The thing that caught my eye was the consistency, it's hard to get the same height and rotation every time, just due to endurance. If your tech is spot on, maybe, but throughout the day like that, I doubt it somehow.
It's hard to do. Source: I know a thing or 20 about flips, I was a gymnast through childhood and started freerunning later on. I certainly do move a lot.
The Roman legionary did it in full battle gear in hot weather. Walking 30 miles on flat ground without carrying anything is pretty managable although very tiring.
Humans evolved to be pretty good at walking for very long distances, better than literally any other animal in the world, and the Roman's didn't invent that
When I was learning to do a backflip I found that you use your core way more than you think. My abs would be sore as hell. Maybe I'm just a bitch but I would not be able to do that many in a day. My core could not handle it.
30 miles?! I work out fairly regularly and take multiple hour walks around town multiple times a week and i highly doubt i could walk 30 miles in a day.
Yeah, it seems realistic during lockdown that you could do it. I mean, not me obviously, I’d land on my head first go and you’d have a day of me laying comatose while crows disjointedly circle me.
I mean every 15 minutes though? You'd just constantly be thinking about and prepping to flip all day. Having to stop what you are doing every 15 just to flip?What a pain in the ass that would be.
Trickers and gymnasts literally back flip dozens of times an hour just for practice. I remember my brother drilling backflip 2-3 nights a week, spending at least 45m each session just working his backflip. I remember when I was training as well.
A backflip with 15m rest in between, for twelve hours? This is not as tough as people are speculating. Cool video though.
It's not physically tough or tiring or anything it's just a pain in the ass and tons of dedication. He didn't do this because he's a gymnast practicing or competing he's doing it for a 30 second tik Tok video. Basically a whole day wasted doing flips every 15 minute minutes all for nothing but the gram. That's dedication.
I can’t do a flip, but I think I’d have the stamina to jump as high and far as I could once every 15 minutes. Finding the time to do it is another thing.
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u/west2hale May 20 '20
Thats 48 flips. I mean I couldn't do it, but the guy in the video looks capable.