Cuban sets Guinness World Record for seated keep-ups

HAVANA - Cuban Erick Hernandez set a new Guinness World Record in Havana on Saturday by keeping up a ball for over three hours, while seated and only using his feet, according to official daily Granma.

At the Copacabana hotel, Hernandez maintained a ball airborne for 3 hours, 16 minutes and 31 seconds, breaking the seated keep-ups record set by his countryman, Luis Carlos Garcia, last December 13 when he kept the ball up for 3 hours, 15 minutes and 1 second.

"I spent three months preparing for this attempt, focusing far more on physical conditioning than on ball control. In training, I managed to reach 3 hours and 33 minutes, so I knew I could succeed today," the record-holder told local press.

Hernandez already holds two Guinness World Records for heading a ball 319 times in a minute and for bouncing the ball using only his thighs for 1 hour and 28 minutes.

He has also run a 100m sprint while keeping up a ball in 17.83 seconds and has run a marathon while doing so in 7 hours and 17 minutes.