Belly dancer breaks record with her unique muscle manipulation skills

This is belly dancing like you’ve never seen it before!

Natasha Korotkina (Ukraine) showed off her unique muscle manipulation skills when she travelled to Italy for our TV show Lo Show dei Record last year.

With an incredible total of 89, she claimed the world record for most lateral abdominal muscle rolls in one minute.

If you don’t know what that looks like, check out the video below…

In the incredible clip, Natasha is seen holding her breath as she makes waves with her abdominals.

You can see her muscles moving from one side of her stomach to the other in a vertical line, and it really is something else.

Her stomach is sucked in so far that her ribcage is clearly visible.

Speaking to us after she left the stage, Natasha said: “I am so, so proud. I’m so excited.”

Explaining how she trained her muscles to move in the way they do, she laughed: “I think first of all, you must have found this muscle.”

She said that she started out doing abdominal rolls the more traditional way – up and down – before training her muscles to move side to side.

Natasha said she’d often become light-headed when she was first learning the special trick as she has to hold her breath in order to do it.

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And she convinced herself for a while that the movement was “impossible” until she finally nailed it with lots of hard work and practice.

She said: “I’m really proud that I’ve done it finally and got the certificate.

“This record is for me but I dedicate it to my mum because she supports me so much. Mum, I love you so much.

“When I don’t believe in myself, she believes and tells me, ‘You can do it!’ and then I say, ‘I can do it’.”

We all need a cheerleader like Natasha's mum.