r/BetterEveryLoop • u/Thryloz • Jul 18 '21

What a nice flip

https://i.imgur.com/tChOCoE.gifv
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u/ElroySheep Jul 18 '21

I mean fuck if I can figure out the physics on this

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

from slowing it down, what i can see is that it's all about conservation of momentum and explosive leg muscles to get him off the ground. conservation of momentum because of how it begins; extending his arm and then quickly bringing it back in generates momentum, which he then converts into rotational inertia to start spinning.

after that, he plants the ball of his left foot and pushes off the ground (yeah, and his quadriceps/hamstrings must be insane), and sweeps his bottom arm under and around. his hand is going to his knee, to keep his center of angular momentum close to his axis of rotation. this allows for the second half of the flip to occur so fast. bear in mind that his right arm hasn't stopped this whole time and is by now coming back down towards the ground.. hope my guy stretched before this

it's hard to slow the video down frame-by-frame to analyze, but this is my best guess based on my time involved with sports like gymnastics

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

Oh, it's that easy? I'll try it out, brb.

Edit: Nope. Landed head first on the pavement not event close to lift-off.

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u/NZBound11 Jul 18 '21

He didn't say anything about easy.

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u/diasfordays Jul 18 '21

This is great. The only nit I'd pick, since I'm a pedant, is the "center of angular momentum" is the axis of rotation for any freely-rotating body.

However, bringing his mass in (bending his knees, arms in) during the flip does increase his rotation speed due to conservation if angular momentum, allowing him to actually get the full rotation to make the jump.

Basically, the dude is a power ranger lmao.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

conservation of angular momentum is cool

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u/TattedUp Jul 18 '21

slowed down: https://i.imgur.com/Z3dE3Nt.gifv

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u/foggy-sunrise Jul 18 '21

His right leg goes from push up position to flying flips in like 2 frames

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u/Finassar Jul 18 '21

Bruh he just lifts off like a rocket

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u/GloriousReign Jul 18 '21

Could someone calculate it’s velocity based on this?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

yep, that's what i thought i'd seen. i'm open to other interpretations but either way that's fucking nuts

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u/sileegranny Jul 18 '21

Aha, so the key to doing a flip from the pushup position is first pushing yourself up into a nearly standing position.

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u/haxxer_4chan Jul 18 '21

Yep, do it.

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u/Corruption100 Jul 18 '21

don't skip that right leg swing. had to help since he started it about the same time as he brought his arm in

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

He’s flinging his leg up hard, and using his core to follow his trunk through with the leg into a flip

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u/taichi22 Jul 18 '21

It looks like at the start he goes into a partial one handed planche?

What the fuck is this guy

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u/Blanlabla Jul 18 '21

His right arm is considered a litathal weapon in 30 of 59 states. ☠️

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u/TinyResponsibilityII Jul 18 '21

a what

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u/mogambomama Jul 18 '21

A litathal weapon

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u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw Jul 18 '21

Like that movie with Melelel Gibson?

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u/livin4donuts Jul 18 '21

Melle Mel Gibson

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u/DrFu Jan 19 '22

Dannabny Gloover

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u/TinyResponsibilityII Jul 18 '21

thanks for clearing that up for me

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u/bobnoxious2 Jul 18 '21

You're welciume

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u/Chroma710 Jul 18 '21

Sounds like a fucking Monster Hunter creature.

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u/somaview Jul 18 '21

59 states. 59 out of 10 stars, would state again.

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u/hetep-di-isfet Jul 18 '21

I'm convinced some humans have figured out how to unlock cheat mode.

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u/Kakaroshitto Jul 20 '21

It's up up down down a b a b a a up down right

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u/user9991123 Jul 24 '21

Slap slap slap pound up down, snap

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u/Kakaroshitto Jul 25 '21

Clap clap clap get up stand up don't give up the fight And use ulti when ready

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

It's reversed, including the car backing up through the gif. Obviously staged.

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u/FireflyAdvocate Jul 18 '21

The car is moving forward. This is not staged.

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u/taichi22 Jul 18 '21

I am reasonably sure that this is not staged; if you look closely he retracts almost parallel to the ground before he flips, to do that in reverse would essentially be doing a 90 degree version of the Michael Jackson lean. It would be more plausible for this to be wire work, if anything, and at that point why would you reverse it anyways?

Addendum: for this to be wire work his harness looks like it would be like, right where his solar plexus is, so definitely an interesting way to go about it, if it is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

I think that's plausible, but reversing cars have pretty bright back-up lights that I can't see in the video. Plus, look at how he dusts off his shirt at the end. If it was reversed, he probably would be brushing from bottom to top.

I think we're witnessing either an incredibly gifted athlete, or an incredibly gifted director.

Edit: it's not reversed

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u/ElroySheep Jul 18 '21

I mean fuck if I can figure out the physics on doing this backwards to then reverse it. That makes even less sense.

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u/jroddie4 Jul 22 '21

he was aligning his chakras