Episode 6 Officially Amazing

-This is the world of records. Officially... Biggest.

-Shoe!

-Weirdest.

-Face!

-Fastest.

-Loo!

-Tightest.

-Space!

-Longest.

-Snake!

-Smallest.

-Van!

-Heaviest.

-Cake!

-Tallest.

-Man!

-Longest ears on a dog.

-Aw!

Most poisonous frog!

-And a woman with a beard.

-What?!

Officially, officially, officially... Amazing!

Howdy, and welcome to Officially Amazing.

Now, if you want to see records and record attempts

from around the world that feature a bit of this,

a bit of that and something of this,

then you are in the right place, buddy.

This show's a corker.

Today's Officially Amazing Guinness world record attempts include...

Our officially competitive global heroes hop to it

in a toe-transferring golf ball clash of the titans.

It's bathtime for these two.

Will they sink or swim in the prestigious world

of bath-tub propulsion?

And our German pal Stefan tries to hurdle an enormous...

hurdle whilst riding a skateboard.

But first, here's Haruka.

Konichiwa, and welcome to Japan where we are underground,

way underground in some weird and mysterious subterranean structure.

Enclosed in these miles of tunnels,

we'll find today's record challenger.

A bit creepy, isn't it? Let's go and find him.

This huge structure is actually to protect Tokyo against flooding

and it's a record holder itself.

It's the scarily titled...

But what blood-curdling and terrifying record attempt

are we looking for today?

Skipping?

This is skipping supremo Mittyan.

Today we are going to see Mittyan attempt two Guinness world records.

It's going to be a super special skipping spectacular.

Mittyan, your skipping is absolutely amazing.

What's your favourite trick?

-TRANSLATION:

-I love doing tricks while I backflip through the air,

but it's very hard and I do get all dizzy!

Mittyan's first record attempt of the day is for most skips

over a rope in a minute.

Here are the rules. He must use a standard skipping rope.

One skip is a 360 degree unbroken revolution of the rope.

And, if it snags in any way, that skip is not counted.

The record to beat is 332 in 60 seconds.

Yes, 332!

That's over five skips every second. Surely that's impossible?

Mittyan is ready for his first record.

Let's see how he does.

And he's off.

Remember, Mittyan needs more than five skips per second to nail this

and he's certainly off to a flying start.

I know you can't really see it, but there is a rope, I promise.

Just look at that precision skipping.

The trick is to keep your body still

and move your hands and feet as fast as you can.

It's super tiring.

This man is a skipping machine!

Look, he's skipped so fast he's on fire!

Oh, actually that's sweaty steam. Ugh.

Has he beaten 332?

We'll return soon to find out how Mittyan got on

and we'll see him attempt another record.

But first, here's Al with a question for you.

This is Shuquan Tang of China

and he's appearing in Italy to attempt a Guinness world record.

But what is this man's weird and wonderful skill?

Is it...

Well, it's certainly not going to be the last one.

Oh, it is! Oh, who's a pretty boy?

Shuquan is a champion gurner and today he's going for the record

for the longest gurn with the lower lip covering the nostrils.

Yep, it's a real record.

Audience participation there, but she's rubbish.

Make an effort, lady. Shuquan is now ready.

And he's into the gurn.

With his face like that he needs to hold his breath.

And of course, if the wind changes, he might get stuck like this.

The crowd willing him on,

he needs to last a minimum of 45 seconds to set a brand-new record.

Do you think he's "gurn" to make it?

Surely he's running out of breath?

The host is on stand-by to give him the kiss of life if he passes out.

And that's it. He can gurn no more.

Look at that, just willing that lower lip to stay over the nose.

Incredible! Let's see what the judges have to say.

Yes, it's a new world record with a gurn time of 53 seconds.

Brilliantly weird and officially amazing.

From the far out back to the Far East now, it's...

We are in Japan to see someone who is amazing at skipping.

No, not me. Him!

Earlier, Mittyan attempted the most skips in a minute.

Has he bagged himself a Guinness world record?

He had to beat 332 and we've moved above ground for the official result.

You have achieved

three hundred...

and 48!

Congratulations.

That's incredible! 348 skips in one minute.

That's nearly six skips every second.

But there's no time to rest for Mittyan.

He's already bagged one record and he's attempting another,

which is...

Phew. That actually takes longer to say than do.

Here are the rules.

A standard skipping rope must be used.

Only hands can propel the rope. This is a brand-new record.

His target is set at five skips in a single back flip.

We're all set. Mittyan, are you ready?

This one's about maxing both the height of the backflip

and the speed of the rope. Blink and you'll miss it.

Aaah! The rope caught on his left heel

so not quite five full rotations,

but so close!

You can see in the replay just how impressive this is.

