I broke a Guinness World Records Title at the Boise State University Science and Engineering Festival for the 5th year in a row. Four years ago I broke my second ever Guinness World Record here and have been back every year since to show that if you set your mind to a goal, believe in yourself, and pursue it with a passion, you can accomplish anything (if you don’t let all the pesky failures in the interim get in the way).

I had a 20-pound kettlebell that I had to pass hand to hand 100 times. The previous record was 24.62 seconds. The hard part isn’t necessarily passing the weight hand to hand that fast, it’s doing it that fast without ever letting both hands touch the weight at the same time. If I have 99 passes as speed and 1 bad one, the whole thing is disqualified. I had to film the entire attempt in 240 fps and even after stepping through frame-by-frame I had 3 transfers I used other angles to double-check they were all good.

I had a very supportive audience who stuck with me for several attempts (I went ahead and made my warmup attempts official in case I got it) and the aspiring scientists and engineers were amazing.

Thanks to the team!