I made a short documentary about a world record I have broken at Burning Man, and I would like to share it with the world
My Story
I was born in Chicago, but my parents, who are Jewish, moved our family to Israel when I was three. An American citizen, I grew up as an Israeli and consider Hebrew my native language.
Maybe it was the cultural divide between my family and my country, with me caught in between, or maybe it was just youth, but by the time I was a teenager, I gravitated toward mischief. I was like many teenagers who find themselves at odds with the traditional educational system, so I rebelled against it.
Adults always told me if and when I could just channel my energy into something good, I could be something.
It was the Israeli military that made that shift for me. All young people in Israel are required to serve. So at 18, I enlisted. I was part of the entire population of young people in the country funneled into this new, structured life. Through it, I figured out how to make my life productive.
Since then, I’ve traveled around the world, started two businesses, created a camp at Burning Man for Israeli expats called the Flying Falafels and broke a Guinness Book World Record.
A few years ago, I got serious about my training for the 100-meter sprint on stilts. I first set the record in August 2018 at Burning Man, but to seal the deal, I attempted it again in Boulder, CO two months later. This time, I set a new record of 13.45 seconds. Soon after, I was at a bar talking to a guy and I mentioned I was the fastest man on stilts. “You’re not the fastest man. You’re the fastest sprinter,” he told me.
Challenge accepted.
So now, I am training to run the 2021 London Marathon on stilts for charity. No one has attempted a half marathon on stilts, let alone a full one, which would make it another record if I can pull it off. It’s an ambitious goal, absurd maybe. But every record broken at one point seemed crazy.
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I made a short documentary about a world record I have broken at Burning Man, and I would like to share it with the world
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