Four jumpers gathered on a lakeside blob course in Brunnen, Switzerland, on August 9 to reclaim a record that had stood since 2012: the greatest height achieved by a person launched from an inflatable airbag, a sport known as "blobbing."
Three of them — Luc Siegenthaler, Lennart Florczak and Tristan Kuhn — leapt together from a 14-meter platform onto one end of the air-filled blob. The force sent their teammate, Robin Steiner, rocketing off the opposite end and into the sky over Lake Lucerne. Guinness World Records measured his peak height at 28.22 meters, or 92.58 feet — about eight stories, and roughly 20 feet higher than the previous mark of 22 meters set in 2012 by a German trio led by Christian "Elvis" Guth.
"A Car Crash in Reverse"
Steiner described the launch itself as feeling like "a car crash in reverse," followed by a stretch of what he called pure freedom as he arced through the air before dropping into the lake below. Organizer Adrian Baumann, who staged the attempt with his brother Eric, said the hardest part wasn't the height but the timing: the three jumpers "have to jump as synchronously as possible" for the launch to work at all.
Blobbing has circulated as a lakeside party trick at Alpine resorts for years, typically using a water trampoline to send one participant flying while another lands on the opposite end. Brunnen's team spent months rehearsing the drop before their August attempt, aiming for a height Guinness had left unclaimed for well over a decade.
The record surfaced again this month as part of a wider rollout of new titles tied to the Guinness World Records 2027 book, released September 10, which highlights dozens of newly broken records spanning stunts, memory feats and outsized collections. Steiner's jump stands out even among that group: at nearly 93 feet, it is one of the highest deliberate human launches ever certified without a mechanical device.
