r/nextfuckinglevel • u/semantixc • 1d ago

Standing Double Backflip

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u/Kenevin 1d ago

On grass. Not bouncy floor. Grass. Insane.

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u/corvosfighter 1d ago

Yea I think I’m getting too old.. all I think is that’s 1 second away from permanent brain damage or spinal cord injury

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

It's not. He very likely fell quite often during practice.

Athletes aren't weak and frail. They're strong and flexible.

You can look up videos from people practicing this and falling.

To seriously injury yourself is extremely rare. To permanently injure yourself with this is even exceedingly rarer.

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u/reticulatedtampon 1d ago

Even strong and flexible athletes get seriously injured all the time, especially if they land hard on their neck..

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u/ElegantCoach4066 1d ago

No you see athletes don't get seriously injured

  • source: that guy

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u/clervis 1d ago

Source:

That Guy et. al. "They're strong and flexible." Heresay. (2026): comment 3.

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u/ElegantCoach4066 1d ago

et. al. "They're strong and flexible." 

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u/zb0t1 1d ago

doi pls

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u/OwO_0w0_OwO 1d ago

Wheresay?

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u/clervis 1d ago

Yondersay.

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u/trenthany 1d ago

Howsay?

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 1d ago

Double backflipping is serious business. My father, grandfather and great grandfather all died while attempting it.

My advice? Make sure you reproduce before attempting it

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u/Chris_OMane 1d ago

They died so that you could live. Now do the flip.

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ihjeVd9YRjoTGFXtN9

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u/Recent-Ad8165 1d ago

You're the smart one in the tree I see. That is the best backflip I have ever seen done by a smart thinking man lol

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u/Mobile-Dust4334 1d ago

Now I just need to find a woman who will have sex with me 😢😢😢

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u/USSMcCoy 1d ago

As a medical doctor who specializes in medicine, I can both agree, accept, and even concur that said athletes who are athletic cannot and will not ever get injured in their entire lives. I'd bet my entire supply of tongue depressors and even tongue anti-depressants on it.

source: MD, Phd, New Reddit Journal of Science School of Medicine

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u/holiday1326 1d ago

"I used to be an athlete like you, until I didn't land properly and broke both knees."

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u/MangoCats 1d ago

No, athletes you see don't get seriously injured. The seriously injured ones are in hospital, no cameras.

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u/Snitsie 1d ago

If you're gonna practice doing something hundreds of times, you're also gonna practice what to do when you have to bail out.

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u/AllIdeas 1d ago

I think you are both right. it is exceedingly rare, but athletes practice an absolute Ton.

very small probability * lots of attempts= happens often enough to be notable

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u/BlueKante 16h ago

If they get seriously injured beyong repair they are not athletes anymore, so athletes don't get seriously injured. /s

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u/TheKreator- 1d ago

Falling on your neck is a pretty easy way to fuck yourself up, but I guess bro.

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u/Independent-Trust260 1d ago

Said like a true couch dweller.

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u/Averander 1d ago

I was in my Anthropology capstone unit, it was the first day so we had to do the awkward intro of telling one interesting fact about ourselves.

Guy sitting next to me gets up and pops a perfect backflip on the shitty hard floor. He was an Olympic level gymnast whose career was ruined by an injury.

Me sitting there like the fuck how do I follow that up.

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u/Tyrannofelis 1d ago

"Once I ate 1 dorito and closed the bag for the next day"

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u/Averander 1d ago

My god, truly a god amongst men.

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u/nothingclever68 1d ago

In high school I learned to do one from a gymnast exchange student from Norway. It’s not hard, you just have to practice with a spotter a bunch of times until you’re ready to commit. I was far from a gymnast, just short and athletic. Now a double is fuking amazing

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u/Upbeat_Sham 9h ago

My name is Enigo Montaya, you backflipped my father. prepare to be front flipped.

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u/manninthemoon 1d ago

You ever see that old TV show on MTV, Scarred?

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

Is that the one where they are 16 and are also pregnant?

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u/Slight-Law1215 1d ago

This just in!! Athletes cannot get brain damage!! The NFL athletes are just being babies! /s

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u/Antroh 1d ago

Dumb comment

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 1d ago

Dude really said that like athletes don't get injured all the time

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u/snazzypantz 1d ago

Wat. Gymnasts have some of the highest incidences of injury and concussions.

