From 2011: How Ashrita Furman pogo sticked, unicycled, and stilt walked his way into Guinness World Records history.
Bernard Furman discussed cases with his son and assumed that he would become a lawyer. “He had a rigorous legal mind,” Bernard says. “Even at eleven, he would always identify the essential point that the court and the jury would have to consider. We were living in Kew Gardens Hills. I was divorced from his mother, but I saw him frequently, without fail. When he was sixteen, he saw a sign saying that there would be a meditation by Sri Chinmoy, and he went and felt an immediate affiliation.
Sooner or later, nearly all professional athletes play despite being in pain. In addition to occasionally receiving shots to subdue it, they often rely on psychic techniques. Brandon Prust, a forward for the New York Rangers, became known last season for playing with a shoulder injury so painful that sometimes he couldn’t lift his arm. “A lot of pain is very mental,” he told me. “You have to task yourself into forgetting about it.
“I did a record in a balloon,” Furman said. “Most deep knee bends in an hour. I had done a record underwater, and another on a mountain, and I thought, What’s next? Do something on an airplane. I was training for deep knee bends, and I did several hundred in the galley of a flight I was taking, then the plane hit turbulence, and I had to sit down. This was in the nineties. I thought of a balloon, and I started calling balloonists and explaining what I wanted to do, and they said, ‘You’re crazy.
Furman stood up and began walking across the parking lot. When he reached the trail, he raised a reddish dust, and he said, “Wow, this is steep.” The trail cut back and forth and was wide enough for only one person. Furman went first, with Wilson and Berube close behind, in case he should fall. After fifteen minutes, we caught the Boy Scouts, who stood aside for us to pass. No one asked Furman what he was doing, and I wondered if they thought it was a bet.
“I have to concentrate on where I put my feet,” Furman said. “I feel like if I’m not careful I might fall.” Furman especially likes doing things underwater, such as juggling and jump-roping, which occurred to him when a friend said, “What’s next? Underwater jump-roping?” For the past few years, he has wanted to attempt the record for greatest distance bicycle riding underwater, which is two kilometres, but he hasn’t been able to find a pool that would allow him to practice.
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