David Cain

David Cain is a world champion juggler and juggling historian known as the Juggler for Jesus. He is a Guinness world record holder and currently has over 20 world records.http://www.christianjuggler.com/
David was born in 1969, and he taught himself to juggle when he was 12. David has been juggling professionally for over 40 years.http://historicaljugglingprops.com/david-cain-library-shows/ He has mastered many forms of object manipulation, and is considered by many to be the most versatile juggler in the world.https://www.youtube.com/user/JugglerForJesus/about He specializes in club juggling, ball spinning, ball bouncing, boomerang juggling, and original combination tricks.
David helped develop the rules for the International Jugglers' Association Numbers Championships,https://jugglingedge.com/forum.php?ThreadID=2609#Small19560 and has won 16 Gold medals from the IJA. In 2015, David became only the tenth person in history to be awarded the IJA's Bobby May Award, recognizing him as one of the world's top juggling mentors and coaches. In 2019, David was given the IJA Excellence in Education Award in honor of his juggling history work, including his books, articles, and live performances.
David was the first person in history to perform an 8 stick flash in his act.http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/middletown-news/local-mans-juggling-skills-land-him-13-world-records-967891.html David appears in the 2014 Guinness World Records book with his picture included on the inside of the front cover and one of his records appearing in the juggling section of the book. David was featured on the Top 40 Most Popular Jugglers list in 2017.https://youtu.be/JSXrlGvFnng Juggler's World Magazine has called David one of the "World's Finest Jugglers."
David Cain has appeared on numerous television shows in the United States as well as in Europe and Asia. These include America's Got Talent (two episodes), The Today Show, The Gong Show, The CBS Sunday Morning Show, and World's Greatest Performers. He has also appeared on television in Japan and the UK.
David is also one of the top juggling historians in the world, having written fifteen books about juggling history and over 500 magazine articles on juggling. He is the owner of the Museum of Juggling History, the largest collection of historic juggling props in the world. As a juggling historian, he has been quoted in both the New York Times and the London Times newspapers.
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==Competitions ==
David won the following IJA competitions.http://dev.juggle.org/ija/championships/
1993:
*Stage: Intermediates 
*Numbers: Ring Passing with Jay Gilligan
1994:
*Stage: Teams with Jay Gilligan 
*Numbers: Ring Passing with Jay Gilligan
1995: 
*Numbers: 3-Person Club Passing with Mark Peachock & Merry Spahr
1996: 
*Numbers: Ball Passing with Scott Cain
*Numbers: Ring Passing with Scott Sorensen
*Numbers: 3-Person Club Passing with Scott Cain and Jack Kalvan
1997: 
*Numbers: 3-Person Club Passing with Scott Cain and Jack Kalvan
1998: 
*Numbers: Ball Passing with Scott Cain
*Numbers: 3-Person Club Passing with Scott Cain and Jack Kalvan
*Numbers: Solo Ball Bouncing
1999: 
*Numbers: Ball Passing with Nathan Dorrell
*Numbers: Ball Bounce Passing with Nathan Dorrell
2000: 
*Numbers: Ring Passing with Darin Marriott 
*Games: 3 Ball Simon Says (2nd round)
*Games: 3 Ball Blind Endurance
2008: 
*Games: 3 Ball Fewest Catches
*Games: 3 Ball Simon Says
2021:
*Stage: Teams with Scott, Isabel, and Elizabeth Cainhttps://festival.juggle.org/ija-online-juggling-championships-2021-winners/
David has also won numerous other competitions, such as the 2015 Groundhog Day Juggling Competition and the Anthony Gatto 4 Club competition in 2008. On June 6th, 2013, David and his twin brother Scott were crowned America's Most Talented Twins by winning the Quest For The Best talent competition on NBC's TODAY Show. 
==References==
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Category:Performers
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Category:Numbers jugglers
Category:World record holders
Category:Educators and coaches
Category:Historians