Thomas Dietz

Thomas Dietz (born 19 May 1982) is a professional juggler from Regensburg, Germany.http://www.jongleur-thomas-dietz.de/vita.html His father taught him to juggle three oranges when he was three years and nine months old.http://web.archive.org/web/20051023015626/http://thewjf.com/dietz.html Thomas started practicing seriously in 1990, and introduced himself to the world in 2003 by juggling 5 glow balls for over an hour on the renegade stage at the EJC in Svendborg, Denmark.http://juggling.tv/583
In 2003 and 2004,https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.juggling/agC86uF5fec/discussionhttps://groups.google.com/d/topic/rec.juggling/T9oIF9uMeNA/discussion Mark Probst produced a series of ten Thomas Dietz juggling videos, which Thomas now has on his Juggling.tv account. In 2009, Thomas made an 11th video in the series, which he posted on his Youtube channel and his Juggling.tv account, and released a DVD that includes videos 12 and 13.
In 2004, Thomas competed at the IJA and the WJF for the first time and won two IJA competitions and two WJF competitions. He continued to compete for the next few years and won the WJF Overall Championship every year from 2005 to 2008.https://dev.juggle.org/ija/championships/https://www.thewjf.com/results/
Thomas was voted the world's most popular juggler in Luke Burrage's Top 40 Jugglers poll in 2006,http://www.lukeburrage.com/audio/jugglingpodcast.rss.xml and he was in the top 40 list every year from 2003 to 2014.
==World records==
Records verified by JISCON:http://www.juggling.org/records/records.html
*5 clubs: 53 minutes and 21 seconds in 2005
Records with publicly available video evidence:
*Most connected 5 ball 3 up 180s: 42 in 2006 (video)
*6 ball 9555: 2 minutes and 37 seconds in 2013 (video)
*Most connected 5 ring 3 up 180s: 27 in 2006 (video)
*Most connected 6 ring 4 up 180s: 9 in 2009 (17 Balls DVD)
*Most connected 6 ring 6 up 180s: 2 in 2008 (video), tied with Anthony Gatto in 2009 (video)
*6 ring halfshower: 86 catches in 2015 (video)
*6 ring 9555: 54 catches in 2013 (video)
*11 ring passing: 1201 passes caught with Dominik Harant in 2015 (video)
*13 ring passing: 170 passes caught with Dominik Harant in 2015 (video)
*15 ring passing: 52 passes caught with Dominik Harant in 2018 (video)
*6 clubs isolated: 139 catches in 2008 (video at 2:30)
Records set in WJF competition:
*Most 5 ring 5 up 360s in 1 minute: 21 (at WJF 2),http://www.thewjf.com/2005results.php tied with Sergey Ignatov Jr. (at WJF 1)
Unverified claims:http://web.archive.org/web/20110614041327/http://www.jugglingdb.com/records/member.php?user=3764http://www.jugglingedge.com/records.php?UserID=483&http://www.lukeburrage.com/audio/Juggling%20Podcast%2018%20-%20Thomas%20Dietz%20interview,%20WJF%20review%20and%20more%20sports%20juggling%20chat.mp3
*5 balls: 3 hours and 47 minutes in 2007
*5 rings: 1 hour in 2007
*5 clubs: 1 hour and 25 minutes in 2007
*5 ball halfshower: 1 hour, 17 minutes, and 9 seconds in 2004
*6 ball halfshower: 24 minutes in 2007
*5 ball reverse cascade: 7 minutes and 32 seconds in 2004 (claim)
*4 club backcrosses: 5 minutes and 19 seconds in 2004 (claim)
*5 ball (6x,4)*: 1 hour, 19 minutes, and 27 seconds in 2004 (claim)
*4 club 53: 47 minutes and 20 seconds in 2004 (claim)
*6 club 75: 3 minutes and 20 seconds in 2007
*5 ball Mills mess: 10 minutes and 43 seconds in 2009
==Competitions==
Thomas won the following IJA and WJF competitions.
IJA 2004:
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*Stage: Individuals
*Numbers: Solo Balls
WJF 2004:
*Ball Endurance
*7 Ball Freestyle
WJF 2005:
*Advanced Balls
*Advanced Rings
*7 Ball Freestyle
*7 Ring Freestyle
*5 Club Freestyle
*Ball Endurance
*Ring Endurance
*5 Ball 360s
*5 Ring 360s
*Overall Championship
:Challenge Competitions:
*7 Ball Isolated Endurance
*7 Ring Isolated Endurance
WJF 2006:
*Advanced Balls
*Advanced Clubs
*6 Ball Freestyle
*7 Ring Freestyle
*Ball Endurance
*5 Ball 360s (tied with Vova Galchenko)
*5 Ring 360s
*Overall Championship
IJA 2007:
*Stage: Individuals
*Numbers: Solo Balls (tied with Doug Sayers)
:Games:
*5 club endurance with one trick at 3 minutes
*7 club endurance
WJF 2007:
*Advanced Balls
*Advanced Rings
*6 Ball Freestyle
*7 Ball Freestyle
*6 Ring Freestyle
*7 Ring Freestyle
*Ball Endurance
*Ring Endurance
*7 Ball Isolated Endurance
*7 Ring Isolated Endurance
*5 Ball 360s
*5 Ring 360s
*Overall Championship
:Games:
*Concentrationhttp://www.thewjfstore.com/2007extreme.php
WJF 2008:
*Advanced Balls
*6 Ball Freestyle
*5 Ring Freestyle
*6 Ring Freestyle
*7 Ring Freestyle
*5 Club Freestyle
*Ball Endurance
*Ring Endurance (tied with Vova Galchenko)
*5 Ball 360s (tied with Vova Galchenko)
*6 Ring 360s
*Overall Championship
*Battle for the WJF Presidencyhttp://youtu.be/WxlnbjaYmH0?t=20m15s
:Games:
*Concentration
WJF 2014:
*Advanced Balls
*7 Ring Freestyle
*6 Club Freestyle
*7 Club Freestyle
*5 Ring 360s
*Club Endurance
==References==
Category:Jugglers
Category:Performers
Category:World record holders
Category:IJA champions
Category:WJF champions
Category:Numbers jugglers