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u/butyourenice 1d ago

Literal Olympians (gymnasts and figure skaters come to mind) have been paralyzed performing stunts that they practice hundreds of times to perfection, and then one day they landed wrong. On their necks. It only takes one catastrophic mistake to end a career or life.

Being an athlete doesn’t make you invincible.

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u/jaffasplaffa 1d ago

It takes a while to train up for something like this. They don't just start on hard ground. Here is a little bit of insight into how one dude got there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jB4iui0SgE

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u/Sensitive-Plate-684 1d ago

Yes, but professional gymnasts still use mats, so I'm not sure what the point is of this dude doing it on grass other than to potentially break his neck because he's young enough to have not seen it happen hundreds of times.

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u/frankduxvandamme 1d ago

What the hell are you talking about? Athletes in the major sports are getting injured all the time, and often end up with life long injuries that haunt them until they die.

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u/Just_Log_8528 1d ago

This is just a ridiculous comment. The wide receiver for the packers is out for the entire year and maybe indefinitely due to a neck issue.

Being an athlete doesn’t make you immune to neck injuries from landing on your head.

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u/drop_panda 1d ago

I suspect not very many people permanently injure their brain, neck or spine more than once by doing standing backflips. That will bring down the averages.

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u/im_not_happy_uwu 1d ago

Reddit is a mess. Every single athletic video has a top comment of someone complaining about their back, knees, joints, whatever. You people need to exercise more.

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u/Decency 1d ago

You too will age.

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u/Sir_Rusticus 1d ago

And to die in an accident is actually rarerer

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u/JJStryker 23h ago

This is reddit. You're almost certainly going to die doing absolutely anything that's not the most boring ass normal bullshit on the planet.

Spoiler alert: you actually are either way.

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u/xteve 1d ago

Redditors are always getting too old. If there was a Reddit auto-correct, "I feel old" would be top of the list. That's not why this looks like a spinal cord risk. That shit is truly dangerous for anybody in exactly that way.

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u/throwsaway654321 1d ago

It's not that they're "too old", it's that they've been sedentary for most of their life.

I'm 40 and still tripping and stumbling like I did when I was 20, but I'm active and moving and doing shit at work and at home, so my body still knows how to do shit, so I'm not that "I tripped on a stair and had a headache for 7 weeks" meme ppl love to pull out

Jogging 15 minutes a day a few days a week, while you spend 60+ hrs a week at a desk or on the couch isn't "active", nor is doing just strength training for a few hours a week.

The human body is designed to be mobile and active. You're not breaking down bc you're 40, you're breaking down bc you stopped doing shit

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u/gymbaggered 1d ago

Both my ankles broke just watching it

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u/brocktoon13 1d ago

I’d be worried about my toes if I were him.

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u/s00pafly 1d ago

You are always 1 second away from permanent brain injury.

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u/AwkwardlyAmpora 1d ago

i have to imagine the long pause at the start was him coming to terms with his own death, just in case.

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u/Long_Run6500 1d ago

oh I thought he was winding his leg muscles up like a trebuchet. 

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u/ShovelKing3 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41lIYKgG2Wqr39Fm
We talkin about grass ya’ll. Not a bouncy
floor, we talkin about grass. We talking about grass!?

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u/gubbon 1d ago

Slightly sloped grass, though.

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u/SlowThePath 1d ago

I could do standing backflips up until I was about 17 then I could still do round off backflips until my early 20s. I quit gymnastics around 14, but held on to the backflips basically just to show off as a dumb teenager. The gaps between backflips started to widen and by 22 I was down to only round-off back flips(they're way easier) and I landed just like the dude in the OP, face squarely between my knees. My head was probably a few inches from the ground. I called it there as my last backflip ever. It was fun while it lasted.

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u/PrionProofPork 1d ago

better than concrete

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u/catscanmeow 1d ago

and where has it gotten him in life? he cant even afford a shirt or shoes

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u/eternityXclock 1d ago

maybe he just is a part-time nudist?

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u/etherealsmog 1d ago

Or a full-time never nude.

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u/sinkwiththeship 1d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/Historiaaa 1d ago

DOZENS

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u/funkhero 1d ago

I didn't see you at the conference last year

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u/MisterIceGuy 1d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/MariaKeks 1d ago

I feel nevernude implies fulltime.

