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Gymnast Kaleb Cave lands a double backflip from standing. "Does that count?!" he shouts at the end. Yeah, I'd say it counts. Below are videos of his progression.
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Watch this coach's incredible reflexes as a young gymmast misses her landing during a recent competition in Nashville, Tennessee.
ViralHog quoted the girl's parent:
Read the rest"This was my daughter's first run on vault and when jumping back on her back handspring she went sideways and could've badly hurt herself but her coach saw that she wasn't aligned and ran in to catch her before she hit the ground."
Chinese acrobat Li Longlong holds the Guinness World Record for the "most consecutive stairs climbed on the head," a total of 36 steps.
Guinness World Records states that "the strict rules for this gruelling challenge insist that the participant must not pause for more than five seconds between steps, and that no part of the body other than the head may touch them."
I respect how Li used his unique talent to get ahead in life. Read the rest
Watch the world champion of gymnastics Simone Biles stick the landing on a triple-double at yesterday's U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City. Incredible slow motion of that below. Biles won her sixth all-around title. This is two days after she made history with a double-double dismount off the balance beam. Video of that is also below. (ESPN)
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— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) August 12, 2019
For his next trick, he should put sharks into the pool and then... Oh, never mind.
In Leeds, England, Ashley Watson, 26, set a new Guinness World Record with a backflip between horizontal bars nearly 20 feet (5.87 meters) apart. In this case, Watson didn't fly through the air with the greatest of ease as it took him six tries to land it.
Bonus below, Watson's own "favorite videos of 2015, in and out of competition":
WTF? ? pic.twitter.com/9Ax3NAlZEi
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) November 4, 2018
My daughter competes in the Jr Olympics gymnastics program and loves every minute of it. This video is the kind of shenanigans she can appreciate. Read the rest
This little monkey could certainly jump on the bed without falling off and bumping his head.
Championship gymnast Bradley Burns, 20, is reportedly one of only two people in the world who can do this trick. I am not the other.
As part of their post-Olympics publicity tours, U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team members Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian were invited to throw out first pitches at two respective baseball games. Read the rest
Romanian 5-year-old Claudio Stroe does pushups with his hands and feet on glass bottles. Claudio's older brother, Giuliano, is a World Record-setting child body builder and gymnast himself. Below, see one of Giuliano's impressive demo videos from 2013, when he was also around 5.
Say what you will about the accuracy of Shin Soo-ji's first pitch at the July 5 Doosan Bears/Samsung Lions game, but you can't fault her for style! (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
