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McNair grad Jackson Yang set a world record in badminton.
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McNair grad sets Guinness badminton record
Published 3:19 PDT, Fri October 6, 2017
Last Updated: 2:12 PDT, Wed May 12, 2021
McNair grad Jackson Zi Yi Yang is a Guinness
World Record holder.
The 18-year-old Trinity Western University
student, who is studying sports management, set the record by juggling four
shuttlecocks for four minutes and 40 seconds during an attempt in Guangzhou,
China on Aug. 26.
The videotaped, witnessed and timed effort
was verified by the Guinness World Record team in the United Kingdom, which
sent him an official certificate on Sept. 10.
Yang told The Richmond Sentinel that he first
began playing badminton at the age of six, and then started juggling two
shuttlecocks when he was six or seven years old.
He tackled three shuttlecocks at a time when
he was 12 or 13, then four about a year later.
Today, he can juggle six shuttlecocks for 52
seconds. His goal is to juggle five shuttlecocks for two minutes, and six
shuttlecocks for one minute.
“It takes a long time to train, maybe two or
three years,” he said. “Practice makes perfect.”
Yang hopes his newfound fame will help him
promote the sport of badminton and encourage other youth to try their hand at
it.
While juggling multiple shuttlecocks may seem
a relatively easy task, Yang said it becomes much harder with each additional
shuttlecock. As well, in order to qualify for a world record, no shuttlecocks
may collide and they must be struck into the air in the same sequence.
Asked how he feels about setting the record,
Yang said: “I feel pretty excited.”
According to the Guinness certificate, Yang
is “Officially Amazing.”
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