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To put man on the moon, mankind needed a platform to launch the satellite and of course a lot of rocket science. That created history. Guinness is the launch pad, our talent the rocket science, and rink hockey has to be put on the moon. We, the skaters of AMU skating club, India, want to write that date juxtaposed with the achievement of the longest rink hockey game on the pages of human history. The players of the senior men team of rink hockey of the AMU skating club are determined to achieve this feat. All of us have represented our state Uttar Pradesh at National Championships conducted by RSFI in India annually. In this cut-throat competition at the National Level, the rink hockey players of our club who were representing the Uttar Pradesh team won the 3rd place in the senior men category in the year 2008. With this achievement we blurred the lines between fantasy and reality as this feat was only a distant dream and never before had our state team even dared to win anything in the senior men category.

20 Rink Hockey players of the senior men group have devised an ingenious scheme, true to the spirit of rink hockey, to play 35 hours of non-stop rink hockey and get our feat recognized as the world’s longest rink hockey game ever played on the planet. There would be 2 teams, 10 players each, and 5 players (4 players and 1 Goalkeeper) from each team would play against each other continuously for 35 hours, and the other 5 players from each team would change with the playing ones at regular intervals. The soul of rink hockey would live and breathe for 35 hours in one go. The record would be based on time. The longest played match of rink hockey – 35 hours of non-stop action. May be the clock would get tired of ticking but hockey would go on until 1,26,000 seconds are counted!

India is known by two more aliases, namely ‘Bharat’ and ‘Hindustan’. I think there should be a third one too – Cricket. If there is one topic common with every circle of gossip, be it political, social or cultural, it is (no prizes for guessing) cricket. It runs in the bloodstream of the largest democracy on earth. Cricket is a religion here. Sachin and Sehwag are gods with a billion worshipers. But now we want to turn the tables with your help. With the Guinness launch pad, rink hockey would be propelled to a new high, enough to lock horns with cricket. We want to promote this elegant team game with a Swiss clock-work like orchestra of precise passing. Among all the iterations of hockey, like Ice hockey, inline hockey, etc rink hockey is the most magnetic game with exquisite gentleman’s etiquette, as any kind of physical savagery is prohibited by its rules. With this World Record attempt we want this game to be on the must watch list of every individual and become a global phenomenon. On the personal front, we want to test the waters of our endurance and skills, determination and perseverance. Through this rink hockey game we want to test the limits of how far the human spirit can be stretched, to set a new benchmark of the longest running human teamwork effort, as cooperation and coordination is a more fundamental law of nature than competition. There is a philanthropic side of this world record attempt too. We want to raise money for charity.

It will be highly kind of you to consider our proposal and recognize our achievement with your prestigious and esteemed brand Guinness World Record.

© Zaki Khan