Rodeo performer breaks record for most lasso Texas skips in a minute

NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- A rodeo performer claimed the Guinness World Record for most lasso Texas skips in a minute.

Javier Escamilla completed the feat by performing the difficult lasso technique, which involves jumping through a swinging lasso multiple times while keeping the rope in motion, 100 times in one minute while appearing on NBC's Today show.

"The record right now is 80, and I want to do 100 if I can," he said during the show's Supreme Summer Week segment. "The Texas Skip is the hardest part of trick roping in Mexico."

Escamilla began performing when he was 4-years-old and has toured Mexico and Europe with his Trick Rope Show "Hermanos Escamilla."