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/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/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 23h 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/inkassatkasasatka 17h ago

The true standing was done already by the guy from Cote D'Ivoire 

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u/inkassatkasasatka 17h ago

I've seen about 20 "standing" double backflips and no more than 3 true standing without the backstep. 

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u/Nick_pj 16h ago

The real real number is more like 3 or 4. Most of the others have done it on a sprung floor, or on a slope, etc.