{"id":1004260,"date":"2022-02-25T19:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/watch-canadian-teen-solves-211-rubiks-cubes-while-on-a-pogo-stick\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T19:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:08:40","slug":"watch-canadian-teen-solves-211-rubiks-cubes-while-on-a-pogo-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/watch-canadian-teen-solves-211-rubiks-cubes-while-on-a-pogo-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Canadian teen solves 211 Rubik&#8217;s cubes while on a pogo stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Canadian-teen-solves-211-Rubiks-cubes-while-on-a-pogo-stick.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/8645640\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 25 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Nova Scotia teen combined two of his hobbies and set a Guinness World Record by solving 211 Rubik&#8217;s cubes while bouncing on a pogo stick.<\/p>\n<p>Saul Hafting, 16, of Annapolis Royal, spent an hour and 12 minutes solving the 211 Rubik&#8217;s cubes while bouncing on his pogo stick.\n<\/p>\n<p>Guinness World Records confirmed this week that Hafting&#8217;s feat was a new world record.<\/p>\n<p>Hafting said he trained for about three months before attempting the record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would bounce on a pogo stick as long as I could, as many days of the week I could,&#8221; he told Global News. &#8220;So I would bounce on it for 10 minutes, and that&#8217;s all I could do, and then I bounce on it the next day for a little longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hafting said that once he reached the 45-minute mark on the pogo stick, he learned to wear knee pads under his pants to keep from getting blisters.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager said he started solving Rubik&#8217;s cubes about six years ago, after a friend showed him a technique.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was absolutely mind-blown. I couldn&#8217;t comprehend that someone could solve a Rubik&#8217;s cube in like under a minute,&#8221; Hafting said.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that I would do it like all day every day for like six years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So here we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 25 (UPI) &#8212; A Nova Scotia teen combined two of his hobbies and set a Guinness World Record by solving 211 Rubik&#8217;s cubes while bouncing on a pogo stick. Saul Hafting, 16, of Annapolis Royal, spent an hour and 12 minutes solving the 211 Rubik&#8217;s cubes while bouncing on his pogo stick. Guinness World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1004261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}