WATCH Idaho Man Who Says He Completed His Goal of Breaking 52 World Records in a Single Year

February 8, 2022January 31, 2023 journo

What better way to show kids that anything is possible than by setting a world record for most kiwifruits sliced over the duration of one minute, with a samurai sword, while standing on an exercise ball?

That’s just another week in the life of David Rush, one of the world’s most prolific Guinness World Record holders with over 200 titles, and now the owner of what is probably a world record in its own right: breaking a Guinness World Record every week for all 52 weeks in a year.

The process is thorough and complicated and will take much longer than 52 weeks to verify, but NPR confirms that Guinness has so far approved 43 of Rush’s 52 submitted records.

Throughout 2021 Rush, an author, speaker, entertainer, and STEM advocate from MIT, wanted to help inspire kids to pursue STEM education and not to get discouraged and give up. His method of communication was to break a variety of world records.

His YouTube channel features the aforementioned Kiwi-slicing, as well as a wide variety of juggling records such as fastest 100-meter dash while juggling blindfolded, longest time juggling three objects while standing on an exercise ball, most consecutive razor-sharp axes juggled and caught, and most thrown grapes caught in one’s mouth whilst juggling three objects.

There was also a variety of beat-the-clock records, like fastest time to set up a chessboard, most t-shirts put on in 30 seconds, most bars of wet soap stacked in one minute, and the fastest time to burst 10 balloons.

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“STEM is hard and when a student struggles with science or fails at math they may say they can never be an engineer,” he wrote. “In 2015 I broke my first GWR to create a tangible example for folks to show that if you set your mind to a goal, believe in yourself, and pursue it with a passion, you can accomplish nearly anything. Going on to break an average of 1 a week is an extension of that to inspire kids to pursue hard STEM subjects and anyone to pursue anything that’s hard.”

He saved the hardest for last, which involved legitimate athletic ability, which was the fastest 100-meter dash while blindfolded. The principal challenge, Rush detailed, was staying within the track markers.

Guinness commented on Rush’s video record-breaking on his YouTube page. The organization expects 53 more records in 2022.

(WATCH the video showing a 52-week montage of Rush in his element.)

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