![]() If you tell them, "I'm going to see how many times I can stick out my tongue in ten hours," or "I'm going to bang my head against a wall one hundred thousand times," they'll probably say no. The editors will say whether they'll consider it. If you do have an idea for a new category be sure to write or telephone the Guinness office first. So remember: Picking a category that's already in the book gives you a much better chance. But it did not because there was no category for it. British television filmed it, and we hoped that Guinness would accept the feat. It went into the Guinness book.Īnother time, however, I pogo-sticked up the stairs in the tallest tower in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto. Finally, I yodeled for 27 hours straight I and set the record. I'm not even a singer, and I drove my friends crazy trying to learn to yodel. That's how I settled on trying to break the yodeling record. Look through the book until you find a category that appeals to you. They have only a certain amount of space, and if a new record goes in, another one has to come out. If you invent your own category, Guinness probably won't accept the record. I've learned a few tricks for setting world records, and I hope they'll help you get in to the Guinness book, too. I'm thirty-nine years old, but I consider myself a big kid, and my records are all for kid stuff-pogo-sticking for distance, playing hopscotch, walking 70 miles with a full bottle of milk balanced on my head, "joggling" (running and juggling at the same time), and that sort of thing. So a challenger has to overcome dizziness and nausea, exhaustion and pain. Guinness rules forbid stopping along the way they allow you to throw up, and that's about it. I set the record by somersaulting 12.25 miles along the route of Paul Revere's famous ride in Massachusetts. ![]() Some categories are very hard, like somersaulting. Some are unusual, like amassing the world's largest ball of string (the winning ball is almost 13 feet across and weighs 11 tons). Some of the categories are wacky, like spitting a watermelon seed for distance (the record is 68 feet, 9 1/8 inches). You'll feel a real sense of accomplishment if you set a world record in anything, and seeing your name in the Guinness book is great fun. That's bad news for me, because if I want to hold my ten records, I have to beat every new challenger! But it's good news for you, because you have lots of chances to set a new record. No one else has set more Guinness records in different categories – from doing jumping jacks to yodelling, from pogo-sticking up Mount Fuji to juggling underwater.Ībout one-Quarter of the records in The Guinness Book of World Records are broken each year. The holder of ten Guinness titles, New Yorker Ashrita Furman is unique in the field of world records. (Chapter by Ashrita Furman which appears in The Tricks of the Trade for Kids by Jerry Dunn published in 1994 )
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