Four years ago at the Cradlepoint block party held in Boise Idaho in the Basque Block, I broke my very first Guinness World Records Title for longest duration blindfolded juggling. 🤹♀️ I’ve broken another one here every year since and this time I decided to get other folks from Cradlepoint involved.
The record was for “Fastest time to pass T-shirts along a chain of people (team of 10)”. I didn’t create this record, but whoever did was unsuccessful in breaking it. The minimum mark was 2 minutes. The way it works is the first person starts with all 10 t-shirts on. They then take one off and pass it to the next person. They put it on and take it off and pass it down the line until the last person who only puts it on. Meanwhile, the 2nd shirt is making the same journey through the 10th. There are 90 complete takeoff and put on t-shirt cycles that have to be complete.
It doesn’t matter if the t-shirt is inside out or backward so long as the 2 arms are through 2 different armholes, the head is through the head hole and the t-shirt is pulled down flat on the body below the waist before being removed again.
We practiced several times as a group individually. One guy took it so seriously he literally wore his ear off and was bleeding. A drill we used was each person got their own shirt and had to put it on and take it off 10 times in a row. Everyone needed to get below a minute for us to have a chance and 3 of us got down to as low as 42 seconds for 10 cycles.
It took a few attempts during the official event and it was very cold so we’d huddle under the propane heaters to stay warm in our single mosture-wicking base layer that allowed for easier shirt sliding.
The final result was 1 minute 59.49 seconds.
