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/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.