Mike and I have reclaimed the first Guinness World Record’s title we broke together (pending approval).

After breaking our inaugural joint Guinness World Record’s title of most behind-the-back flying disc catches in one minute of 51, beating the previous mark of 37 and Brodie Smith’s mark of 31, our record was broken by a couple of players from Japan of 55. We think they were on a pro team there.

In the meantime, we broke the record for most behind-the-back catches in one hour with 2,173 averaging more than 36 per minute. After our record was broken, we decided to get serious about practice. As a juggler, I have a lot of practice catching things, and as a cometittve league ultimate captain, Mike has a lot of practice throwing discs. That combined with several practice sessions with dozens of discs in his backyard, we were ready to reclaim this record. We’re pretty sure we’ve taken more than 6,000 throws and catch attempts in total.

We spend a good 30-45 minutes of attempts to take back our record with the full crew in place including Mike’s son chasing the caught discs. Our best attempt of 68 in a minute was disqualified since I stepped over the 15 foot line 4 times when we reviewed it on video. On our final attempt we had 69 throws in one minute. I only dropped one throw and there was only one bad throw that hit the ground before it crossed the 15 foot mark. We ended up with 67 behind the back flying disc catches in one minute crushing the previous mark of 55. We were pretty happy about the result but we think we can get over 70 but we’ll wait until someone else challenges us to go after it.

Good luck!