Guinness World Records Day: Whips, arrows, coconuts: seven new world records

Smashing coconuts with your hand or throwing darts at flying balloons with your foot: two days before the official Guinness World Records Day, world record hunters have once again set spectacular records in Hamburg.

Muhamed “Hammerhand” Kahrimanovic smashed 76 coconuts by hand in 30 seconds. He also managed to break 49 coconuts by hand in a minute while blindfolded. His attempt to break five baseball bats with his hand in under 4.02 seconds was also successful. The 65-year-old needed 2.34 seconds.

6,000 to 8,000 coconuts smashed around the world

“That’s it!” said Muhamed Kahrimanovic happily after his second coconut attempt and shouted his relief. “Thank you for believing in me!” After 22 years of competition, he will now say goodbye to coconuts and baseball bats. “This level is very difficult to maintain. Younger people should try that now,” said the pensioner. He has now broken an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 coconuts around the world. Now he wants to devote more time to his grandchildren.

Taekwondo athlete Palina Glebova set two world records: The 27-year-old managed to burst ten balloons in one minute using darts that she threw with her foot. She also managed to pop 22 balloons in one minute with high heel kicks above head height. A pin was attached to one heel of the high heels to pop the balloons. The taekwondo athlete had been preparing for her records for months. “The hard part is timing when I need to release the dart,” she said.

Catch arrows blindly out of the air

Overall, the athletes were very successful this year. Seven of nine world record attempts were won. Martial artist Joe Alexander managed to blindly knock 24 straws away from an assistant’s mouth with a bullwhip in one minute. He also managed to catch five arrows shot by an archer out of the air in one minute while blindfolded. Only his third record attempt, blindly cutting at least eight plastic bottles thrown up in the air with a samurai sword, failed.

“That was my best record,” said a tearful Joe Alexander after catching the arrows blindfolded. “The difficult thing is the timing and the speed.” Since the arrows are shot by a human and not a machine, they have different speeds between 60 and 85 kilometers per hour. “I have to hear exactly how the arrows fly.”

A record judge confirmed the records on site. The confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records or the Record Institute for Germany (RID) is still pending.