Air Date
August 30, 2009
Episodes
13 episodes
NZ Smashes Guinness World Records
Season 1
Episodes
1. Episode 1
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Most people crammed in a Mini Fastest time to eat an onion Most panes of glass broken consecutively in one minute
2. Episode 2
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Tightest parallel park Most bananas snapped in 1 minute Most bench presses of a person in 1 minute
3. Episode 3
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Fastest time to smash a piano Fastest time to pass through a tennis raquet 3 times Most appliances thrown in 1 minute
4. Episode 4
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Highest cheerleader toss Fastest time to tape yourself to a wall Fastest time to run through 10 locked burning doors
5. Episode 5
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Most custard pies thrown in 1 minute Farthest to throw a washing machine Most toilet lids broken in 1 minute
6. Episode 6
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Most people crammed into a Smart car Most maltesers thrown and caught in the mouth in 1 minute Most backward flips against a wall in 1 minute
7. Episode 7
8. Episode 8
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Fastest 100m hurdles in swim fins Most fish thrown and caught in 1 minute Longest crucifix hold 10KG
9. Episode 9
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Fastest time to traverse 21 oil drums on a trials motorcycle Longest time singing suspended upside down Most pancakes thrown and caught in 1 minute
10. Episode 10
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Most fire torches extinguished in the mouth in 1 minute. Narrowest J-turn. Longest time to hop on a threadmill.
11. Episode 11
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Longest duration for contortionists in a box. Most tennis balls caught in 1 minute. Human flag duration.
12. Episode 12
Guinness World Record attempts this episode: Fastest time to smash 16 concrete blocks. Most rubber bands stretched across the face in 1 minute. Most rotations hanging from a drill in 1 minute. Farthest distance to throw a person.
13. Episode 13
This week New Zealand gymnast Mark Holyoake attempts the record for the most rotations on a pommel horse in one minute. The record is currently held by Andreu Vivo Tomas of Spain, who did 59 rotations in a minute in 2001. Mark will have to do one circle on the pommel horse per second to break this long-held Guinness World Record. 26 year-old Mark is well versed in the world of gymnastics. Representing New Zealand at the 2006 Commonwealth Games making the Parallel Bar final and coming in at 11th place overall. Mark also competed at the World Champs in 2005 with injury preventing him from competing at the 2008 Olympics. Later in the show Christchurch street performer Shay Horay attempts to bounce his way into the record books, as he attempts the record for the most balloons burst with a pogo stick. And we attempt the mouth-watering record for the most ice-creams stacked in a cone.