I broke my second Guinness World Record’s title of the year by keeping 3 balloons in the air for more than 11 minute 8 seconds (previous record).

I was in Las Gatos, CA at the Cradlepoint office after a hard day of 5G workshoping and then raised my arms in the air. This record looks deceptively easy but turns out be a quite tricky. I was also in an enclosed space which ended up being my downfall. At 15 minutes 34 seconds the balloon hit the door ending the attempt.

I had several kicks to keep the balloons up when one got away and I didn’t have time to get my hands under it. After breaking the record I started goofing off and tried it with one hand for a while, I also headed balloons, jumped up to hit them and smacked them a lot higher than necessary to keep them afloat before the yellow one hit the door after an errant kick.

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After I was done a couple fellow Cradlepoint employees tried and lasted about 10 seconds each. By the end I was dripping sweat and the next day my arms were so sore I could barely reach them above my head.

The record was originally created by Buzzfeed and the broken by Josh Horton.