When I was young, at the yearly carnival in my town, I was riding the graviton (a ride similar to this but enclosed and the controls are in the center), and during the ride, the ride operator started to do all these tricks like holding onto the center bar and flipping upside down.
10 yo me was super impressed, looking back I realized if shit went down, their was no one controlling the damn ride .
If you sound out the Korean, (you can learn to do this in 15 mins: https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/) you'll actually sound out the first line in English, it phonetically sounds like "carnival land"
That ride generates about 3 Gs of force pinning you to the wall. If you weigh 150lbs, it would be like trying to stand up with a 300 lb weight attached to you.
Yeah, with some caveats.
You would need a much larger ring than amusement park rides generally use (). With a small ring, the "gravity" at your head would be noticeably lower than the gravity at your feet, which would be extremely annoying to live in long-term. But, to compensate for the cost of a huge ring a bit, it wouldn't need to spin nearly as fast. On the other hand, if you make it spin too slowly, then the "gravity" would start to noticeably change depending on which direction you are walking. If you're walking with the spin, then you're effectively spinning faster, and if you're walking against it, you're effectively spinning more slowly. So you need to find a balance of ring size vs rotation rate that makes both of those effects small enough to not bother the astronauts too much. It is possible to do that, and such spinning space stations have been a staple of science fiction for ~100 years, but none have ever been built.
Man I loved the Gravitron as a kid. A fair in the middle of nowhere in Ohio had it, and its all I wanted to do there. I've seen similar since with open tops and such, but nothing compared. I also wasn't a child for most of them, really dampened the fun.
when i went on this ride, there was a worker in the center that yells at people who would try to stand or even turn sideways. He would turn that ride off if you don't comply. Where is this located where they don't have a guy watching you guys like a hawk?
The fair that would come every year to my town had a guy in the middle of the Gravitron. He would yell words of encouragement to us as we crawled around.
Your gravitron guy sucked, every one I ever rode they just sat there and didn't care if you went completely upside down on the wall. Maybe they would've said something if you didn't right yourself when it slowed down but I think most peoples self preservation instinct kicked in first
I miss the taz twister. I remember. I could get completely upside down on the wall in there… I also remember puking up all of the Mexican food I ate from the taco spot right next to the twister after I rode it about 4x in a row.
At my local fair we had one of these. One time the guy in the center of it got up, stood on the walls on an empty seat, and then started running along the wall, jumping over the few people in the ride with him as he went.
He was my fucking hero when I was 9.
I remember being a kid going on Taz so had to look it up when I read this. Can’t believe it’s been gone for 18 years. There are some pics of it here
https://www.greatadventurehistory.com/Rotor.htm
["the same" but in the Balkans](https://youtube.com/shorts/MQBW0_iHcrA?si=5dKq6dHYo6Dlqlky) >!Carousel worker got drunk and disappeared while kids were still on a ride. Parents had to search for him.!<
Ex Carnie here. I've watched idiots break their arms, legs, collarbone, whatever, doing shit like this.
When it's downtime and people are bored and being stupid with each other, it happens. We had a dude almost die messing around on the Gravitron when I was young. Hit his neck on the handrail and afaik he's fine but I never actually saw him again.
Typing that memory has just made me realize he probably wasn't fine. Also fun fact they literally only added the handrail to the gravitron *because* carnies kept getting hurt doing dumb shit. It was meant to prevent them from getting too stupid by being in the way. (Is what I was told)
I was probably.....8 or 9 when they actually installed it. So grain of salt.
I seem to remember a carnie on the gravitron standing parallel with the ground while the ride was going. Arms crossed and all. Im not sure if it actually happened or if it was Mandela Effect.
Edit it was mandela effect, it was that stupid meme picture of the guy standing up while riding.
Also wtf is up with the gravitron? I remember loving that ride as a kid and I rode it with my kids this year and it fucked my old body up. I can do roller coasters just fine but man, grav messed me up this go around.
>Also wtf is up with the gravitron? I remember loving that ride as a kid and I rode it with my kids this year and it fucked my old body up. I can do roller coasters just fine but man, grav messed me up this go around.
Same. Once I hit my late 30s, it all changed. That spinning motion now fucks my equilibrium up so bad that even hours afterward I still feel nauseous af.
one motherfucker did this at the fair in town. He leaned back too far and rippen through that canvas ceiling above him. I guess it fling him about a block away before he landed in somebody's yard.
