Glastonbury Festival/World record

[R Ward]

I have looked in records and festivals sections of JIS but can't find any
reference to the attempt made at last years Glastonbury Festival to have
the most jugglers juggling together at one time.

Can anyone confirm whether this was confirmed as a record, or if not,
what the record is.

Has anyone any info regarding this years festival and whether a further
attempt will be made on the record this year. If so, see you there Sunday
lunchtime.

Thanks for any help

Rod
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[STEVE 'DOC' SALBERG]

R Ward <ex...@bath.ac.uk> asked:

>I have looked in records and festivals sections of JIS but can't find any
>reference to the attempt made at last years Glastonbury Festival to have
>the most jugglers juggling together at one time.
>
>Can anyone confirm whether this was confirmed as a record, or if not,
>what the record is.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records (1995 US edition):
Most Objects Aloft. Eight hundred and twenty-one jugglers kept
2,463 objects in the air simultaneously, each person juggling
at least three objects, in Seattle, WA in 1990.

Steve S.
.sig wonders how they counted drops...

[Alan Simkins]

Rod (ex...@bath.ac.uk) asked:

> I have looked in records and festivals sections of JIS but can't find
> any reference to the attempt made at last years Glastonbury Festival
> to have the most jugglers juggling together at one time.
>

> Has anyone any info regarding this years festival and whether a
> further attempt will be made on the record this year. If so, see you
> there Sunday lunchtime.

See this month's CATCH. p25 has details on a couple of attempts at the
record in March (11th at Wembley, 30th in Lothian).

ALan S> (a...@cix.compulink.co.uk)

[Vince Carr]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950201...@midge.bath.ac.uk>,
ex...@bath.ac.uk (R Ward) wrote:

> I have looked in records and festivals sections of JIS but can't find any
> reference to the attempt made at last years Glastonbury Festival to have
> the most jugglers juggling together at one time.
>
> Can anyone confirm whether this was confirmed as a record, or if not,
> what the record is.

Well, I was there at the attempt and as far as I can remember the record
was broken but only by 9 or 10 objects. Each person was limited to three
objects to help with the calculations and it was all organised very
professionally (and videoed as I remember) so I guess the folks at Guinness
haven't updated their records. The climax was fun - everyone flashed their
objects (!) as high as they could...then spent ages trying to find them in
the mess afterwards :-)

> Has anyone any info regarding this years festival and whether a further
> attempt will be made on the record this year. If so, see you there Sunday
> lunchtime.

I don't know much about this years festival except the cost (65 pounds). I
also don't know whether the record will be attempted again, but if so then
hopefully the apathy of many people at the fest can be overcome - I mean,
there must have been tens of thousands of jugglers there and less than a
thousand turned up to break the world record.

> Thanks for any help
>
> Rod

Later folks.

Vince
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ev...@evn1.nott.ac.uk | o o ...while it's still legal.
Dept. of Civil Engineering | o O o
University of Nottingham | \/|\/

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents" H.P. Lovecraft

[cooper...@gmail.com]

I was one of the ragtag 1000+peeps, juggling at the festival that year,came across your msg,same question I was asking!!!hehe,it must have been 1995/6,idont remember if we were doing it for the world record or for charity!!???!!,I had a set of balls and was hatting up pennies (az ya do,innit!)came across this mass of headz,all playing with their balls! joined in and was told after a minute or two,we had achieved something,but don't remember if we broke the record,not for sure,thanx for the memory and if you find out post it up,nice one fellow traveler!!!laters

[cooper...@gmail.com]

Sounds like a rerun,must be a feature of the festival, throwing up at the endis exactly what we did,and I remember it was 3balls or objects per head, with a time minimum, Raz