World Juggling Federation

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The World Juggling Federation (WJF) is an organization that promotes juggling as a sport .

history

In 2000, the WJF was founded by Jason Garfield , a long-time member of the International Jugglers' Association . He was able to gain attention by targeting juggling as a sport. The organization became better known in 2004 when Jason Garfield bought airtime on ESPN to show clips from the WJF II juggling competitions.

Competitions

The most famous event of the WJF is the WJF Convention, which was broadcast on ESPN2 . The association motivates jugglers to compete against each other in order to get better at technical juggling. The following juggling props are used in WJF events, among others:

If there are enough participants, there are also the following competitions:

  • Club fit
  • 360s
  • endurance
  • Freestyle
  • Extreme competitions

There is the following subdivision of the participants of the competitors: "junior", "beginner", "intermediate" and "advanced"

Conventions and competitions

Every year there is a WJF Convention at which an annual winner receives the title "Overall Champion" within the framework of the competitions. Following the WJF there was a competition for the presidency ("Battle for the WJF Presidency") from which Thomas Dietz emerged victorious over Jason Garfield . Shortly afterwards there were disputes between Thomas Dietz and Jason Garfield, with Garfield posting private emails on his web forum to portray Thomas Dietz as the villain. At the WJF 7 in 2011, Doug Sayers was originally announced as "Overall Champion", but this turned out to be wrong due to an incorrect counting of the points, as Vova Galchenko had scored more points.

WJF competitions
year event place Winner, title
2004 WJF Convention Las Vegas, Nevada
2005 WJF2 Las Vegas, Nevada Thomas Dietz , Overall Champion
2006 WJF3 Las Vegas, Nevada Thomas Dietz, Overall Champion
2007 WJF4 Hartford, Connecticut Thomas Dietz, Overall Champion
2008 WJF5 Las Vegas, Nevada Thomas Dietz, President.
2010 WJF6 Las Vegas, Nevada Doug Sayers, Overall Champion
2011 WJF7 Springfield, Illinois Vova Galchenko, Overall Champion
2012 WJF8 Sioux Falls, South Dakota Doug Sayers, Overall Champion

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grossman, Lev. "Up In the Air," Time (US), July 16, 2006
  2. ^ WJF Convention (2004) ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b WJF2 (2005) ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b WJF3 (2006) ( Memento from October 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b WJF4 (2007) ( Memento from September 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ a b WJF5 (2008) ( Memento from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b WJF6 (2010) ( Memento from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b WJF7 (2011) ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ a b WJF8 (2012) ( Memento from June 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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