Ahdili was born in 1971 in Northwest China's
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and his father was the five-generation
descendant of Dawazi (tightrope walking in the Uygur language). The old
man thought Dawaz was quite dangerous and decided not to pass his skills
to his son.
Ahdili began to learn Dawaz
himself at the age of eight and now is the master of Uygur Dawaz walker
among the Uygurs today.
Ahdili, who was hailed by China's state
media as "The King of Sky", became a living icon in Uygur Dawaz when he
made a new Guinness record in 1998 walking across China's famous Three Gorges in
the shortest time-span.
Ahdili also made a Guinness record on
October 6, 2000 by successfully walking across a stainless steel rope connecting
two peaks on Hengshan Mountain in Hunan Province.
Currently, Ahdili is teaching his
five-year-old daughter to practice Dawaz. The seventh-generation
descendant of Dawaz is expected to inject new vigor into this old
acrobatic item.