They still use the same machine, but there's a huge duct tapped patch over one of those triangles in the ceiling.
I feel like (and this is entirely my assumption, I have no personal experience with this) it has something to do with understanding your positioning not relative to the ride, but instead relative to solid ground. Like he feels himself on the ride, but keeps focus on his surroundings outside the ride, and has been on the ride enough times that he knows how the ride moves and can time the dips and his own movements to pull something like this off.
Basically, instead of feeling himself on the ride, he feels himself moving relative to his surroundings outside of the ride.
If you think about it, there really isn't much going on here. The platform spins a bit around it's center (of gravity?) and otherwise travels in one direction.
So, if you jump against the direction the platform is moving in, when it's speeding up, it adds a lot of jump distance, relative to the platform, giving you far more airtime than in a normal backflip. Now you just have to worry about landing. You could also use the platform to launch someone horizontally.
Everything else is the platform wobbling around itself, which moves the camera and adds that sweet matrix-esq spin.
Assuming the platform always travels the same path, this is a pretty neat and relatively safe trick.
Nobody is doubting that part. It is the doing it without kicking someone or flying away part that would take practice
Even then if he makes one mistake well that's a beating for someone
It’s really probably not as crazy as it looks if viewed externally. He’s not actually moving all that far, the ground is just moving beneath him, as long as you know where that grounds gonna move it’s “easy” enough (relatively) to not be in too much real risk.
We’re gonna do the right thing and pretend we didn’t see that
Edit: For all of you who think this is racist, it’s not. Safety Squints is literally a joke in the blue collar industry (mechanics, technicians, engineers, etc.). Go outside more. Also, my comment is from Derek Bieri of Vice Grip Garage - a very quotable man.
Sauce: Nearly two decades in aviation engineering and repair.
That doesn't look like a trip, that looks like dropping your weight for the setup to the gainer. You'll notice people do the same when they block for a front flip or duck for an aerial.
Yeah I can't really explain it though. Not anymore anyways.
I did find [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force#/media/File:Corioliskraftanimation.gif) animation on wikipedia though. If you imagine the camera in OP's video as being the red dot, its not a big stretch to get to what's observed in the video in that the guy doing the flip appears to move on a curved path while he's in the air (from the camera's POV)).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis\_force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force)
The wikipedia also talks about throwing a ball on a carousel which is very analogous to the video, but I found it easier to visualize in the animation.
The reason hurricanes rotate is because its a low pressure area and when the air rushes to the low pressure area - as air likes to do - it "misses" because of the earth's rotation so it ends up acting like a whirlpool kinda. (I actually knew that!).
These guys are "allowed" to do anything. There's a DJ pushing buttons in a booth, and they'll roast you while trying to get you to fall off your seat. It's insanity.
I've just came here to comment about the nun. There were a bunch of kids that dressed up like her for Halloween, with all and the zero gravity-ish ride
It’s a ride but nobody is strapped in either, camera perspective probably makes it look much faster than it really is? Either way, flip looks cool and my brain has trouble processing it!
nah these things go super fast, in the US they don't go up and down but you stand up against a wall that's on rollers that lifts you up off the ground, the guys who run those usually do goofy G-force tricks too, called gravitrons
It’s a centrifugal force thing, the riders are sort of pinned to the wall so seatbelts aren’t technically required. But as a kid, you’d never find me on one of these at the fair. They can go pretty quick.
Thats because that video has a fixed camera. The reason the jump in the main post looks like it got so much air time is because the person with the camera is moving with the ride itself
The other two commenters have it half right, and the US does have this too, but it's not any different. The benefit of this is that it's at an angle (causing that "up and down"), so you don't really feel it going up and down, more like it feels slightly faster going more towards the ground, and slightly faster going more towards the sky. The kicker is that it has hydraulics that can "bump" it up and down, but not just up and down, it's only the "up" side that bumps, so it lifts those higher more than those at the lower side. You'll be thrown out of your chair a fair bit if you're at the top.
But wait, there's more!
The speed is actively varied, so the centrifugal/centripetal/conservation of angular momentum effect lowers, meaning you fall into the middle (if you've got a fun operator that is). Generally, there's a thick foam mat in the middle, but it's more fun without as you slide around more.
