The 11-year-old child who even has Travis Kels dancing

This is a dance, a viral meme and now a trend among the elite athletes.

In the last few weeks, social media emissions around the world have been flooded Videos To a young boy wearing sunglasses in Indonesia, balancing the top of a long racing boat and doing what is probably the coolest dance in the world.

It is seen as the supreme presentation of Aura Farming – an internet phrase for the act to look cool and build someone’s “aura” (another word for charisma or rizz).

Movements full of swing and easy to follow are now copied worldwide with big sports names such as American footballer Travis Kels, F1 driver Alex Alban, Paris Saint -Germain’s football team, all jumping on the trend.

And behind everything is the eleven -year -old Reyan Arkan, the breath, which he told the BBC that the viral movements have come to him right now.

“I came with the dance myself,” he told the BBC Indonesia on Thursday.

“It was just spontaneous.”

The 5th grader from a village in Quantan Singi Regency debuts in the national Pacu Jalur boat race. “Pacu” means a race, and “jalur” refers to long canoes -like boats that compete.

Dikha is Togak Luan, the dancer at the top of the boat, whose role is to load with the crew.

In the widely shared video, he wears traditional clothing known as the Teluk Belanga with the Malay head of RIAU. Standing on the disease of the speed racing boat, which is rowed by at least 11 adults, he blows kisses to the left and right before rhythmically moving his hands – everything without much expression on the face.

In a dance sequence, he reaches one hand forward to the chest level as he sweeps the other from below, then rolls both fists like a wheel as he passes from left to right. In another sequence, he reaches out one hand forward and the other back, hitting a balanced posture.

Videos with different sound songs under hashtags such as “Aura Farming Kid on Boat” and “Boat Race Kid Aura” have picked up millions of views of Tiktok from the end of June. And the breath itself has already received the nickname “Harvest”.

“He is known as the Harvest because he never loses,” reads one highest comment under a video that has 1.1 million likes.

“Brother pulls out Opp (opponents) while Aura Farming is crazy,” another says.

Many online users are trying to copy his movements by posting videos to themselves or their friends, recreating the dance.

Sports teams also notice. On July 1, the French Football Club Paris Saint -Germain uploaded a Tiktok clip Trying the racing dance on the boat, with the inscription: “His aura reached Paris.” The video has been watched more than 7 million in just 10 days.

The next day Travis Kels, a NFL player and a boyfriend of pop icon Taylor Swift, publishes his self -made versionwhich has since collected over 14 million views.

“The dancing at the top of the boat is not easy,” Indonesia’s Fadley Zon Minister of Culture told reporters at an event designed to fetter the breath on Wednesday.

“Keeping a balance as a dancer who motivates the Pacu Jalur rowing team is really not simple. Maybe that’s why children are chosen instead of adults – because it’s easier for them to maintain balance.”

The anxiety is real, said the mother of the breath, Rani Ridati before the BBC Indonesia.

“The main concern is that he can fall,” she said, but added that he was a strong swimmer.

“Sometimes, if he falls accidentally or suddenly, I worry that he can be hit by the paddles.

“But if he falls, he already has a rescue team. The rescue team is in place,” she said.

Although the breath does not recognize any of the celebrities who have copied their dance – he first says that he knows Travis Kels before admitting that he does not become himself – especially in his homeland.

Last week, he was declared a cultural ambassador by the governor of RIAU, the province he came from.

This week, he and his mother were invited to the capital Jakarta to meet with ministers of culture and tourism in the country and to appear on national television.

He says he is “happy” that his dance is noticeable all over the world.

“Every time my friends see me, they say,” You’re viral, “he says, shining with a shy smile.

While his dream is to become a police officer, he has one advice for anyone who wants to follow in his footsteps:

“Be healthy, friends so you can get like me.”