Chris and I have talked about breaking this record for years. It’s daunting. It’s scary. One drop and it’s over. Chris is moving soon so we decided it was now or never.

We’re no stranger to Frisbee Guinness World Records with the most passes in one minute (110), most passes in an hour (5,341), and fastest 20m 5-person frisbee relay. During the hour-long record, we dropped the frisbee about 15 times. That was because we were moving as fast as possible. If we could reduce that drop rate 95% we’d still average one drop before breaking the current record of 2,944 catches. We needed to improve it 100%

We were set up 3 meters apart but no part of the body could cross the plane of the lines so we had additional lines set up for each of us just over an arm’s length behind those lines which made our throws closer to 5 meters apart. Once we started, we couldn’t stop with a maximum delay from catch to throw of 5 seconds or the attempt would be over. We started off confident.

Chris chose the safer and more room for error pancake catches where he uses both hands to catch the frisbee, one on top and one on the bottom. He paid for it the next day.

I used the higher risk but faster catch and release underhand catch with two hands. I did have about 40 catches that were wide enough that I only got one hand on them and 2 of those were with my left hand. We had several close calls with near misses on the catches or 3-4 seconds from catch to throw wiping off sweat or taking a drink, but we were able to blaze by the current record in just over an hour.

We then picked up our pace considerably and completed 12,345 catches in 3 hours 58 minutes 4 seconds without a drop. We chose to end since the witness restriction is only 4 hours.