Video: Learn The Kobi Shake. Win Hot Dog Eating Contests.

It's that time of year again, fireworks, barbecues and bringing back the word "gullet." As in "Bertoletti stuffed 56 hot dogs down his gullet." Or "Takeru Kobayashi stuffed 61 hot dogs down his gullet." Or however many dogs were stuffed down gullets.

Planning on playing along this year? You and your foolish kin are in luck — we found this video of Kobayashi teaching a skeptical but giggly Daily News reporter his secret weapon against fullness: the "Kobi Shake." Jump, shimmy, jump, shimmy, suppress heaves. And again: jump, shimmy, jump, shimmy...

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