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  • Can take one Guinness world record, which is obviously a massive achievement,

  • but to take another nine that says something, you're not going away and guess what?

  • I'm not going away.

  • I'm Terry Turbo Burrows, the fastest window cleaner in the world.

  • When I found out there was a world record,

  • I knew I wanted to break it.

  • I had to work out the maths, the movements, the training it's gonna need.

  • And I thought, yeah, I can do that.

  • Bring it on.

  • When I first started out, my uncle Alfie taught me how to use the squeegee and applicator

  • and they would start wetting up with the right end with the applicator

  • and then switch it over and scrooge it off.

  • And I thought, why not just wet it up...

  • and do that.

  • Terry had a talent and he wondered where it might take him.

  • Every day, I get up about 7:30.

  • I come down and make myself some coffees, probably about three or four.

  • I'll do a bit of gaming.

  • And then my regime starts.

  • Welcome to the training camp.

  • I got myself a window and fixed it on the back of the garden shed and I was practicing the way.

  • And what was hilarious about all this was our neighbor mowing the lawn and be looking at me thinking,

  • why is he cleaning that window over and over again?

  • But the window don't go through anywhere.

  • It doesn't see anything.

  • What is he doing?

  • Terry entered his first competition aged 40.

  • I remember my first major competition was in France.

  • It was huge.

  • It was like an arena for the window cleaning competition.

  • I was absolutely bowled over, and then all of a sudden, this person comes up to me; they're carrying the union jack for me.

  • I thought, oh my God, this is like the Olympics.

  • This is amazing.

  • In those 8 to 9 seconds.

  • You gotta be as fast as you can.

  • You've got five moves per window and wipe the seal clean and you gotta keep all that together just in those few seconds.

  • It's nuts.

  • Terry took home the trophy and the next one and the next one.

  • Well, actually he won the next 15 competitions he entered and he's not giving up any time soon.

  • What you do is you start from the top here, go down like this and all the time your legs moved over into position.

  • And, uh, that is basically, it.

  • Don't look at that bit.

  • You must look at it.

  • It's my life passion.

  • You've got to be tunnel visioned, which I have been and not swayed one iota.

  • I plan to go out of the world as the fastest window cleaner on the planet.

  • So if any aliens are up there, um, that'll be cool.

  • You come down and take me on.

  • Let me dip you in my bucket.

  • You give you a squeeze.

  • Would you let me climb the ladder?

  • Oh, you're such a tease.

  • Let me swing you in my cradle.

  • Begging you.

  • Please let me dip you in my bucket of love.

  • I see you every day as you walk by.

  • I wonder if you know it's me way up in the sky or the fellas on the...

Can take one Guinness world record, which is obviously a massive achievement,

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