Albert Lucas is an American juggler born in 1960 to Albert and Yvonne Moreira. He is notable for juggling while ice skating

Ice skating

Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...

, setting numbers juggling records, and promoting sport juggling.

Career

With the encouragement of his father, Albert began juggling at age 3 and performing at age 4 in comedy clubs, small circuses and night clubs. From age 8 to 11 he toured with Liberace

Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace , best known simply as Liberace, was a famous American pianist and vocalist.In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned...

 and then performed in Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...

. From age 12 to 22, he traveled the world performing his juggling act on ice with the Ice Capades

Ice Capades

The Ice Capades was a traveling entertainment show featuring theatrical performances involving ice skating. Shows often featured former Olympicand National Champion figure skaters who had retired from amateur competition....

. Albert spent several years performing in the Around the World on Ice show at Busch Gardens Theme Park

Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens is the name of two amusement parks in the United States, owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a division of Blackstone Group. One of the parks is in Williamsburg, Virginia, and the other is in Tampa, Florida...

. Albert has performed at both the NBA Finals

NBA Finals

The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association . The series was named the NBA World Championship Series until 1986....

 and the NHL Stanley Cup Finals

Stanley Cup Finals

The Stanley Cup Finals is the championship series to determine the winner of the Stanley Cup, emblematic of the professional club championship of ice hockey. Although the Cup itself has existed since 1893, an annual championship series between professional teams was not established until 1913...

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Sport juggling

Albert co-founded the International Sport Juggling Federation in order to develop sport juggling, including joggling

Joggling

Joggling is a competitive sport that combines juggling and jogging. People who joggle are called jogglers.The most common objects used in joggling are juggling balls, or sometimes juggling clubs, but any set of three or more objects can be used. The juggling is usually done in a three-ball cascade...

, with the goal of re-introducing it to the Olympics.. He has joggled in 12 marathons, including a marathon with no drops in 1987, which established a Guinness world record

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

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Skills

At the age of 10, Albert won the Numbers Competition with seven rings at the International Jugglers' Association

International Jugglers' Association

The International Jugglers' Association or IJA is the oldest and largest organization of jugglers. It is open to members worldwide.-Benefits of Membership:* Special from major prop vendors worldwide.* Member prices in the IJA’s ....

 Summer Festival in 1970. He was the U.S. Nationals Champion at the IJA Summer Festival in 1984. He is the first person to have qualified 10 objects in competition, juggling 10 rings for 20 catches at the IJA Summer Festivals in 1996 and 2002. He currently holds the world record

Juggling world records

This is a list of juggling world records for solo juggling of clubs, balls, rings and bouncing balls as well as the two person passing records for each of these props.The records for each section are split into three groups....

 for being the only person to flash

Flash (juggling)

A Flash in juggling is where each throw in a pattern being juggling is thrown and caught once. For a three ball cascade, this means three throws and three catches. However, for a four balls mills mess, this means six throws/catches as one round of the pattern requires six throws to complete it....

 13 rings.

Albert throws

Kit Summers named a juggling trick

Juggling pattern

A juggling pattern or juggling trick is a specific combination of manipulations of props while juggling . At its simplest level, a juggling pattern can normally be defined as a sequence of various throws using a certain number of props...

after Albert - an "albert throw" - which is a reverse club throw under the leg, made from front to back without either foot leaving the floor. This trick was performed by many earlier jugglers, originating with Morris Cronin, who specialized in club juggling during the early 1900s.

External links

• International Sport Juggling Federation
• TV Interview of Albert Lucas discussing and demonstrating sport juggling in 2006
• Albert Lucas 10 Ring Qualify on YouTube