How To Do the Limbo Dance

  • June 24, 2010
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Find out just how low you can go by dancing the limbo with your friends.

You Will Need

  • Two or more people
  • A three-foot long stick
  • Music
How To Do the Limbo Dance: Have a friend hold the stick waist-high

Step 1: Have a friend hold the stick waist-high

Have a friend hold the stick so that one end is at their waist and the other sticks out. Another friend can hold the other end to make it more stable. Play music.

How To Do the Limbo Dance: Bend your knees, lean backwards, move toward the stick

Step 2: Bend your knees, lean backwards, move toward the stick

Stand two feet from the stick, bend your knees, and lean backwards so your chest is facing up. Inch your way toward the stick

Don’t start with the stick too low — work your way down.

How To Do the Limbo Dance: Limbo under the stick

Step 3: Limbo under the stick

Move under the stick while you are leaning backwards. Try not to fall down or touch the stick.

How To Do the Limbo Dance: Stand up and lower the stick

Step 4: Stand up and lower the stick

Stand up and have the stick lowered closer to the ground. Circle back to the starting position, and try to limbo your way under again.

Start a limbo line, with one person following the next, shimmying under the stick.

How To Do the Limbo Dance: Continue lowering the stick until you can't go any lower

Step 5: Continue lowering the stick until you can't go any lower

Continue lowering the stick and going under it again until you fall down.

Chubby Checker’s song “Limbo Rock” peaked at the number two spot on the Billboard Charts in 1962.

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