Impossibility Challenger 2010

11 participants from 7 countries set 4 Guinness World Records, 11 world records and 4 personal records as part of the 17th “Impossibility Challenger” organised by the Sri Chinmoy Centres in Dachau, near Munich, Germany.

Among the records were:

• 58-year-old Khiv Raj Gurjar from Jodhpur in India, did 41 yoga asanas and stretching exercises in 5 minutes 19 seconds and 31 poses in 4 minutes 5 seconds balancing on a BMX Bike without touching the ground, and also balances for 11 minutes 18 seconds on a BMX Bike without contact with the ground.
• By juggling with 3 axes 53 times 51-year-old Milan Roskopf from Bratislava (Slovakia) improved his old world record by 18 times.
• 36-year-old Anavi Davies from Canada entertained the ears of her listeners and witnesses as she set a new Guinness World Record with her whistling marathon, whistling songs of Sri Chinmoy, the founder of the Impossibility Challenger, for 24 hours. Indian born Sri Chinmoy composed over 21,000 songs during his lifetime.
• The 18-year-old German Christian Schaefer tore 36 regular size envelopes in 30 seconds (old record: 26), blew a stamp with his mouth over a 100 metre long course in 3 minutes and 4 seconds – 4 minutes and 25 seconds faster than his predecessor – and memorized 207 binary numbers (old record 132) in one minute. That makes an astonishing total of 3 entries in the Guinness Book of World Records for the North German Memory Champion of 2010.
• Ranjit Pal (48) from Phagwara in India set a world record in his age category with the most rope skips in one minute. He did more than 4 rope skips in one second – a total of unbelievable 276.
• Rainer Schroeder from Altenburg near Leipzig in Germany  set a world record by bending a 44 cm long and 1 cm thick bar of construction steel from straight to 39 degrees with bare hands at his neck. The 49-year-old broke also a 3 mm steel chain by stretching his body in 5 seconds. The steel chain was wound around his waist and on the other end fixed at a steel plate on which he stood, a second world record for Schroeder.

Sri Chinmoy (1931 -2007) initiated the Impossibility Challenger in 1982 to inspire people to experience the joy which comes from transcending one’s own capacities capacities. Sri Chinmoy himself set many weightlifting world records and transcended them with increasing age.

Note: The activities in this clip are carried out by highly skilled people who have trained very carefully for this event; some would be dangerous without the necessary skill or additional protection. We hope you find this report inspiring, but please do not try any dangerous activities at home.

Camera & Edit: Parimal P. Repka
Acknowledgements: Sri Chinmoy