<story><title>The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business</title><url>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/?2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not ashamed to admit I had to look up Donald Bradman. Cricket? That&amp;#x27;s the analogy you went with? :-)</text></item><item><author>Schwolop</author><text>I used to run the world&amp;#x27;s biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.&lt;p&gt;Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I&amp;#x27;m guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it&amp;#x27;s hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to &lt;i&gt;perform&lt;/i&gt; it is another 10-100 times again.&lt;p&gt;Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I&amp;#x27;m very sad we now have to say &amp;quot;was&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avalaunch</author><text>I had to look him up to, but once I found this, I understood why he went with Donald Bradman over Pele or Jordan or Ali.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/the-most-remarkable-graph-in-the-history-of-sport/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;michaelnielsen.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-most-remarkable-graph-in-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The greatest juggler alive quit to open a construction business</title><url>http://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/?2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not ashamed to admit I had to look up Donald Bradman. Cricket? That&amp;#x27;s the analogy you went with? :-)</text></item><item><author>Schwolop</author><text>I used to run the world&amp;#x27;s biggest juggling video repository (JuggleThis.net, now defunct) which itself was definitely responsible for a lot of the irritation Gatto found with the new generation of camera-happy juggling kids.&lt;p&gt;Certainly he was frustrated by newcomers filming 100 takes and showing just one (something I&amp;#x27;m guilty of too!). But without being a juggler yourself it&amp;#x27;s hard to express just how much better than everyone else he really was. If being able to do a trick with N balls is unit difficulty, adding N+2 balls is a factor of 10-100 harder. Being able to &lt;i&gt;perform&lt;/i&gt; it is another 10-100 times again.&lt;p&gt;Gatto regularly performed things the next best jugglers could barely do at all. He was the Donald Bradman of juggling, and I&amp;#x27;m very sad we now have to say &amp;quot;was&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Schwolop</author><text>In terms of &amp;quot;sportsman who is so far ahead of his peers that it&amp;#x27;s almost impossible to explain how&amp;quot;, then yes, I think Bradman fits the bill!</text></comment>