Mike Zolnick
When local boy Quentin Minnich set out to break a world record, hula-hooping caught his eye. Just a few days later, Quentin broke the world record for longest sustained hula-hooping for an 8-year-old: one hour, 25 minutes. Check out a video of his feat after the jump.---
The world of record hula-hooping is a competitive one. As soon as Quentin discovered the old record, one hour and 20 minutes, he was determined to break it.
"He's a motivated child, he just likes to get out there and do something. Once he sets his mind to something, he's a worker," his mother Kristen says. "So he googled something he could do that was accessible. He went all by himself, figured out the record, figured out how to do it, and then did it."
The young boy worked his way up to the record in just a matter of days.
"My first try was five minutes, then six minutes, and then 12 minutes, then 59 minutes, then I got to an hour and 25 minutes," Quentin says. "It was hard. I couldn't even walk after"
When asked why he took on such a daunting feat, Quentin told SFR, "I was bored."
