Yuya Yamada, a street hula performer in Tokyo, Japan, recently set a Guinness World Record for successfully turning an aluminum hula hoop with a diameter of 5.14 meters on his body alone.
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In Japan, Yamada is known for his hula hoop skills, and he is also known as the "Hula Hoop Man Yu-Ya". He can turn a giant hula hoop while running, or use his head and his back to rotate the hula hoop vertically, and he can also rotate several hula hoops at the same time. This guy's body coordination is very good, and this ability basically allows him to use every body part to keep the hula hoop spinning. In his most recent attempt, he needed to take a different approach to turning the hula hoop.
Turning a 5.14 m diameter hula hoop with a torso is completely different from turning a normal-size hula hoop. Instead of twisting back and forth by the waist to rotate the ordinary hula hoop, he had to use his palm when turning the giant hula hoop, and run inside while the giant hula hoop was rotating, only in this way could he maintain the momentum of the hula hoop. It may seem silly, but it's actually a technique that requires precise movements and also requires the performer to master the timing.
Yamada had previously broken the world record for turning a giant hula hoop when he successfully turned a 4.93-meter-diameter hula hoop. But then he lost his world record-breaker title, which was taken away by Ashrita Furman, who turned a 5.04-meter-diameter hula hoop at the time. Last November, the Japanese hula man decided it was time to win back his title. He traveled to Yokohama in an official attempt to break the world record again. On that day he easily turned a 5.14-meter-diameter hula hoop, and turned more than three times as officially required, setting a new Guinness World Record on Guinness World Records Day.
Yuya Yamada told Guinness: "I feel it is necessary to complete my Guinness World Record attempt on this special day. Just when there are so many other attempters around the world ready to break records, I have to create new world records. This attempt has been in my mind for months, and I long to be able to get a number of results. I am very happy with the results now, and I am relieved to be the new Guinness Book of World Records holder. ”
This article is translated from Odditycentral and published by Translator Muscle Peach under the Creative Commons License (BY-NC).
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