{"id":1029532,"date":"2022-03-21T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-david-rush-nears-250-guinness-world-records-with-fist-bumping-feat\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T16:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:06:36","slug":"watch-david-rush-nears-250-guinness-world-records-with-fist-bumping-feat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/21\/watch-david-rush-nears-250-guinness-world-records-with-fist-bumping-feat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: David Rush nears 250 Guinness World Records with fist-bumping feat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"slide-image-container\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" width=\"645\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/David-Rush-nears-250-Guinness-World-Records-with-fist-bumping-feat.jpg\" title=\"David Rush nears 250 Guinness World Records with fist-bumping feat\" alt=\"David Rush nears 250 Guinness World Records with fist-bumping feat\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush said he expects to achieve his 250th title sometime this year. His latest record involved fist-bumping 152 people in one minute. Photo courtesy of David Rush<\/p>\n<article itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush is on track to claim another title after fist-bumping 152 people in 1 minute, a feat he described as more of a &#8220;logistical challenge than a physical one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rush, 36, of Boise, Idaho, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview that he organized the world record attempt for most fist bumps with different people in 1 minute last week at a Nashville , partner conference for Cradlepoint, the company where he works as an engineer.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>The number to beat was 123.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We basically got the whole conference involved. I had 157 people lined up and I made it through all 157 of them in 58 seconds,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We reviewed the video in slow motion &#8212; I think we&#8217;re going to have to disallow 5 of them because they didn&#8217;t make solid contact head-on &#8212; so 152 should count.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been submitted to Guinness for review,&#8221; Rush added.\n<\/p>\n<p><emb><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"3Z32T8LZmMU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Most Fist Bumps in One Minute - Guinness World Records title attempt\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Z32T8LZmMU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/emb>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Easy vs. impossible<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rush, who expects to break his 250th record later this year, said the first-bumping title &#8220;was more of a logistical challenge than a physical one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a large conference room, but how do you get everybody lined up so everybody gets hit once and I can run down the line and make sure the aisles are wide enough? And then how do I get it videoed from two different angles and get everybody numbered so they can sign on the roster sheet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rush rated the record &#8220;easy&#8221; on his scale of &#8220;easy, medium, hard and impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Easy is when there&#8217;s probably someone else in this room right now that could break the record, and most fist bumps in a minute would be an example of this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>An example of an &#8220;impossible&#8221; record would be fastest 100-meter dash while juggling blindfolded, which Rush achieved last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s got to be one of the very hardest, because I literally had to run thousands of miles while juggling to prepare for it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One of the trickiest parts of that record is you have to stay in your lane while you&#8217;re blindfolded and juggling.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so it took me hundreds and hundreds of practices, plus dozens of official attempts to actually complete the 100-meter dash in 16.33 seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another &#8220;impossible&#8221; record is most juggling catches in a minute, a title he has claimed three times and holds at 586.<\/p>\n<p><b>Competition<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The competition between record-breakers is often most fierce when it comes to &#8220;the most fun, silly&#8221; records, Rush said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One that&#8217;s surprisingly competitive is the most ping pong balls caught in shaving foam on the head in 30 seconds,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The record, for two people, involves one person tossing ping pong balls while another, with their head covered in shaving foam, attempts to catch them without using their hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve done it two or three times, but we&#8217;ve made many other attempts on it and gone through a dozen cans of shaving foam,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;silly&#8221; record with a surprising level of difficulty is most peas eaten with a toothpick in 30 seconds, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just fast motor skills, stab a single pea and stick it in the mouth, stab, eat, stab, eat. To practice for that one, I&#8217;d bring peas to work at lunch, and I&#8217;d just microwave them, have them on a plate, have a toothpick and I&#8217;m just eating peas for lunch as fast as I can at my desk. Somebody would walk by and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Nothing going on here, you&#8217;re not seeing anything,'&#8221; Rush laughed.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>52 records in 52 weeks<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rush&#8217;s record-breaking has been making headlines for years, leading to appearances on <i>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/i>, NBC&#8217;s <i>Today <\/i>show and, just last week, the <i>Tamron Hall<\/i> show. Rush earned particular recognition in January, when he revealed that he achieved his goal of breaking 52 records in 52 weeks in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I posted that I broke the 52 in 52 weeks, the official Guinness response on their social media channel was &#8216;We expect 53 this year,'&#8221; Rush recalled. &#8220;So I&#8217;ve got that in the back of my mind. I&#8217;ve got a little bit of a slow start already, it&#8217;s the middle of March and I haven&#8217;t done 10 yet, but I think I&#8217;m going to go for it, I&#8217;m going to go for 53 this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rush said his record-breaking &#8220;obsession&#8221; had its roots in his efforts to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. He said many students end up in a &#8220;fixed mindset,&#8221; thinking they can only develop skills that align with their natural talents, whereas a &#8220;growth mindset&#8221; allows a person to develop skills they might have once seen as impossible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I approach all these records with a growth mindset. So I became the world&#8217;s fastest juggler, even though there are thousands of jugglers in the world that are better at juggling than I am. I decided this is something I&#8217;m going to focus on, and I got good enough to have 586 catches in a minute, almost 10 catches per second,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rush said he plans to continue breaking Guinness World Records for &#8220;as long as I&#8217;m having fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting a sense of accomplishment, I&#8217;m giving back to the community, and as long as that holds true, I&#8217;m going to continue pursuing this,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rush&#8217;s book, <i>Breaking Records: 21 Lessons from 21 World Record Attempts<\/i>, is available at Amazon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serial Guinness World Record-breaker David Rush said he expects to achieve his 250th title sometime this year. His latest record involved fist-bumping 152 people in one minute. 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