Juggling while balancing another prop requires the juggler to have control over both the juggling and the balancing. To learn to juggle with a balance, first you should learn to do the juggling and the balancing separately, so that you can do each one with complete control, with as little movement as possible other than what you need to do to juggle (not moving your feet, or leaning or twisting your body - balancing an object on your face doesn't require much movement), before you try to combine them. Then re-learn the juggling with the balance. When you juggle while balancing, you should focus mostly on the balance.
Clubs can be balanced on the chin, nose, or forehead. Rings and balls are usually balanced on the forehead. Some types of balls are easier to balance than others. Head bouncing a ball is a more difficult skill similar to balancing.
World records
Records for juggling while balancing with publicly available video evidence:
Balls
- 5 balls with ball balance: 8 minutes and 45 seconds by André Barbasz in 2012 (video)
- 5 balls with club balance: 3 minutes and 27 seconds by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 5 balls with pole balance: 3 minutes and 4 seconds by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 6 balls with club balance: 141 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2016 (video)
- 6 balls with pole balance: 154 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2017 (video)
- 7 balls with ball balance: 117 catches by Toby Walker in 2017 (video)
- 7 balls with club balance: 95 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2016 (video)
- 7 balls with pole balance: 123 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2017 (video)
- 8 balls with ball balance: 40 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video at 0:40)
- 8 balls with club balance: 48 catches by Anthony Gatto (video)
- 8 balls with pole balance: 24 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video)
- 9 balls with ball balance: 14 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2000 (video)
- 9 balls with club balance: 18 catches by Luke Davies in 2017 (video)
- 9 balls with pole balance: 11 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2016 (video)
- 10 balls with ball balance: 10 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2009 (video)
- 10 balls with club balance: 12 catches by Luke Davies in 2017 (video)
- 11 balls with club balance: 11 catches by Luke Davies in 2017 (video)
Unverified claims:
- 3 balls with club balance: 1082 catches by Alex Lubker in 2007 (claim)
- 4 balls with club balance: 1656 catches by Alex Lubker in 2007 (claim)
Rings
- 5 rings with club balance: 2 minutes and 41 seconds by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 5 rings with pole balance: 4 minutes by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 6 rings with ring balance: 145 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2016 (video)
- 6 rings with club balance: 214 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2016 (video)
- 6 rings with pole balance: 221 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2017 (video)
- 7 rings with ring balance: 109 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2011 (video)
- 7 rings with club balance: 85 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 7 rings with pole balance: 87 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2016 (video)
- 8 rings with ring balance: 28 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2011 (video)
- 8 rings with club balance: 23 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 8 rings with pole balance: 47 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video at 7:22)
- 9 rings with ring balance: 13 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 (video)
- 9 rings with club balance: 13 catches by Scott Sorensen in 2015 (video)
- 9 rings with pole balance: 20 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video)
- 10 rings with ring balance: 10 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2009 (video), Anthony Gatto in 2010 (video) and Laido Dittmar in 2014 (video)
- 10 rings with club balance: 10 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video), Pavel Evsukevich in 2013 (video), Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video), and Laido Dittmar in 2015 (video)
- 10 rings with pole balance: 10 catches by Anthony Gatto in 1991 (video), Nikolai Gerasimov in 2001 (video), Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video), and Rudolf Levitskiy in 2016 (video)
- 11 rings with ring balance: 11 catches by Pavel Evsukevich in 2013 (video)
- 11 rings with pole balance: 11 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2000 (video)
Records with insufficient video evidence:
- 7 rings with club balance: 108 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video no longer available)
- 8 rings with ring balance: 32 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video no longer available)
- 10 rings with ring balance: 10 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video no longer available)
Unverified claims:
- 8 rings with pole balance: 100 catches by Alexander Kiss (claim)
Clubs
- 4 clubs with club balance: 4 minutes and 48 seconds by Marc Schneider in 2018 (video)
- 4 clubs with pole balance: 2 minutes and 27 seconds by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
- 5 clubs with club balance: 1 minute and 43 seconds by Toby Walker in 2017 (video)
- 5 clubs with pole balance: 2 minutes and 4 seconds by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
- 6 clubs with club balance: 40 catches by Toby Walker in 2017 (video)
- 6 clubs with pole balance: 35 catches by Toby Walker in 2017 (video)
- 7 clubs with ball balance: 43 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2007 (video)
- 7 clubs with club balance: 44 catches by Anthony Gatto in 2006 (video)
- 8 clubs with pole balance: 8 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video)
Records with insufficient video evidence:
- 5 clubs with club balance: 2 minutes and 32 seconds by Christof Buch in 2017 (video is not visible to the public)
- 8 clubs with club balance: 8 catches by Willy Colombaioni in 2015 (video no longer available)
Unverified claims:
- 3 clubs with club balance: 1147 catches by Alex Lubker in 2007 (claim)