Kicker: Two broken records

NICK EICHER, HOST: Athlete Zion Clark of Los Angeles recently set a pair of new Guinness World records.

First, the record for diamond pushups: 248 in under three minutes.

But remember, I said he broke two records.

He also performed the highest box jump. Have you ever tried this?

Yeah, it’s just like it sounds. You start standing still and jump up onto stacked boxes.

Clark’s record-setting jump was 33 inches. And if you know anything about box jumping, you’d know 33 inches is good, but a record-setting jump would be more like twice that.

But there’s something you need to know about Zion Clark. He was born with no legs, so he did the box jump with his arms!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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