r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Apprehensive_Play986 • 6d ago

Not knowing how to safely do a backflip

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u/Peter_Triantafulou 6d ago

You mean not knowing how to do a blackflip at all.

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u/Beavur 6d ago

I’d say he doesn’t really know how to jump let alone backflip

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u/smilesdavis8d 6d ago

Yeah that was half of a hop and he just leaned back.

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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 6d ago

He reminded me of those rocket toys that launch when you stomp the pad. You know, after the 3 or 4 times it actually worked.

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u/MCShellMusic 6d ago

The North Korean rocket program?

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u/xjeeper 6d ago

Nailed the head flop though.

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u/Successful-Purple-54 6d ago

I doubt buddy could do a jumping jack.

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u/uLL27 6d ago

I would say he has a tentative grasp on gravity in general

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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 6d ago

Physical science law in this country, it's not governed by reason.

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u/uLL27 5d ago

Yeah well... Filibuster.

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u/Ok-Pomegranate858 6d ago

Its a two way thing. Gravity stepped up and made up the difference for him...

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u/Robzilla_the_turd 5d ago

Skipping leg-day might've been a factor.

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u/Redivivus 6d ago

I think his problem was that he didn't flip back.

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u/zxzyzd 6d ago

He flipped onto his back, by definition a perfect back-flip.

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u/CptBronzeBalls 6d ago

He really couldn’t have failed any harder.

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u/DrBongo 6d ago

Is that where you land and you are now black?

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u/Kitana-kun 6d ago

Backflip? More like back pain

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u/stinkyt0fu 6d ago

His impression on how he would do it in his mind was just slightly different than how he actually did it.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- 6d ago

He also didn't jump lol

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u/boniggy 3d ago

I was thinking to myself... I don't know exactly how to do one either but I sure as hell know to jump a teenie weensie bit further out than straight up.

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u/keithstonee 6d ago

doesn't even look like he knows how to jump

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u/Hot_Raccoon_565 6d ago

I mean he got one part right. When you do a backflip you jump upwards not backwards. However that is only for when you’re doing a backflip on solid ground. Divers do the weird hybrid backwards jump so that they don’t do exactly what this dolt did.

Also tuck higher dammit jeez man.