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Local NewsWI Girl, 7, Has Real Lowdown on Roller LimboBy Associated Press
TOMAH, Wis. (AP) -- Zoey Beda has an obvious advantage when it comes to her favorite sport -- roller limbo.
As a 7-year-old, she starts out relatively close to the target when she tries to roller-skate under a bar just 7 or 8 inches off the ground in limbo-dance fashion.
Asked what's difficult about it, she gives a broad smile.
"Nothing, really," she says. "Nothing's hard about it."
To demonstrate, she starts her approach at the far end of the rink at Flying Wheels east of Tomah.
With Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock" pumping from the speakers, she gets within a few feet of the bar, drops into the full splits, hands grabbing her ankles, dips her head under the bar and rolls under, her pigtails grazing the floor.
Then she pops up and skates away, smiling.
"I still say, 'What did I just see?"' said her mother, Nancy.
Zoey, from Adams, is a relative newcomer at the sport, having first tried the limbo when she had her birthday party at Flying Wheels last September.
"And we've been here (at the rink) every weekend since," said her father, Mark. "She took limbo to the extreme."
He said she would like to go for a world record, if there is such a thing for roller limbo.
Her parents recently bought shoe-skates for her that stand just 6 inches off the ground -- to help her get lower.
(Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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