- So... what are we doing here?
- Whoa.
- So, it looks a little bit like
you're rushing for the toilet.
- This is so strange.
(all): Speed, force and power.
- Give me some more! (all): Speed,
force and power! - Come on, we've got this!
Come on!
Oh, it's close!
That was awesome.
(rhythmic music)
(Alexa): Guinness World Records has created
a special set of challenges designed for kids.
(Kieron): Where our squad of six will meet
incredible sports men and women.
(Mia): And hopefully, set new Guinness World Records titles.
(Kieron): For each official attempt, three of us
will be preparing to take on the incredible.
(Alexa): We're a team, and we've all got each other's backs.
- So today it's me, Mia, Alexa and Kieron.
I am Mia. I am strong, determined
and love to try new things.
- I'm Kieron.
I love football and singing.
Not at the same time though.
- I'm Alexa. My friends say I'm a daredevil.
I say I just like having fun.
- I've seen loads of crazy World Records.
So, who knows what I'm gonna be doing.
- My favourite record-breaking moment was
the lady who went under the water,
because she said that she made so many children happy.
- I think this experience is about giving it a go
and not being upset when you don't do well.
'Cause you can always have another try at it.
- I want to break a record to try something new.
- I'm doing this because I hope to build up my confidence.
- Come on, World Record. I've got you!
- I'm really excited to start training.
- Me too, I love a challenge.
- So... what are we doing here?
- Maybe we're going to build the biggest sand castle.
- Maybe we're going to dig the world's deepest hole.
- I'm pretty great at making sand castles actually.
- Whoa.
- Are you a superhero? - No! I'm Greg Rutherford.
(Alexa): Greg Rutherford is an Olympic gold medallist
and holds a Guinness World Records title
for the most consecutive European athletics championships
long-jump gold medals.
- Amazingly, Greg Rutherford landed
in front of my feet.
- I was sort of a bit starstruck.
- Can you jump over a car? - Yeah, I have done before.
- Do you like sausage rolls? - I don't mind sausage rolls.
- You cold in those shorts? - Yeah, I'm a little bit chilly,
I'm not gonna lie. - How do you define gravity?
- Whoa, whoa, guys, hang on. Surely,
what you really wanna know is
how you're gonna break the record today.
(all): Yeah! - Okay, good.
So the title you're aiming for
is the furthest distance travelled
on a plastic water slide
with one push. - Wow.
When I saw the water slide,
I thought I would really need Greg's training.
- I thought that it was going to be quite tough.
- So, what do we think? How are we feeling?
- Great! - Excited!
- Excited, good. Anxious, what are you anxious about?
- Well, I'm anxious I won't get that far.
- Me too. - Believe me, look,
I can see three primed athletes ready to go.
'Cause I think we're gonna smash this record.
- A lot of the time, I get nervous before doing stuff
and hopefully, this is like letting myself go
and just trying something I've never done before.
- Let's jump to it and get training.
(all): Yeah!
(rhythmic music)
- Training is all about little improvements
you can make each day. So, I'm really, really keen to see
where we are at the moment.
Should we go and give a jump a go?
(all): Yeah.
(Alexa): When we jump,
we propel ourselves through the air.
To do this, we need power in our legs.
The more power we use, the higher we jump.
(Kieron): Fleas are amazing jumpers.
If Greg could jump like a flea,
he would be able to jump buildings 1200 feet high.
He would be a real-life superhero!
(Mia): To jump as far as athletes,
we need power, speed and lots of practise.
We'll also build power as we grow bigger.
So, for now, it's all about having fun.
And who knows, one day,
you might have a World Record of your very own!
- Before we do any form of physical activity,
we need to do a warm-up. - But why do we do warm-ups?
- We need to make sure the tendons, the ligaments,
the muscles, they're all nice and warm,
moving correctly, so when we actually do the activity,
there's no injuries.
- I do enjoy warming up.
For some reason, I think it's kind of fun.
- What I want you to try and do when thinking about this,
is a thing called "dorsiflexion".
- Did he say, "horsiflex"?
- Dorsiflexion is this movement.
It's lifting your toes up.
Nice, there we go!
- It felt really weird flexing my feet
because it's not like you normally walk every day
with your toes.
- Did you actually do this for the Olympics?
- This is exactly what I did.
- A lot of the exercises were a bit abnormal.
- So it looks a little bit like you're rushing for the toilet.
- This is so strange!
- I just started laughing
and thinking of me running to the loo,
and that helped a lot.
- Good work! - This is a weird exercise.
- It was really hard and we were all out of breath.
So, yeah, I was wondering if that was just training
but it was the warm-up.
- Okay, guys. Let's work on that jump phase.
Now you'll see I'm holding what is known as wicket
or a little hurdle. We are gonna be using these
to improve your jumping. What I want you to do
is to jump between each one.
