French rally-car driver Guerlain Chicherit attempted to set a new record for longest ramp jump of all time, but it ended in a horrific crash—all of it captured on GoPro video.
Jack Taylor, a college basketball player from Grinnell College set a new record by scoring 138 points in one game yesterday. Prior to last night, Taylor's best game was 48 points, a full 90 less than he scored against Faith Baptist Bible's pourous defense.
The world of paper-craft aviation has a couple new heroes now that former quarterback Joe Ayoob has shattered the world record for paper airplane distance, throwing John Collins’ incredible design. The previous record, held by Stephen Kreiger, thrown back in 2003 was 207 feet and was officially beaten on February 26th, 2012 with a bar-raising distance of 226 feet and 10 inches.
The first time I watched this video, I had blinked and the race was over. Seriously these 2 guys are incredible fast climbers. It really looks like they are just flying up the climbing wall. Check out this youtube video I found of the new world record being set in speed climbing in 2011...
Matt Stutzman seems an unlikely archery champion. Not only because he just picked up the sport a mere two years ago, but because Stutzman was born without arms. Despite the odds, he recently broke the world record for longest archery shot, hitting a target 230 yards away.