: This file stops downloading halfway, but is still viewable to 2:10), tied with Jason Garfield (video)
- Most 7 ball 7 up 360s in 1 minute: 8 in 2006 (video)
- Most connected 6 ball 6 up 180s: 2 in 2008 (video)
- Most connected 7 ball 7 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
- Most connected 6 ring 6 up 180s: 2 in 2009 (video), tied with Thomas Dietz in 2008 (video)
- Most connected 7 ring 7 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video), tied with Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 (video)
- Most connected 6 club 4 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
- Most connected 6 ring 6 up 360s: 2 in 2008 (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
- Most connected 7 ring 7 up 360s: 2 in 2006 (video at 2:00)
- Most connected 8 ring 6 up 180s: 2 in 2006 (video)
- Most connected 6 club 4 up 360s: 2 in 2011 (video), tied with Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
Other
- 5 balls in 1 hand: 17 catches in 2006 (video)
- 7 ring 966: 45 catches in 2008 (video)
- 2 clubs with 1 foot: 3 catches in 2006 (video), tied with Brian OConnell in 2014 (video)
- Fewest catches of 6 clubs in 1 min: 210 catches in 2005 (video)
- 7 club backcrosses: 7 catches in 2007 (video at 5:15), tied with Vova Galchenko in 2007 (video), David Ferman in 2012 (video), Jack Denger in 2013 (video), and Wes Peden in 2015 (video)
Former world records:
- 5 clubs: 45 minutes and 2 seconds[20] (current record: 53 minutes and 21 seconds by Thomas Dietz.)[3]
- Most 5 club 5 up 360s in 1 minute: 30[21] (current record: 31 by Vova Galchenko)[22]
Records with insufficient video evidence:
- 5 rings in 1 hand: 19 catches in 2005 (the whole pattern isn't visible in the video)
- 6 clubs with head bounce: 102 catches in 2005 ("6clubsWball30" video no longer available)
Unverified claims:[23]
- 9 balls: 348 catches
- 9 rings: 272 catches
- 10 rings: 64 catches
- 11 rings: 22 catches
- 12 rings: 15 catches
- 11 rings with pole balance: 11 catches in 1998 (claim)
- 5 clubs with pole balance: 2 minutes in 2000 (claim)
- 9 ball overheads: 9 catches (claim)
Competitions
Anthony won the following IJA competitions.[24]
1981 (age 8):
- Stage: Juniors
1983:
- Numbers: 5 Clubs
1986:
- Stage: Individuals
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Rings
- Numbers: Solo Clubs
1989:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Rings
- Numbers: Solo Clubs (first person ever to juggle 7 clubs for over 100 catches in competition - age 16)
1991 (age 18):
- Numbers: Solo Balls (IJA competition record: 60 catches of 9 balls)
- Numbers: Solo Rings (43 catches of 9 rings, a new IJA competition record at the time, broken in 1996 by Albert Lucas with 20 catches of 10 rings)
- Numbers: Solo Clubs (IJA competition record: 230 catches of 7 clubs)
1991 IJA Numbers Championships highlights video
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.tradingcarddb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/9935/cid/433319/2010-Topps-Allen-&-Ginter-99-Anthony-Gatto
- ↑ http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2003.html
- ↑ http://www.jugglingdb.com/compendium/world/jugglers/top40of2005.html
- ↑ http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1643
- ↑ http://www.montecarlofestival.mc/palmares/palmares-1998-2002/
- ↑ http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/career.php
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 http://www.anthonygatto.com/v1/biography.php#
- ↑ http://anthonygatto.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4974
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/1981-cleveland-oh/
- ↑ http://www.juggling.org/help/essays/gatto.html
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/01/world-renowned-juggler-joins-la-nouba-by-cirque-du-soleil/
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/627839443952281
- ↑ http://bigtopcr.com/about/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gatto
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/bigtopcr/info
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20040207131152/http://juggling.org/records/records.html
- ↑ http://www.thewjf.com/stories/7_26_08_update.php
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_08RmjLVrpE
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070902181415/http://www.anthonygatto.com/Gatto-fan-index.html
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/