Circus performer Daniel Teplitski shares his journey to achieving the world record for the most overhead cannonball twists in 30 seconds, a family legacy in strength and skill.
My name is Dan Splitsky and I hold the record for
the most overhead cannonball twist in 30 seconds
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So I'm a fourth generation sex performer. At the age of eight years old, training in my backyard
and these little chrome balls and now I'm doing a lot more heavier weights and setting records
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I decided to take this record on as it's something which is very unique to my
act and I thought it was something that I could possibly make into a record
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For this attempt, I had to do
a lot of training in the gym
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For example, I would do a lot of power movements
as I have to put as much power as I can
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into spinning the actual cannon
balls. So before me, it was my dad
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and he used to do what I do, which is power juggling, and
he toured from a very little age around the whole world
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Before that, it was my granddad. He used to do a trapeze at
Grey used to hold three women from his teeth on a chepeze
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I tried to carry on what my dad did in the family so we
can keep it going and yeah he's taught me everything I know
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It starts getting harder because you've got less momentum
so you're just using a lot more arm strength in the body
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subs of the shoulders it's a lot more harder. My successful record
total was 26. It feels really good to see myself in a book and have the
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record actually in person is a really nice feeling
as I can show my next generation like a piece
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of history which is in the record book and
it feels great and I really want to set more
