Escapologist Zdenek Bradac escaped from a set of handcuffs in 1.66 seconds in Hamburg, Germany, on 6 June 2009.
On 9 September 2009, he escaped from pair of handcuffs while underwater in a time of 10.66 seconds, in Jablonec nature's Nisou, Czech Republic, the fastest escape from handcuffs underwater.
Dr David R Adamovich (USA, aka The Greatest Throwdini) hurled 102 36-cm throwing knives around his partner in one minute in Freeport, New York, USA, on 26 December 2007. Throwdini also holds the fastest time to throw 10 knives around a human target.
In the word of beard weightlifting, no one surpasses the achievements of Lithuania's Antanas Kontrimas. On 16 September 2007, he tied a 63.2-kg girl to his beard and lifted her 10cm off the ground on the set of Zheng Da Zing Yi Guinness World Records in Beijing, China.