International Jugglers' Association
The International Jugglers' Association (IJA) was founded in 1947 and is the oldest and largest organization of jugglers . It has members from all over the world.
Benefits through membership
- Annual subscription to the English-language magazine JUGGLE
- Special discounts from manufacturers of juggling items
- Reduced prices in the IJA online shop
- Access to the IJA Online Forum
- The right to attend the annual IJA Festival.
- Discounted insurance for artists and jugglers
Additional IJA programs
- The Youth Educational Program brings certified trainers to juggling workshops all over the world.
- The Video Tutorial Competition is an annual competition for freely available, high quality online video tutorials.
- The Props2U program supports developing countries with used juggling equipment.
- The IJA Mentorship Program enables members to exchange experiences with professional jugglers.
Conventions and competitions
The IJA hosts the largest week-long juggling convention in North America, the IJA Festival. The largest juggling convention in the world is the European Juggling Convention , which was founded in the late 1970s, inspired by the IJA Festival.
The IJA Festival takes place in a different city in North America each year in mid to late July. In addition to the competitions, there are also shows with professional artists which are open to the public. There are also a large number of workshops.
The organization maintains a list of record holders and winners of the competitions.
Venues of the IJA festivals
- 2013 Bowling Green, Ohio
- 2012 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- 2011 Rochester, Minnesota
- 2010 Sparks, Nevada
- 2009 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- 2008 Lexington, Kentucky
- 2007 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- 2006 Portland, Oregon
- 2005 Davenport, Iowa
- 2004 Buffalo, New York
- 2003 Reno, Nevada
- 2002 Reading, Pennsylvania
- 2001 Madison, Wisconsin
- 2000 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1999 Niagara Falls, New York
- 1998 Primm, Nevada
- 1997 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1996 Rapid City, South Dakota
- 1995 Las Vegas, Nevada
- 1994 Burlington, Vermont
- 1993 Fargo, North Dakota
- 1992 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 1991 St. Louis, Missouri
- 1990 Los Angeles, California
- 1989 Baltimore, Maryland
- 1988 Denver, Colorado
- 1986 San Jose, California
...
- 1947 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The IJA Stage Championships are the official world championships in juggling which award medals and prize money to participating jugglers. These competitions take place during the IJA Festival. There are three categories of the IJA Stage Championships: Individuals (individual participants), Teams (two or more participants per team) and Juniors (individual participants up to 17 years of age). The first three places in each category receive medals and cash prizes.
The Numbers Championships award gold, silver and bronze medals to the participants who can juggle the most balls, clubs or rings the longest. These competitions take place in three categories: singles, duos and trios. The current IJA records can be viewed on the IJA website. Since 2006 there has also been prize money for every winner of a numbers competition as well as an extra prize for everyone who breaks an existing IJA record.
Other competitions within the scope of the annual IJA Festival are the Individual Prop Competition, the Extreme Juggling Competition and the World Joggling Championships as well as other traditional juggling games.
history
The IJA has published the magazines Jugglers' World and JUGGLE . JUGGLE is the current print magazine of the IJA.
In addition, there is also a monthly eNewsletter with news about the IJA, technical articles and worldwide news about juggling.
Well-known members
President
Record holder and winner of the Stage Championships
- Jeff Civillico
- Thomas Dietz
- Vova Galchenko
- Michael Karas (Juggler)
- Peter Kaseman
- Tsushi Kikyo
- Takashi Kikyo
- Jake LaSalle
- Martin LaSalle
- Robert Mosher III
- Christoph Mitasch
- Manuel Mitasch
- Wes Peden
- Doug Sayers
See also
- European Juggling Convention
- World Juggling Federation - The WJF is an offspring of the IJA, founded by IJA member Jason Garfield
- International Sport Juggling Federation -
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JUGGLE Magazine
- ↑ IJA discounts on juggling articles ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IJA Online Shop
- ↑ IJA Online Forum ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annual IJA Festival
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- ^ IJA Youth Education Program ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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- ↑ IJA Numbers Records ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Extreme Juggling Competition
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- ^ International Sport Juggling Federation
