Daniel Cutting - Freestyle Football World Record 2011

Daniel Cutting - Freestyle Football World Record

Freestyle football champion Daniel Cutting has set yet another record to add to his bulging CV, as he performed 1534 keep-ups with a Swiss ball, which was caught on camera at Klick Fitness gym in Stoke.

The video showcases Daniel's amazing football skills and has already been shared by fans on the video sharing website, YouTube. Daniel already holds three other different freestyle football records and even acted as a body double for Real Madrid star Kaka in a famous Adidas advert.

His other world records include the quickest time to run 100 metres with a football balanced on the head, which he did effortlessly in 18.53 seconds; the most consecutive football rolls across the forehead at 1,810 and last but not least an incredible 153 touches, the most football touches with the lips in 1 minute.

Daniel is already well known for his champion freestyle football skills after appearances at top events around the world with famous footballers, performances at live shows with a range of celebrities, plus his work with many high profile brands and football clubs.

However, after Daniel's feat to set the record for the most keep-ups with a Swiss ball at the Klick Fitness gym, he is set to enjoy even wider recognition thanks to the YouTube clip which will no doubt be shared by many.

While at the gym Daniel also spared a bit of time to show off a number of impressive other skills too.

In between his trips around the world, he makes time to visit schools and youth groups where he has brought football freestyle skills to others, teaching them impressive football tricks and stunts. Staff and members of the Stoke gym are thrilled that he has managed to set another record in their gym.

Neil Currey, Club Manager at Klick Fitness Stoke, commented: 'We were extremely excited to have Daniel appear at our Stoke gym and our members were too! It was a memorable moment that will go down in Klick Fitness history - and we're not sure that our members will look at Swiss balls in the same way again! It just goes to show that there's never a dull moment at Klick Fitness gyms - you never know what might happen! We're hugely pleased for Daniel at his latest achievement.'

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Children set football Guinness World Record N-backed event in Gaza

Children set football Guinness World Record N-backed event in Gaza

For the second time in as many weeks, the children of Gaza set a Guinness World Record today in an event organized by the United Nations as part of its 2011 Summer Games programme – this time for the largest number of footballs dribbled simultaneously.

The event, involving 2,011 children, took place in Kherbit El-Addas, Rafah, just a few miles from the Khan Younis stadium, where on 30 June 3,500 children broke the world record for the largest number of parachute games.

“I want to congratulate the children of Gaza once again for their second world record in two weeks,” said Christer Nordahl, acting director of operations in Gaza for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

“As we’ve seen yet again, when given the opportunity, the children of Gaza can be the best in the world.”

For five years the UNRWA has staged the Summer Games – which include sports, arts and other activities – to provide a recreational outlet for an estimated 250,000 children in the Gaza Strip. This year’s games coincide with the fifth year of the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

“We need to lift the blockade and give the kids of Gaza a chance to fulfil their true potential,” said UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness.

“These records breakers evoke other world records,” he stated. “The Israeli blockade of Gaza has lasted longer than some of the most notorious sieges in human history.”

The next world record attempt will take place on 21 July, when children with special needs aim to create the largest ever hand-print painting. Then before the Games wrap up at the end of July, up to 10,000 children will attempt to smash their own record set last year for kite flying.

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Loudest sport event - Galatasaray set loudest crowd world record in Istanbul derby

Loudest sport event - Galatasaray set loudest crowd world record in Istanbul derby

Galatasaray may have lost the Spor Toto Super League derby game 2-1 to Fenerbahçe, but its supporters made history anyway, breaking the record for “loudest sport event” during the match, the Istanbul club has announced.

Friday’s Istanbul football derby was monitored by a team of the Guinness World Records, who made measurements of the level of noise made by the 50,000-strong crowd at Türk Telekom Arena.

It was reported that three measurements would be made on Friday, one 10 minutes before the kick-off (at 8:50 p.m.) and then three and 15 minutes after the start of the game.

At half time, it was reported that Galatasaray fans had reached 131.76 decibels, which was enough to pass the previous mark of 128.7 decibels reached during a National Football League game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots at Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado.

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World Fastest Football kick by a Machine Castrol Ichi-go - Japan

On Saturday 19 June 2010, Japanese football fans gathered at Olympic Plaza of National Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo to witness the Guinness Book of World Record for the fastest football kick achieved by a machine. Castrol, an official sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has launched a project to create the world’s fastest kicking machine and has engaged a Japanese team to develop it.

                                            Castrol Ichi-go photo
The kicking machine is known as Castrol Ichi-Go and the project is the world’s first engine-driven free kick machine with super human power. It aims to produce an engine that has a steel leg that will deliver a free kick in excess of 200 km/h per hour.


Initially, the team were thinking of simply ‘placing’ a free kick machine in front of the goal. But then Castrol’s partner, Kogoro Kurata, joined the team. Kogoro is an artist who produces prominent, iron-made machines, robots and objects and has a policy to ‘create anything’ and is ‘more interested in creating difficult things than easy ones’.
When introduced to the project Kogoro said ‘I feel like I’m being set up. Right, damn it, if everyone is saying it’s impossible, let’s just do it. Why not give a try?’ and then he increased the scope of the development into creating a machine that runs the field, stands up in front of the goal and free kicks with its steel leg.
The ball goes too fast for the human eye.

World Fastest Football kick by a Football Kicking Machine - Castrol Ichi-go Video

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Chris Beavon - Australian Football Trickster set World Record 2010

An Australian professional football trickster set a world record for most "around the worlds" in a minute on Thursday in a fundraising event aiming to tap into the World Cup fever sweeping the nation.

Chris Beavon, 19, performed the trick 21 times in 45 seconds before his legs gave out at the Westmead Medical Research Foundation's Football Freestyling contest in Westmead, west of Sydney.

The move involves tossing the ball from between instep and shin and making a full revolution around it with the foot before catching it again and repeating, and Beavon was the first person to attempt a world record with it.

He was disappointed with the result, which he said was hampered by a false start that tired his legs ahead of the record bid.

"My legs just died because it's such a strenuous trick," said Beavon, who has been freestyling for four years, two of them on the professional circuit.

"It's a little bit disappointing because I could have done a lot better. It's still a record, but not quite so impressive," he told AFP.

More than 100 children gathered to watch the bid and take part in a football tricks class with Beavon, who does stunts for commercials, corporate events and pre-match entertainment in Australia.

"With the World Cup coming up it's a big time for football," Beavon said.

His mother suffers from peripheral neuropathy, a painful foot and leg condition which makes it difficult to walk, and Beavon said her illness had driven him to take part.

"When I started doing freestyle football I wanted to do some events to help her out a bit because it's been quite tough on her and our family," he said.

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