Watching the Limbo Queen perform at the local circus was the main attraction of a fun weekend spent with your parents back when you were a child and things were a lot simpler. Little did you know, back then, that what rather appeared a natural thing to do was, in fact, the result of countless hours of practice and hard work. But imagine what doing the Trinidad dance takes when you practice it under a parked SUV.
Shemika Charles is already the second generation of professional dancers in her family, but her mother had to stop doing it after suffering a back injury. That didn’t seem to have scared the 22-year-old limbo queen, who is already looking for further records to break. Her first great endeavor is dated back in 2010 when she danced down to an incredible eight and a half inches - the height of a beer bottle.
Folks over at Barcroft filmed the amazing gymnast doing an ever crazier stunt, literally dancing under a car. If that will not make you reconsider the practice, then maybe the fact that it takes up to six hours a day to keep her body in peak condition probably will.
Sure, that was an impressive deed, but the supple athlete has even greater plans for the future, with doing the famous dance backward and trying to surpass the world’s furthest distance ever recorded.
Random fact: Limbo awkwardly means the edge of the Hell, in the an unofficial doctrine of the Catholic Church. As to the traditional dance contest that originated on the island of Trinidad, it apparently was popularized by dance pioneer Julia Edward.
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