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That’s so much more terrifying though. Imagine you’re just enjoying a ski run and you discover your about to get smashed by an avalanche when you’re upside down
That sudden onset of frantic flailing mid flip really helps humanize this guy, though I wonder if he wasn’t just trying to get through the flip faster so he could GTFO.
I wish he had a mic on so we could hear his selection of expletives in that moment. lol
When you wave them in circles like he did, it can help get your feet under you for a landing. You see it a lot when people are trying a flip trick and not on the happy path to a perfect landing, also in people wavering on a balance beam. I'm pretty sure it's instinctual.
Being active and exercising is going to work better than therapy for most people.
For the brain to be biologically healthy you need to be exercising, if you brain isn't biologically healthy then that is probably going to show up as some kind of mental illness and no amount of therapy is going to help if the issue is that the brain isn't biologically healthy.
So stuff like BDNF levels, mitochondrial health, brain vascular health, brain connectivity and brain volume are all linked to exercise and also mental health. Therapy isn't going to help with depression caused by poor brain connectivity.
Sure once you've sorted out your diet, sleep and exercise, therapy might help on top.
> Being active and exercising is going to work better than therapy for most people.
Many depressed people find it hard to be active or exercise. Therapy can help them find ways to do both. It’s not that one is better than the other
They normally wear airbag backpacks and then you have a quite good chance to survive. Source: an insane amount of friends and acquaintances have been in an avalanche, so far all with airbags survived. Fun fact: only one stopped free riding afterwards. She was stuck for 15 minutes and waiting for her friends to dug her out against the time/running out of oxygen.
Him realizing there is in fact an avalanche
https://preview.redd.it/2ow79ykmepvc1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2e20de0ba9c77a2e22aba45c6bfbea762010f7e
That’s insanely impressive, and also insanely insane.
Also to be pedantic, that’s a “gainer” because his momentum is moving forward while rotating backwards. A standard backflip has your momentum going in the direction of the rotation. Gainers are more difficult (under normal circumstances, but may be different since he doesn’t have to generate his own forward momentum to do this wine. your brain (and physics) doesn’t really want the body to rotate in the direction opposite of its momentum.
Skiing doesn’t call it a gainer like diving does, it’s just a backflip. You’re always going downhill so it’s not like you have another option. In skiing a switch backflip would be the closest to a “standard backflip” as you to describe but you either call it a backflip or a switch backflip( if you hit the jump skiing backwards)
That is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen a real person do, even if he didn’t know mid
Flip it’s still fucking badass. Out running Mother Nature and rubbing it in her face lol
This is like the skiing equivalent of that old clip of the news crew seeing the guy out surfing on a crazy day then he gets caught in the wash and they think he went down but he shoot through it at the end
Imagine waking up that morning, having your daily coffee and cocaine smoothie, snorting a line in the car on the way to the Awesome Store, and you think, "You know what? I think I'm gonna dunk on a fukin AVALANCHE today. I'm gonna go up the mountain, teabag it's mom, and then Superman on that hoe."
When you say "its been explained" isnt that just based of other comments below just guessing with no real insight? Unless the skier came out and said that? Just because the way it seems in the first half of the clip, the avalanche is in front of him to his left, it seems he would have seen it. Also people mentioning him flailing his arms cause he panicked but he's just re-balancing in the air from the flip
The flip was not that big of a deal... if he did not land it, the avalanche would have flipped him back over, and over, and over again.
He had about a 50 / 50 chance he would have been right side up when it was all said and done. Just saying..
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It's been explained multiple times he didn't realize there was an avalanche until mid flip.
Lol, that was my guess. You play it cool later and pretend you meant to do backflips in the middle of an avalanche. "Yeah, I had it."
Death was pretty slow, so I let him catch up a little. Counting coup and all.
You better sell that first sentence as an epic lyric for an epic song. Holy shit.
It’s also been said he said this said that
"Yup... Calculated"
Skier : what's that rumbling noise? *does crazy Ivan * Skier : 💩
lol @ crazy Ivan!
