Celeste Dixon from South Australia can do 8. She was just one of the nearly 40,000 Guinness World Records 2023 applicants who believe their particular passion, talent, or trait (AKA Freak of Nature) should be considered for the new edition. Other applicants include a Shetland pony that can walk on its hind legs, the youngest person ever to discover a comet and an insane narcissist who thinks he can be elected president from a cell in Leavenworth.
I will be among the applicants for the 2024 edition. I was not able to beat 8 backward somersaults, or a single forward one, so I am applying as the person who has the fewest readers and the most insipid posts on any website. Like my old pal P.T. Barnum remarked, “Say whatever you like about me, just spell my name right.”