Ping pong with the mouth...

David Rush, the American professional record-breaker who became famous for doing an astonishing table-tennis-ball trick using his mouth.

Rush holds the Guinness World Records title for the most table-tennis balls bounced against a wall with the mouth in 30 seconds. On February 21, 2025, he managed 51 bounces, breaking his own previous record of 47.

The trick isn't actually playing a conventional game of ping-pong with his mouth. He stands facing a wall and uses his mouth to repeatedly bounce a table-tennis ball against the wall, catching or redirecting it with his mouth between rebounds. It requires remarkably precise timing and head movement.

What's particularly crazy is that this is only one of hundreds of records Rush has pursued. He's a serial Guinness World Records record-breaker and has used his record attempts to promote STEM education and perseverance. Guinness reported that he had reached 181 concurrent records in 2024.

And there's another person worth mentioning: Francisco Tebar Honrubia, known as Picaso Jr., previously set Guinness records for spitting and catching multiple table-tennis balls with his mouth. In 2011, he recorded 76 consecutive spits and catches of three balls and 33 with four balls.

So if the video you remember shows a man repeatedly bouncing one ping-pong ball off a wall with his mouth, that's almost certainly David Rush. 🏓😲

Guinness World Records — David Rush's mouth-bouncing record

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