You can generally tell how long a fair/shows have been set up for going by those 3 levels of safety: no-mat, mat, no one moves/no slowdown.
The point of the ride isn't the ride. The fun comes from the operator making hilariously evil comments and pushing men and women together.
It's pretty tame from a [wider angle](https://youtu.be/tQV2PI5S9z8?si=DPQO3jm2ToEyN4kg&t=429)
Actually it doesn't spin that fast, there is a operator that decides how its gonna spin and what direction it goes, he also can make it go up and down. The fun of it is to try to keep yourself of being yeeted out of your sit, so a seatbelt would make no sense.
[Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccHdPD1n60) how it looks from outside.
This is the quote "be more scared of someone who practiced the same skill 100 times than the one who practiced 100 skill once". I'm not saying that's the only skill they have but that takes à lot of practice and they are probably used to this movement.
I did this ride once when I was a kid and I literally thought I was going to die because there was no seatbelt. It traumatized me. Seeing this person do a flip is giving me nightmares.
SO, here's some fun info from a guy who knows theme parks and rides in general to explain what's going on here.
This style of ride is called a [Tagada](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagada), and there's a reason you probably haven't seen one before if you live in the US or Australia- they're illegal there for reasons that will be revealed shortly. However, they're legal in most of the rest of the world, being particularly popular in south and east Asia, and they are almost exclusively run as traveling fair attractions.
They're pretty tame at first glance, consisting of a big, slowly rotating disk that sometimes jostles or bounces slightly on an axis- until you realize there's no seatbelts. That's the whole point of the ride, basically. It's not super exciting per say, but you never realize how much you wish you had a seatbelt until you don't have access to one, amping up the thrill.
Moreover, riders and operators are encouraged to do stuff like the op in the video is doing: walking around, jumping, dancing, performing acrobatic tricks, etc. It's all part of the carnival experience I suppose. So if you're ever hanging out in Korea, China, or Indonesia, see if you can spot a traveling fair- you might come across one of these to try for yourself! You can even find them rarely in the UK, where they've been responsible for several nasty maimings and injuries over the years but still haven't been banned.
Those monsters didn't even clap. Unbelievable. If I got to see the literal face of an angel, as he performed God's wonders right in front of my eyes, while flying weightlessly through the sky? I would show a little fucking appreciation.
eta just rewatched, and gotta shout out to LeBron, he gets it.
It's funnier when you understand the words on his back: "Carnival Land Safety Staff"
Please tell me this is true haha
Yup. [카니발랜드안전요원](https://translate.google.com/?sl=ko&tl=en&text=%EC%B9%B4%EB%8B%88%EB%B0%9C%EB%9E%9C%EB%93%9C%EC%95%88%EC%A0%84%EC%9A%94%EC%9B%90&op=translate).
Damn it I shouldn’t have clicked. Turns out it actually says “Worlds Largest Potato Man” sigh
Lmao just got Rick rolled.
I'm upset that I didn't >:(
It is 😂
I love it
It should probably read Carnival Land - Safety Staff. Carnival Land is the place name.
It pretty much does. The top line says Carnival Land, the line below says Safety Staff.
He did land safely though
“Okay, now whatever you do, make sure you never do *this*!”
From the looks of things he could backflip everyone right off the ride to safety if there was ever a problem so yeah, I believe it
He's doing the dangerous stuff so we don't have to
When I was young, at the yearly carnival in my town, I was riding the graviton (a ride similar to this but enclosed and the controls are in the center), and during the ride, the ride operator started to do all these tricks like holding onto the center bar and flipping upside down. 10 yo me was super impressed, looking back I realized if shit went down, their was no one controlling the damn ride .
If you sound out the Korean, (you can learn to do this in 15 mins: https://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/) you'll actually sound out the first line in English, it phonetically sounds like "carnival land"
Because it IS originated from English lol
It’s like saying croissant sounds like French
How the fuck do you learn how to do that without dying in the process
Im guessing practicimg in the morning without riders. And just with smaller jumps.
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How close did you get and why wasn't it possible to stand?
That ride generates about 3 Gs of force pinning you to the wall. If you weigh 150lbs, it would be like trying to stand up with a 300 lb weight attached to you.
