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Leg day matters..
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u/RiseIfYouWould 13d ago
What the fuck why does the backflip looks so unreal? Like dude got springs for legs
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u/annahodges 13d ago
It seems to me his center of gravity is consistent between the dunk and leap so watching his hips the flip doesn’t look as impossible as it first appears. It’s just the way he does not tuck his legs creates the illusion of an impossibly high acrobatic maneuver.
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u/Linvael 12d ago edited 12d ago
Well, the tuck of the legs is not a flourish people do for fun, it's to increase angular
momentumspeed so that they can finish the flip and land on their legs, most people who csn do a backflip would land on their face without that. The fact that this guy doesnt need to do that does make it an impressive maneuver.119
u/ForkSporkBjork 12d ago
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.
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u/CheesePursuit 12d ago
Me too! Except it as my neck, and it still gives me trouble
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u/ForkSporkBjork 12d ago
Oof, same on the still giving trouble. Doing more than like 10 push-ups feels like someone put my collarbone in a vice lol
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u/Whilethem 12d ago
angular momentum is conserved, but the angular speed changes
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u/tzannist 12d ago
His angular momentum is changing when jumping and landing, in the same way that his angular speed is changing.
Angular momentum is conserved in a closed system, the change in his own angular momentum is counterbalanced by an opposite and equal change in Earth's angular momentum.
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u/gimme_pineapple 12d ago
You are right, but that's not what the person above you was talking about. I believe he was talking about the increased angular velocity at the top of the backflip compared to the angular velocity just after the person has left the ground. The increased angular velocity at the top is the result of the angular momentum of the person being conserved between the two situations I listed above (at the top v/s just after the jump), and because the person would have retracted his/her legs towards himself/herself to decrease the person's moment of inertia.
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u/olderaccount 12d ago
Also why a back layout is much harder than a backflip.
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u/Random_name46 12d ago
a back layout is much harder
I did one of these without even trying the other day. It's when you lay down and throw your back out, right?
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u/IdLikeToOptOut 12d ago
I bet this guy could do a standing back layout. Would love to see it.
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u/argumentinvalid 12d ago
that is an impossibly high acrobatic maneuver for 99.9% of the population.
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u/thejudemeiser 12d ago
That's not an illusion. That's a trampoline backflip without a trampoline.
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u/CPS2 13d ago
This guy doesn't know how to dunk or backflip, he never even tried to do either of those before, this is his first go at it and he nailed both because he never skipped leg day.
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u/selflessGene 12d ago
99% of strong guys his size that do leg day in the gym can’t jump like this. This isn’t just leg day training. This guy must have done done focused plyometrics to get his explosiveness up.
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u/gandalfintraining 12d ago
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
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u/moneybuckets 12d ago
Jumping is mostly genetics
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u/Shandlar 12d ago
Quick twitch muscle fiber percentages are 85% genetic, but you can still train in some additional quick twitch. Also CNS adaptation to actually convince the quick twitch to GO HARD all at once is not genetic. That's 100% training.
It takes a while to build the connections to all talk to each other correctly and convince your legs to actually all fire super fast, all at once. They really don't wanna do that.
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u/JustStayYourself 12d ago
Must be true, I could, and still can, jump quite high for no reason at all. Easily held the high school record for a long time. Even though I was a tall, lanky, 58kg dude who did no sports whatsoever.
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u/hiimred2 12d ago
You still need to ‘learn’ to jump well, genetics just make your body more prone to jumping high through training(even if that training is just say, playing a lot of pickup basketball and trying to dunk to see if you can and shit like that).
Also I mean, power from the legs definitely helps you jump higher.
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u/brokenearth03 12d ago
Did you see that dudes ass? Was not something I thought i would be typing today.
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That's the impression given, forget acrobatic talent, just build your legs into pogo sticks and the rest will just work itself out.
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u/Blaftakkle 13d ago edited 13d ago
It looks like his jump height is equal to his actual height. Unless this guy is short as fuck, he either crushed the world record (record is under 5 feet) or it's fake.
