The time to beat was 17.99 seconds. We were pretty confident we could do it. The only reason we were even close is we popped 11 balloons instead of 10. Fortunately, our timer was counting the balloons as they popped and stopped the stopwatch after 10 balloons, which was only 15.25 seconds.

The previous record holders for the fastest time to pop 10 balloons between 2 people chose to pop the balloons between their torsos with the hugging method. We thought about it but never actually practiced that method. The hip-check method proved more than effective for our liking.

For all our other throwing and catching records, the ambidextrous Loose Cannon Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon is the thrower. I’m the juggler and I catch. The problem was I couldn’t maintain a full minute plank consistently enough to practice and make the official attempts for the record.

The record was for the most alternating catches in one minute while holding a plank. I learned my lesson. Not only because I had to throw instead of catch, but after we did it we realized it was only a “one person” record which means he’s the only one who gets credit for it. Thus, Jonathan has his first “solo” Guinness World Records title.

We swapped roles and he caught 66 of the throws in alternating hands to break the previous record of 38 alternating catches while planking in one minute.

I have since started a new workout regimen and over the past <2 months have completed over 10,000 each of pushups and situps so my core strength doesn’t embarrass me again like that.

The Loose Cannon “Hollywood” Jonathan Hannon and I had to defend our Guinness World Records title.

This was for the most wet sponge hits to the face in 30 seconds. We originally set this record right at the start of the pandemic with 43 wet sponge hits in 30 seconds. Jonathan threw 54 but we had 11 misses, so we knew there was room for improvement on our first try. Our record was broken later by a run of 47 in 30 seconds.

We may have been able to wait for warmer weather but I decided warm water would be good enough. I didn’t factor in that it would take as many attempts as it did and by the final attempt I was happy when the wet sponges hit me since that’s how I warmed up my very wet and cold clothes.

Our final run resulted in 51 wet sponges hitting me squarely in the face in the allotted 30 seconds.

Merry Christmas everyone! (So this record took a little longer to process than expected to it’s Christmas again in February).

This was a record created this December to ring in the Christmas holiday. The time to beat was 1 minute. After getting the rules, I realized it was going to take me a lot longer than 1 minute to be satisfied with this record.

I balanced a 5 ft+ Christmas tree on my chin for 1 hour 30 minutes 5 seconds to break this Guinness World Records title.

It took a little longer for both Guinness and me to get the record and the footage processed so it’s going live now. Enjoy!

Jonathan and I now hold both the 30 second and 1 minute Guinness World Records title for most beach ball passes.

In 2020 we took down the 30-second record, now we have the 1-minute record with 157 beach ball passes in one minute. Yes, it took practice. Yes, it took many tries. But no, it’s really not as death-defying as… well, really any other record (other than the risk of the ball bouncing in the street and getting run over by a passing car).

We didn’t quite double our pace of 84 in 30 seconds but we’re pretty happy with the result.

In other news, my wordle today was: not a wordle, but a picture of a pyramid under the sun… but it was my wordle! (also played in hard mode).

I completed my goal of breaking 52 Guinness World Records titles in 2021. This week’s record video is one of them and a recap of a lot more.

I ran 100m in 14.33 seconds. While that isn’t too hard by itself, it becomes a lot more difficult while blindfolded. It’s nowhere near as hard as the 100m blindfolded run I did while juggling (in 16.29 seconds) but still hard enough it required some practice. (Don’t practice alone with an actual blindfold on!) I feel like this one should be officially broken by a blind person – the catch is that the guide can’t be a physical guide for the Guinness record – only audio.

It kicked off on January 4, 2021 stacking wet bars of soap with my neighbor Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon and went up from there. We also bounced ping pong balls; caught apples, grapes, and marshmallows in the mouth; and defended our ping pong balls in shaving foam record.

I crossed the 200 Guinness World Records broken milestone with one of the 5 hardest for the most kiwis sliced in one minute using a samurai sword while standing on a swiss ball. I revisited my very first record – longest duration blindfolded juggling, this time extended the record from 22 minutes 7 seconds to 32 minutes 7 seconds.

I also broke a couple of records with my wife (including her first official one) and had several juggling records.

I finished off the year by wrapping my neighbor with a neighbor for the fastest time to wrap a person in wrapping paper, team of 2.

Find more in the news:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076140207/idaho-man-says-he-completed-his-goal-of-breaking-52-world-records-in-a-single-ye

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076049871/in-each-week-of-2021-david-rush-from-idaho-set-a-guinness-world-record

https://www.newsweek.com/man-broke-52-guinness-world-records-52-weeks-shared-journey-youtube-1673318

https://www.the-sun.com/news/4556876/david-rush-guinness-world-records-year/

https://k2radio.com/idahos-david-rush-just-broke-52-guinness-world-records-in-52-weeks-breaking-another-record/

https://www.mtpr.org/2022-01-27/idaho-man-says-he-completed-his-goal-of-breaking-52-world-records-in-a-single-year

The Loose Cannon Hollywood Hannon let his family wrap up this record. His wife wrapped and his son got wrapped.

The record was for the fastest time to wrap a person with wrapping paper (team of two). Dude Perfect of YouTube fame previously held this record at 1 minute 58.9 seconds. I thought it was going to be easier to break than it was. The whole body has to be covered neck to toe and the arms and legs have to be wrapped individually. The biggest catch is the paper can’t rip. If it rips, the attempt is disqualified. People aren’t boxes and conforming the paper to the angles of the body without ripping the paper is a serious challenge.

After I don’t know how many attempts over multiple days, we finally pulled off a 1 minute 43-second run without ripping any paper or breaking any of the other rules. Eirinn was our first subject but the older brother Joey stepped in for the final attempt. This is Lisa Marie’s second official record and while Joey holds another record, he doesn’t get credit for this one.

So it turns out that pushing a balloon with the face is deceptively difficult.

I first tried this record a couple of years ago and after several failed attempts at making it no more than a few feet, I gave up and didn’t try again. Considering that a balloon is about the same density of air it could be inferred that moving through the air would offer significant resistance to a balloon’s desire to move (this is the super scientific way to say it). The rules also state the balloon has to remain in contact with the face at all times and you obviously can’t use your mouth or nose to bite or suck the balloon to your face.

I’d recently broken some 10 m records and was looking for others I might try with the tape already on the ground and found this one again. I decided to go after it with a growth mindset and despite way more failures and tries than I might care to admit for such a simple-looking Guinness World Records title, I finally got it. 4.93 seconds to push a ballon 10 meters with my face.