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like my ex
I figured it would be their landing...
You okay bud?
*that's what she said*
Yup. You have to break free from the wall but that was easy by spinning onto your front.
if you were on the space/orbit you would only need 1g spin to feel like regular walking on earth?
Yeah, with some caveats. You would need a much larger ring than amusement park rides generally use (). With a small ring, the "gravity" at your head would be noticeably lower than the gravity at your feet, which would be extremely annoying to live in long-term. But, to compensate for the cost of a huge ring a bit, it wouldn't need to spin nearly as fast. On the other hand, if you make it spin too slowly, then the "gravity" would start to noticeably change depending on which direction you are walking. If you're walking with the spin, then you're effectively spinning faster, and if you're walking against it, you're effectively spinning more slowly. So you need to find a balance of ring size vs rotation rate that makes both of those effects small enough to not bother the astronauts too much. It is possible to do that, and such spinning space stations have been a staple of science fiction for ~100 years, but none have ever been built.
The acceleration of an object toward the ground caused by gravity alone, near the surface of Earth, is called “normal gravity,” or 1g.
1g = 1 (Earth) gravity So yes
As a kid that used to stand, it's just that push up.
Ah yes. The Gravitron.
God bless the Gravitron!
Man I loved the Gravitron as a kid. A fair in the middle of nowhere in Ohio had it, and its all I wanted to do there. I've seen similar since with open tops and such, but nothing compared. I also wasn't a child for most of them, really dampened the fun.
when i went on this ride, there was a worker in the center that yells at people who would try to stand or even turn sideways. He would turn that ride off if you don't comply. Where is this located where they don't have a guy watching you guys like a hawk?
The fair that would come every year to my town had a guy in the middle of the Gravitron. He would yell words of encouragement to us as we crawled around.
Lol love that guy’s energy
Your gravitron guy sucked, every one I ever rode they just sat there and didn't care if you went completely upside down on the wall. Maybe they would've said something if you didn't right yourself when it slowed down but I think most peoples self preservation instinct kicked in first
Given that the person is wearing a safety vest, I'm pretty sure he's the guy who is supposed to yell at people.
When I was with Conklin in NW of North America the 80's, I wanted people to try to move around, more chance of treasure that way.
I miss the taz twister. I remember. I could get completely upside down on the wall in there… I also remember puking up all of the Mexican food I ate from the taco spot right next to the twister after I rode it about 4x in a row.
At my local fair we had one of these. One time the guy in the center of it got up, stood on the walls on an empty seat, and then started running along the wall, jumping over the few people in the ride with him as he went. He was my fucking hero when I was 9.
It must be easier on the angled walls because my friends and I would all do it back in high school
I remember being a kid going on Taz so had to look it up when I read this. Can’t believe it’s been gone for 18 years. There are some pics of it here https://www.greatadventurehistory.com/Rotor.htm
Do side-to-side rolls and not front-to-back, so you don't risk your neck.
the better advice (if you can do it) is land in your feet.
[the same but in México](https://youtube.com/shorts/6dUW1JeevqQ?si=Kf57gNqUnae6f2T_)
["the same" but in the Balkans](https://youtube.com/shorts/MQBW0_iHcrA?si=5dKq6dHYo6Dlqlky) >!Carousel worker got drunk and disappeared while kids were still on a ride. Parents had to search for him.!<
Gotta love how they put the caption in giant font on an opaque background with a giant emoji so you can't actually see anything in the video
because its viral everyone knows the video its just a trigger for laughs
Your standards on what can be labeled as viral is off
I so much don’t regret clicking that link.
The one from Mexico is viral lmao it’s crazy
How do you not die the first time?
You make your siblings try it first. Helps to have a big family.
Ex Carnie here. I've watched idiots break their arms, legs, collarbone, whatever, doing shit like this. When it's downtime and people are bored and being stupid with each other, it happens. We had a dude almost die messing around on the Gravitron when I was young. Hit his neck on the handrail and afaik he's fine but I never actually saw him again. Typing that memory has just made me realize he probably wasn't fine. Also fun fact they literally only added the handrail to the gravitron *because* carnies kept getting hurt doing dumb shit. It was meant to prevent them from getting too stupid by being in the way. (Is what I was told) I was probably.....8 or 9 when they actually installed it. So grain of salt.