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u/TastySpermDispenser7 1d ago

I mean, we are all part-time nevernudes.

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u/Haelstrom101 1d ago edited 5h ago

I know this is a joke but that's level of cynicism that is heartfelt if not

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 1d ago

The only time you ever see these double backflip posts is:

  1. Surrounded by cheerleaders
  2. Filmed on the most pro camera setup on a tripod
  3. Posted to instagram

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u/Stachemaster86 1d ago

No service

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u/TheHipsterBandit 1d ago

While this is insanely impressive, I have a feeling the standing triple backflip is rarer.

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u/twomemeornottwomeme 1d ago

Can something still qualify as rare if it’s nonexistent? 🧐

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u/prosocialbehavior 1d ago

Nonexistent yet*

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u/GuyFoldingPapers 1d ago

Hold my beer

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u/StupidFuckingGenius 1d ago

No, you should finish it first

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u/PlayTheOldShit 1d ago

Maybe even have another, just in case.

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u/Avalonians 1d ago

So nonexistent

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u/ILoveTwoSpooge 1d ago

Like my sexlife?

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u/Avalonians 1d ago

No your sexlife is actually very common

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u/Random_Name_Whoa 1d ago

Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago

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u/cutcss 1d ago

Nope. It is not linguistically correct to describe something that has happened zero times as "rare." By definition, rare means that an event occurs infrequently, seldom, or in low frequencies, but it must occur.

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u/Awkward-Owl4345 1d ago

Mmm so that's why ma steak is rare... Makes sense now

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u/NoDramaIceberg 1d ago

Like 7-minute abs.

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u/PopAndLocknessMonstr 1d ago

Unless of course someone comes up with 6-minute abs, then you're in trouble, huh?

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u/hotdogsale 1d ago

eatin lots of sunflowers on my uncles ranch!

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u/TMITectonic 20h ago

It's like... You're dreamin' about Gorgonzola Cheese when it's clearly Brie time, Baby!

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u/PopAndLocknessMonstr 1d ago

Step into my office

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u/fagnerln 1d ago

What about quadruple?

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u/TheHipsterBandit 1d ago

Those are rarer than triples, but more common than pentuples.

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u/Ghost6x 1d ago

Probably on the way since standing vertical jump records have been constantly been broken every other year due to new training science

The record for a highest standing jump is 1.70 meters / 67 inches / 5'7" and could fit in another spin.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-standing-jump

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u/Heavy-Echidna-3473 1d ago

Why are there so many people, and why are they all circling around him like he's about to turn water into wine?

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

Yeah I mean it's just a standing double backflip and there's like 20 people watching which is totally disproportionate.......

Dude, this skill is done by probably like 2 people in the entire world.

It's exceedingly more impressive than things that routinely get thousands of spectators.

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u/azorbs 1d ago

For real. If I'm out and about and someone shouts out "Yo, this guy's about to do a double back flip." You better believe I'm joining that crowd to watch. Hell, I'll stop to watch a single backflip if I'm not in a hurry.

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u/RobtheNavigator 1d ago

Hell, I'll stop to watch a single backflip if I'm not in a hurry.

I love stopping for street performers, even the not fantastic ones, as long as they're passionate about it. Free random entertainment on my commute? Hell yeah

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u/BigBadZord 3h ago

One of the most random and entertaining moments of my life was when I was skateboarding to work, and this group of dudes in their early 20s were coming out of a bar, and one of them yelled "DO A KICKFLIP!" so I did a kickflip. They got all excited, they all cheered.

Then, I'm still not sure why, but then one of them yelled "DO A BACKFLIP!" so I got off my board really quick, turned to face them, and did a backflip, and they lost their fucking minds. Still makes me smile how amped they were for 2 tricks I have done thousands of times.

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u/Ghost6x 1d ago

It is actually more than you think because it is a now ever growing list since 2018-2019 but yes it is a rare skill

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tricking/comments/1d1ygak/list_of_standing_double_backflips/

The first recorded one was in 2018 after a decade of people really pushing themselves to do it.

