Today I took on the giant: gravity. I took it on with not a small pebble but three large stones. I then broke the Guinness World Record for “Most Bowling Balls Juggled”.

You might wonder how many bowling balls it is possible to juggle. I hope you guess it’s one or two because I can only juggle three. In fact, nobody can juggle more. There are two reasons for this: 1) bowling balls are heavy (Guinness requires each to weigh over 10 pounds and 2) they are not, in fact, meant to be juggled. If they are juggled, Guinness requires they be juggled for more than 20 seconds.

Last year I bought 5 bowling balls at a killer rate from a shutdown bowling alley. I got all 5 for $10. I never thought I’d be able to juggle five but I got four 10 pound balls and one 6 pound ball for fun stuff. I thought maybe I’d be able to get a qualifying run of 4 balls in (8 catches) but then found out Guinness requires a 20 second run vs 8 catches. I have yet to juggle 2 balls in one hand so I’m still a way of.

I broke this record at the CBS 2 News STEM day at the Fair today held at the Western Idaho Fair.

It was kind of a last-minute record attempt since my wife had our 2nd son on Tuesday night (2.5 days ago). We decided about 11:30 AM we were feeling good enough to stop by the fair and at noon I decided I should break a record while we were there. By 1 PM we were on site with 30+ lbs of bowling balls and I made the attempt in front of a small audience in the STEM area.

I juggled for 30 seconds, or 50% longer than the required length and was sweating profusely and breathing so hard I could barely answer the news questions after.