Michael Rock and Gazelle Crush 'Tortilla Toss' World Record

It may come to a shock to you all, but Michael Rock and I are kind of a big deal when it comes to tossing tortillas.

News broke to us during the early hours of Tuesday morning about a new champion tortilla tosser from Idaho. His name is David Rush and he crushed the previous record of 30 feet, one inch by tossing a tortilla a whopping 54 feet, five inches.

"Peanuts to an elephant," I told Rock as we grabbed a package of Old El Paso tortillas and headed out to the back parking lot.

I printed out the official rules for properly tossing the tortilla correctly and they are as follows (rules obtained from The Great American Tortilla Toss in New Mexico):

Each tosser gets two tosses each
The better of the two tosses will be victorious
The majority of the tossed tortilla (over 50 percent) must land at the spot measured
Any leftover tossed tortilla pieces (under 50 percent), even if they land far away, will not count
Tossing style is FREE FORM and the following is acceptable:
- Frisbee style
- Discus style
- Prayer style
- Overhand
- Underhand
- Backhand

We took a turn each, Michael going first both times. You'll notice in the video above that our first toss was highly unsuccessful, but after a solid reset of focus, we showed the world that the SouthCoast breeds champions as we both destroyed Rush's newly-earned world record.

Here are the final results:

Michael Rock: 60 feet

Gazelle: 84 feet

Somebody alert the presses, call the Guinness people and start the planning at the Town Hall because it's pretty clear that we just earned a celebratory parade for this one.

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