As we enter the final few days of 2023, let us remind ourselves of one of the most unique stories of this year.

Student achieves World Record feat for rare talent

A Gerrards Cross man has entered the world record books for his juggling skills.

James Cozens, who studies at Cambridge University, managed to show off his unique talent by juggling seven balls for 16.77 seconds whilst riding a unicycle.

He achieved the feat at Cambridge’s Selwyn College on May 7 this year.

He revealed that drawing on his academic background helped him to improve his juggling technique by developing his performance analysis software to help jugglers.

His software shows tracking, visualisation and simulation of “siteswap” routines – with siteswaps being sequences of numbers representing the relative duration of throws in a juggling pattern.

He said: “I think the technical approach has really helped because having this academic background means I can develop the software and see where my technique needs to improve, and increase my efficiency, and it’s been a lot of fun.

“The whole purpose of the software is to provide a juggling analysis… so for me anyway it helped a lot trying to understand my efficiency as a juggler."