Ashrita Furman - wikipedia Ashrita Furman Jump to : navigation , search Ashrita Furman Furman in San Francisco setting a record for the fastest mile balancing a baseball bat . Keith Furman ( 1954 - 09 - 16 ) September 16 , 1954 ( age 63 ) Brooklyn , New York Nationality American Occupation Health food store manager Years active since 1979 Home town New York City Ashrita Furman ( born Keith Furman , September 16 , 1954 ) is a Guinness World Records record - breaker . As of 2017 , Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds more than 191 records , thus holding the most Guinness world records . He has been breaking records since 1979 . Contents ( hide ) 1 Life and records 1.1 Early life 1.2 First record 1.3 Records around the world 1.4 Creating new records 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links Life and Records ( edit ) Early life ( edit ) Furman was born in 1954 in Brooklyn , New York . He was fascinated with the Guinness Book of World Records as a child but never thought he could ever break a record , since he was very nonathletic . That all changed when , as a teenager , he became interested in spirituality and in 1970 became a devout follower of the spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy . Sri Chinmoy inspired Furman to participate in a 24 - hour bicycle race in New York City 's Central Park in 1978 . With only two weeks ' training , Furman tied for third place , cycling 405 miles ( 652 km ) . Around this time , he changed his first name to Ashrita ( `` protected by God '' in Sanskrit ) . Ashrita at the Great Wall of China in January 2005 breaking the Guinness record for the fastest mile on a kangaroo ball . First record ( edit ) In 1979 , Furman set his first official record by doing 27,000 jumping jacks . In 1986 , Furman invented and set the record for underwater pogo stick jumping and introduced it on Good Morning America on April Fools Day . Records around the World ( edit ) Furman has managed a health food store in Jamaica , Queens , New York City , New York since 1982 . He is also a tour manager for his meditation group and is therefore able to travel extensively . As of 2014 , Furman has set records in 40 countries . He completed his goal of breaking a record in all seven continents when he set the mile hula hoop record at Uluru ( also known as Ayers Rock ) in the Australian desert in 2003 . Furman has also set records at such famous landmarks as the Egyptian pyramids ( distance pool cue balancing ) , Stonehenge ( standing on a Swiss ball ) , the Eiffel Tower ( most sit ups in an hour ) , the Great Wall of China ( hopping on a kangaroo ball ) , Borobudur ( Fastest time to run a mile while balancing a milk bottle on the head ) and Angkor Wat ( jumping rope on a pogo stick ) . While in China , Furman broke the record for running 8 km ( 4.97 mi ) on stilts in the fastest time ( 39 min . 56 sec . ) , a record which had stood since 1982 . Furman breaking the record for balancing on a Swiss ball ( 2 hours 16 mins 2 seconds ) at Stonehenge , July 22 , 2003 . Creating New Records ( edit ) Furman has also been a pioneer in setting records in several new activities including landrowing . Using a converted indoor rower with wheels and brakes , Furman rowed 1,500 miles ( 2,400 km ) in 16 days in Bali in 1991 . Furman also developed the sport of gluggling , underwater juggling , which he did for 48 minutes at Kelly Tarlton 's Antarctic Encounter and Underwater World in Auckland , New Zealand in 2002 and distance sack racing , which Furman did for a mile while racing against a yak in Mongolia in 2007 . On January 30 , 2008 , Furman unveiled his giant pencil -- 76 feet ( 23 m ) long , 22,000 pounds ( with 4,000 solid pounds of Pennsylvania graphite ) . The pencil was built in three weeks as a birthday gift for teacher Sri Chinmoy on 27 August 2007 . Longer than the 65 - foot ( 20 m ) pencil outside the Malaysia HQ of stationers Faber - Castell , it was transported from Queens , New York , to the City Museum in St. Louis . In April 2009 Furman became the first person to hold 100 Guinness World Records at once . Furman breaking the record for underwater cycling the longest distance ( 1.8 mi . ) at Coimbra , Portugal , September 2011 . See also ( edit ) Impossibility Challenger References ( edit ) Jump up ^ `` Record enquiry '' . Guinness World Records . Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 20 . ^ Jump up to : `` Guinness World Records 2015 '' . guinnessworldrecords.com. 2014 - 09 - 10 . Retrieved 2014 - 10 - 09 . Jump up ^ `` New York News , Local Video , Traffic , Weather , NY City Schools and Photos -- Homepage '' . NY Daily News . Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 07 . Jump up ^ `` For a Record Seeker , No Idle Day '' . The New York Times . Retrieved 2012 - 11 - 26 . Jump up ^ Kilgannon , Corey ( 12 June 2003 ) . `` Got Milk ? Hula Hoop ? It 's a Record ! ; He 's Guinness 's King Of Strange Feats , All for Inner Peace '' . The New York Times . Retrieved 30 April 2014 . Jump up ^ `` World champion record breaker Ashrita Furman aims to set another best in Brazil '' . The Telegraph . 2012 - 03 - 12 . Retrieved 2012 - 11 - 25 . Jump up ^ `` What drives a Guinness World Record holder ? '' . Radio Times . Retrieved 2012 - 12 - 12 . Jump up ^ Mincer , Jilian ( 2010 - 11 - 18 ) . `` The Ultimate Guinness Record Is the Record for Records '' . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 14 . Jump up ^ `` Wild World Records '' . ABC News . Retrieved 2012 - 11 - 26 . Jump up ^ `` The world beater '' . The Age , Australia . 2013 - 10 - 20 . Retrieved 2014 - 02 - 18 . Jump up ^ `` metro.co.uk , ' World 's biggest pencil ' draws in a crowd '' . Metro ( British newspaper ) . 2008 - 01 - 29 . Retrieved 2012 - 01 - 07 . Jump up ^ Guinness World Records 2014 . ISBN 978 - 1 - 908843 - 15 - 9 . Jump up ^ `` Farthest Distance Cycling Underwater '' . guinnessworldrecords.com. 2011 - 09 - 22 . Retrieved 2014 - 03 - 07 . Further reading ( edit ) Gilpin , Daniel . Record - breaking people . PowerKids Press . ISBN 9781448852932 . Fingerhut , Benjamin ( director ) ( 2010 ) . Breaking and Entering ( Motion picture ) . Virgil Films . ASIN B008JEJRMG . Wilkinson , Alec ( 2011 - 12 - 19 ) . `` Higher , Faster , Madder '' . The New Yorker . 87 ( 41 ) : 60 -- 70 . Retrieved 2013 - 09 - 05 . `` For a Record Seeker , No Idle Day '' . The New York Times . Retrieved 2012 - 11 - 26 . External links ( edit ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ashrita Furman . Wikiquote has quotations related to : Ashrita Furman Official website of Ashrita Video : Ashrita 's life story The Record Breaker Video : Ashrita Interview Ashrita Furman on IMDb Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ashrita_Furman&oldid=835630899 '' Categories : 1954 births People from Brooklyn People from Queens , New York Devotees of Sri Chinmoy Living people Jugglers Jewish American sportspeople Guinness World Records Hidden categories : Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Wikiquote Български Dansk Deutsch Français 한국어 עברית 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Suomi Svenska Tiếng Việt 中文 5 more Edit links This page was last edited on 9 April 2018 , at 21 : 03 . About Wikipedia

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