By roller-skating under 39 cars in a row an Indian schoolboy has become a limbo legend. With his face just five inches from the ground, it took 6 year old Gagan Satish just 29 seconds to cover a distance of nearly 230 feet. After becoming a celebrity in his home city and inspiring others to take up the bizarre sport, the skater, from Bangalore, India, is now vowing to take on the world.

The 6 year old said, ‘I love skating. I have been doing it since I was three years old. My next goal is to skate underneath 100 cars. I also want to go to the Olympics.’
Gagan was initially rejected by his local club for being too young when he unwrapped his first pair of roller skates on his third birthday. But his mother Hema Satish, 28, was determined he would be taken on.
She said, ‘We could see that his body was very flexible. After that we decided to send him for proper coaching. We always knew he would do well. Hopefully this is just the beginning of his sporting career.’ The housewife said her son had been injured many times but always got up again to continue.
She added, ‘While practising and training, he has been hurt many times. But he never backs out. During a limbo skating session a few months ago, he even had cuts on face because he was too close to the ground. He was bleeding also. But he still continued and stopped skating only after the session ended.’

Gagan’s record-breaking stunt has been recognised by the India Book of Records as the ‘Farthest Distance In Limbo Skating Under Cars’, but the feat has yet to be ratified by the Guinness Book of World Records. In achieving his goal, Gagan shattered the previous record of 157 feet set two years ago by Shreeya Deshpande, then five, in Kolhapur, India.