DavidRush

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CenUDqbQ22U Over the years, my mouth has tackled some ridiculous challenges, from catching marshmallows, grapes, and apples at absurd distances to rapid-firing ping pong balls. When you’ve spent that much time catching flying objects with your face, you start to believe your lips and tongue can handle anything. So when I saw the Guinness World

https://youtube.com/shorts/9mI-3SVweng?is=ergQMY0AN-dLdUTD I have caught plenty of things in my mouth for Guinness World Records titles. Marshmallows, apples, raw eggs, popcorn, and caramel corn have all flown at my face. But catching a paper airplane is a different challenge. Years ago, I applied for the title for the most paper aircraft caught in the mouth in

I was scrolling through Guinness news when I saw JackSucksAtLife set a Guinness World Record by moving 32 Maltesers with a straw in one minute. My immediate thought was: challenge accepted. I have a bunch of fine motor control speed records, and I know how to use a straw. So while hanging out at a

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UtfjFlp8rVI My three-year-old daughter looked up at me the other day and asked, “Daddy, can I have a world record please?” My heart melted on the spot. As a dad who spends my hobby time breaking records, I wanted nothing more than to just hand her a framed certificate. But that is not how life

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q_y5gECA5xY Driving away from the devastating loss at the Patriots-Bills game in Foxborough last year, the seed of an obsession was planted. My coworker Alex tossed out a casual thought about what record he might tackle: “I got pretty good at flip cup in college.” (This would surprise no one who knows him). I figured

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f72D19Raweo There’s nothing quite like a blank piece of paper. The whole world is open. Every possibility. You can make anything. And in my case, I was going to make a paper airplane. And then another, and another, and another. As fast as I could for 60 minutes straight. You might associate paper airplanes with

Failing 59 times in a row teaches you a lot about stubbornness. When you set out to break a Guinness World Record, like the fastest hole of disc golf by a team of four, you expect a challenge. But standing on a skinny, PDGA-certified course at the crack of dawn, watching your opening throws sail

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LwW5rzTmGvM Balancing heavy objects on my chin or forehead is nothing new for me. I have balanced ladders, pool cues, and running chainsaws, but there is a deceptive simplicity to ordinary household items. A single roll of toilet paper weighs almost nothing. A few hundred of them, however, and you’re staring at a massive, wobbling

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IW0_8wx4B2c I have been playing a lot of catch with my 10-year-old son Jeremy. We have been playing baseball, football, and soccer (he sometimes plays goalie). When I saw the record for the furthest distance to throw and catch a water balloon, I immediately thought of him and asked him if he wanted to give

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xaj25wtSP_Q There is a distinct kind of chaos that unfolds when you put twelve people in a hallway, hand them a basket of t-shirts, and tell them that every movement is being scrutinized to make sure we all follow the rules. It was me, 10 other coworkers and a mentalist. We set out to break