Experience: I became the world’s oldest crowd surfer at 99

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center · Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:00:38 GMT

After retiring at 83, I had a new lease of life creating social media content with my grandson. Then I broke the crowd surfing world recordIn 2013, aged 87, I was playing basketball with my grandson Ross in Ohio while he was home from college. He made a video of me blocking his shot, posted it online, and people really ate it up. We started doing comedy skits together and now have more than 4 million followers on Instagram.After doing lots of short videos, we decided to make a documentary about my life. As part of it, we compiled my bucket list. One of the things I wanted to do was break a world record. Ross and I spent months thinking of something that would be outrageous, but also fun and inclusive. We settled on me becoming the world’s oldest crowd surfer. Continue reading...

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