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  Longest upside-down juggling-world record set by Erik Kloeker

[Sep 21] NEWPORT, US--Erik Kloeker, a 17-year-old from Cold Spring juggled for 90 seconds and set a world record for the longest upside-down juggling, on top of the U.S.S. Nightmare at Newport on the Levee Thursday night.  

   "I saw it in the Guinness World Book of Records and just thought that it was something I might be able to do," Kloeker says of his record-breaking attempt.

   The previous record for upside-down juggling, set by Australian Mark Easson in 2005, was 55.9 seconds, according to Guinness World Records.

   The Cold Spring resident juggles sharp objects, eats fire, swallows swords and performs other risky feats as part of the Pickled Brothers Sideshow, a Cincinnati-based circus sideshow co-founded by his brother and manager, 34-year-old Travis Fessler of Florence.

   "He does everything I do," Fessler says. "Just better."

    Erik Kloeker, who taught himself to juggle at 13, trains by doing about 100 sit-ups a day, plus about 10 upside-down sit-ups. He practices juggling upside-down for about 20 minutes daily on the trapeze he rigged up on a rope strung between two trees in his backyard. He has broken the record in practice before - even doubled it, Fessler says.

  Kloeker's mother, Nancy Fessler, says she's OK with her son's unusual part-time job - as long as it stays that way. "You always worry they're going to get hurt, but then I think, playing football or soccer, you get hurt playing those sports too," she says."I think it's wonderful that you have something you love to do and you can do it and make money."


    Despite the hazards of the job, Kloeker says he's never been seriously injured, only suffered - not surprisingly - minor burns and a sore throat. "If it's something new, it's always kind of scary starting it out," he says. "You never know what's going to happen."

  

 



 
     
   
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