My brother-in-law, Kevin, came in town for Father’s Day weekend so I made a typical Father’s Day request: can you rapidly shoot marshmallows off a catapult into my mouth?

Fortunately, he agreed and we went at it all weekend. It had to be a homemade catapult from commercially available items typically found around the home.

I have tons of practice catching things in my mouth so all the pressure was on Kevin. He handled it like the former D1 scholarship athlete he is. He quickly ramped his abilities and after over 1,000 marshmallows shot he was able to launch 65 marshmallows in one minute, of which I successfully caught 59 in my mouth surpassing the previous record of 47 by 25% with a catch rate of over 90%

We kept clean sheets on the floor so any dropped marshmallows could be reused.

It may not seem like it should happen, but after so many near misses that hit my lips and smashed the marshmallows into my teeth, I was left bleeding after a couple of the practice sessions.