I got to set my first 2-person juggling world record at the Boston Juggling Festival. Most consecutive side by side juggling catches for #65. Even more impressive than the record itself is who I set it with. Arthur Lewbel is one of the most published and cited economics authors in the world as well as a juggling aficionado and author with more juggling connections that virtually any juggler in the world. He started the MIT juggling club around 1975 and encouraged me to start the MIT Student Juggling Club in 2004. Thanks!
He also recently published his book When Balls Collide with Jack Kalvan on the skills and mathematics of juggling. I got my signed copy.
Signed copy of when balls collide with both authors pictured (Jack on the book)
The record itself probably fits in the medium difficulty level. It would take the average person a couple of months of dedicated effort to break it but since we were at a juggling convention with dozens of accomplished jugglers, most of the people there could have broken it. Both Arthur and I are 7 ball jugglers to continuously passing 6 balls between ourselves took just a few minutes of practice and warm up to get ready to break. The previous record was 111 passes and we got 267 catches on the 2nd try (first try we broke the record but wanted to go for more). (***March 2019 update: Guinness World Records wanted every catch counted, not just passes to the other person so the official count was nearly double: 532.)
I have to admit both of the witnesses were such accomplished jugglers they could have each broken this 2-person record by themselves! Jonah was the best numbers (lots of objects) technical juggler at the convention pulling things off on stage I have never seen in person before and Jim has medaled multiple times at the IJA in bounce juggling.