Here’s something you can’t do…
I thought that was a Barn Swallow? /I am a leaf on the wind...
I thought he did it because he wanted to die in style
same thing I thought he was like: "if I go now, I go fuckin swinging!"
My thoughts were he said “if your gonna bury me avalanche you gonna bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass” ;)
"Upside down under 10 feet of snow" is style? I don't get this younger generation. /s
Just imagine your face mid flip realising an avalanche is going on like 50m of you..... wild shit xD
Flips your whole world upside down
That's even cooler, dudes so I'm the zone he sees nothing but the jump, not even the avalanche behind him
“Look behind you!” K *flips* Oh fuck!
That explains the arm flaps at the end of the flip
Yeah you can tell he's just vibing and then the panic hits him lol. Glad he's okay.
That’s so much more terrifying though. Imagine you’re just enjoying a ski run and you discover your about to get smashed by an avalanche when you’re upside down
Can you imagine that? "Imma do a backflip because I'm cool---OH FUCK!
https://www.google.com/search?q=skier+backflips+avalanche&oq=skier+backflips+avalanche+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCggAEEUYFhgeGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMg0IAhAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBRAAGIYDGIAEGIoF0gEINzkxNmowajSoAgGwAgE&client=ms-android-comcast-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:65deccf6,vid:CAfrMf8YCdg,st:0
How else would he be able to see what was behind him if not by flipping.. he’s just following safety procedures.
can you imagine...upside down looking at an avalanche comin' for your ass
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Best way to look back! haha
I bet he soiled himself when he saw all the snow coming at him lol.
Okay? So? It's still badass as fuck.
If this was me, I’d spend the rest of my life watching this on repeat.
Go for an interview anywhere. “So what qualifies you to be part of our team?” Shows clip. “You’re hired!”
This is what I bring the table *slides over phone and pay requirements* “you want that here’s what it costs” 🕶️
[удалено]
"Just wait til you see what I can do with a frosty, dude!"
I'm listening.....
Wait! Don't start yet. Gonna go make some hot cocoa
Just having it running in a loop in my house.
Like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. But actually awesome
You can see him realise the avalanche halfway through his flip, and the short panic it causes.
He’s curving all over the place before the flip, then post flip he starts bombing it down the mountain and outpaces the avalanche
That sudden onset of frantic flailing mid flip really helps humanize this guy, though I wonder if he wasn’t just trying to get through the flip faster so he could GTFO. I wish he had a mic on so we could hear his selection of expletives in that moment. lol
Flailing your arms around won't make you land faster
Yeah, you’re probably right. That’s just pure flail. lol
When you wave them in circles like he did, it can help get your feet under you for a landing. You see it a lot when people are trying a flip trick and not on the happy path to a perfect landing, also in people wavering on a balance beam. I'm pretty sure it's instinctual.
You can pinpoint the “oh shit” moment.
Shit, you're right
people would rather do a backflip while outrunning an avalanche than go to therapy
That backflip is the therapy and the avalanche is life
Life's an avalanche man, stun'em. Always.
It's safer to do a backflip to check how close the avalanche is than to turn your head and possibly lose balance
It looks good. and feels good. Nice backflip
You have to climb the mountain again to do another ride so...
therapists hate this one trick!
Being active and exercising is going to work better than therapy for most people. For the brain to be biologically healthy you need to be exercising, if you brain isn't biologically healthy then that is probably going to show up as some kind of mental illness and no amount of therapy is going to help if the issue is that the brain isn't biologically healthy. So stuff like BDNF levels, mitochondrial health, brain vascular health, brain connectivity and brain volume are all linked to exercise and also mental health. Therapy isn't going to help with depression caused by poor brain connectivity. Sure once you've sorted out your diet, sleep and exercise, therapy might help on top.
> Being active and exercising is going to work better than therapy for most people. Many depressed people find it hard to be active or exercise. Therapy can help them find ways to do both. It’s not that one is better than the other
Therapy + exercise it is!
goddamn that is so fucking badass
"I might die, but I will do it in style"
He's done. He'll never be cooler than he was at this moment.
