I have never felt more lethal.

Not juggling knives, not juggling fire, not even throwing axes.

This record takes as much strength and precision, as I could muster with thousands of chopstick throws in practice. I have to throw them precisely to have the pointy end hit first. I have to throw these hard to get them to stick. I have to throw them accurately to get them to count.

After a good day of practice, I can barely move the next day.

The previous record was 14

I was required to use an 80 cm archery target and practiced for quite a while thinking I was going to crush this record. When I finally read the rules a little more clearly and looked up the details on the archery target, I realized that only hits to the yellow or red circles count. Those are the inner 4 of 10 concentric circles. That’s 40% of the radius/diameter of the circle. A little math on the ratio of the areas of the overall target to the part that counts: Pi*R^2/Pi*R^2 = 4^2/10^2 = 16/100 or only 16% of the target area counted. My job all of a sudden became much harder. The diameter of the circle was 32cm (or just over 12 inches) that I had to hit from 4 meters away (just over 13 feet).

I only had 53 chopsticks so I had a very brave volunteer to pick up a few of the misses.

I had a shaky start after sticking the first throw but kept at it. Instead of getting the 40 I could get in the 80 cm circle I ended up with a thrilling 19 in the 32 cm circle instead of the expected 7 (based on the radio). I did have one hit that was on target, stuck, and then fell off before the minute ended.