Can’t go to the beach? Take the beachball to the hallway.
Jonathan Hannon and I continue the quarantine Guinness World Record attempts in the hallway series. This time for most beach ball passes in 30 seconds. We stood behind 2 lines carefully measured at 3 meters apart and used a lightweight, plastic, inflatable plastic ball with a 40+ cm diameter and passed it back and forth as many times as we could in 30 seconds.
The previous record was 68 passes in 30 seconds. It was surprisingly frustrating. A beach ball is so light that the slightest spin or an angled hit can send it shooting off any which direction. We’d be going along great and the pass would veer off and hit the ceiling, floor, or wall seemingly out of nowhere.
My 1-year-old son also wanted to get in on the action. My wife would hold him sometimes since he always wanted the ball and one time it backfired. We were doing great and got 82 catches in one run a few days ago and thought we were done. I got home and loaded the footage on to my computer and at 29.5 seconds we noticed my son’s hand covered up the stopwatch invalidating the attempt under the COVID-19 rules requiring the stopwatch to be on camera with the other relaxed rules in place. On the last try, we finally got 84 passes to call this one good. Poor little Peter did get to hold the ball right before this attempt before passing it back to Jonathan. He then backed up and tripped over the tripod leg. This time, behind held by mom, he did not cover up the stopwatch.
