Here’s another one that might start with: “but why?”

It’s also a medium to hard one to pull off. I’ve had this one on my list to break for well over a year. I’m also proficient in catching things in my mouth.

I practiced on and off for over a year but have had a table tennis ball next to my practice spot on the wall in my kitchen ready to go for months. I pick it up, go for it for a bit, and then put it back.

I decided to get serious about this over the past few weeks while buckling down for my 29-mile joggling run that I did a couple of weeks ago since this wasn’t as physically straining as that one and thus paired up nicely.

I did have to wash that corner of the floor extra good with Lysol a few times since I didn’t like all the stuff the ball would get on it when it drops on the floor ;).

The previous record was 34 times to bounce a table tennis ball off the wall and catch it back in the mouth in 30 seconds. When I first started practicing the record I thought it was for one minute and thought it was going to be a piece of cake to beat. Then I realized my mistake.

Thousdands up on thousands of bounces off the wall later, I strung together 44 consecutive bounces off the wall caught back in my mouth from a meter away. Slow motion video review showed the 44th ball didn’t leave my mouth until 30.08 seconds so it wad disqualified.

The final result was 43 in 30 seconds which I’m pretty happy about.

What I’m not so happy with is how flattering I look in the video.