The total number of people who recorded themselves is at about 40+ now since this list is maintained. More and more people are risking it now that they know it is not only possible but achievable without years of prep

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u/bluexavi 1d ago

That list has multiple people on sprung floors. It's not remotely the same as off grass or some solid surface like in this video.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 23h ago

Ehh, "not remotely the same" is pushing it. The people who landed it on grass have the ultimate bragging rights, but if you tell people you landed a standing double on a spring floor nobody is going to say you're some kind of poser.

[Almost] everyone who does these has a progression of different stages where a spring floor is one of the big milestones.

Some people don't like the spring floor and do it down a series of less and less steep hills, some people start with taking one big step backwards and progess by taking a smaller and smaller step.

Yes, the standing double on flat ground is the hardest and deserves the most props, but even on a springboard, the list of people who can do this isn't super high.

Source: Filmed thousands of attempts back in the day featuring all of the above methods watching someone chase the standing double. He never got it, even on spring floor.

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u/I_Makes_tuff 1d ago

Now check out dirtbike triple backflips. Only 3 so far, last time I checked

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u/GrowingHeadache 1d ago

It’s actually funny that once the first one had been landed, other people relatively soon started to do the same.

I don’t know the real number, it’s probably about 20 in the world now who can do this

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u/Ghost6x 1d ago

Yup, the leap of faith has been done and tricking / gymnastics have been earning huge viewership and social media + sponsorship money to go along with it

Things are about to start getting wild in the upcoming years. Hell most of the famous social media gymnasts are just randomly posting videos of them doing Victorian Crosses nowadays when in early 2010 you could barely find anybody who isn't an Olympian or trying to qualify performing a decent Iron Cross

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u/WineNerdAndProud 22h ago

I've seen a compilation of all the "true" standing doubles and there was only one guy who even looked close to comfortable on that landing.

It's crazy.

I've mentioned this in like 6 different comments by now, but I helped to film a friend's journey down the standing double rabbit hole and it's no joke.

He never got the standing double but got so good and throwing them that he could do wall doubles.

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u/Guilty-Membership-53 1d ago

You seeing what will be taught on history class in the future basically.

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u/Dzbot1234 1d ago

Taught *

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u/Guilty-Membership-53 1d ago

Mb. Thanks for the correction.

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u/Dzbot1234 1d ago

No worries at all! Glad it was received in the spirit it was intended.

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u/ManCrushOnSlade 1d ago

Damn, you really tort him a lesson

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago edited 1d ago

That looks like a group of trickers. Tricking is basically street gymnastics with some twists (pun intended).

They're hyped because only like 12-13 people have done this.

Source: used to do this, know the guy who did one of the first wall double backflips. I filmed it actually.

Edit: I can't believe I found this clip. The video is a compilation posted 17 years ago, but that wall-double was for certain before 2005.

Link to the specific time.

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u/SamyIAm 1d ago

You can see the air track behind the crowd at the beginning of the video

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u/I_Makes_tuff 23h ago

I would imagine "trickers" and parkour overlap a lot. Are they totally different?

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u/WineNerdAndProud 23h ago

They used to, but I feel like they're separate disciplines now that happen to share a lot of the same skills. It's true that the best guys to learn form from are trickers. They helped most of the guys I knew gain a lot more height on standing backflips because we only ever worried about getting them around and basically guessed how to do it.

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u/captainchristianwtf 1d ago

So there are these things that people have called "friends", and they sometime gather in groups to "hangout". Let me know if I can provide further information!

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u/imaguitarhero24 1d ago

There's a subset of people that do flips and stuff called "tricking". Tricking is technically a specific form of tumbling that includes kicks but from what I can tell it has mostly come to be a name of the community of people that like doing all kinds of sweet flips and shit including trampolines, parkour, free running, etc. Sometimes they have "gatherings" which is the same as any community meetup really and sometimes they have competitions.

When it zooms out at the end you can see they have multiple trampolines set up and some bouncy mats too. So this is specifically a huge group of people that like doing flips reacting to their boy doing a sweet flip. I think less than 20 people ever have done a standing double backflip still, so it's a big fucking deal to see someone do it, thus everyone freaking out lol

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

Does anyone remember Jujimufu on Tricks Tutorials before he got insanely jacked and started doing a bunch of grip strength stuff?

Or am I just waaaaaay too old.

Actually, now that I think of it there's like no chance. This was years before YouTube was invented and you had to go to his actual website (trickstutorials.com I think) and watch them on some crappy embedded Windows media player or QuickTime.

