The madcap health food store manager has even beaten a record in every continent - including Antarctica. “It doesn’t matter if it’s dangerous, I’ll just keep practicing until I get it,” he said. Furman said he uses the spiritual technique to clear his mind and hyper-focus on the moment to get through the crazy stunts.įast forward 37 years and the 61-year-old record enthusiast has beaten a total of 587 records - 33 of them just this year.įrom balancing a running lawn mower on his chin to slicing apples in the air with a samurai sword to jumping rope while on a pogo stick, there’s nothing Furman won’t dare to try. “I never thought I could actually do it until I started practicing meditation,” said the Jamaica, Queens, resident. He spent nearly seven hours jumping up and down 27,000 times to snag the title for Greatest Number of Jumping Jacks. spent nearly seven hours jumping up and down 27,000 times to snag the title for Greatest Number of Jumping Jacks. Ashrita Furman: Holder of the most Guinness World Recordsįurman was 24-years-old when he beat his first record at a now-defunct Jack LaLanne health club in 1979. Here, we’ve profiled NYC’s most recent champions. 8 - features only 4,000 records out of the more than 40,000 total that have been set since the database was created in 1955. The 2017 edition of the wacky tome - released Sept. Angel ChevresttĪbout 6,000 new records were set worldwide over the past year, including 52 in the state of New York, according to Guinness spokeswoman Elizabeth Montoya. Ashrita Furman,61, a record holder with the Guiness Book of World Records,slices an apple with a samurai sword at his home in Jamaica, Queens. The off-beat New Yorkers run the gamut of weird, including hoarding the largest collection of mermaid items, making the biggest gingerbread village, swallowing the most Carolina Reaper peppers and, yes, breaking the most world records. Anything can happen in a New York minute - even downing the most hot peppers in the world.įour Big Apple record beaters from Queens to Long Island had to break it to make it into the newest edition of the Guinness World Records.
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