It was only fitting that for my first work trip in two years we attempted the Guinness World Records title for the most fist bumps in one minute (with different people) – the official greeting of the pandemic. It was at the Cradlepoint partner conference in Nashville, TN.

This record was a logistical challenge. The previous record was 123 people. The conference room was large and I would need to bump more than 2 fists per second to break the record. How could I get a line of people that long in a room? I ended up moving tables around to make sure I had a lane to run and found a way to wind all the folks around to make it happen.

After practicing with everyone and specific instructions on how to hold their fists and loud 3, 2, 1 go I took off. I had to provide slow-motion footage of each fist bump to I had GoPros in front and behind to make sure I got the shots for each bump.

I ended up making it through all 157 people in the room with less than 2 seconds to spare. I made contact with every fist but Guinness has particular rules about how each bump needs to be knuckle to knuckles and not just a brush so we disqualified 5 of them for a submitted count of 152 fist bumps in one minute.

My knuckles were red and on fire after the attempt. It’s 2 days later as I write this and my knuckles are still a little bruised and dry from making contact.

Thank you to all who participated at the Cradlepoint partner conference and an especial thank you to those who made it possible: Todd Kelly, Doug Bierman, Mike Hagman, Paul Rodeghiero, Stoney Tuckness, Michael Dickens, David E., Zach Lane, Jessica Christie, Eric Purcell, Tony Ardueser, Dillon Lukehart, Roger Billings and some I’m forgetting!