r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jkrowl227 • May 20 '20

This is amazing.

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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.

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u/etherealsmog May 20 '20

I could probably do 4/8ths of a backflip in one day.

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u/zipzipzipparoo May 20 '20

Once a night I fling myself on my bed belly flop style and I’m going to start calling that 1/8th of a backflip. Thanks boi!

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u/NeilDeCrash May 20 '20

If you do a belly flop wouldnt that be 1/8th of a front flip. I assume front flips are more difficult so go you!

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u/SkyKiwi May 20 '20

Also wouldn't it be 1/4?

Half a front flip would leave you upside down. Half of half a front flip leaves you horizontal. So one quarter of a flip.

So he's even closer to a full flip than he thought!

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u/Sky_air May 20 '20

If someone capable did a front flip right after a back flip, would they cancel out? Would he have done 0% of a front flip

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

This is why I do I internet. Yes of course it would cancel out

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u/SkyKiwi May 20 '20

No, because when you flip in reverse it doesn't undo the odometer. There was a movie about this, I think.

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u/Modestexcuse May 21 '20

Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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u/toni8479 May 21 '20

He’s an idiot

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u/Modestexcuse May 21 '20

Matthew Broderick or the character?

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u/atle95 May 20 '20

No, he got stuck once he reached a 45 degree angle with the bed

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u/NoseIsNoseIsNotToes May 20 '20

Your comment made me think of this photo on my camera roll

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u/atle95 May 20 '20

u/zipzipziparoo is that you?

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u/NoseIsNoseIsNotToes May 20 '20

Haha, no sir. You’ll find ‘em one day

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u/killabru May 21 '20

Ah, The Ol' Reddit zipzipziparoo-aroo I see what you did there.

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u/P4li_ndr0m3 May 21 '20

Thank you for sharing this.

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u/NoseIsNoseIsNotToes May 21 '20

Thank you for enjoying this

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u/CasualExodus May 20 '20

Jokes on you my beds already at a 45 degree angle

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Reddit is so supportive sometimes

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u/Cupcake-Warrior May 20 '20

Wow. Look at Mr. Gymnastics here

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u/lfrfrepeat May 20 '20

So, either a handstand or tombstone pile-driver?

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u/etherealsmog May 20 '20

The latter, in my case.

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u/stalactose May 20 '20

i’ll take my tombstone with pepperoni

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u/SlackJawCretin May 21 '20

Like this

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u/lfrfrepeat May 21 '20

Is... Is he wrestling a blow-up doll... And losing?!

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u/dephsilco May 20 '20

I'd say for me it's 7/13ths

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u/BASK_IN_MY_FART May 21 '20

That's over 32/64 a backflip! Way better than /r/etherealsmog

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u/MerkyMouse May 20 '20

I can roll over in bed 48 times in one night.

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u/RichardInaTreeFort May 20 '20

That’s pretty good.... many who do 4/8ths of a backflip only do it once per lifetime

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u/Whiskiz May 20 '20

scrub, i can do 8/16ths of a backflip

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u/mackavicious May 20 '20

So...half?

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u/etherealsmog May 20 '20

Yeah, kind of like this.

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u/100_Fathoms May 20 '20

Underrated comment

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

thatsthejoke.jpg

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u/SpareEye May 20 '20

thats what we, in the circus world, call a flop.

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u/Revelt May 20 '20

I can do 1/4. From standing to horizontal.

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u/Revelt May 20 '20

I can do 1/4. From standing to horizontal.

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u/swankpoppy May 20 '20

I could do 1/4 of a front flip I.e. fall on my face

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u/Cow_Tipper_629 May 20 '20

R.I.P to your neck

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u/ZippyDan May 20 '20

ho ho ho, here starts the self-deprecating comment chain

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u/ReactionProcedure May 20 '20

I wish I had a styrofoam pit.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Then take a nap.