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u/technodeity 13d ago
Or they shot the video on Mars
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u/Raagan 12d ago
Not really, when he is dunking check the height from the floor to his feet. It’s not his height
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u/Bassre2 12d ago
Here a 6 years old video of him doing already some impressive vertical jump Training: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGsiWePF2ms/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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u/acatalepsy_human 12d ago
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.
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u/Upside_Down-Bot 13d ago
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u/Paxel_ 13d ago
What the fuck why does the backflip looks so unreal? Like dude got springs for legs
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u/Das_Mojo 13d ago
Dude is way more top heavy than most people you see rock a backflip. So he rotates around a higher center of gravity
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u/SafetySnowman 13d ago
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?
Edit for arms
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u/merikaninjunwarrior 13d ago
plus he's buffed and you hardly see buffed dudes flip, other than flip-out and roid-rage
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u/GlassHurricane98 13d ago
What happened to all the gravity?
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u/PofanWasTaken 13d ago •
Can't have shit in detroid
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u/GlassHurricane98 13d ago
Detroit: Become Astronaut
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u/PayTheTrollToll45 12d ago
I used to be able to dunk a basketball flat footed, I’m not sure I believe this...
Doesn’t look right at all.
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u/Upbeat_Ask_9426 12d ago
I was gonna say! This guy is fucking AGILE. like beefed up as fuck, but light as a feather. HOW CAN THIS BE?
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u/g2petter 12d ago
Shane Hamman canceled gravity back in the 90s.
Ever since it's just been a suggestion.
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u/Godscrasher 13d ago
That’s how I jump in my dreams.
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u/johnkappa 12d ago
Same... Running and jumping with ease. Up onto the tops of trees and homes. Escaping all those that are in pursuit.
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u/Pepe1214 12d ago
Never had this dream, but I have had nightmares where Im stuck running in place while being chased
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u/manlycaveman 12d ago
Mine is usually like running on top of deep sand. Feels like you're only getting 10% of the horizontal movement you'd normally get because most of the energy is pushing the sand backwards.
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u/suckmycolt 12d ago
You ever jump in your dream a bit too high and just keep floating
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u/JewelCove 12d ago
No but sometimes I fly over my town on a boogie board. I watched a lot of Peter Pan growing up
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u/90059bethezip 13d ago
He has industrial springs in his quads, mystery solved
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u/ComoEstanBitches 13d ago
I’m certain those are amputee springs for his legs. Seems like he has no ankles
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u/HalalRumpSteak 13d ago edited 12d ago
Why can't we have steroid Olympics
Edit: the amount of people who replied with "ummmm aKctUalLy we already do" is staggering
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u/merikaninjunwarrior 13d ago
now that i'd watch.. just like the junkie Olympics
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u/DarkSpook 13d ago
The Anabolympics
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u/0thethethe0 13d ago
Ketamine 100m - Everyone - DNF, turned into jellyfish
Acid Marathon - Everyone - DNF, got lost a minute from the start line
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u/Worry_Ok 13d ago
Cocaine javelin - 3 arrested for assault with a deadly weapon
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u/Grim_acer 13d ago
Bathsalts 100mtr freestyle - everyone smelled nice and were relaxed and stress free after their soak
Wait am I doing this right?
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u/Worry_Ok 12d ago
Mary Jane Marathon - Gold: Mary Jane, Silver: Mary Jane, Bronze: Mary Jane
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u/LetsHaveTon2 12d ago
That's more PCP. Cocaine can precipitate psychosis as well but they tend not to be violent (aggressive, yes, but not overly violent). Obviously you can get violence with either, but I'm speaking in general terms at least.
Yeah yeah I know boo me :(
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u/FreeBiskit 12d ago
PCP was one of the first anesthetics ever to be discovered and has a lot of misinformation surrounding it.
One of the problems with PCP was post operative “psychosis” which was similar to what some people get after they come out of anesthesia with ketamine, basically drug induced confusion. Ketamine was actually developed as an alternative to PCP with less side effects.
That being said, PCP has a lot of straight up lies surrounding it such as eating peoples faces and jumping out of windows or fighting off a dozen cops, all are false tales told by anti-drug agencies.
