Meet Kit!

For over 25 years, Kit Summers has used his skills and experience to become one of America's foremost educators in the field of performing, juggling, and personal achievement.  This, along with entertaining and speaking worldwide, as well as writing four books.

Kit first took up juggling because of his love of things different and unusual. Learning to juggle in 1975, at the age of 15, Kit knew early this is what he wanted to do for his life's work. After winning first place on "The Gong Show" at the age of 16, one of the next things Kit did was he taught juggling and performing at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Clown College at the young age of 18.

Kit went on to perform around the world and achieved the position of "featured performer" at Ballys Park Place Casino in Atlantic City. Performing at Ballys , he was doing 2 shows a night, 6 days a week, about 12 minutes a show. So, Kit was working about 24 minutes a day, doing something he loved, and paid very well for it!  Kit was always working on and trying new and better things in the show, from juggling tricks to comedy routines.

At this point, Kit's juggling was at a high level and he was trying to master juggling 7 clubs, a world record at the time. This would be the same as the first person to run a four minute mile, or pole-vaulting 20 feet. Kit didn't work on 7 clubs for publicity or fame, but as a personal challenge to see how far he could take his juggling. He got a run of 30 throws with 7 clubs and knew that he could improve on this trick. The juggling of 7 clubs was witnessed by a number of people.

Juggling and performing were such a joy for Kit.  Getting paid to do what he loved to do was more than he could ever have hoped for.  Becoming a featured performer at Ballys was a starting point on his way toward stardom, who knows how far he was going to go with his performing.

While on the way to the show at Ballys one rainy night, Kit paused before leaving the parking lot, shelter, before fighting the wind and the rain to get to the casino for the performance. Atlantic City has not seen such a rainstorm in some time, shrouding street lights and stop signs in a shiny blur, it was even hard to see across the street.  Kit was crossing the busiest street when, suddenly, out of the downpour from behind a sheet of rain, a truck is on the scene. "There is no time to get out of the way!"  The collision was inevitable.  Kit was thrown onto the hood of the truck, broke the windshield with his head, rolled off to the side and tore off the side mirror with his body, then he laid in a crumpled heap 30 feet away from the truck. 

After 37 days asleep, Kit slowly emerged from his coma. Slowly coming back at first, when he awoke he had to learn to do everything once again, including eating, talking, walking, and of course, juggling. Although he knew "how" to do these tasks in his mind, the connections from his brain to his nervous system had to be reestablished.

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The lessons that Kit learned during his recovery are an inspiration to us all. Since the accident, Kit learned to juggle again, which surprised everyone - especially his doctors. Also, he has written four books, started three businesses, and speaks to groups around the world on the subject of personal and professional growth. Millions have heard Kit's story.

In 2003 this entrepreneur started a new company--he makes excellent salsa. A growing company, there is no stopping "Summers' Salsa" from growing into a huge empire.