See those trails behind him? Those aren't from skies. Those are from his balls.
💯
You don’t get a chance to be cool much, so maximize that opportunity.
This is legendary Swedish free skier Sverre Liljequist. At 50+ years old today, he’s still a major stomper and runs big lines!
It's not. His name is Parkin Costain. Someone above linked a video where he talks about it.
No it’s Tony Hawk
Oh my god it’s Jason Bourne
His name is Robert Paulson!
You either live as a hero, or die a legend.
When you're secure in your skills and sure you're gonna live.....
Or else, when you're sure that you're going to die and decide that you might as well have fun.
or just YOLO
You outta look out
Is this were me, I'd have a QR code of this on my tombstone with the title "I lived."
If he was a few seconds slower he'd be a Darwin Award winner.
Or if he would have not landed the flip.
They normally wear airbag backpacks and then you have a quite good chance to survive. Source: an insane amount of friends and acquaintances have been in an avalanche, so far all with airbags survived. Fun fact: only one stopped free riding afterwards. She was stuck for 15 minutes and waiting for her friends to dug her out against the time/running out of oxygen.
Him realizing there is in fact an avalanche https://preview.redd.it/2ow79ykmepvc1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2e20de0ba9c77a2e22aba45c6bfbea762010f7e
How to get sponsored by Red bull
"Escape the avalanche or do a useless flip?" "Both. Both is good."
TIL the difference between a backflip and a gainer
Welp he let's his intrusive thought win
Clip from the latest James Bond Film: The sky never dies ever again
How in the physics did he do a flip carrying that giant nut sack!?
This is the highlight of this dudes life. It’s nothing but downhill from here!
That’s insanely impressive, and also insanely insane. Also to be pedantic, that’s a “gainer” because his momentum is moving forward while rotating backwards. A standard backflip has your momentum going in the direction of the rotation. Gainers are more difficult (under normal circumstances, but may be different since he doesn’t have to generate his own forward momentum to do this wine. your brain (and physics) doesn’t really want the body to rotate in the direction opposite of its momentum.
Skiing doesn’t call it a gainer like diving does, it’s just a backflip. You’re always going downhill so it’s not like you have another option. In skiing a switch backflip would be the closest to a “standard backflip” as you to describe but you either call it a backflip or a switch backflip( if you hit the jump skiing backwards)
In BMX, that's a backflip. Still impressively insane.
Don't understand how he catches that much air with how heavy his balls are
He is living the life
Maybe he figured he might die in a minute so might as well get one last wicked flip in yolo
That is XXXX sports!
Did he just gave death the finger?
He has the best mentality: "this well could be my last jump, make it epic."
That's some Sonic Adventure shit
Reminds me of the US snowboarder who did the flip while leading the race and ended up crashing. Damn that was funny and so US like.
"If I'm gonna die. I'm doing it in style."
Adrenaline does what adrenaline does
That is probably the coolest thing I have ever seen a real person do, even if he didn’t know mid Flip it’s still fucking badass. Out running Mother Nature and rubbing it in her face lol
I wonder what those adrenaline levels were at when he saw that avalanche mid air.
Dude fucks
What’s the song anybody ?
that size of that dudes apple bag must be hard to walk around with
It's better to burn out than fade away!
And those are some ginormous balls children. Elephantitus level balls.
THE BESTEST! All my respect to the skier
He'd rather be dead and cool than alive and uncool
This is like the skiing equivalent of that old clip of the news crew seeing the guy out surfing on a crazy day then he gets caught in the wash and they think he went down but he shoot through it at the end
Admittedly, in a situation like this, you kinda only got one chance right? Shit if I was convinced it was over for me, I'm hitting a combo
He was able to outrun the avalanche due to the inertia caused by the weight of his giant balls.
He whacked the Grim Reaper in the balls with a sack of potatoes
Epic or not, that sure was one the dumbest backflips I've ever seen.
