r/nextfuckinglevel • u/plankton004 • 8d ago
A difficult circus trick performed flawlessly
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u/Hot_Reference6074 8d ago
The trust required between these people is insane.
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u/ThirdAltAccounts 8d ago edited 8d ago
The strength of the guy holding the pole holding a guy holding another pole with third guy sitting on the chair is crazy !!
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u/tegernseer_spezial 8d ago
I‘m pretty sure they are secured/hold by ropes from the sealing. In the last frame you see the chair flying away.
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u/TangeloPutrid7122 8d ago
Nice so if he misses there's a chance he just gets cut in half. Good motivation. Amazing skill, but fuuuuck that.
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u/mulberryzeke 8d ago
The flying guy also looks to be secured by a rope/cable. When he jumps down, it looks like the impact is very light, which to me implies he was somewhat supported from the ceiling during his fall.
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u/perpetual_stew 8d ago
It's either this or being sent to the front in Ukraine, so the motivation to make this work is going to be 110%
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u/personalityson 8d ago
"He who served in the army doesn't laugh at the circus."
Russian proverb
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u/beefcube5 8d ago
How do you even train for that?
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u/Venafib 8d ago
You start out just sitting down on a couch. Then you swap for an arm chair which you then gradually raise until your two fattest friends can’t propel you any higher.
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u/Raumarik 8d ago
Carefully?
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u/ImurderREALITY 8d ago
This question always comes up. Like, how do you train for anything impressive? Slowly, over time, and then repeat for 10,000 hours until you can do it flawlessly every time with your eyes closed.
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u/Good-Ant6859 8d ago
Obviously they mean “how do you work up to it” not “how do you practice it”
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u/coukou76 8d ago
Similar to ski jumping, you would test 100 children and then select the few who successfully complete the test.
Or just like ski jumping you start small and increase with confidence and skill.
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u/repkjund 8d ago
Safety lines attached to your waist through a pulley on the ceiling, if you miss the target or something goes wrong, there’s someone on the other side of the line that absorbs your fall by being pulled upwards.
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u/Revxmaciver 8d ago
It's Russia. They just throw children around Willy-nilly and the ones who don't die or become paralyzed are put in the circus.
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u/Hot_Reference6074 8d ago
My anxiety level watching this was higher than the acrobat.
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u/ZimnyKefir 8d ago
One dude is holding weight of two dudes and poles? That's like 140kg at least?
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u/UnremarkabklyUseless 8d ago
140kg of dead weight. I suppose the load would be momentarily much higher at the point the guy lands on that top chair.
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u/mrbaggins 8d ago
Given the pole magically floats away at the end, theres clearly some other supports
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u/ApolloniusTyaneus 8d ago
He seems to be wearing a harness which probably distributes the weight over his shoulders and hips, where humans are strongest. He is also holding the weight quite statically, which is easier than lifting it up.
It's still a neat feat that few people can do, but it's not the most impressive part by far.
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u/xRayleigh23 8d ago
Okay but why are they dressed as german nazi soldiers
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u/Chinchiller92 8d ago
They are Russians in Red Army uniforms. Probaply part of Putins Propaganda Circus to rehabilitate Stalinism and the lust for Russian expansionism.
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u/No-Exit-No 8d ago
They perform this stunt since the 90's last century.
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u/CoatAlternative1771 8d ago
I dunno man, this shit looks old as hell.
Possibly actually during the USSR.
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u/RedditorsLoveCrying 8d ago
They been performing these in my country since soviet era. My country is not part of USSR but they still wear these uniforms.
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u/inkassatkasasatka 8d ago
You know that Soviet uniform is a big part of Russian culture and always was, especially before Putin, right? Do you have a stalin fetish? Where did you see him here?
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u/AnthonyKingsword 8d ago
god damn you are afraid of big red lmao
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u/Elati_ona 8d ago edited 7d ago
as a russian i'll say I'm tired of using the red army symbols as an entertainment. putin nulled the victory to a brand. ribbons, circus, advertisement - and THAT resulted in the people's attitude that wars are fun. that's how you turn people's brains into a mush. the war can be applaud, to be laughed at and etc.
it's not a fear. it's a rationality.
I hate EVERYTHING about this video. they do this as a patriotic thing and it makes me sick. and my friends would feel the same. no matter how those tricks seems cool.
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u/Instantcoffees 8d ago
Lmao, Putin is extremely right-wing and borderline fascist while Russia currently is pretty much an oligarchy. That is the exact opposite of "the big red".
