Can you catch a solid cannon ball on your neck?
Can you let a falling egg land on a plate in tact?
Can you balance balls on the tip of a snooker cue?
How about catching a solid, old wooden bath tub on the spike of your helmet?
Now, I can have a section of this site about any old juggler, but I chose Paul Cinquevalli because He was more than a juggler. He could do all of the above feats with ease.
Before we talk about his juggling, let's get to know him and his background more in depth.
Although he has a German name, he was in fact Polish. He was born as a Polish citizen, however in his childhood years ran away to join the circus- he then became an aerial artist, as the circus accepted him . However, one fatal night he fell from a trapeze, however where he performed net's where not common( who at that point was in fact named Emile Otto Lehmann-Braun or Paul Kestner (sources are not clear)) and unluckily struck a bar and fell smack on the floor. This completely shook his nerves to start training for the flying trapeze again and so he took to the art of juggling.As well as that, with his left hand he would never be able to swing on a bar again.He had been practicing,luckily, juggling in secrecy . He would juggle little balls, and would progress, and progress, and get better more by the day. But then yet another awful night the war was announced: Germany was invading Poland. So he, this time, had to run away for a good cause-And so that is when he faked to be a German, and changed his name to Paul Cinquevalli. He had little time to practice in Germany, and was losing money. He later became a performer, performing the above tricks. He became known as the human billiard table as he would play billiards using his back as the billiard table. He would where a green felt jacket where the pockets would become those of the table. This alone took two full years to master. As well as that, he would balance a ball on the tip of the que- this took eight years to master! However the audience would often say that the objects where faked-they where making fools out of themselves, as Paul would hand out the objects for examination.
Cinquevalli was performing from a young age, and carried his career on for a long time.
He performed in the 19th century, which allows us to move on to the next part of our time-line:
The 20th century.
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