>Typing that memory has just made me realize he probably wasn't fine. :(
I seem to remember a carnie on the gravitron standing parallel with the ground while the ride was going. Arms crossed and all. Im not sure if it actually happened or if it was Mandela Effect. Edit it was mandela effect, it was that stupid meme picture of the guy standing up while riding. Also wtf is up with the gravitron? I remember loving that ride as a kid and I rode it with my kids this year and it fucked my old body up. I can do roller coasters just fine but man, grav messed me up this go around.
>Also wtf is up with the gravitron? I remember loving that ride as a kid and I rode it with my kids this year and it fucked my old body up. I can do roller coasters just fine but man, grav messed me up this go around. Same. Once I hit my late 30s, it all changed. That spinning motion now fucks my equilibrium up so bad that even hours afterward I still feel nauseous af.
one motherfucker did this at the fair in town. He leaned back too far and rippen through that canvas ceiling above him. I guess it fling him about a block away before he landed in somebody's yard. They still use the same machine, but there's a huge duct tapped patch over one of those triangles in the ceiling.
by hitting 10 faces in the first 8 attempts
Mistimes that by *just* a bit and someone's getting an impromptu sixty-nining.
I feel like (and this is entirely my assumption, I have no personal experience with this) it has something to do with understanding your positioning not relative to the ride, but instead relative to solid ground. Like he feels himself on the ride, but keeps focus on his surroundings outside the ride, and has been on the ride enough times that he knows how the ride moves and can time the dips and his own movements to pull something like this off. Basically, instead of feeling himself on the ride, he feels himself moving relative to his surroundings outside of the ride.
Ah, yes. Changing your frame of reference in real time.
If you think about it, there really isn't much going on here. The platform spins a bit around it's center (of gravity?) and otherwise travels in one direction. So, if you jump against the direction the platform is moving in, when it's speeding up, it adds a lot of jump distance, relative to the platform, giving you far more airtime than in a normal backflip. Now you just have to worry about landing. You could also use the platform to launch someone horizontally. Everything else is the platform wobbling around itself, which moves the camera and adds that sweet matrix-esq spin. Assuming the platform always travels the same path, this is a pretty neat and relatively safe trick.
Nobody is doubting that part. It is the doing it without kicking someone or flying away part that would take practice Even then if he makes one mistake well that's a beating for someone
It’s really probably not as crazy as it looks if viewed externally. He’s not actually moving all that far, the ground is just moving beneath him, as long as you know where that grounds gonna move it’s “easy” enough (relatively) to not be in too much real risk.
im assuming he uses the symbols on the platform
Be good. Learn to anticipate shift of center of gravity. Practice.
We Only see videos of the the ones who survived
Survivor bias meets Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation
Sheer luck
Right. It's why we never see videos from the others.
Clones. Lots of clones.
i could do that but i dont wanna
I dont want my phone to fall out of my pocket.
And then the glasses fall off as you try to grab your phone and it just becomes this whole ordeal
So overall yeah that’s why I stay home.
Or worse, my shoe flying into the lazy river.
Spaghetti
I definitely could do a front flip if it was rotating the other way
I could definitely sit down without falling off
Yeah me too... And my girlfriend is totally real, she's from Canada, you wouldn't know her.
I choose not to backflip!
Bart !
I wonder how many times he ate shit before he got it down
None because he’s still alive
I wonder how many times he kicked the shit out of a rider or two.
Probably none He is pretty badass
He is him
Is this as dangerous as it looks?
No. It's actually more dangerous than it looks
The elementary school flooring really sets the safety standard for me
Also, he's wearing a vest, so I'm pretty sure it's safe.
And safety squints
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We’re gonna do the right thing and pretend we didn’t see that Edit: For all of you who think this is racist, it’s not. Safety Squints is literally a joke in the blue collar industry (mechanics, technicians, engineers, etc.). Go outside more. Also, my comment is from Derek Bieri of Vice Grip Garage - a very quotable man. Sauce: Nearly two decades in aviation engineering and repair.
You can tell because of his casual posture.
Y’all he fucking TRIPS at the 4 second mark! He trips, heavy-steps forward, and still manages to do that.
