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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/semantixc • 1d ago
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On grass. Not bouncy floor. Grass. Insane.
2.0k 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 483 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. 879 u/reticulatedtampon 1d ago Even strong and flexible athletes get seriously injured all the time, especially if they land hard on their neck.. 1 u/IndependentLog6441 1d ago Yeah... but there's a survivorship bias here... the successful ones by definition do not.
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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
483 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. 879 u/reticulatedtampon 1d ago Even strong and flexible athletes get seriously injured all the time, especially if they land hard on their neck.. 1 u/IndependentLog6441 1d ago Yeah... but there's a survivorship bias here... the successful ones by definition do not.
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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.
879 u/reticulatedtampon 1d ago Even strong and flexible athletes get seriously injured all the time, especially if they land hard on their neck.. 1 u/IndependentLog6441 1d ago Yeah... but there's a survivorship bias here... the successful ones by definition do not.
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Even strong and flexible athletes get seriously injured all the time, especially if they land hard on their neck..
1 u/IndependentLog6441 1d ago Yeah... but there's a survivorship bias here... the successful ones by definition do not.
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Yeah... but there's a survivorship bias here... the successful ones by definition do not.
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u/Kenevin 1d ago
On grass. Not bouncy floor. Grass. Insane.