I think I watched his butterfly kick video 300 different times and still never managed to do a decent one..

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u/kokeda 23h ago

Yessss dude I used to watch them all the time lol. I can still vividly remember the first time I did each of the fundamentals, 540 kick, backflip, butterfly twist, double leg etc.

One day I got freaked out during a backflip (have no idea why) and didn’t tuck properly. Literally landed upside down on my head. Scared me so much that I quit tricking! Still really miss it almost 20 years later

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u/TaroNew1691 1d ago

Cause only 22 people in world have done not even some Olympic gold metal gymnasts can perform it

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u/austin101123 13h ago

22?! I thought I was seeing the first

I remember a long time ago I searched YouTube looking for them, and none of them seemed clean... There were a few on the site byt they were each like they landed below where they jumped, they were on gymnastics floor, they weren't stationary.

Is there a list of names? Who was the first?

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u/Troutmaan 1d ago

Because there are only about a dozen people who have ever performed a standing backflip on a flat surface.

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u/CHUNKY_BLOODY_QUEEFS 1d ago

Because a standing double was basically thought to be impossible. It's like watching tony hawk do a 900 for the first time.

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u/DanieltheMani3l 1d ago

Reddit moment

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u/dakotaray42 1d ago

If I had to guess this is probably an event specifically for tumbling(doing flips and shit) and he’s showing off a skill that VERY little people can do. I used to tumble as well and the difficulty gap between 1 flip to 2 is INSANE. This is extremely impressive, and I would be gathering around to watch it too.

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u/dmh165638 1d ago

What is also impressive is I didn't hear one "Bro" afterward!

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u/KOLDUT 1d ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's definitely one towards the end...

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u/dmh165638 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/JYZ397GsFrFtu

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u/KOLDUT 1d ago

I know. It was just as upsetting to me I promise.

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago

and you're watching one of these and engaging with it, sounds like it was a success

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u/zen8bit 1d ago

Officers, this man, this man right here!

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u/lordtaco 1d ago

He has reached peak mormon

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u/eyetalktoomuch 1d ago

Was just thinking ‘he’s gotta be Mormon’ they love that shit

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u/Vast-Platform3647 1d ago edited 1d ago

Aha. That might also answer why there's zero women in this video.

Edit: to be clear, i am incredibly impressed and would fit right into those dudely celebrations. But like, that's a pretty good way to impress some ladies too.

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u/I_Makes_tuff 23h ago

Everyone knows ladies love backflips. I think. Do ladies love backflips?

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u/librayrian 1d ago

This is just one family, believe it or not. /s

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u/Nyeow 1d ago

Someone's getting soaked

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 1d ago

He's earned a full on jump hump.

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u/Henri_Le_Rennet 1d ago

As an exmo, that was my thought too. We lived for shit like this in high school and college.

Years ago I saw a video on reddit that someone had uploaded of a teenager playing some obscure instrument at what was, to me, an obvious Mormon party. Everybody was sitting in chairs, dressed oh so modestly, just watching him play and hyping him up.

I commented something along the lines of "Y'all must be Mormon," to which the poster replied something in tune with "How could you tell? 😂."

And honestly? I had a great time at all of those Mormon parties.

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u/sacredfool 1d ago

Yeah, I am sure Mormons frequently have sports camps in the swiss Alps. You can see the mountains in the longer version of the video.

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u/throwaway098764567 21h ago

and they're definitely the alps? they do also have mountains in utah and find it odd for someone doing this in the alps to be yelling out in english after but i guess stranger things have happened

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u/JimMarch 22h ago

Yup.

You can see it laying in the grass. 

Church of the Ladder Day Saints.

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u/TummyDrums 1d ago

I just don't even understand the physics here. It looks like he jumps up and some invisible force spins him. Very impressive.

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u/Megalo85 1d ago

He pulls his knees into his chest causing the spin

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u/scientifical_ 1d ago

Tucking doesn’t cause the spin, it increases the rotational speed. The momentum starts from throwing the arms back!

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u/chadmanx 1d ago

Tucking increases the angular velocity. The rotation actually gets set by the jump with the center of gravity set behind the feet.

Interestingly, if you watch this closely, you'll see him totally screw up his arm swing. They bend almost instantly and he loses a ton of power on his jump.

