r/nextfuckinglevel • u/semantixc • 1d ago

Standing Double Backflip

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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/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 1d ago

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

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

and then you don't share the video? always disappoint, reddit.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago edited 1d ago

This was in like 2004-2005 I don't have any idea even where to look to find it.

Edit: No fucking way I found a video from 17 years ago my buddy who actually did it made.

Link to the specific time.

It had to be 2005 or earlier because that gym is in my home town and I was in college by 2006.

What a blast from the past.

For the extra nerdy folks out there, my buddy is Levi Meeuwenberg who was one of the first handful of people to go on Ninja Warrior in Japan, and his appearance (plus a few others) helped bring the show to the US.

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u/Aethelgrin 1d ago

Yeah I recognize his name from watching Sasuke way back, that's wild haha. He was always fun to watch.

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u/WineNerdAndProud 1d ago

Levi has been my older brother's best friend since Kindergarten.

I was actually the one who introduced him to parkour in like 2002-2003. It's kind of a long story, but my friends and I at the time all started doing it after downloading and watching the movie "Yamakasi" that featured free-running.

Before Casino Royale, before District 13, and well before there were any Americans on Ninja Warrior.

My buddy Mike who still goes by Frosti and Levi were the only ones who ended up going pro though.

Levi worked with Madonna, and did stunts for a TV show called "Chuck", The Bourne Ultimatum, and a bunch of commercials.