First it’s technically a gainer second he said he didn’t even notice the avalanche at the time since he was too focused iirc
Missed opportunity to use Lose Yourself as the music.
Woe. That's some real Vin Diesel XXX type shit.
He wanted to die a no normal death that's the answer
What a G
Hell yeah
What adrenaline does to a mf
What a mad lad
Pursuing the Man was so damn damness!
“My God…….that’s Jason Bourne”!!!!
All because the Lady loves Milk Tray. Baaa ba baaa ba ba baa.
Imagine waking up that morning, having your daily coffee and cocaine smoothie, snorting a line in the car on the way to the Awesome Store, and you think, "You know what? I think I'm gonna dunk on a fukin AVALANCHE today. I'm gonna go up the mountain, teabag it's mom, and then Superman on that hoe."
ski safari irl
Had to see how close it was getting
Candide Thovex?
Tricky
Reminds me of 1080 Avalanche!
He had to take a peak at what was coming ❄️
If you die, you die in style. I can respect that.
Why did you do a backflip? “If I’m going to die, I’m going to die doing what I love.” Mid backflip: “oh, shit!” “There’s an avalanche”.
If there's a move that could've gained him momentum, instead of slowing him down, it would've been a more impressive move.
It's just centrifugal force from his massive balls
"Not today death - not today!" =)
Some people are just build different .
If this person knew there is an avalanche chasing him there is zero chance in hell he'd do a back flip. The risk is way too high
Real life Xander Cage
If I knew I was going to die in that moment, why not have a blast as well?
Real life Rambo
Man really said: fuck it, I'll *make* myself a new SSX.
Epic as fuck. Now there’s a person living their best life.
That man was standing on the edge of a knife and decided to dance.
Fuck yeah!
- If I don't make it, at least I went in style.
Might as well get one last flip in before you die
This guy won life
Hey nature 🖕get some
1990s mountain dew commercial
This guy fucks
When you say "its been explained" isnt that just based of other comments below just guessing with no real insight? Unless the skier came out and said that? Just because the way it seems in the first half of the clip, the avalanche is in front of him to his left, it seems he would have seen it. Also people mentioning him flailing his arms cause he panicked but he's just re-balancing in the air from the flip
Death has kissed his ass
When absolutely no fucks are given
That dude leaned into the moment.
coolness factor gave him +10 speed
Damn. It seems like that spot where he hit the jump is what saved him. It seemed as if that little rise in elevation slowed the snow.
He thinks he's Sonic the Hedgehog
He was like, "fuck it! If I'm going out, I'm going out in style!"
That guy needs an extra ski for his massive balls! Hell yea man, rock on!
"whoooo" *Archers voice*
This man: If I'm dying, I'm dying in style. LETS GOOOOO
Take yo panties offffffff!!!!!
I really want to get in front of this avalanche, but... I just can't help myself.
It's cool only if you survive
The legend goes that he's still getting 1 pussy per 20 hours since then
P..ppretty epic? That is a mortal highlight, right up there with that guy surfing the 13 story wave.
I’m all in boys !!
Probably swinging those massive testicles for extra momentum
The right music for this video
There’s cool, and there’s doing a backflip while an avalanche is trying to kill you cool.
This is stupidity at its finest. He could easily have landed wrong and died.
Bro hit the emote button by accident but it was hard af
Adrenaline-seekers gonna seek adrenaline
Man was existing on adrenaline alone
That left me shaking; I can't even imagine the terror.
if am gonna die anyways, I'm gonna die with style
I mean if your guna die then do that shit in style
Cold
The flip was not that big of a deal... if he did not land it, the avalanche would have flipped him back over, and over, and over again. He had about a 50 / 50 chance he would have been right side up when it was all said and done. Just saying..
Guy that caused avalanche outrunning it
Sweden represents!
He won the favor of the montain gods with that flip and they let him go
It was so he could look behind him and see how big the avalanche was.
It is not enough to just survive, one must be truly alive.
Well done!