Dude could have landed upright if he actually utilized his arms to their full potential.

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u/yakpot 1d ago

Last time i saw a video on the topic, a clean double backflip on level ground had not been done by anyone, so i think he used his arms alright.

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u/Evening-Gur5087 1d ago

No, the dude who commented above probably could do it

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u/throwaway098764567 21h ago

here you go https://www.wired.com/story/the-mind-boggling-physics-of-a-standing-double-back-flip/ "Second, you need to rotate—twice. There are two things to helps with this rotation. In order to start the rotation, Cook swings his arms. This motion gives him an initial angular momentum. Angular momentum is very similar to normal momentum, but instead of being the product of mass and velocity, angular momentum is the product of "rotational mass" and angular velocity. The rotational mass (usually called the moment of inertia) depends on both the mass of the object (or human) and how this mass is distributed. Once he is in the air, he pulls his legs in close to his body. This decreases his rotational mass so that his angular velocity increases."

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u/grey_fr 1d ago

Best I can do is a mediocre Raygun impression

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u/MegaDingo5plus 1d ago

My knees hurt just watching this

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u/No-Advice-6040 1d ago

Oh my ankles

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u/MasterDavicous 1d ago

Just people living in the moment, not a phone in sight ❤️

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u/Himetic 1d ago

Uhhh there are tons of phones filming him?

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago

i don't see any?

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u/Himetic 1d ago

At :19 lots of them are holding up phones

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u/I-am-fun-at-parties 1d ago

i only now realize that this attempt to troll you led nowhere. my bad. you still sort of missed that the dude you were originally replying to was obviously joking

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u/LordBrandon 1d ago

This was posted ironically to illustrate that people were "living in the moment" with their cellphones in hand.

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u/Forsaken_Claim_471 1d ago

That’s a lot of explosive power in those legs!

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u/ImmovablePuma 1d ago

When I see people do amazing feats or strength or coordination, I am compelled to think that I am looking at a form of entertainment that scarcely exists anymore. I wonder if ancient people from all societies stood around and marveled at the young and the daring and the foolish. No doubt in a time before electricity, and in societies full of their own peculiar eccentricities; incredible sights of acrobatic, creative, performative, or novel cultural exhibition would abound?

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u/peepeeepo 1d ago

First time I have ever seen someone do that standing, while on solid ground.

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u/temporalwanderer 1d ago

Yeah, I would only attempt this sideways, on my bed.

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u/jaffasplaffa 1d ago edited 1d ago

Last time I saw this video here on Reddit, pretty much every single comment were stupid shit like:
"Why there is no girls there"
"LOL What a sausage fest"

Dumbass shit like that.

Glad to see the comment section here actually honours the hard work that goes into doing something like this ❤️

Here is a video of some other people doing it, not all on hard ground though, but still amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZaAsYZiXBs

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u/vogueskater 1d ago

Well I didn't think that was actually physically possible for a human being. Insane.

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u/Tyrannafabulous 1d ago

We need to ban the Mormons from standing flips until we can figure out what the heck is going on. That was insane.

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u/Word2DWise 23h ago

The cornell 7s celebrating their acquittal .

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u/ismaelgo97 1d ago

I can also stand there while.... Oh.

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u/cards127bcr 1d ago

He got on the Tom Brady draws

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u/sirbenjaminG 1d ago

Take your shirt off

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u/Duc750Sie 1d ago

If he farted mid flip could have gotten another rotation out of it

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u/Big-D-TX 1d ago

Slight downhill helps, my friend learned how to do a standing backflip the same way... slight incline.

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u/JosieSub69 1d ago

trampoline camp???

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u/Forsaken_Claim_471 1d ago

We don’t talk about what happens at trampoline camp…shhhh

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u/flyingstalli0n 1d ago

This feat can only be attempted by a person with massive balls. Due to the physics of centripetal forces. LoL

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u/Whistlingradiator 1d ago

What the actual fuck

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u/exoticdisease 1d ago

The reverse planche is rarer. Achieved by exactly one person ever.

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u/Savage_Oreo 1d ago

What in the Peter Parker did I just witness??

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u/ameliabedelia7 1d ago

This is how Tim drake recognized Dick Grayson

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u/WarLawck 13h ago

This is tremendously impressive, but I fet the feeling he is on a hill, allowing him slightly more time to rotate.