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A Weird Coincidence
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In my last blog I mentioned how helpful the assistant to the Turkish city of Belek was in my quest to get permission do a record at the famous ancient Roman amphitheatre at Aspendos. I found the affable fellow in the restaurant of the hotel I was staying at. He was having lunch with his…
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The Turkish Heart
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Sometimes I’m totally amazed by how well things actually work out! I really feel that God’s Grace has a lot to do with it and, in this case, with the magnanimous heart of the Turkish people. A bunch of friends and I are vacationing in Antalya, Turkey and, although there are so many exciting possible…
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An Embarrassing Moment
Last week something really embarrassing happened during one of my training sessions. Please remember, before you get the wrong impression, that I’m normally a very polite person! Lately, I’ve been working on the record for keeping a children’s top spinning for a mile. You hit the top with a small whip to keep the top…
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Ashrita’s Eggs-ellent Adventure
After reading of this record experience, you may think that the record was over easy, or that my brains are scrambled, or maybe even that I have become a bit egg-centric. Egg-centric? Eggs-actly! On a more serious note, one of the many things that I have learned from my spiritual teacher, Sri Chinmoy, is the…
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A Most Fruitful Experience
Some Guinness records, which seem absolutely ridiculous on paper, turn out to be exceptionally difficult when you actually try them. The orange nose push, pushing an orange with your nose for a mile in the fastest time, is a perfect example. When I first saw the photo in the 2004 Guinness Book of the guy…
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Perfect Balance
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Lately, many of my record attempts have involved balance – remaining upright while hopping on one leg, staying balanced while trying to juggle on a pogo stick, balancing an egg in a spoon while running a mile. With every record-breaking attempt, in fact, whenever anyone tries to go beyond their previous capacity, the challenge not…
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Shark spoiler in record attempt
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Article appeared on The Star newspaper – Malaysia January 2006 UNDERWATER juggling world record holder Ashrita Furman’s dreams of breaking his own 2002 Guinness World Record of 48 minutes and 36 seconds were broken when a 12-year-old Tawney Nurse shark brushed by him and broke the momentum at the Aquatheatre, Aquaria KLCC on Thursday. Furman,…
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Honoring Greyfriars Bobby
I love all animals, but I have a special fondness for dogs. One of the most profound dog stories I have ever heard was about a Skye terrier who became known as “Greyfriars Bobby”. Bobby lived in Edinburgh, Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century. His master, John Gray, was a constable. Bobby used to follow his…
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An Ambitious Plan
It was an ambitious plan and it actually worked – well, almost! Since I was scheduled to go overseas for a few weeks in September, the plan was to attempt 4 Guinness world records in 4 different countries in less than a month. And to make it even more exciting, if I succeeded, the fourth…
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A Record at the Pyramids
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Alberto, the English-speaking taxi driver who picked me up at my hotel in Cairo, assured me that he could arrange whatever I needed. He had the connections. If I wished to go into the secret room in the leg of the Sphinx, he could arrange it. If I wanted to stay all night inside a…