Jonathan “Hollywood” Hannon and I finally officially hold the Guinness World Records title for “Fastest time to bounce a ping pong ball in 5 cups (team of two)”.

You might be asking: “Didn’t you already break that record?” And the answer is, we’ve tried, and in fact, I’ve tried twice. But both times the attempts were disqualified. There is a very specific and strict rule that the ball has to be in the glass before the next ball can be bounced. We thought we were following the rules but slow motion (or frame by frame analysis) can reveal what’s not possible to see in real time.

We tried this one over and over. There were so many times we thought we’d broke the record this time around. It sounded good, it looked good, the time was good. And then we’d watch it back in super slow motion and see that one ball wasn’t quite in the glass and the next ball was already out of the hand.