Caleb Hunter used his pindaloo — a u-shaped juggling tool that takes a ball in one hole and spits it out the other — to break the Guinness World Record for the most loops of a ball with a pindaloo in 30 seconds. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records
Jan. 30 (UPI) — An 11-year-old juggler from Wisconsin broke a Guinness World Record by using a pindaloo to make 51 rotations in under 30 seconds.
Caleb Hunter used his pindaloo — a u-shaped juggling tool that takes a ball in one hole and spits it out the other — to break the record for the most loops of a ball with a pindaloo in 30 seconds, in the under-16 category.
“It goes out the front, it loops over back towards you, and it lands in the one that you’re holding,” Hunter told WBKO-TV. “You have to keep the momentum, but it’s also fun to like play with it, see how high you can get it, see how fast you can go.”
He said breaking the record took a lot of practice.
“Every time I practiced I usually dropped the ball before the 30 seconds was over. The first time I did it I got it and the ball fell exactly after 30 seconds passed, so even if I did make it one more time it wouldn’t have counted, so it was like perfect,” he said.
The boy said he was inspired to attempt the record by his father, a former Guinness World Record-holder.
“My dad actually has a biking world record from biking 6 states in under 24-hours,” he said. “It got broken, but it’s still super cool, and I thought I wanted one too.”