SHOTLIST AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut down that organisation in Tehran. RESTRICTIONS: NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE / NO ACCESS VOA PERSIAN TV Tehran, Iran, 11th November, 2010 1. Tilt-up of Mehdi juggling a tennis ball between his feet 2. Pull in and pull away of Mehdi juggling a small ball and controlling it over his neck 3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Hobbe Darvish, world's fastest ball juggler: "I can juggle various balls; tennis ball, marble ball, lead pellet ball. I can juggle this marble ball for five hours straight. Once I juggled seventy-thousand times this tennis ball for ten straight hours, from 12 am. until 10 pm. After these ten hours, I was taken to hospital. I did not have any break during this time. I can even foot-juggle this pellet ball, a screw, a key, a coin and so on. When people see me they ask me, how on earth do you juggle such a small pellet ball?" 4. Mid shot of Mehdi juggling a soccer ball on stairs 5. Tilt-down of Mehdi juggling soccer ball and eating a banana 6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Hobbe Darvish, world's fastest ball juggler: "I juggled with a ball backwards up the 1820 steps of Milad Tower (6th tallest concrete tower in the world in Tehran) for three hours. Another time, I juggled a ball for twenty kilometres (12.752 miles) between Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine (holy site in southern Tehran) and Behesht-e-Zahra (Iran's largest cemetery). My other records are juggling between Hazrat-e-Masoumeh Shrine (tomb of Imam Reza's sister, a Shiite figure in the city of Qom) and Jamkaran Mosque (a popular pilgrimage site for Shi'ite Muslims in Qom). I also juggled a ball twenty-two kilometres (13.117 miles) for six hours in Kish Island (southern Iran). I have managed to juggle a tennis ball for 70-thousand times for 10 hours. My record is five hours with marble and pellet balls. In a marathon event in Dubai, I foot-juggled 10 kilometres (6.376 miles)." 7. Tilt-down of various balls that Mehdi is able to juggle 8. Tilt up of Mehdi juggling a pellet ball in his brother's gym 9. Pull in and out to Mehdi juggling pellet 10. Close-up of Fariborz Hobbe Darvish, Mehdi's brother and main supporter saying well done to him 11. Tilt-down of Fariborz and his brother juggling a tennis ball 12. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Fariborz Hobbe Darvish, brother and financial supporter of Mehdi Hobbe Darvish: "We made contacts and communications with the Guinness and after four years we finally succeeded to bring the Guinness representative to Dubai to register his record in the World Records book." 13. Close-up of photo of Mehdi standing next to Guinness World Records representative 14. Close-up of two red balls with Mehdi taking seat in background 15. Tilt-up of certificate granted to Mehdi by Guinness World Records for world most consecutive tennis ball touches using feet in a minute 16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Hobbe Darvish, world's fastest ball juggler: "I set this record in a minute with a tennis ball. The Guinness representative told me if you could touch the ball 60 times during a minute, you would break the world record. I juggled the ball 144 times within a minute; about two touches and little more each second. With the goal of setting another record (to become world's first in juggling for the longest time ever), I juggled from 12 noontime until 5:30 pm straight with a tennis ball, but after five hours and a half, I gave up because my toe was bleeding in the sneakers." 17. Mid shot of Mehdi sitting with sign in foreground reading (English) "Guinness World Records" ++VIDEO 4:3 PILLARBOXED++ LEAD IN STORYLINE You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3e35fa0823fa3b91a1ccb706a722e80d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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