My wife wanted the giant beach ball out of our house. Apparently, it gets in the way of everything. Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon wasn’t available. His wife wanted to go tile shopping for the bathroom. I’m a problem solver, so this problem I solved. I found a more than capable neighbor replacement in catty-corner neighbor Seth Lemmons (who had previously fed me the ice cream in most ice cream flavors identified in 1 minute while blindfolded, video links below).

I set up 2 lines of cones 2 meters apart and we waited for the rain to subside before getting in a little practice. We thought we were good to go but we struggled way too much for our 6 minute practice run before dropping the ball.

After a consultation and discussion on strategy and technique, we went after it again. It was mostly cloudy and we fought some wind as well as some rain that made the ball a little slick and just a touch cold. We couldn’t drop the ball, step over the line, or hold the ball for more than 2 seconds before passing it again.

We kept going after this record long enough that by the time we dropped the ball 4,169 catches later, Hollywood had returned from his shopping trip to hurl insults at me and compliments at Seth who successfully broke his very first Guinness World Record’s title! Congratulations Seth! We broke the previous record (minimum set by Guinness for someone who never broke it?) of 1,300 passes about

It also appears Hollywood’s kids love to make faces for the camera so I left some of those in at the beginning and the end.