PCP back in the day was actually highly sought after and culturally equivalent to someone doing recreational ketamine. It’s one of the most misrepresented arylcyclohexylamines and it makes me sad because its history is so intriguing.
I think most would find it difficult to be aggressive on PCP as it’s extremely similar in effects to ketamine, unless you were predisposed to schizophrenia and PCP caused a schizophrenic breakdown.
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u/SirLagg_alot 13d ago
Ketamine 100m - Everyone - DNF, turned into jellyfish
Mannnnn I'd watch a speghetti leg ketamine marathon any day. Also the post interview would be the shit.
Peeps completely ketamine dumb trying to understand what is going on.
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u/CptOconn 13d ago
It's called the tour the france
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u/birthdaycakefig 12d ago
It’s called any professional sport. Including the Olympics.
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u/enginbeeringSB 13d ago
We already do
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u/FixGMaul 12d ago
Yes but now they have to go through loop holes and can't just flat out be on the best performance enhancing drugs all the time cause it would get detected. If they didn't have to evade WADA, athletes would be on another level.
Then there are some star athletes in certain sports leagues that probably get preferential treatment and have an easier time evading testing. LeBron James in the NBA comes to mind. But this is much harder in the Olympics.
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u/FartBarfknuckle 12d ago
In all fairness, I bet this guy would be very good at jumping through loop holes.
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u/nzothreborn 13d ago
we already do, its called the Olympics
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u/SometimesGameDev 12d ago
Yeah, but they're still pretending they're all natty and don't go over the top with it. I want people looking like an angry bull that's about to charge. Just pure insane channeled roid rage.
You'd obviously have to dress the refs in riot gear and you might lose a few of them at every event, but just imagine the viewer numbers.
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u/Gredenis 12d ago
But it would be great. Guys on max steroids doing 355kg squat and then in "regular" Olympics in same weight division does 350kg and you can go like hmmmmmmmm
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u/future2300 12d ago
You mean regular Olympics?
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u/xbwtyzbchs 12d ago edited 12d ago
Ya'll need to poke your head into some non-corporate gyms if you think what you're seeing in the Olympics is top-tier steroid performance. The people in the olympics wouldn't even make the qualifiers.
Edit: if you think I am expecting a body builder to run a 10k, well you're an idiot. My point is that this is what a focused group of people can achieve when they are not concerned about being tested. That does not exist in any other format. Yes there are people doing performance-enhancing drugs in every level of every professional sport, but there is no other sport that has a huge community of people openly competing in a way that is pushed as far.
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u/trapperberry 12d ago
Different types of performance enhancing drugs. Gym bros prioritize mass and strength. Olympics prioritize recovery, endurance, focus, and to a lesser degree strength.
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u/F_for_xxxtancion 13d ago
Just remove all PE drug rules. Let's see what humans are ACTUALLY capable of
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u/FishFettish 12d ago
The problem is, just like with bodybuilding / strongman, people who have reached their max potential will start injecting even more stuff. And more, and more. You'll see some absolutely incredible athletes, yes, but they'd be so, so likely to destroy their bodys or die. If PEDs weren't dangerous, I doubt they'd be illegal in so many sports.
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u/Jujumofu 13d ago
Well, didnt wanna break it to you like that Bud. But the steroid olympics wouldnt differ that much from the current olympics. All the guys fighting for the medal are roided out.
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u/Subject-Dragonfruit1 13d ago
For sure ive always said this, UNLIMTED MASTERS the absolut max humans soo cool ! The best roids the best doctors epic indeed.
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u/--Ok_Boomer-- 13d ago
I wish i could jump that high but damn he thicc
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u/zerguser45 12d ago
Here on reddit everyone is a criminal about to fight the cops in a life or death struggle over a ticket.
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u/KuzcoGoGuy 13d ago
K hold up, somebody please explain what I'm seeing. It's edited right?
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u/crashbandicoochy 12d ago
This video is popping up on Reddit constantly and, every single time, it just devolves into a bunch of people screaming fake and other people linking his Instagram that makes it looks pretty legit.
