VOCABULARY the world record holder - zdobywca rekordu świata head balancing - tu: utrzymywanie ciężarów na głowie to balance - tu: utrzymać huge - ogromny item - rzecz, artykuł, sztuka brick - cegła to manage - tu: udać się, powieść się at the first attempt - za pierwszym razem, przy pierwszej próbie milk crate - skrzynka na butelki od mleka to persevere - wytrwać, nie ustawać, trwać uparcie przy czymś to break the record - pobić rekord to increase - zwiększyć the heaviest - najcięższy weight - ciężar amount - ilość, liczba like - tu: wtręt w mowie potocznej chimneystack - komin no one else - nikt inny

LESSON 13
The world record holder for head balancing

Hello, my name is John Evans and I am the Guiness world record holder for head balancing. I've got 29 Guinness world records for balancing huge items on the top of my head. And I do mean huge.

I thought, only if I could still balance bricks on my head. And I did it and I managed to do thirty six bricks at the first attempt.

I'll see how many milk crates I can balance on my head. I managed to balance 44. I kept persevering with that and I did manage to get up to 83. 83 milk crates on my head all at the same time. On 8th Dec 1992 I broke that record by balancing 84 milk crates on my head at twenty five past eight in the morning and that was my first Guinness Book of Records record.

I've increased the bricks record for example. And that's the heaviest weight of the records that I have. And the amount of bricks is 101 bricks. I came on with, like, a chimneystack on my head.

There's no one else in the world that can do what I can do.

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