{"id":656341,"date":"2026-05-21T11:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656341\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:37:11","slug":"filmmaker-uses-record-breaking-tongue-to-add-another-title-to-his-list-of-personal-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656341\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker uses record-breaking tongue to add another title to his list of personal wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After entertaining himself as a child by pulling funny faces, Belgian man Sacha Feiner has now broken not one, but two, world records with his unique facial abilities.<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old first claimed the largest tongue circumference (male)\u00a0title in 2024 after inflating his tongue to 17 cm (6.69 in).<\/p>\n

Now, he\u2019s smashed the record for most tongue to nose touches in one minute with a total of 421 \u2013 way beyond the 334 that Renato Bayma Gaia (Brazil<\/a>) claimed the record with in 2023.<\/p>\n

Dad-of-one Sacha told us: \u201cHaving made quite a lot of funny faces as a child, I had always known that I was able to touch my nose with my tongue. In the same way, I discovered that my other \u2018tongue inflation\u2019 trick could earn me the record for the largest tongue circumference, which I have now held for nearly two and a half years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore realizing that it could bring me a world record, I hadn\u2019t (in all modesty) considered it a talent!\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cSince I try my best to appear normal in everyday life, it\u2019s not something I used to do in front of just anyone – except to shock my parents when I was a kid.<\/p>\n

\"Sacha<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, now that I\u2019m a record holder, I\u2019m not going to hold back from showing it off at every opportunity\u2026 So, brace yourselves!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sacha, a movie director, scriptwriter and special effects\/puppets creator who is currently working on an animated puppet feature, said breaking his latest record required intense concentration.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing this for a minute isn\u2019t all that tiring from a muscular point of view,\u201d he said. \u201cThe hardest part is keeping the rhythm \u2014 it\u2019s more a matter of concentration.<\/p>\n

\"Sacha<\/p>\n

\u201cI only trained a few times, just to make sure I could beat the previous record before my official attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe key was to reduce the range of motion so I could repeat it more quickly. It was more of a strategic kind of training\u2026 but as far as athletic performance goes, you could say I was already at the top!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust imagine if I had really trained – I might have broken the sound barrier,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

Find more stories like this in our Human Body section.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sacha<\/p>\n

Sacha said that people often assume his big tongue is a hindrance, but he said that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cBelieve it or not, most people think that having the biggest tongue in the world is a handicap. Common assumptions tend to equate size with a certain slowness.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know whether the size of my tongue helped me reach a speed of 421 nose touches in one minute, but what\u2019s certain is that people\u2019s prejudices motivated me to break that limiting image of having the biggest tongue.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause yes, the biggest tongue in the world can also be the quickest! And by extension, being big isn\u2019t a handicap when it comes to being fast.<\/p>\n

\"Sacha<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat better motivation to break a record than the opportunity to help change mindsets around the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sacha joked that his greatest talent is \u201ccluttering my career as a filmmaker with personal challenges\u201d but that he takes them very seriously.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cSince film projects develop very slowly, achieving this kind of record is obviously very rewarding as a tangible victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs with my previous record, I\u2019m preparing merchandise and gifts for friends (he made busts of his inflated tongue) – like animated trophies, a moving neon sign for my home, badges\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cNot to mention that public demand might force me to give workshops to pass on this essential skill.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to face the responsibility of keeping the legend alive. But if that\u2019s the price to pay for my son to remain proud of me\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

As far as other challenges go, Sacha says he\u2019s waiting to be inspired by something else he spots in the Guinness World Records books, just like he\u2019s done in the past.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019ll let myself be inspired by other human achievements – and who knows, maybe another record will speak to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cReaching light speed, or lifting the moon with my tongue\u2026 when you\u2019ve got a well-trained tongue, nothing is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After entertaining himself as a child by pulling funny faces, Belgian man Sacha Feiner has now broken not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,35917,451,282978,282977,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-656341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-guinness-world-records","tag-headlines","tag-largest-tongue-circumference-male","tag-most-tongue-to-nose-touches-in-one-minute","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}