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.