Episode 3 Officially Amazing Mini!

# Officially, officially, officially...

# Amazing! #

Officially... Japanese.

On Officially Amazing we've seen some odd records from Japan.

We've seen a man run like a monkey, a man catching tennis balls

with a boxing glove and we've seen a man skip in a sewer.

Eugh.

But today we're leaving the world of weird records behind

and doing something a bit more traditional.

You may think that paper folding is only about aeroplanes,

but here in Japan you can pretty much make anything.

Wow, Haruka, these are amazing.

There's a flower and a cat

and no idea what that one is, a house?

Oi, I made that. It's a fish obviously.

Yes, today we've come to the National Origami Museum in Nagoya

for an officially amazing record attempt

and I want to find out more from origami grandmaster Mr Kobayashi.

He's been doing origami for 41 years

and he reckons it's not only an artform, but it's good for you too.

TRANSLATION: Doing origami keeps your brain fit.

My dad's 91 and still as sharp as a tack.

And he puts it all down to the benefits of origami,

so we should all do it, you know.

If that's not a great advert to take up origami,

then I don't know what is.

But it's not Mr Kobayashi who's taking on the record today.

Instead it's a younger paper player, Yoneyama Yuichi.

Yuichi holds the record for making an incredible 13 origami cranes,

a type of bird, in just five minutes - amazing!

He has a condition called autism

and making these paper cranes is one of his favourite things to do.

Can he break his own Guinness world record today?

For this attempt each crane must be made from a square of paper

measuring 15 x 15 cm.

The clock begins the moment he starts folding

and he has five minutes to make as many cranes as he can.

Can he break his own Guinness world record today?

Remember, the clock won't start until he makes the first fold.

He's making it look simple, but the crane takes 16 precise folds

and this is an extremely intricate and tricky thing to do.

His fingers have to work fast,

but Yuichi has to be incredibly precise with every single fold.

And the first one is done in no time at all,

but he's going to need to press on if he's to beat his own record

of 13 cranes in five minutes,

that's a whole crane around every 16 seconds.

This takes extreme concentration, skill and accuracy

and he's demonstrating all of these without even breaking a sweat.

He's folding flipping fast,

but has he been fast enough to break the record?

And that's it. Time is up.

Nimble fingers, frantic folding, super skills, has he done enough?

Well, he did make 13 cranes in total, but the official adjudicator

has disqualified three for not being identical enough.

Still a great attempt. Well done, Yuichi.

So he hasn't quite broken his own record,

but he is still officially amazing and great.

Bye-bye from Japan.

Now, from a peaceful record attempt to some of the noisiest.

Loudest!

# Proud to be loud

# Turn up the decibels

# Proud to be loud

# Plug up your ears

# Proud to be loud

# The words of this record

# Proud to be loud

# They might bring you to tears

# Domestic pets are wonderful

# Cute creatures covered in fur

# But how about the loudest bark

# And the loudest pussycat purr?

# Smokey the kitty made a noise so pretty

# When stroked or presented with ham

# And Charlie the mutt had a bark that was louder than

# The pneumatic driller man!

# Miguel Molano cracks his knuckles

# It's not a good thing to do

# But here's a fact that might make you chuckle

# The noise is louder than flushing the loo

# Cora Balko snores so loud

# When he's sleeping through the night

# 93 decibels

# That's louder than a motor bike!

# Born to be loud

# Turn up the decibels

# Proud to be loud

# Plug up your ears

# Proud to be loud

# The words of this record

# Proud to be loud

# They might bring you to tears

# Now the howl of monkeys

# Have a whole lot of things to say

# The loudest land animals

# That can be heard from three miles away

# But there's one lovely lady

# With the loudest scream in the world

# Jill Drake, she's louder than thunder

# She's my kind of girl!

# Proud to be loud

# Turn up the decibels

# Proud to be loud

# Plug up your ears

# Proud to be loud

# The words of these records

# They might bring you to tears. #

Officially competitive.

Yeah! Woo!

On Officially Amazing we've scoured the globe to find three

giants of international record-breaking proportion.

They're facing off against each other in a fierce battle with world

records and national pride on the line as they take on challenges

that you can try at home.

Representing the UK is Sizzling Steve,

a steadfast stick of record-breaking British rock.

And for Japan it's the man who puts the...

Into...

It's Mr Cherry.

And finally he flips, he springs, he wears funny things.

Representing the United States it's US Ray!

As things stand Japan's Mr Cherry is in the lead with three victories.

Sizzling Steve is on two with US Ray lagging behind on one.

And impressively they've already chalked up an astonishing five

new Guinness world records between them.

Today's titanic tussle requires a steady hand, a keen eye

and a pack of cards as they build a house of cards over three levels

in the fastest time possible.

I braved the hordes of adoring fans to bring you an exclusive

interview from Steve's Theatre of Dreams.

The notoriously easy to fall over house of cards.

-Are you worried about that?

-Not really.

-No, why is that?

Because it's going to fall down at some point.

Right, that's quite a philosophical way of looking at things.

Hopefully not during the record attempt, though, that's the key.

Hopefully not.

And with that battle cry it's time for the rules.

For this record attempt standard playing cards must be used

and they can't be bent or creased in any way.

The house must be built in a pyramid shape

and needs to stay up for at least 30 seconds.

Stack.

The world record time Steve is aiming to beat is 6.8 seconds,

which is just about...now.

So, it's no record, but there's still a competition to be won here.

Can he stack all three levels quicker than Ray and Cherry?

It's nice, we've got foundations, we've got a second level coming on.

Not even my best chat can distract the Sizzler.

Is there room for an extension if I want a conservatory?

No.

Oh, OK, then, thank you.

Stop. And he's done, but will it hold?

It is holding,

but at 30.18 seconds Steve is nowhere near the record

held by Silvio Sabba of Italy who could build

five of these in the time it's taken Steve to make just one.

However, this is a tricky challenge. It's now about beating his rivals.

-Ray, are you ready to do it?

-I'm ready.

-Are you ready?

-All right.

Three, two, one, go.

Remember the record is 6.8 seconds,

which is now.

So nowhere near the record either

but they can still beat Sizzling Steve's time

20 seconds.

Or maybe not.

Things aren't going Ray's way but he's not a man to give up easily.

Cherry seems to be doing a bit better.

Actually, no he's not.

That is a pyramid, Ray,

but I'm not sure you'll be able to get three levels from it.

"Cardlamity".

Cherry is getting there.

Oh, no, so close,

but is it going to collapse?

No!

HE SPEAKS JAPANESE

Oh, no Japanese spirit.

It collapsed like a, well, like a house of cards.

We could pretend to build up the tension for these results,

but seeing as Steve was the only one to actually

build his house of cards, that would be a bit pointless.

US Ray huffed and puffed, but his house fell down.

And it seems Mr Cherry had

a few too many jokers in his pack.

Well, Sizzler wins and doesn't he look delighted?

No new world record today, but he takes another win for the UK.

That brings him level with Mr Cherry on three victories each

and US Ray has got some catching up to do.

The boys will be back to fight another day.