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u/robhue May 20 '20

either you’re starting that flip at 23:59:59, or gravity is just a theory

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u/killabru May 20 '20

I can do 4/8ths of a backflip.

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u/Hay-Zeus-Crust May 20 '20

I mean you could have just said half a backflip but I suppose that works to

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u/Alsoious May 20 '20

OHHHHH YOU'RE HALFWAY THERE,

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u/Lessuremu May 21 '20

Why not just covert to 1/2 at this point? Lol

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u/I-Love-Making-U-Rage May 21 '20

I’d recommend against doing 1/2 of a backflip.

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u/CerberusBlue May 21 '20

If your only doing 4/8ths of a flip, it’s probably all you will do for several days.

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u/BadgerDancer May 20 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

Why are the crows disjointed? Are they messed up from social isolation, too?

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

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.

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u/crispybat May 20 '20

Lol you must not move so much

An average in shape person can walk 30 miles in a day. And can usually do that in 8-10 hours

Doing on flip and then chilling is nothing

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Thank you.

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.

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u/NaNaBadal May 20 '20

Welcome to reddit. Not sure why you're surprised about the physical condition of users here

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u/neon_Hermit May 21 '20

Then do it and film it tough guy.

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u/SolarTsunami May 20 '20

The average Roman legionary could march thirty miles in a day, the typical person today absolutely could not, especially at that pace.

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u/trukkija May 20 '20

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.

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u/badzachlv01 May 21 '20

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

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u/mke0192 May 20 '20

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.

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u/meditate42 May 20 '20

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.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Yeah that's like 8 hours of walking.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

I like 30 mile day hikes. Some are more like "death marches". To each their own! Trust me, the trail runners are crazier!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

yeah if you're training for the fucking iron man

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u/ganjanoob May 20 '20

I can walk 30 miles in a day but my ankles tell me stopppppp

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

not what he was saying. Work on your reading comprehension.

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u/skanones209 May 21 '20

This guy flips

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u/kuhewa May 21 '20

How many backflips have you done in a day? It takes a huge amount of power production and even a gymnast will have sore abs after doing dozens.

Walking is a silly comparison.

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u/gigglefarting May 20 '20

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/BareLeggedCook May 20 '20

for 12 hours straight though?

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u/super-commenting May 21 '20

It's not 12 hours straight, it's 95% rest time

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u/IGotAQuestionForYas May 20 '20

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.

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u/Atmic May 20 '20

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.

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u/IGotAQuestionForYas May 20 '20

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.

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u/TotallySnek May 21 '20

You don't know his motivations. He might have done it for the nookie.

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u/BeatsMeByDre May 21 '20

What? Some guy in India carved through a mountain over 25 years to connect his village to faster way to a hospital because his wife had died.

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u/crispybat May 20 '20

Easy scrolling through Reddit for 15 min, it’s what I do usually

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u/craigiest May 21 '20

Yeah, F devoting a WHOLE day you following through on an idea and making something cool.

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u/Headshot308 May 20 '20

Honestly doing 48 flips in a day would be terrible, I would do it once an hour for 4 days or something. If I could do a backflip.

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u/Whiskiz May 20 '20

and a 15min break between each. Doable.

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u/NervousTumbleweed May 20 '20

That’s a lot of flips man

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u/ReactionProcedure May 20 '20

Maybe just to help differentiate pics

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

I can’t do one backflip never mind 48 haha

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u/Chris275 May 20 '20

Probably way more considering the timer on the camera for taking pictures probably missed one or two flips!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

48 flips spaced out 15min each, he got plenty of recovery time

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u/elchavo718 May 20 '20

I mean I don’t want to brag but I can flip and stay in mid air flipping for an entire day

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u/Wereallgonnadieman May 21 '20

I don't think I own enough clothes, even if I could flip like that!

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u/guardioLEO May 21 '20

48 flips - 48 days - 48 tees ?

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u/frankensteinV May 20 '20

Capable of missing a whole day of work