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scem0

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erm, I don't know how this became a thread, I meant it for the macrumors pic thread. The videos aren't exciting or impressive enough to be in their own thread :(.

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njmac

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very impressive. It's funny you say your out of shape in the video - you look like your in great shape. :)
 

scem0

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blaskillet4 said:
Whoa. I wish I could do half of that... Better yet, I wish I could do a handstand in the first place

"Nothing was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - my namesake, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

mac_head101 said:
Holy crap! I wanna learn how to do stuff like that!

Teach me, scem0!

I don't know how! You have to take things one step at a time. Start with a front roll. Hell, start with a jump. Just jump up and land on your feet, nothing fancy. Perfect that, then move on :).

jadekitty24 said:
I can't help but think that I would break my neck if I even attempted that!

Maybe I should have included a warning - "Do not attempt at home" ;).

devilot said:
I like your jeans. Oh, and yeah, it is quite impressive.

Thank you! They are from H&M :D.

njmac said:
very impressive. It's funny you say your out of shape in the video - you look like your in great shape.

Thank you, but I'm not! I've lost a lot of muscle weight since moving from New York to Austin, mostly in my legs. I've also stopped doing acrobatics, so those were the first flips I had done in a long time, which is why I couldn't land a frickin' easy as pie backflip. ;)

lilstewart92 said:
Oh wow, that's impressive. You do it really fast.

Do I? :) I think it's pretty slow compared to most acrobatics you see on TV etc. Thank you though!

Aarow said:
Impressive. Were/are you in a gymnastics class?

Thank you! I was a diver for 5 years, competitive on a prenational team for 3 of those years, but that was from the ages of 8 to 13, so that was ages ago. I've always been infatuated with flipping and tumbling. It's been a hobby of mine. If I was aiming to impress y'all, I'd be on a trampoline :D. Trampolining was introduced into the olympics at the height of my diving career (can you call it that?), and I seriously considered quitting diving to pursue trampolining. I can do crazy things on a good trampoline :D.

w_parietti22 said:

hah :D.

max_altitude said:
Degree of difficulty 3.4

Judges scores:
USA 6.3
RUS 5.1
CAN 4.2
AUS 5.3
RSA 6.3
CHI 4.3

Total 36.7384

Might be just enough for the gold.

:eek: a MR gold medal would be an honor ;).

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IanF0729

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I haven't done that in years...you make me want to do it again.

At this point, though, I'm so out of practice I would break my neck! :(

Nice job, by the way!
 

rockthecasbah

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devilot said:
I like your jeans. :D Oh, and yeah, it is quite impressive.
i was going to say the same thing! Anyway...cool videos. I use to take gymnastics when i was 5ish but didn't get much further than very basic stuff. I wasn't very ambitious about it :)
 

scem0

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njmac said:
How about a trampoline video for us?

I'm missing two very important things to do so :). 1) A Trampoline and 2) a video camera! :D.

I broke both of them, unfortunately. I broke my trampoline by bouncing too high and tearing right through the center of it, and I broke my camera just two days ago by dropping it :(.

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840quadra

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scem0 said:
I'm missing two very important things to do so :). 1) A Trampoline and 2) a video camera! :D.

I broke both of them, unfortunately. I broke my trampoline by bouncing too high and tearing right through the center of it, and I broke my camera just two days ago by dropping it :(.

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If you broke them both at the same time I would be scared / worried.

I should take some video of me riding my Dirtbike, and crashing.. I have done some similar tumbles roles and handsprings while crashing. Fortunately I have not been seriously hurt yet, with the exception of breaking 3 bones in my foot :( .
 
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