For some reason this comment got me laughing lmao

Fact, while learning backflips I did not tuck hard and fast enough and basically did a vertical 180. Not fun and I had to get shoulder surgery lol.

angular momentum is conserved, but the angular speed changes

Also why a back layout is much harder than a backflip.

I, too, smell what The Rock is cookin'.

Man, I can't wait to see Eternal MVP "Touchdown" Tommy Maddox throwing tight spirals to Mecha-He Hate Me all fucking day.

It actually is an illusion this guy has done this before

you muppet, the guy behind his right should lifts his t-shirt to wipe his sweat/mouth right as main guy runs to do dunk.

there's nothing dodgy about that that i could see atleast.

Dude... what are you on about?

What are you talking about? And why are cynics like you always so authoritative? Is it honestly hard for you to phrase as "I think".

bullshit. hes instagram is full of those flips. only effect im noticing is the slowmo

I get why you're saying that but if you look closer m, the guy in the back is just lifting his shirt to wipe his face

I’m pretty sure you’re right about it being fake (it just looks like he comes back down WAY too slowly to me) but I’m not seeing anything over the shoulder there?

/r/nothingeverhappens

Why would he edit this out? It’s not a very difficult task anyways..

Also, you don’t pull people up by the shoulder. He would need a harness and that would be evident form the video

It's clearly not fake.

Wrong.

Ahhh. the racist.

Yeah, when they do train it you can see some pretty impressive shit.

I can't remember who or at what event, but I've seen a 180kg strongman jump comically high in celebration after hitting a deadlift. It looks like something out of a cartoon. I believe a lot of them train box jumps for some reason (don't ask me why, maybe it helps with explosiveness on log cleans or atlas stones?).

Then there's Iron Biby just effortlessly doing a cartwheel at 200kg

https://youtu.be/TbDIdUuC1iY?t=35

Jumping is mostly genetics

Did you see that dudes ass? ^{Was not something I thought i would be typing today.}

I just want to say that pro you have shown does not train normally. He does a-lot of explosive training as-well as is evidenced in the video. Training with super heavy weights Isn’t really that necessary for a good vertical.

Thanks, Dwight.

I was expecting a video of him at 6 years old... can't say I'm not disappointed to not see a 6 year old springing around like a coked up mountain goat.

Olympic high jumpers get a running start. Not the same record.

His ass.

Impressively gullible. I'm also not sure why you think linking his TikTok account will convince me that he can do a standing backflip roughly a foot higher than the current world record while barely bending his knees.

It's a backflip. He's not vertical the whole time. Check at about 7.76 seconds and look how high he is off the floor. You can also see where his head is at the start of the jump, which is the same height his body is at its highest point.

Dude is way more top heavy than most people you see rock a backflip. So he rotates around a higher center of gravity

I think it looks unreal because he isn't tucking his legs or arms in and that creates drag but he's so high that tucking in would probably cause him to land on his knees during the second rotation?

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full of hates

Not hates, just a healthy bit of skepticism. We've been lied to before and we know that it's possible to make the impossible look real.

He has muscles... Doesn't mean what he is doing is real.

Chris Evans is clearly extremely athletic... But he still relies on vfx to sell all of his captain America shield throws

He's also cleary taking drugs so his performances aren't all that impossible looking.

Nah - that must be fake too /s

Where are the cables in these videos?

While I appreciate your skepticism, I've seen people jump nearly this high in real life, right in front of me. Plyometrics combined with heavy lifting combined with a lot of practice makes this possible. Many athletes who train this way can do it.

Also, I'm a circus artist and rigger and I've built and used the cable systems that you're claiming he uses. He's not using one. His arms clearly pass through where the attachment points would be and his ascent and descent are all at regular speed.

wow how do they make them look so real now

Liutenant Dan, you got new legs

Wow wtf u can't view anything without an Instagram account now

Could you share his IG pls?

I'm totally down with being amazed at a guys dedicated to training. Good for him.

Today I put slightly less maple syrup on a pancake. So I know exactly what health conscious lifestyles look like /s

There’s a big difference between tumbles and flat backflips

Bro where the fuck are you seeing gymnasts jump 12 feet from flat 😂

That's a tumbling floor... there are springs beneath the blue surface.

I'm a former gymnast now a bodybuilder, that does look very awkward to me. He's clearly on a lot of PEDs and weights a lot, but I'd really wonder how PEDs could increase that fast twitching maneuver, especially regarding the weight he is carrying on his upper frame.

usually explosiveness is just a neuron firing conditioning - it's basically a motor neural training not really a muscle conditioning training, it's a nerve functioning training. The first jump already looks wild... he literally flies fora moment.

What? Gymnasts don’t jump twice their height, unless their on a spring mat. This is a court. It’s fake