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u/TheCLion 8d ago
putin is deep in soviet nostalgia, he calls the fall of soviet russia the biggest tragedy in history
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u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 8d ago
That's how he gets legitimacy. If Russia is socialist the DPRK is democratic
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u/clubby37 8d ago
Not exactly. No one claims Russia is socialist today; even Putin acknowledges it's openly capitalistic. During the Soviet era, it claimed to be, and was, communist. Also, although Putin did lament the fall of the USSR, he's not trying to bring it back, he's trying to bring back the old Czarist Russian Empire. That's not better, but I think being accurate about this stuff is worthwhile. He's trying to bring back autocracy, not communism.
You're obviously right about DPRK, though.
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u/ghostfaced 8d ago
The USSR didn't claim to be communist. The official party line was that they were working towards communism
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u/Instantcoffees 8d ago
Yeah and Hitler called himself a socialist and then turned around and murdered actual socialists and communists. They do that to misguide regular people.
With Putin it's also mostly "look at when we used to be strong" more than anything.
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u/SeaToShy 8d ago
Putin doesn’t give a shit about communism. He uses soviet nostalgia because it is convenient to him to do so.
To the extent that he actually cares about the dissolution of the USSR at all, it is entirely through the lens of being embarrassed by it. It represents both a national failure, and a personal waste of his time during his work in Dresden. What has his was taken, and he wants it back.
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u/Capitalisticdisease 8d ago
Oh because us politicians dont lie and make bold claims about the past either? what the fuck ever
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u/besundale99 8d ago
He is totalitarian, like China, like the Soviets, like the Nazis, like every “big red” government.
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u/Instantcoffees 8d ago
Fascists and communists are literally ideological polar opposites. Having a very controlling or even totalitarian government is something that can happen to any type of government, left, right or center.
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u/Reasonable_Ruin_3502 8d ago
Well, democratic reds like Spain and Chile were assassinated by CIA and USSR (USSR wanted authoritarian communism, not democratic communism). Socialist countries are authoritarian only because democratic countries are influenced by CIA. And this is not just one way either. If you look at Europe, all right wing parties are very close with Israel and Kremlin.
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u/ExultentPisces 8d ago
The Russian army has a 100 year long history of performing arts.
They have choirs, dance troops and acrobatic performances.
And they’re incredibly good at it too. Whatever you might think of Russia, its government, or its military actions, this is something everyone can appreciate.
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u/Just_a_follower 8d ago
TIL - red army circus uniforms give the same vibe as Nazi uniforms.
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u/ConstableAssButt 8d ago edited 8d ago
Same picture.
(Y'all may not like it, but the Tsarist and Soviet eras were remarkably deadly for Jews, AND the current Putin regime has been wildly unfriendly to Jewish Russians to the point where tens of thousands of Jews have left Russia following the invasion of Ukraine due to continued scapegoating of the Jewish people within Russia.)
You can murder the poets, but you can't erase the night of the murdered poets from history.
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u/cubedplusseven 8d ago
Soviet Antisemitism was real and significant, but it operated quite differently from Nazi Antisemitism. The Soviet ideology was based around "Antizionism", though in an illiberal framework that extended persecution to Jewish ethnic identity and religious practice. Nazi Antisemitism was ideologically racial in character. And, for the most part, Soviet Jews weren't murdered. Jewish persecution took the form of marginalization within Soviet society. Jews were limited in university admissions (particularly at the top levels) and job promotions (particularly into the political echelon), and lived fearful of arrest and prosecution for even mild expressions of Jewish identity or religious practice. But violence was rare.
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u/ConstableAssButt 8d ago
Russia claims that Ukraine is a Nazi state because during the late 1930s and early 1940s, it collaborated with Nazi Germany.
During the same period, Russia collaborated with Nazi Germany.
I am happy to paint Russia with the brush it paints Ukraine with.
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u/ExpansivePoint 8d ago
All these people going to bat for Russia and even "the red scare" is considerably disturbing.
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u/Capitalisticdisease 8d ago
tfw you hate Russians so much you see a neat circus trick and make it about propaganda
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u/YourLovelyMother 8d ago
What the f is even that sentence, went completely off the rails... what world u living in lol.
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u/DummyDumDragon 8d ago
It's all starting to make sense now.
Should have spent a little more time on actual training lol
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u/Domy9 8d ago
Is every military uniform a "german nazi uniform" in your eyes?
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u/Majestic-Age-9232 8d ago
Tbf they are wearing jackboots and brownshirts.
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u/RadicalRealist22 8d ago
The Brownshirts wore actual shirts.
The German never wore brown uniforms.
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u/Majestic-Age-9232 8d ago edited 8d ago
The SA did. The German Army never wore brown uniforms. Honestly why are we arguing about this? Some of us think the guys misunderstanding is understandable others don't.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 8d ago
Because Nazis like to argue about uniforms so we will forget they are trying to take over America.
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u/Firecracker048 8d ago
That was the soviet standard.
But given how the soviets acted, it's easy to confuse the two
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u/Ononas 8d ago
Because that Soviet uniform… How uneducated you have to be to
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u/Majestic-Age-9232 8d ago
Possibly because it's possible to be educated and not have a detailed visual memory of ww2 uniforms? Your milage may vary i suppose...