Jump, jump, jump, jump.
Let's go!
- It was really intense
training with him because I was like,
you can't mess up because he's kind of famous.
- What's something you can add to the jump
to make sure that you've got a lot of distance
between the hurdle and you?
- You could lift your knees higher.
- There, you've got it! Lift your knees up!
- That was harder than I thought it would be.
Seeing as it was only above your ankles.
- Greg told us that we were doing well,
and I was sort of a bit surprised
because I had never done that before.
- We need to now work on the running side of things.
So then when we put the run with the jump,
we're gonna fly. Alright?
Let's see those runs. Mia, let's start with you.
(rhythmic music)
Lovely! Just try to pull everything forward,
so you get nice and upright. You're up, bud.
Really nice, well done. Alexa, you're up.
Nice, that's it, well done! What did we do there?
What did we do? What was different?
- I looked at a focusing point.
We had to learn to run because running
would get power into our jump.
- Is there anything we're thinking about?
- Trains, like really fast trains.
- Fantastic, this is great!
Visualization is hugely important
when we're going through this.
- Imagining fast things really helps
with my running and my focus.
- Greg's training was great because
he made unleash my inner frog.
(all): Now, watch me in slow-mo.
(slowly): Slo... mo...
- Right, it's time to put it all together.
So the idea is, we're gonna put our running
and we're gonna jump and dive as far as we possibly can.
- When I first saw the mat on the floor,
I was completely confused as to what we were doing.
- Why don't you give it a go?
- I'm not as warmed up as you guys! Here we go. Ready?
- Okay! - What do you reckon?
- Cool! Greg was an excellent teacher
'cause we all were really focused.
And we all used his techniques.
- Now, it's time for you to give it a go. You're ready?
(all): Yeah! - Let's go, come on, guys!
- During training, I think I eventually got
the skills I needed to break the record.
- Good stuff, well done!
- It was all starting to come together.
And I got really excited. - Put it all together!
Nice!
How did that feel? - Good.
- Good!
- The trickiest part
about putting all my skills together
was thinking about all of them.
- Let's go! Nice!
- But then once I got them all together,
I just mastered it.
- Knock-knock. - Who's there?
- Woo. - Woo who?
- Why are you celebrating?
I haven't even broken the record yet.
- Okay, guys. We've been learning about speed,
force and power. Say it with me!
(all): Speed, force and power.
- Give me some more! (all): Speed, force and power!
- Now, tomorrow is your Guinness World Records
official attempt, but before you go,
I have one last little task for you.
Okay, I think we're ready to go. Let's do it, come on!
(Mia): Greg has set us a jumping challenge
to try at home. - Let's go!
(Kieron): We have four hoops and three attempts.
(Alexa): Each time, we want to improve our technique
and also our time getting from one end to the other.
- I'm going to try and jump a little lower
to see if I can reach the ground faster.
And therefore complete it in a faster time.
If you want to practise your jumping,
you can try this at home as well.
(Mia): So let's jump to get ready for the big launch.
- I felt really good about that one!
(Mia): With the water slide, I felt really nervous
'cause it was really long, so I was worried
I wouldn't get past what we needed to get past.
- I thought the training was completely worth it
and I'd learned so much.
And I needed to make sure my focus was on point.
- After the training, I definitely felt confident
I'd be able to break the record.
I just wanted to have loads of fun.
(epic music)
(door creaking)
- Hello, I'm Pravin Patel,
an official Guinness World Records adjudicator.
- When I first saw the adjudicator, I was...
quite nervous because I was worried I wouldn't do it well.
- Today, you'll be attempting the Guinness World Records title
for the furthest distance on a plastic water slide
from a single push.
You must make the run and jump holding the rubber ring.
If you come off the ring or touch the slide at any point,
the attempt will be disqualified.
The final measurement will be taken from the jump line
on the nearest part of the rubber ring.
The record to beat is 20 metres.
- When I hear that it was 20 metres,
I realized that was a long way.
- Are you clear on the rules? (all): Yes!
- Okay, good.
- I felt quite pressured,
because I wanted to impress Greg.
- How are we feeling? (all): Good, good.
- Yeah, are you ready for the challenge?
(all): Yeah! - Right, listen.
What you need to think about is getting those angles,
and going as far as you possibly can.
One of you has a chance to become
a Guinness World Records holder. Are we ready?
(all): Yes! - Are we ready?
(all): Yes! - Come on, guys!
We've got this, come on!
(Alexa): There's three of us...
(Kieron): And three chances.
(Mia): Let's break the record.
I was feeling really determined because I was like,
this is the time where I get to try and break
that World Record.
- Come on, Mia, let's go! (cheering)
- Three, two, one. Go!
- Let's go, Mia! Come on!
