Who would guess that this record attempt would result in more bleeding than 98% of all my record attempts?

It also made practicing highly unpleasant and short-lived. Fortunately, we could also practice with other objects like marshmallows. Every time an apple hit me just on the side of the mouth from 15 feet away, it would smash my lips into my teeth. I would either get cut by my incisors or bicuspids or sometimes the inside of my mouth would be smashed between my front teeth so hard it wouldn’t come out without floss. Either way, I was left and bruised and bloodied mess after every practice and the final (fortunately successful) attempt.

The record was for the most apples caught in the mouth in one minute. No size was specified for the apples so I drove around Boise until we found an apple tree in someone’s front yard with small apples. We knocked and asked if we could pick some, and since they weren’t edible, they were more than happy for us to take them.

Jonathan threw 60 apples in the minute and despite missing the first one, we had a strong streak for the next 50 seconds before ending a little weak to catch 49 of them in the mouth in one minute beating the previous record of 47 by two.