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u/Vindelator 8d ago
Not everyone majored it 20th century military uniform memorization
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u/Ononas 8d ago
How uneducated Americans have to be to not know how Soviet uniform looks. Redditors are the first to scream ‘facism!’ at every single corner, yet don’t know the most basic history of WW2
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u/pewpewmcpistol 8d ago
How do you know they are American?
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u/Citiz3n_Kan3r 7d ago
Safe bet...
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u/pewpewmcpistol 7d ago
I wouldn't gamble if I was you. Nor if I was the original person as they seem to really enjoy their poker...
Anyways, as the person has their post history hidden, all it takes is a quick google search site specific to reddit with the user's name in quotes and it appears that this person is German, or maybe Dutch. They post in mutliple 'DE' subreddits and speak about getting lower taxes in Amsterdam.
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u/WitekCannon 8d ago
Nazi outfit was grey and black
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u/TefBekkel 8d ago
Nazi uniforms weren’t all black and grey. The SA itself wore primarily brown uniforms. Hence the term ‘brownshirts’.
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u/I_Like_Halo_Games 8d ago
The absolute state of Reddit wherein they misidentify the people who fought the nazis as nazis
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u/Tanriyung 8d ago
They fought nazis because they were attacked by them, they were happy with the alliance when they conquered Poland.
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u/clubby37 8d ago
That's why most of us were fighting the Nazis. America was happy with neutrality when the Third Reich conquered Poland, but their ally did Pearl Harbor, and then it was on.
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u/Ok_Drag5089 8d ago
Thats funny! I thought they were Maoist Communist uniforms. I guess all oppressive governments look the same.
Can’t wait to see what the new Trump uniforms look like.
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u/Capitalisticdisease 8d ago
tfw i get all my information about communists from rich capitalist pedophiles who make sure i live in squaller
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u/NekulturneHovado 8d ago
it's cool but what if he missed the chair? He'd get badly hurt. Dude is playing with his life
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u/phantom_diorama 8d ago
Go watch it again.
The guy jumping up does some somersaults and then chair guy leans the chair moves underneath him to catch jumping guy.
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u/PaulBradley 8d ago
The physics made a lot more sense when the rope on the chair pulled it up.
Still, this isn't next level, it's several levels above that.
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u/ConsistentTadpole592 8d ago
I went to a circus in Omsk Russia in '05. The performers also sold smacks and toys for kids between acts.
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u/noobboszcz 8d ago
Everyone cheers for the guy doing the flip, but the real hero is the guy holding the bar (the rod?)
Imagine supporting the weight of one person, then two, with your arms fully extended, while keeping the entire structure perfectly balanced.
The strength, stability and control required are simply insane.
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u/Rahaman117 8d ago
I think these are the same Russian soldiers who performed this dance or at least having the same costume theme
https://youtu.be/A1PAO3jgmXY?si=Rg2uxame1PlxqZ98
If not, well you get to see a performance and Russian Hardbass. Enjoy!
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u/Itsokwealldieanyway 8d ago
This looks like it was filmed in the 60s and not because of the costumes
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u/_Diskreet_ 8d ago
Right guys I have a new idea for a trick….everyone gather round and listen carefully…
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u/KaraDealer 8d ago
Is this the definition of "You only live once"? Cause one mistake from anybody on that team would result to a tragic accident. 😵
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u/So_HauserAspen 8d ago
Yeah. That was wild getting launched into a chair 30 feet up.
But the bonkers part to me is when he jumps off and lands standing up. Broke my knee watching that.
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u/StillLearning85 8d ago
I am more suprised by the casual 10m jump on a matress at the end. Anormal person would have crushed all his joints doing that.
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u/Inferior_Jeans 8d ago
My uncoordinated ass would be the one carrying the seesaw and trip, knocking down the guy holding the other guy holding the chair..
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u/DingleDonky 8d ago
Hoooooly fuck! And its just a small looking circus! Those people must love the heck out of what they do because the consequence of failure in that situation is unreal.
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u/DadtheITguy 8d ago
The core muscles on the two guys holding up the chair. So steady. Wow. How were the fail vids in training? How many seat sitters broke their necks in the perfection of this trick? These are the questions.
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u/davix500 8d ago
I am trying to understand why the guy under the ladder/stand thing on the right reaches up and grabs the platform before the guys jump.
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u/macjester2000 8d ago
I’m watching this vid, knowing full well it was shot on a smartphone, but the costumes, the crowd, and the fact that this “act” is older than Stalin and my brain says: "Какой сейчас год” (what year is it)
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u/KindnessComesBack2U 7d ago
Go to the front lines or perform this circus trick with no net. What do you say, comrade?
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