"One of his most unique tricks was holding a fishbowl on one foot, and balancing another on a knife held in his mouth. Then he exchanged the two bowls so that the one on the knife dropped to his foot while he flipped up the one on his foot to catch it in balance on the knife. Rudy Cardenas called him the best circus juggler of all time.

 

"Of course you could practice all day long and never get to be as good as Rastelli or Truzzi. Just as you could play basketball all day and never get to be as good as Larry Bird. It's just not genetically possible. "

 

One of his fondest memories was a 1955 gathering of jugglers in a Los Angeles hotel room. "There was me, Igor Rudenko, Maximiliano Truzzi, Bobby May, and Bill Tallent, each juggling seven balls. Truzzi could do nine."

 

One of the biggest differences Gnadt sees between the jugglers of today and  those of yesteryear are the weight of the objects they juggle. He believes that today's jugglers, who focus primarily on numbers, cannot compare to performers

like Rastelli because they juggle objects of only three or four different weights.  "I'm amazed at some of the things that Lucas and Gatto can do," he noted, "but how far can you go in that style?"