There's one skip, two skips, three skips,

four skips and look how close he was to five.

The rope just catching his heel.

He's going to go again.

This time, Mittyan!

Great height again.

Aaah, same problem as last time.

Again, left foot got caught.

He needs to clear both feet.

Mittyan's got the champion's attitude.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try

and try again.

Aaah, always the same problem.

The rope catches on his left heel.

He's getting tired and dizzy, but he's going to have one more go.

It's now or never. Can he do it?

Come on, Mittyan!

Keep your eyes on that left foot.

Will the rope complete that last rotation this time?

He's done it! He's done it!

I think...

Looks like he's finally got that fifth rotation.

Let's get the official result from adjudicator Aya.

I've checked the footage and it's very close.

What you have achieved was...

..five complete rotations. Congratulations.

Mittyan, how are you feeling?

-TRANSLATION:

-I am thoroughly delighted with myself.

Bye-bye.

Thanks, Haruka.

Let's skip back to the UK now for a very silly record.

La-da-da, ah, the mighty bath.

Not only is it good clean fun,

but you can also break a world record in one of these beauties.

All you need is a helmet, an oar

and finally, a pirate.

Yaarrgghh!

Yeah, all right, I do the jokes on this show, Pirate Pete.

-Tony.

-Tony?

We're in Cardiff, the capital of Wales,

where we're going to experience the wacky world of bathtub racing.

Daniel and Pirate Tony have competed in bathtub races before,

but never when there's been a Guinness world record on the line.

They'll be racing the clock and each other as they try to set

a new world record for the fastest time to paddle a bath 100 metres.

Time for me to have a go.

How hard can it be?

What am I actually doing then?

There's the paddle.

I'm usually trying to keep the water in the bath, not out of it.

This is way more difficult than I thought it would be.

Ah, hello, hello?

To be fair, baths aren't designed for the sea.

They're not very stable.

Staying afloat is tough enough, never mind racing.

I'm a bath down. I've lost the bath!

Uh-oh! My bath has just become a sink.

Man the lifeboats!

OK, so I'm evidently not a natural bathtub racer.

Time I pulled the plug on this.

Whilst I try and get Cardiff Bay out of my bath and dry off,

you can check out the rules.

The bathtub must be a standard production model.

The record attempt must take place on a pre-measured 100-metre course,

and as this is a brand-new record,

it's been decided that the course must be completed

in less than one minute and 45 seconds to count.

These Welsh wet weather water wizards

are two of the world's top tubbers.

So who'll come out on tap?

Er, I mean top.

It's mari-time to try for a new record,

as Pirate Tony takes to the tub.

Don't worry, he is wearing a life jacket under that ridic...

I mean, very smart outfit.

Three, two, one, bathtub!

His time starts when he enters the 100-metre course.

There he goes. He's off and away.

I never thought I'd say this -

there goes a man controlling a bathtub down Cardiff Bay.

Great technique, Pirate Tony keeping his tub as level as possible.

Oh, but his feathery friend looks as sick as - well, as sick as a parrot.

I feel sick!

Told you! Rounding the 50-metre buoy now, that's h-aa-rrff way.

Remember, there's no keel and no rudder on this bath,

which makes it very hard to steer.

But this pirate's a pro.

One minute and 45 seconds is the time to beat.

Come on! Not long left. Excellent work, he's coming in final stretch.

Yeah, fantastic!

Great stuff from Pirate Tony.

We have no idea why he's called Pirate Tony,

but decided not to ask in case he made us walk the plank.

Dan's seen what he has to do.

Undaunted, he takes to the tub.

Dan - ready? Excellent. Then three, two, one, bathtub.

Oh, there goes the tub and Dan's got a very different technique.

He's on his knees.

Not in submission but absolute fighting prowess in that bathtub.

Dan is relying on raw power, unlike Pirate Tony's more controlled style.

He's thrashing around, very interesting to watch.

A contrasting style from Dan in the turn.

Could this be the difference between winning and losing?

Go on, Dan! Really not long now for Dan to go.

You can see he's slowing down.

But he's in a bathtub for goodness' sake. Come on!

This is it! Power through! Whoo, that's it.

He crosses the finish line.

Dan, a lot of water coming on board.

Wow, guys, that was an epic bathtub race.

Do you know if it would be a record?

It's pretty close, pretty close.

Oh, dear.

The tension has all become too much for Tony's feathered friend.

It is no more. It's an ex-parrot.

Anna, you watched the race with me and every race needs a winner.

So who was it?

Well, it was really, really close, like seconds.

But Tony was slightly faster.

Well done, Pirate Tony, but was he quicker than the one minute

and 45 seconds needed to set a new world record?

Tony achieved...

one minute and 26 seconds,

which is a new Guinness world record. Congratulations.

