Thomas Dietz

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Thomas Dietz (born May 19, 1982 in Regensburg ) is a German professional juggler . He is considered to be one of the technically best jugglers in the world and holds the world record in 5-club juggling with 53 minutes and 21 seconds, as well as a number of unofficial world records.

In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 he won the title of Overall Champion at the World Juggling Federation ( WJF ) in Las Vegas . Dietz's specialties include pirouettes and long runs, crossings behind the back, and complex siteswap variations.

He owes a large part of his fame to the publication of several juggling videos on the Internet, which were created in collaboration with Mark “Schani” Probst.

biography

Thomas Dietz started juggling at the age of just under four, training and competitions were part of his childhood and youth. In 2003 he completed an apprenticeship at the State School for Artistry in Berlin.

Thomas Dietz achieved international success at the Individuals Competitions in Buffalo, IJA Championships in August 2004, where he achieved 1st place. In the competitions of the Numbers Competitions he reached once the 1st place and twice the 3rd place. Another year later, in 2005, Thomas Dietz became Overall Champion for the first time at the World Juggling Federation (WJF) championships. He was able to convince in the disciplines of advanced competitions, pirouettes, endurance and freestyle. He won nine of the fourteen competitions, including all three individual disciplines in freestyle. In 2006 and 2007 he repeated this success. In 2008 he was able to win the overall championship title again and at the same time said goodbye to his participation in the world championships in order to focus more intensively on his work as an artist in gala shows and variety shows in the future .

Since 2004 Thomas Dietz has been performing his own stage show entitled "Super Juggling Race Game". Thomas Dietz has been teaching in his own juggling workshops since 2009.

Competitions / titles

From 2004 to 2008 Dietz achieved numerous successes in competitions:

IJA Championships August 2004, Buffalo

Individuals Competitions
1st place
Numbers Competitions
Solo Balls - 1st place with 8 balls, 23 catches
Solo Clubs - 3rd place with 6 clubs, 25 catches
Solo Rings - 3rd place with 8 rings, 17 catches

WJF December 2005, Las Vegas

Overall champion
Advanced competitions
1st place Advanced Balls
1st place Advanced Rings
2nd place Advanced Clubs
Pirouettes
2nd place 3 Clubs 360s
1st place 5 Balls 360s
1st place 5 Rings 360s
2nd place 5 Clubs 360s
3rd place 3 clubs 720s
Endurance
1st place balls (9 balls, 18 catches)
1st place rings (8 rings, 16 catches)
3rd place clubs (6 clubs, 132 catches)
Freestyle
1st place 7 Ball Freestyle /
1st place 7 Ring Freestyle /
1st place 5 Club Freestyle

WJF3 December 2006, Las Vegas

Overall Champion (35.00 points)
Advanced competitions
1st place Advanced Balls Competition (9.33 points)
2nd place Advanced Rings Competition (8.71 points)
1st place Advanced Clubs Competition (8.71 points)
Endurance
1st place Endurance Balls Competition -9 balls, 27 catches
2nd place Endurance Rings Competition - 8 rings, 15 catches
2nd place Endurance Clubs Competition -7 clubs, 28 catches

WJF4 December 2007, Las Vegas

Overall Champion (39.65 points)
Advanced competitions
1st place Advanced Balls Competition
1st place in the Advanced Rings Competition
2nd place Advanced Clubs Competition
Freestyle
2nd place 5 ball
1st place 6 ball
1st place 7 ball
2nd place 5 rings
1st place 6 rings
1st place 7 rings
3rd place 5 clubs
2nd place 3 Clubs 360s
2nd place 5 Clubs 360s
1st place 5 Balls 360s
1st place 5 Rings 360s
Endurance
1st place 7 balls
1st place 7 rings

WJF5 December 2008, Las Vegas

Overall champion
Advanced competitions
1st place balls competition
2nd place Advanced Rings Competition
2nd place Advanced Clubs Competition
Freestyle
1st place 6 ball freestyle
1st place 7 Ball Freestyle
1st place 5 Rings Freestyle
1st place 6 Rings Freestyle
1st place 7 Rings Freestyle
1st place 5 Clubs Freestyle
3rd place 6 Clubs Freestyle
Battle for the WJF presidency
1st place

Publications

  • DVD Thomas Dietz-17 Balls ; August 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://fudder.de/wenn-ich-die-spuelmaschine-ausraeume-jongliere-ich-mit-dem-geschirr
  2. Biographical information from the biography at Jonglier-videos.de
  3. The Internet Juggling Database ( Memento of the original from June 14, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jugglingdb.com
  4. ^ JIS Numbers Juggling Records