You compensate with the wind, the ground you walk on."Įvans continues to push himself. "The pressure is immense." That's why Evans spends a few minutes every day lifting concrete blocks with his head. If "The pint's a pound, the world around" has any merit (math actually suggests it does, with a pint coming in at around 1.04375 pounds), that's about 245.3 pounds resting on his crown, which is only around five inches wide. In 2002, he reached his current record: 235. In 1997, he stacked and balanced 225 pints. The two would eventually reach agreement, Evans co-penning the rules of the feat with McWhirter. "The problem I had was I was the only one in the world doing it," Evans says. Which is not easy The headbalancer appealed directly to Guinness co-founder Norris McWhirter when he set his eyes on the prestigious book's pages. There was no Guinness World Record for "Most Pints of Beer Stacked on One's Head" until John Evans invented it. You see so many strongmen bangin' and bumpin'. It's all brute strength and dedication, really. You just stack 25 on a board and put another board on that. "If people want to mess you up, they could," he says. Over 10 seconds-a common world record time limit-he slowly exhales, like the most dangerous pranayama of all time. When he's centered, he takes one last "mighty breath," lifts up, walks away, and the act begins. He takes a few "whiffs" to know he has the perfect spot. When the object is elevated, Evans steps underneath to find his desired balancing point. Whether Evans is lifting automobiles, machinery, or towers of stout, his process remains the same. An evolved version of the hat would later incorporate sponges and silk as Evans' finessed the design (and became fashion conscious). "It looked amazing!" For safety, Evans designed his own headbalancing cushion using a hat, a cut-up pullover collar, and gauze bandages. "I realized I could lift and balance 50 bricks, which I stacked quite tall," he recalls. He stuck with bricks at first, building an iron frame that he could carry bigger payloads with. It was only when Evans witnessed a strongman hold 24 bricks across his chest at a local fair did he realize his potential as a headbalancing showman. Then I went on to be a builder, so I packed that up altogether." I did this for about three or four years. And the art of running up and down ladders all day long. Before long, he was dropping off twice as many bricks as his coworkers. With a wooden board and a Herculean work ethic, Evans enacted the dangerous plan with unexpected ease. "I had this idea of balancing bricks on my head so I could roll out with about 24 bricks on me head quite quickly," he recalls. The quicker he hauled the loads, the more money he would make. The piecework job saw Evans delivering bricks to the builders. That big stack of pints of beer, you can see me moving my head and neck to keep them up."īefore Evans started stacking beer on his head, he exercised his bones as a laborer for a construction company. I do it completely with my hands away from what I'm balancing. "I have to move around to compensate for the weight I've got on my head. "I've got the strong legs and strong neck," he explains. But he's fit when it comes to stacking shit on his head. In fact, he's diabetic and only has one eye (accidentally shot out when he was seven-years-old). Evans balancing 275 glasses of beer at the 2013 Haifa Beer Festival in Israel Media Platforms Design TeamĮvans admits that he isn't "arm strong." He doesn't go to the gym.
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