Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe BRENTWOOD, Tenn., March 8 (UPI) -- A Tennessee 17-year-old has laid claim to a Guinness World Record by spending nearly 2 hours standing atop a balance board. Wilson Patton of Brentwood says he beat the previous record -- 1 hour, 49 minutes -- by more than 5 minutes Saturday at Harpeth School of Gymnastics in Brentwood, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Monday. Advertisement Patton, who began training in gymnastics when he was 6 years old, said he started practicing on the balance board about a month ago. "My little brother got a Guinness Book of World Records for Christmas," Wilson said. "He's not much for reading, so I borrowed it and flipped through it. When I saw that record, I thought, 'I can do that.'" Mont Whitson, the teenager's gymnastics coach, said the record attempt was a way for Patton to keep up his training while recovering from a rotator cuff injury. "He is super dedicated as an athlete, both very intense and talented," Whitson said. "He's had some setbacks with injuries, but he's persevered and kept battling back."
