To Challenge the Impossible
The Impossibility Challenger World Record Games is a free one-day festival event where competitors attempt to overcome preconceived human limitations and challenge the seemingly impossible. The Impossibility Challenger has been run successfully in Zurich Switzerland and Munich Germany since the early 1980s – bringing together multiple Guinness, world and personal record attempts on a single day in one location. In 2009 New Zealand decided to host the Impossibility Challenger with great success, 18 Guinness and World records were set on that day. Both startling and inspiring, these record breaking games are seen as a way of promoting self transcendence, international friendship and community spirit.
‘Guinness Sport’ and Self Transcendence
To athletes and record contenders these feats have become known as ‘Guinness Sport’. People of all ages, from all walks of life are attracted to the event bent on establishing world and personal records in a variety of non-Olympic sports and disciplines. The term ‘Guinness Sport’ was coined in the seventies to describe the daredevil antics that earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Self Transcendence Games
On the day at each Impossibility Challenger, there will be a series of Self Transcendence Games open to everyone. Embracing the value of competing with oneself, these simple challenges will involve speed, strength, endurance and patience. These will be fun novel events that young and old can compete in alongside celebrities, and suitable for the kids and the whole family, with certificates for those competitors who finish in the top three.
