Charli Meath breaks records in aerial hoop feats

Hi, my name's Charlie Meath and I hold two Guinness World Records

The first being the longest duration shoulder blade hang on aerial hoop and the second for the most

consecutive aerial hoop somersaults in one minute completed by a female. I've been training in circus arts for the last nine years

I started with aerial silks at a small community circus school that I went to and then I quickly

transition to aerial hoop and that became my favourite apparatus. I saw on my Instagram feed that someone did aerial hoop somersaults, which is also called elbow

rolls and it's a skill that I've been doing for about seven or eight years now and they're

pretty easy for me. So I thought maybe why not change up my training, give myself a bit of a

challenge and see how many I could do. For the elbow circles, my hamstrings would cramp and see how many I could do. Give a nice big push and then then shoot your legs through and repeat

For the elbow circles, my hamstrings would cramp quite a lot and of course there was a bit of pain on my biceps

It was also a bit of a mental thing because one minute doesn't seem like a long time

but when you doing that skill it is a long time It not the prettiest technique but I flexed my feet to avoid the cramps through my hamstrings

I could hear everyone cheering me on and yelling my name, so I just had to keep going, keep pushing

The elbow rolls, I got 53 rolls in 60 seconds. And then the scapular hang, I saw that the existing time wasn't very long

So I thought I may as well train that to try and beat it. For a scapular hang, you'll be hanging off your shoulder blades

So you need to flare your shoulder blades, like you're trying to stick out your chicken wings

so that you have a little bit of a shelf to hang off. So I'm going to bring myself into the position now

Engaging through my shoulder blades, arms in front. Go! Go! The shoulder blade hang, I got 63.18 seconds

It feels pretty good just because it signifies how hard I worked for something

and it meant the world to me to have all my friends and my family supporting me there