One question I’m often asked after breaking over 200 Guinness World Records is how I make them all up. I usually don’t. The vast majority were existing records broken by other people that I found through YouTube videos, the Guinness World records book, and the Guinness World Records website.

This record is the exception. Other than after I set the inaugural mark 3 years ago, however, it has been broken twice and I had to take it back.

The record is for the most consecutive juggling catches while balancing on a roller board. The minimum mark for Guinness to recognize it when I broke it 3 years ago was 15 catches. I got 52 and celebrated. Then it was broken by a professional juggler at a Guinness event with 74 catches. This last year Brenden Kelbie out of Australia got 159 consecutive catches tripling my initial mark.

There are few things I claim to be the best at, but 3 ball blind juggling is one of them. I have the records for longest duration blind juggling, fastest blind juggling (most catches in one minute), and the fastest mile run while juggling blind. Taking back the record for the roller board was surely within reach.

The hard part for me isn’t the blind juggling or balancing on a roller board, it’s the blind balance. I don’t think it matters if I’m juggling or not; balancing on the roller board while blind is just as hard.

After months of practice training my balance not to be reliant on vision just as my juggling doesn’t rely on vision, I was able to remain balanced for 3 minutes 19 seconds. To make the most out of those 3+ minutes I decided to speed juggle making over 6.6 catches per second. This was a most catches record and not a time duration record. 1,316 catches later, I nearly broke this record by an order of magnitude. Good luck to the challengers!