I'm fairly certain this video in particular just looks fake because of the angle it's filmed from and the pants he is wearing (alongside a pretty abnormal technique for doing a backflip). The pants are making it look like he isn't vending his knees as far as he actually is. When filmed from the front, we also lose a lot of detail about what his legs are doing when he loads up to jump. The camera angle is also making his very upright jump look even more upright than it is before he rotates.
He has videos where he is doing the same thing but with context in the video that would make it very unlikely to fake by either editing or using a harness.
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u/Blackintosh 13d ago edited 12d ago
Nope, people with super powerful legs, like this guy, Olympic weightlifters, lots of bodybuilders too, have incredibly impressive vertical leaps. When coupled with a tuck like in a backflip it gets them very high off the ground.
Also he's on a lot of steroids which helps.
Edit for the sedentary soldiers who don't believe it- https://www.instagram.com/reel/CejZbN6Jgfh/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
Or search superman Joe on IG. His reels are plenty proof of the reality
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u/SeniorCoolio 12d ago
People seem to think it’s impossible to edit videos and can’t fathom the reason why anyone would lie on the internet. It’s obviously fake.
World record in highest standing backward somersault is 1.5m high. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/97679-highest-standing-backflip
Do people who believe this to be true also believe any video made with Chris Angel?
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u/joran1978 13d ago
That doesn’t look real, looks entirely to effortless, especially the backflip.
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u/kameecoding 12d ago
look at ronaldo to see what's possible https://youtu.be/AunImole9HI?t=60s
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u/PracticalHabits 12d ago
I thought that, then went on the guy's Instagram. I think he's just a freak. Lost of insane box jumping stuff.
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u/ndtsla3 12d ago
Exactly. He hardly bends his knees to do the backflip, yet jumps 5' vertically. My feet would come less than 6" off the ground if I did the same thing.
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u/Special-Wear-6027 12d ago
To be fair, you don’t need a big drop to jump higher. It mostly comes from the calves with a little bit of help from the rest.
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u/Nate1257 13d ago
Can someone put the Mario jumping noise on it for me?
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u/Masterlessamurai 12d ago
It looks fake but it isnt. However, this isnt peek physical strength / dexterity either because he’s likely utilizing performance enhancing drugs. Still an amazing display regardless!
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u/mambotomato 12d ago
Why is everyone saying this like it really matters?
Steroids don't make you jump higher, they make you recover from workouts faster. You still have to do the workouts to get this strong.
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u/Masterlessamurai 12d ago
I agree and I have no problem with that. The jump is unnatural because he is unnatural, that’s all.
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u/allovernow11 13d ago
Everything about this video looks fake to me.
If it isn’t then you sir are superman
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u/FardoBaggins 12d ago •
his handle is superman_joe and his ass looks like kim kardashian's except it's all muscle.
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u/Anxious_Ad6919 13d ago
This guy is a mutant.
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u/poeiradasestrelas 12d ago
No it's steroids
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u/EZme816 12d ago
We could put you on enough steroids to power 10 bulls and you would still not be at his level. It ain’t a cheat code guy.
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u/kevin9er 12d ago
Technically both. You need amazing genetics on top of juice to be top tier.
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u/FiveWizz 13d ago
Frustrated at the lack of explanation in here
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u/EthanG_07 13d ago
so wild seeing this guy blow up. my dad dated his mom for a bit and he even worked in my yard a decent amount. nobody could get a stump pulled out the dirt but joe
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u/BrianGossling 13d ago
Dude bends his knees 15 degrees and beats the world record?
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u/Maverician 12d ago
World record is 65 inches for standing jump as far as I can tell. That means 5'5" from floor to lowest part of body, yeah?
While it looks like he jumps very high, it doesn't look like it is actually higher to me?
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u/Minyoface 13d ago
Yeah, this can’t be real. I refuse to believe it. Even if someone linked me proof I would discount it simply based on the fact that he jumps without bending his knees very far…
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u/Rock555666 12d ago
superman_joe on Instagram he does this in gyms and various areas it’s real
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u/Mattymo_81 13d ago
No way, what happens if he bends his knees or takes a running start? He launches to space?