Man claims record for most squat thrusts
New Yorker achieved his goal on the back of an elephant in Thailand

This article caught my eye today. Actually, a different version of the same article caught my eye, because it had a catchier headline (“Man does 40 squat thrusts on elephant”), but that article wanted me to register to read it.

So, 52-year-old Ashrita Furman decided he could beat the previous world record of squat thrusts in a minute, which had been 30. The previous record did not involve an elephant.

“To me the real beauty of this record is that I did it on the back of a live elephant,” he said. “I’ve had this dream of doing a record on the back of an elephant for many, many years but I’ve had no way of really accomplishing it until I came to Thailand.”

Hmm … now, has anybody else been dreaming of setting a record while on the back of an elephant? Or, for that matter, been dreaming anything involving an elephant?

Funny, though, the photo I posted in my previous post was taken while riding an elephant at the circus!