Yakov is a 29-year-old ultra-Orthodox man from Bnei Brak who has secretly been attending contortion classes, a training method that works on achieving extreme flexibility, for the last four months.

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Louisiana-born Lance Centanni-Sachs started studying Mongolian contortion at the age of 23. Now at 29, he is preparing for his second trip to Mongolia as part of a documentary project to trace the ...

Can you lick your elbow? We're willing to bet Allison Schieler, a 25-year-old professional contortionist from Brooklyn, can. Schieler's flexibility is way more ...

Iona, who is 28 and lives in West Hampstead, London, held a pose called the "Marinelli bend" for 33 seconds, beating the existing world record by 11 seconds. The Marinelli is an inverted backbend ...