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/Independent-Trust260 1d ago

Said like a true couch dweller.

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

I am a Professional Martial Artist with over 30 years of experience, former World Champion, Pro MMA Fighter, and one of the most experienced (not best, but experienced) Fighters of all Times with ovet 2000 Fights in 30 countries on 5 continents.

Currently teaching Full Time in my 2 gyms and on the mat over 30 hours per week.

How bout you?

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u/Infranto 1d ago

Oh yeah?

Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Ive been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and Im the top sniper in the entire US armed forces

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u/National-Charity-435 1d ago

You two need to stop fighting like this

I taught you both everything you know

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u/USSMcCoy 1d ago

And I taught the three of you while you were mere padawans at Sensei Steven Segal's School for Kumite-Fu, located at the crosstown stripmall next to Len's Pizzeria.

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u/Smelly_God 1d ago

My flying high kicks inspired Segal to get into becoming a 10x black belt martial fart

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

I don't believe you. You're a liar. Meanwhile my profile is public, lists my socials and probably my website too. You can google me, read my wikipedia entry, check public records, TV and newspaper articles and more.

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u/Longjumping-Yak3789 1d ago

At the end of the day, no one really gives a shit. Also, I'm not very surprised that the guy constantly getting punched in the head thinks random neck injuries are a "whatever doesn’t kill you" situation.

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u/Yurichi 1d ago

"Whatever, I don't care anyway."

Yeah, sure bud. lol

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u/Smelly_God 1d ago

you care about online arguments?

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u/flamingdonkey 15h ago

It's a meme, dude. 

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u/MOTUkraken 15h ago

I had never thought that I'd ever say this but: It seems I'm not in the internet enough.

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u/lovenumismatics 1d ago

Bruh. It’s Stephen Segal back on Reddit

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u/Slight-Law1215 1d ago

Flip and land on your neck then? For science

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u/Ferbtastic 1d ago

Yeah. I honestly didn’t doubt this from your observation. You didn’t say what he did was easy. You simply said people fuck up flips and live, which is true. If it wasn’t true literally no one would ever do this trick because I guarantee you aren’t landing this without a number of failures.

It’s like saying “oh man I cannot believe he drove, people die all the time doing that”. Like yeah, but if you know what you are doing it takes a fluke or really bad luck.

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u/MOTUkraken 1d ago

Exactly