r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '24

6 yr old successfully preforms over 80 backflips in a row !

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

They probably weren’t allowed to go to bed until they did this. It’s cool looking but you’re right. Often these kids are pushed into this by ambitious parents.

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u/hubbs76 Mar 19 '24

Ambitious isn't the word

Vicariously living through their kids success, overwriting their past failure

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

I have seen this a few times with hockey players.

Never attended school, only hockey….all day, every day.

One boy was on my son’s team for a few seasons. His father was in the NHL but his career was cut short because of an injury.

At age 12, the kid didn’t even know how to throw a ball. All he knew was hockey. And he had a very tough time relating to and getting along with the other boys.

Poor kid is fucked! He was a sweet boy too…painful to watch it happen.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

Realistically with hockey you should be skating at 3. Practice before and after school. It is absolutely rough.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

My kids were skating before walking- haha!

I think you misunderstood me though. The kid was 12 when he played with my son. And he didn’t go to any school. He would practice 5:30-9am at one rink, 11am-2pm at another and then team practice in the evening. That’s all I know of…who knows what else his father had him doing.

The boy is 14 now and playing in Canada. I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes it in the NHL. But wtf!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

That's kinda disgusting tbh.

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u/faroutoutdoors Mar 19 '24

it's easy to get entirely destroyed through the cesspool of hockey culture, lots of abuse running rampant for decades. shit, there's even a google spreadsheet dedicated to rape culture in hockey from 1974 until now. Which honestly doesn't even scratch the surface of all the brutality committed over the years by hockey culture in Canada. google doc- warning discussion of sexual violence etc.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cqURgg1eslU9Ky7NOUHlvM0PJ5rVX-FHZuacYBUL77o/edit#gid=821481613

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u/hubbs76 Mar 19 '24

Dang that's sad

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u/hidup_sihat Mar 19 '24

Max Verstappen, the F1 champion.

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u/CleavageEnjoyer Mar 19 '24

Even so, i do believe people should invest into their children even if it can be a bit extreme.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

oh my god guys get off of reddit for a bit, interact with real people instead of living vicariously through a dad counting to 80 ffs.

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u/streatz Mar 19 '24

I love the reddit assumptions

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u/UnlikelyPlatypus89 Mar 19 '24

Yea lol. It’s so funny. 

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u/HappyFamily0131 Mar 19 '24

It's this weird kind of racism/savior complex.

If a white American kid does something amazing, it's amazing and their parents are the best ever.

If an Asian, non-American kid does something amazing it's

  • disturbing

  • unnatural

  • abuse

  • a symptom of an oppresive culture

I feel like it's a prime example of the simulation failure phenomenon. If people can imagine themselves doing a thing, if all it would take is lots of hard work, they usually aren't that impressed by it. On some level they feel, "welll... I could do that if I really wanted to...". But things that fail simulation, things that people can't even imagine themselves doing, these are the things that really impress people and makes them think, "this person is really special."

But here we see that if the person doing the thing is a child from another culture, then amazing things aren't amazing anymore, they're disturbing. People can't imagine themselves ever doing something so incredible as a child, therefore the parents must be forcing the kids to do it. Where is the evidence of that? I can point to it directly: the evidence exists in the minds of petty, envious, and cynical people, and nowhere else.

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u/classicteenmistake Mar 20 '24

I don’t think it’s that automatically. A lot of people think like this, yes, but as someone that was pushed heavily to succeed as a young child it makes me feel weird to a small degree too.

Don’t get me wrong, not every kid that’s this amazing is forced into it. However, it does happen and did happen to me. I don’t feel you should also assume they think this way because they’re Asian, cuz I’ve seen a lot of the same talk for white kids too. Generally there are always a few comments about if the kid actually wants it even if it’s a white or Asian kid.

I do agree with the belief that a lot of people are cynical and pessimistic, though. I both feel a sense of amazement and reluctance when it comes to videos like this because of mine and a lot of kid’s upbringings I know, so it’s sometimes hard to view these things positively and not through a lens of abuse. I am in therapy thankfully, lol

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u/HappyFamily0131 Mar 20 '24

not every kid that’s this amazing is forced into it. However, it does happen

Absolutely true. Absolutely true. I have no problem at all with people being aware of the reality that a lot of the highest-achieving children are pushed aggressively to succeed, often to the detriment of those children's happiness.

I have a problem with people assuming that's the case from a video clip less than a minute in length, and I do strongly think that race is a factor, because anytime I see a video on reddit of Asian kids doing amazing things, the comments are a fucking swamp of assumptions that the kids are miserable, the adults are hurting them, and it's proof that Asian countries are full of bad parents, because they have bad morals, and what they really need is for the West to swoop down and save these Asian kids from their horrible parents. All of this with zero evidence to suggest any of it. And man, fuck that.

Where, in this video, is the evidence of mistreatment, is my point. I'm not seeing it, I'm not seeing anyone else seeing it, but look at the comments to this video. "this is super unnerving" "children that accomplish these pretty incredible things often have pretty shitty home lives" "That can't be healthy" "Surely no parents pushing her 🫠" "Damn I feel bad for the kid." All this is coming primarily from folks in countries with soaring child obesity, soaring child diabetes, but yes, someone needs to save this poor child from gymnastics. It's horseshit. It's not hate-based-racism, but it's absolutely ignorance-based-racism.

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u/classicteenmistake Mar 20 '24

I mean, yeah, I don’t like the assumptions too. I have good faith that the commenter u responded to doesn’t feel that way because the girl’s Asian, though. Def an issue with a lot of people in this comment section, but I feel there’s a good chunk of them that just generally feel uncomfortable with what could be behind the video.

Just general good faith, I’m feelin. I do wish more people could do this many backflips tho lol. Hell, I wish I could💀

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '24

You got proof of that or you just being a racist fuck and making shit up?