Tampa Bay Locals Land Six Spots in 2025 Guinness World Records
Multiple Tampa Bay residents broke their way into the 2025 Guinness World Records book. Their accomplishments spanned from fire juggling to crazy monster truck moves. It’s quite rare – only…
Multiple Tampa Bay residents broke their way into the 2025 Guinness World Records book. Their accomplishments spanned from fire juggling to crazy monster truck moves. It's quite rare - only a small percentage of record attempts worldwide made it into the book in 2023, with less than 5,000 making it out of 57,415 attempts.
Each record attempt is watched by official judges who ensure everything follows the rules. What began as a simple book has expanded to include TV shows and actual museums.
Aidan Webster, a student at Eckerd College, nabbed three world records in 2023. The talented performer set records for the longest time juggling flaming torches, nailed the most backflips in sixty seconds, and showed off his skills by juggling with one hand while hanging by the other. Since then, Aidan has added two more broken records to his belt. He bested his torch juggling by adding a fourth. And he set a new record for the longest juggling of five knives. He also told the Tampa Bay Times that he continues to train in case someone decides to come for his title.
Bari Musawwir from Bradenton made history in 2020. He's been a driver for Monster Jam since 2011. His monster truck did more donuts in a minute than anyone else before. He set a second record that same day — the most consecutive monster truck donuts — when he kept spinning to complete 58 in a row.
St. Petersburg's Donald McNeill held onto his Hungry, Hungry Hippos speed record until late 2024, cleared the game board in 14.69 seconds. Lim Kai Yi then took the title from him. Now even though he's moved onto the finance world, he is still debating on taking back the record.
Over in St. Pete, a smart African Grey parrot named Apollo impressed everyone by identifying objects faster than any other bird during a three-minute test. They were initially aiming for under 1 minute, but it wasn't possible due to Apollo's treat breaks. In the 2025 book, Guinness praised him as “the perspicacious parrot with a penchant for pistachios.”
