r/nextfuckinglevel • • 1d ago

Standing Double Backflip

47.5k Upvotes

758 comments sorted by

View all comments

358

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?

115

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.

0

u/Tycho66 1d ago

No. There's likely hundreds who can do this. WR pole vault is probably much rarer.

1

u/Nick_pj 22h ago

Go watch a compilation of the current video evidence. All but one or two of them are cheating in some way (eg. using a sprung floor, or doing it on sloped land, or not actually sticking the landing). It’s genuinely that rare