Some children are blessed with extraordinary talent, daring to attempt what adults would think twice about.While in the present digital era, where childhood often gets swallowed by screen time and busy routines, some kids find their spark in the most unexpected places. For Takshvi Vaghani, that spark came up in the form of four wheels.At just eight years old, this little girl from Gujarat has already made a name for herself and earned not one, but two Guinness World Records.Takshvi Vaghani’s story isn’t just about setting records or a trophy. It’s about a toddler who fell in love with roller skates during a pandemic, her parents nurtured her, and years of relentless practice in a field that nobody around her understood.
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Meet Takshvi Vaghani: The 8-year-old girl who set two world records for Limbo skating
It started, like many unexpected things, during the pandemic, while being stuck indoors during the COVID-19 lockdown.Little Takshvi Vaghani’s parents tried everything to keep their daughter active. Boxing gear, cricket equipment, all sorts of things in their home in Gujarat. And then came a pair of roller skates.“During the COVID-19 lockdown, my mom and dad used to bring home different sports equipment for me to try, like boxing and cricket gear. Among all those, they also brought roller skates, which instantly caught my interest, and my parents noticed that,” Takshvi told PTI.She is now eight years old and recently broke the Guinness World Record for limbo skating at a height of just 16 centimetres. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly the height of a standard stapler. She glided under that bar on skates.
An early start and parent’s effort have made her who she is today
According to her father, Hernil Vaghani, speaking to ANI, the family began introducing Takshvi to different sports when she was just two and a half years old. “When Takshvi was 2.5 years old, we introduced her to various sports, through which we discovered that she was interested in skating,” he said. By the time she was four, she was already training under a professional coach.Once the pandemic ended and the world opened back up, her parents enrolled her in formal skating classes, and after that, things began to move ahead.
No one knew about the sport in her birthplace
Takshvi didn’t just master a difficult sport; she did it in a place where almost nobody else was doing it. According to her father, who also spoke to PTI, limbo skating was virtually unknown in Gujarat at the time Takshvi started. “No one else in Gujarat was doing limbo skating at the time. There were no professional coaches or experts around who had much knowledge about this specific discipline,” he said.“This is all a result of Takshvi’s immense hard work, endless practice, and dedication,” her father told PTI. “As she kept practicing day in and day out, she smashed one target after another.”
She has big dreams for an 8 year old!
Despite her achievements, Takshvi keeps herself grounded and has big dreams about what lies ahead. Speaking to PTI, she said she plans to keep skating, but her ambitions don’t stop there. “Moving forward, I will definitely continue my skating, but I also want to join the Air Force and win a gold medal for India,” she said.