Well done, sir.

You did admirably well, congratulations.

Well, I mean, was there ever any doubt that these two

were always going to be Officially Amazing?

Absolutely fantastic and in my books, a little bit awesome.

See? "Oarsome"

Oh, well, please yourselves.

Now from a record-breaking feat to these record-breaking hands.

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up

# I gotta hand it to what I can't understand

# How they do what they do Give these people a hand

# So put your hands up, yeah Put your hands up

# Johann, he's the man

# Does the thing not many people can

# He came up with the crazy plan

# To walk from Vienna to Paris on his hands

# It's the longest distance in history

# How he did it is kind of a mystery

# Travelled 870 miles in 55 days

# You've gotta hand it to him That's pretty amazing

# And what about my man Tony Castro

# He water skied on his hands, yo

# In 2002 in Sacramento

# He hands down broke a record

# 259 metres done

# And it looks like he had lots of fun

# He must have been the talk of the town

# When he skied on water upside down

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

Everybody put your hands up

# You know world records can really amaze

# Like the brothers who just shook hands for two days

# In the name of peace the handshaking didn't cease

# 42 and a half hours before they released

# And the discipline of Joseph Love was scary

# So good at extracting dairy

# 24 hours of milking later

# Udderly great he's a record breaker

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up, yeah

# Everybody put your hands up

# I've gotta hand it to what I can't understand

# How they do what they do Give these people a hand

# So put your hands up, yeah

# And put your hands up. #

These are the three most extreme, most intense

and most peculiar record breakers on the planet.

They're going head-to-head in...

With national pride at stake,

they take on records which you can try at home.

In the red, white and blue corner is diminutive

but devastatingly deadly US Ray.

He's the brilliant back-flipping bouncing all-American hero.

In the other red, white and blue corner,

and representing the UK, is the man they call Sizzling Steve.

He's an emotional fireball of energy

when there's a whiff of a record in the air.

And in the red and white corner, he's never blue,

it's Japan's Mr Cherry.

This introverted demure and somewhat under-dressed fellow

is a record-breaking behemoth and our Haruka is his number one fan.

Our tireless trio have been fighting it out over

a series of different events.

It's been wet and, boy, has it been windy.

With five different events completed it couldn't be much closer.

Sizzling Steve and Cherry lead the way with two victories each,

with US Ray just behind with one win.

Today's Officially Competitive challenge is the most golf balls

picked up with the feet in one minute.

The balls need to be moved with the foot

and placed into a bucket five metres away.

They can only move one golf ball at a time.

The same foot must be used throughout the attempt.

And if a ball is dropped, then a new one must be picked up.

The current world record is ten golf balls in one minute.

Time to talk toe tactics with US Ray.

You gotta wish, when you saw this record,

that you had extra toes to get the ball from one place to the other.

Maybe not extra toes, but longer toes.

Longer toes?

Yeah, I'm looking for like T Rex toes, little claws, and grab.

So Ray, be honest with me, man,

how're you feeling about this record?

-It's in the bag.

-Ah, that confidence. I love it.

-Let's break that record.

-Let's go do it.

All right. US Ray. You heard it here.

I'll count you from three. On my mark.

Three, two, one, go.

Come on, US Ray, hop to it.

He looks like he's having buckets of fun,

but he needs to pick up the pace.

Oh, no, he's lost one. He'll be hopping mad at that.

He's got to double back and get another ball.

He's got back into a rhythm and he's teeing these golf balls up nicely.

Five, four, three, two, one, stop.

Oh, time's up.

While the adjudicator checks Ray's score,

let's see how Sizzling Steve...

-Steve are you ready?

-Yep.

..and Mr Cherry get on.

Mr Cherry, are you ready?

Yes.

Three, two, one, go.

Yes, good.

Sizzling Steve's gone barefoot? Ugh.

Go on, Steve, that's it.

And Mr Cherry is thinking outside the bucket

and has gone for the one shoe on, one shoe off approach.

Yes. Keep it moving, keep it grooving. Keep it sizzling.

Mr Cherry has built up a steady momentum.

He's like a one-legged Japanese crane in sparkly underpants.

Come on, Steve!

It's looking close. This competition is going down to the wire.

Stop!

Aah, that's time up. Who has hopped their way to glory?

The results are in,

and with nine balls it's a tie for second place between the UK and USA.

Oh, Steve. So close.

You know what? You didn't get the record.

But in my eyes you're still officially amazing.

That means the winner is Japan,

but has Mr Cherry managed to get himself another world record?

The current record stands at ten, and you have achieved...

11!

It's a new Guinness world record title.

That is officially amazing,

and puts Mr Cherry back into the overall lead with three victories

and three world records to Sizzling Steve's two wins, and US Ray's one.

