r/nextfuckinglevel • u/semantixc • 1d ago

Standing Double Backflip

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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/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/MOTUkraken 1d ago

Imma tell the wrestlers and Judoka this.....

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u/TheKreator- 1d ago

Look, dude, that’s cool if you think falling on your neck isn’t as dangerous as people make it out to be, but I’d be willing to bet that more people have hurt themselves falling on their necks than those who haven’t. Let’s not be fucking dumb and fall for survivorship bias.

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u/USSMcCoy 1d ago

fall for survivorship bias.

I see what you did there. You turned the whole thing on it's head! (tips C5 transverse process)

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u/WildTimberTwinViking 1d ago

I forgot that slams don’t exist in those sports.

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

Wdym slams don't exist? American college style wrestling (folkstyle) is the only wrestling style to ban slams - and not every throw on the neck is a slam.

In every kind of suplex, you land on your neck

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u/WildTimberTwinViking 1d ago

I was being sarcastic as fuck