GUINNESS
WORLD RECORD (tm): David Adamovich, Most number of knives thrown around a human
target in one minute, 102. Selected as ONE OF THE TOP 100 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS OF ALL TIME.
6 Official World Records as they appear in Record
Holders Republic and cross-referenced in The
Book of Alternative Records and Rekord-Klub
Saxonia. Note: not all records appear on internet sites but are recorded
with each organization. A full-page
question and answer interview will appear in Ripley's Expect
the Unexpected, 2006.
THROWDINI KNIFE-CATCH: 25 in 1 minute
The throw/catch team of Dick Haines and David Adamovich (The Great
Throwdini) performed the "Throwdini Knife Catch" stunt non-stop
for one minute. Dick thre 29 16: knives for one spin in one minute (i.e.,
2 seconds apart) and Throwdini successfully caught 25 of 29 throws.
SINGLE KNIFE THROW AROUND A HUMAN TARGET:
76 knives in 1 minute
David Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) threw and stuck 76 14" knives
for 1/2 spin, one knife at a time, around his partner Ekaterina in
one minute. The target girl stood before a 4 foot wide by 6 foot high target
board.
MULTIPLE
KNIFE THROW AROUND A HUMAN TARGET: 144 knives in 1 minute
David
Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) threw and stuck 144 14" knives for 1/2
spin, three knives at a time, around his partner Ekaterina in one minute. The
target girl stood before a 4 foot wide by 6 foot high target board.
SINGLE
KNIFE THROW: 84 knives in 1 minute
David
Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) threw and stuck 84 14" knives for 1/2
spin, one knife at a time, in one minute into a target board.
FREQUENCY
OF THROWING: 3 knives in 1 second
David
Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) threw and stuck 14" knives for 1/2 spin
of which 3 were recorded to stick in the board within a 1 second time period.
Note: This breaks his previous record of 2 per second.
THE DOUBLE LADDER OF DEATH: 16 knives in
6.1 seconds
David
Adamovich (The Great Throwdini) and Harry Munroe threw 16 14" knives
in 6.1 seconds (0.34 second intervals) crisscrossing the body of their partner
Tina who stood before a 4 foot wide by 6 foot high target board. Breaks
their previous record of 6.5 seconds.
ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN RECORDS: David
Adamovich, 72 knives in 1 minute around a human assistant. This record is
recorded in the category of Foreign Citizens of which David Adamovich is the
first American citizen to have this distinction. One of the 72 knives used
for the Russian Record is on display in the Museum of the Association of Russian
Records, Moscow. April 2006
