Erick Hernández Sánchez

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Cuban world record holder in ball mastery. He holds a Guinness Record recognized in October 2005 for touching the ball 319 times in one minute with his head.

From an early age he began practicing sports in the municipality of Cerro, where he currently lives.

He was a footballer who began to venture into ball mastery in 1994, inspired by the example of his brother Douglas Hernández, a pioneer of this specialty in Cuba and assisted by coach Luis Olmasa, who has trained him in the different modalities he practices.

The athlete has demonstrated the ability to touch the ball with almost all parts of his body, achieving mastery records with his thighs, knees, feet, head, running 100 meters and the marathon.

Among his main records are:
- In October 2005 he received the first certificate from the Guinness Record book for touching the ball 319 times in one minute with his head, a record he had set in December 2004.
- On May 26, 2007 he achieved the previous world record at Club Habana in the knee touches modality, when he hit the ball continuously 7,743 times, in almost an hour and a half.
- On August 28, 2007 he achieved another record with 350 head touches, a test also carried out at Club Habana in Ciudad Habana. The athlete expressed the following: "The most uncomfortable part was the warm-up to find the necessary concentration, the record itself was easier."

The main universal records he has set are:
100 meters, with 17.83 seconds.
The Marathon with 7.17 hours.
Longest time touching with the entire body with 19.10 hours.
From a sitting position touching only with the feet, with 3.03.14 hours.

On July 1st, 2010 at the Copacabana Hotel in Ciudad de la Habana at an event organized by the National Football Federation he broke his own world record in ball mastery with his feet in a sitting position, achieving a time of 3.03.14 hours.

During the test, he maintained a frequency of 120 touches per minute, exceeding 18 thousand, in more than 3 hours that he kept the ball in the air.