Backbend World Records

Nine-year-old Piper Parish held a backbend on the living room rug at her home in Cedartown, Georgia, hands and feet planted the whole time with nobody touching her. The single continuous phone video shows her already in the bridge when recording starts and holding it for just over seven minutes, through a few small shuffles of her hands and feet, before she rolls out; the listed 6:49.17 is the time her family took that day. That is a long time to see the world upside down.

Mercy H held a one-armed backbend for 2 minutes, 2 seconds, taking a record that had stood since 2019 and beating Kelly B.'s 1:38.94 by 23.06 seconds. She is the first person to hold the position past two minutes, after Lexi G.'s 1:26.84 in 2015 and Kelly B.'s mark four years later. A one-armed backbend is a bridge with only one hand on the floor, so a single arm and shoulder carry weight that a bridge normally splits between two. Her video runs 124 seconds continuously, with the 122-second hold occupying all but the first and last moments.