″I’m just going to make sure they have to work hard for it. ![]() After everyone has completed their turns, the bar is lowered slightly and the contest continues. Whoever knocks the bar off or falls is eliminated from the contest. All contestants must attempt to go under the bar with their backs facing the floor. ″This is a big world, so you never know who is going to go after what you have done,″ he said. A horizontal bar, known as the limbo bar, is placed atop two vertical bars. But he won’t attempt that height in public until someone beats his official record. Walston said he has limboed as low as 5 3/4 inches. The previous record of 6 1-8 inches was set in Toronto in 1973 by a 15- year-old girl. His record was set at the annual Kent Kids Day on March 2. Walston, who is 5 feet 7 1/2 inches tall and weighs 142 pounds, is able to pass under a bar barely higher than a soft drink can by waddling on the inside of his feet and sucking in his chest. ″Any time you have a special gift like this, you have to share it with others,″ he said. Walston is working on getting dance lessons going for children. His finale is to limbo beneath a bar aflame with lamp oil. Walston stages a show featuring Latin, African and Caribbean styles of dance. I’m still so excited,″ Walston said Monday as he practiced his limbo act in his apartment in Federal Way, about 25 miles south of Seattle. For a full list of record titles, please use our Record Application. All records listed on our website are current and up-to-date. ″I thanked God with my hands up in the air and I cried. The lowest height for a bar under which a limbo dancer has passed is 15.25 cm (6 in) off the floor, achieved by Dennis Walston, alias King Limbo (USA) at Kent, Washington State, USA on 2 March 1991. ![]() But to find out for sure, he had to wait until last week, when the 1992 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records arrived in book stores. Walston, 46, whose professional name is ″King Limbo,″ believed he had smashed an 18-year-old limbo dancing world record in March. (AP) _ After a seven-month wait, Dennis Walston has won official recognition for what he does best - dancing under a flaming bar just 6 inches off the ground.
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