- The hardest thing on my first attempt
was the white line,
because I was worried that I wasn't gonna jump over it.
- Well done, Mia!
Good first attempt there, well done!
- There was quite a lot to think about.
I had to get past 20 metres.
- Go! - Let's go, Kieron, come on!
Leap! Ah, bit early, bit early.
(Kieron): It was really hard guessing
the correct technique
to get right on top of the rubber ring.
- Good start! - Heading to the record attempt
definitely made me feel that it was the real thing.
But I just was having so much fun
getting ready to go onto the water slide.
- Go! - Go on, Alexa, let's go!
Come on, Alexa! Come on!
(epic music)
Yes, good, Alexa!
- Stay there, stay there.
- Brilliant first attempt! (cheering)
- Greg was coaching me a lot.
He was giving me tips after every round.
Everyone was being so supportive,
and he had so much hope in us.
(Kieron): On our second attempt,
it was us versus the wind.
(Mia): On the second go, it was quite windy.
So it was really hard.
We had to grip really hard onto the...
(Kieron): I had to hold on as tight as I could
to that ring to make sure it didn't blow away.
- This is so stressful.
(Alexa): I do think that challenge was a lot harder
than it looked, especially with the wind.
And with how far it actually was.
Even my rubber ring blew away.
I don't think the wind was on our side.
- My final go, I knew what speed I had to go.
I knew what angle I had to go at.
- Just run as fast as you can, it's your last chance.
Okay? And leap with that ring. - Okay.
I felt it wasn't just one of us trying to break the record,
I felt as if it was all of us.
- Mia, are you ready?
Three, two, one. Go!
- Come on, Mia! This is it!
(cheering) Come on, Mia!
Yes! (cheering)
- Stay there, stay there.
- Good work, Mia! Well done!
- I was really proud of myself because
I improved a lot more than I thought I would.
And for my third go, I did all I could
to get the best push.
- Well done, great job, Mia! That was awesome.
- I was getting tired,
but I just kept focusing on beating that record,
'cause I really wanted to do it.
- Three, two, one. Go!
- Let's go, come on, Kieron!
That's it, get that speed! Let's go, come on!
Come on! Yes, yes, yes!
Yes!
- I kept hoping to myself, "Don't stop!"
I thought my last go, when I went super straight,
that I would get past 20 metres.
I was really proud of all of my efforts.
- Well done! - Good job!
- That's straight as an arrow, that was beautiful!
Beautiful positioning.
- Greg had so much hope and so much faith
and confidence in us, that we were gonna make it,
so I wanted to do it for the team.
- You have a chance to do it, okay?
So just focus in, you'll nail it, alright?
- Alexa, are you ready?
Three, two, one. Go!
(cheering)
- Come on, Alexa, come on! Come on, Alexa!
Yes, that's it! That's the one! That's the one!
That's the one!
- Yes!
- That's the one!
Oh, it's close! Stay there.
- I was so sure in that last attempt
that Alexa would've broken that World Record.
Like, she went so far.
- That was awesome. That was awesome!
- I was sure I'd broken the World Record.
- I think you did absolutely amazing.
I'm so incredibly proud.
Now, we obviously don't know exactly how far you went,
so please, could you put us out of our misery.
Did they break the record?
- I have been watching you all day.
And you've been working very hard.
And I observed the attempts in the end,
they were fantastic attempts.
And now you know that the current record to reach for
is 20 metres. Okay?
You achieved a score of...
17.2 metres.
Not the Guinness World Records title this time,
but I'm sure you can come back again.
- Absolutely. Well, look,
we are less than three metres short. We are so close.
- I think Greg was quite proud of us,
because it was our first time. And...
he still encouraged us to really improve.
- I'm gonna say it now, we're coming back
and we're gonna give this another go, yeah?
We'll break it next time, right?
- Definitely. - Yeah!
- Greg was just so supportive towards us,
he was like, "Well done, guys. Don't worry,
you gave it your best shot."
- You've done a fantastic job.
You should be really proud of yourselves.
- We did learn something new.
And we had all really improved on running or jumping.
And I think if we'd gotten another go,
we could've actually broken it.
- Even if you don't win gold, do you treat yourself
to an ice cream? - Absolutely!
I always treat myself to an ice cream.
Gotta enjoy yourself and you've worked so hard today,
you deserve an ice cream. But more importantly,
I think we might need to warm up a little bit,
so let's get a hot chocolate.
Come on, in we go! Well done!
(chuckling)
(Kieron): You too could become a record breaker.
(Mia): There are plenty of records
for different talents.
(Harry): And there are also records
especially designed for kids.
(Alexa): Even just practising is fun.
(Kieron): And you can learn so much.
(Mia): But you could end up proving
you're the best in the world at something.
(Kush): Ask your grown-ups to find out more
about how you can break the record.
(rhythmic music)