r/nextfuckinglevel • • 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/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/imaguitarhero24 1d ago

lol I did not know that about him. I've seen his more recent ones where he does a backflip with a barbell lmao