But there's a long way to go in this contest,

and anything can and will happen on Officially Competitive.

So join us next time.

This is Frankfurt in Germany,

a city famous for sausages, sauerkraut and skateboarding.

Yep, you heard. Today it's all about this guy and his skateboard.

Super cool Stefan Koster is a legend in skateboarding circles,

and today he's after a Guinness world record for the highest hippy jump.

What's a hippy jump I hear you ask?

Well, this is a hippy and he is on a skateboard,

that's how we wheeled him in, but he has nothing to do with

the actual record so you'd better get rid.

This is a hippy jump.

It's actually a skateboarding move where the rider jumps

up off his board, over an object, and then lands back on his board.

Clever, huh?

So, Stefan, what are the difficulties in performing this trick?

-TRANSLATION:

-Mate, I have to jump like 1.40m or 1.50m off my skateboard

and land back on it. The board is really small, like,

so you really have to concentrate on your landing.

Listen, Stefan, it all sounds very easy to me.

I reckon I could do this.

So stand back and let's have a go, shall we?

Good luck.

Oooh, hold on. This should be hilarious.

Get some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the mess.

Wait for it. He's bound to fall!

What?

No way.

Wow, Shires, I'm amazed.

Man, this is incredible.

Wait a minute, what is this?

Ben, you're no skateboarder, just a big cheat.

All right, Al, you've got me.

Here are the rules.

Stefan has to hippy jump over that bar,

which official adjudicator Anna is carefully measuring the height of.

He'll then need to land back on the board and continue skating.

Before Stefan goes for the record,

he's warming up his hippy hippies with some unusual stretching.

His practice height is 126 cm,

6cm lower than the current record.

That's still really high - impossibly high, even.

If he can't clear his practice jump, it's all over.

He's ready - he's off.

Stefan's on the approach, he needs the right speed, a massive amount

of spring to clear the bar and pinpoint accuracy in the landing.

This is just a warm-up, remember, look at him fly.

Cleared the bar, now can he land it?

Yes, he can. He made that look so easy.

He's so laid back and he's so cool.

But the bar needs to be 6cm higher for the record.

Will he be as cool now the real heat's on?

Well, Stefan, I think it's almost time to break a record.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Excellent.

The bar is now set at 137cm, that's 5cm above the current world record.

But he doesn't look worried.

Surely he can't clear it going at that speed?

We have a new record on our hands.

Stefan made that jump look so easy.

I don't know how, because that is ridiculous.

Stefan, give me your hand, sir. How did that feel?

-That looked easy.

-Yes, it's easy.

He's not even broken a sweat.

But he will now.

He's beaten the record, now he wants to smash it.

Adjudicator Anna sets the bar at an incredible 150.3cm,

nearly 20cm higher.

This guy is so unbelievably cool.

Now it's almost as high as Anna. Same casual run up.

Speed not as important as height for this.

Can he clear 150?

Oh, cleared it, didn't land it.

His board is such a small target to hit from such an epic height,

and it's moving.

I think you've got this in you.

Do you want to try again? Of course he's going again.

Stefan's still smiling, and still breathing.

Slightly longer run up this time, he can do the height

but he needs to nail the landing.

Looking good on the run-in.

Focused, composed.

No, straight through the bar! Nowhere near.

Can this even be done? I'm not sure it can.

Well, this is what happens when you set the bar high,

and Stefan's set it very high indeed.

He's up for one more.

Come on, Stefan. Let's smash this record.

Remember, he's already beaten the record,

but he wants to obliterate it.

This morning, the record was 132cm.

He beat it with 137.

Now he's going for a ridiculously high 150.3.

Impossible, surely?

He's cleared it! Can he land it?

Yay!

Yay, that was it. That was perfect.

Landed it brilliantly, he cleared the bar with absolute ease.

Oh, let's take a look at his effortless grace again.

He's jumping the height of Kylie Minogue for goodness' sake.

Stefan, you set the bar, you raised the bar,

you did everything to that bar. And most of all, you jumped over it.

-You must be delighted.

-Yes.

Fantastic. So where does that leave us, Anna?

Well, as you know the current record was 132

and now thanks to Stefan, it's 150.3cm.

Well, hip, hippy hooray, Stefan is of course Officially Amazing.

Oh, that's a marvellous way to end the show.

Join us next time for more magnificent record breakers,

like these...

# Yeah, the competitive foes had to use their toes

# To pick up all those golf balls

# And Cherry won again beating Ray and the Sizzler

# As another record falls

# Tony was a bath-time star proving how cool pirates are

# Stefan hippy jumped so high

# And Mittyan's skipping saw him fly

# Shuquan left us amazed with his gurning

# It's all officially amazing! #