Most Frisbee Catches in One Hour

I teamed up with Chris Knight for another Guinness World Record’s title attempt. He’s a serious ultimate player. I’m serious about breaking Guinness World Records. It’s a team that works well.

The previous record for “Most flying disc (frisbee) passes in one hour by a pair” was 2,525. The pair must stand a minimum of 3 meters apart. We put boards and tape on the ground to make it easy to keep the distance.

In only 28 minutes 16 seconds, we had completed 2,526 passes. The only catch to this record was that you could only catch them with the hands. So when we caught the frisbee with the body, even though it didn’t touch the ground, we couldn’t count it. We had 46 throws that either hit the body or were dropped.

I filled up my car with gas for the first time since March 3 this last weekend. In 4.5 months I have driven 349 miles. In that same time, I have run 451 miles. I didn’t find this one-hour effort to be particularly taxing. We started at 8:43 in the morning in relative cool and I’m not sure if I even broke a sweat. Chris did. His shirt was soaked. In the latter half of the attempt the disc hit his shirt a few times and the disc got soaked so much we had to wipe it off a few times.

Chris with his shirt soaked through with sweat. It wouldn’t have been a problem if the frisbee didn’t hit it a few times making it slick.

I counted every catch and audibly called out every 100 successful catches. The witnesses (thanks Dusty and Lacey – her birthday! for witnessing for us) but their handheld counters on the camera every 500 catches.

Chris and I also hold the record for most disc catches in one minute. Before we broke it, the record was 87 in one minute. We got 110. We got 5,341 catches in one hour. For this hour, we averaged just over 89 catches per minute breaking the 1-minute record of 87 with our 60-minute average! That’s 5,387 throws with a 99.15% catch rate even making throws 1.5 times per second.