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Local Man Juggles His Way Onto Good Morning America (With Video)
May 21, 2012
A local man juggled his way onto national TV over the weekend, appearing Saturday on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Joe Salter, 31, has made the national news for completing a recent triathlon — while juggling (video below). Salter juggled three balls while swimming a quarter mile, juggled two balls in one hand while biking 17 and ran another four miles still juggling. And he did it all in the respectable time of 1 hour and 57 minutes for a world record.
Salter, the son of Rita and Mickey Salter of Flomaton, started juggling at age eight. He trained about 10 months for “joggling” (jogging and juggling tossed together) through a complete triathlon.
He finished the entire running and biking portion of the triathlon without dropping a ball. Swimming was not so smooth, as he dropped the balls three times. But they float, so no time lost in the retrieval.
Salter’s world record attempt came during the recent Flora-Bama Mullet Man Triathlon to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northwest Florida.
Pictured top: Joe Salter joggles his way toward the finish line of a triathlon and a world record. Courtesy photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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13 Responses to “Local Man Juggles His Way Onto Good Morning America (With Video)”
Joe, you get your looks and your talent from your dad !
All of us at the Ronald McDonald House enjoyed watching Joe on GMA. He did a great job juggling while making coffee and putting lip gloss on one of the news anchors. Check out the page Joe created when he raised money for us leading up to the Mullet Man Triathlon. http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/joesalter.
Come out to our Firecracker 5K on June 30 and see his amazing talent for yourself! Register online at http://www.active.com (event id: 201066).
This I like. Good job, and I’m jealous as I cannot juggle worth a darn!
I saw this on Sportsnation in ESPN the other day. Amazing. I cannot even juggle while standing still.
That is awesome! I can do the juggling part….just haven’t mastered riding bike, swimming, or biking…or walking for that matter. What an inspiration!
LOL guess I needed to watch the video. didnt consider a that…
>>>How do you juggle while swimming?
Very carefully.
Seriously, if you will watch the video at the bottom of the page, you’ll see.
This sounds like a story for the onion!
more strange but true news on NE.com
How do you juggle while swimming?
Go Joe!!! We are so proud of you here in Florida!
Not only how fantastic it is to juggle, but while swimming, running, and biking. And remember, this fella could not take a sip of water at any time. Think about how dry his throat was and the extra umph it took to overlook that distraction. Outstanding!!
That’s totally amazing, I have never seen anything like that before in my life.. Congrats to you Joe Salter….
WOW……..THIS IS AWESOME……..CONGRATULATIONS!!!