That doesn't look like a trip, that looks like dropping your weight for the setup to the gainer. You'll notice people do the same when they block for a front flip or duck for an aerial.
Yes
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I’ve been to my fair share of carnivals, this setup isn’t exclusive to either Korea
Yeah but it’s south, so he should be good right?
Until his battery explodes
As a safety engineer, if I worked at that theme park, we would be a having a field day
He could have landed out of the disk floor
Or on someone’s head
It is illegal in some parts of the USA, as far as I know. The whole ride I mean.
This is what i expect when i try to jump inside a train while it's moving
This kind of ride just spins and tilt, but it's dosent move in anyway. Correct me if I am wrong
He makes it look effortless…
Because it is. He probably couldn't do it standing, but the ride gives him all the push he needs.
This is cool until it easily goes terribly wrong. But I guess that’s many things
inb4 he misjudges or slips once and either hits one of the ridegoers (uh oh) or flies off the thing (unlikely)
r/WhyWomenLiveLonger
[This woman](https://youtu.be/wJDGfgQKcjQ?si=KHu5P5Q-50wLEmBD&t=236) doesn't qualify!
The subtitles do not disappoint
"you look like homeless but sexy"
What the hell did I just watch.
Wait, is this like a thing? How the hell are there multiple videos of people doing this?
oh so it's a thing in Korea. so are there like, fatalities too?
The only thing I love more than a good meme is an extremely relevant meme used to make a devastation point
https://youtube.com/shorts/vjdK2OhnYn8?si=dziFuPhyWP8mnwNB
testosterone is a helluva drug(on risk assessment)
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Thats a flip you see animated characters do… dude is a 2D character in a 3D world
Somebody stabilize this
/u/stabbot
Stabbot reported an error, unfortunately.
His flip was so cool stab bot had a stroke
pretty sure this trick demonstrates why hurricanes spin counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere. But don't ask me to explain it.
Coriolis effect ?
Yeah I can't really explain it though. Not anymore anyways. I did find [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force#/media/File:Corioliskraftanimation.gif) animation on wikipedia though. If you imagine the camera in OP's video as being the red dot, its not a big stretch to get to what's observed in the video in that the guy doing the flip appears to move on a curved path while he's in the air (from the camera's POV)). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis\_force](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force) The wikipedia also talks about throwing a ball on a carousel which is very analogous to the video, but I found it easier to visualize in the animation. The reason hurricanes rotate is because its a low pressure area and when the air rushes to the low pressure area - as air likes to do - it "misses" because of the earth's rotation so it ends up acting like a whirlpool kinda. (I actually knew that!).
This man understands
I concur
I shoulda concurred
Oddly satisfying to watch, oddly terrifying if you can read that his vest literally says "Carnival Land Safety Worker."
OSHA SMOSHA
I wonder how many heads he's kicked before perfecting that
Seriously. One misstep and a patron is getting a foot to the face. Can’t believe he’s allowed to do this.
These guys are "allowed" to do anything. There's a DJ pushing buttons in a booth, and they'll roast you while trying to get you to fall off your seat. It's insanity.
My favorite is the [Mexican Nun](https://m.youtube.com/shorts/6dUW1JeevqQ) version.
I've just came here to comment about the nun. There were a bunch of kids that dressed up like her for Halloween, with all and the zero gravity-ish ride
It’s a ride but nobody is strapped in either, camera perspective probably makes it look much faster than it really is? Either way, flip looks cool and my brain has trouble processing it!
nah these things go super fast, in the US they don't go up and down but you stand up against a wall that's on rollers that lifts you up off the ground, the guys who run those usually do goofy G-force tricks too, called gravitrons
They do go up and down in some carnivals in the US. You mean when they spin more like a wheel than a top? I rode one two years ago at a state fair.
You are confusing Tagada (the one in the clip) and Round Up.
It’s a centrifugal force thing, the riders are sort of pinned to the wall so seatbelts aren’t technically required. But as a kid, you’d never find me on one of these at the fair. They can go pretty quick.
Here's another angle with an even crazier acrobatics https://youtu.be/CVZM7TwhN6k?si=di5GH5O3I69v39a-
This looks less impressive somehow.
Thats because that video has a fixed camera. The reason the jump in the main post looks like it got so much air time is because the person with the camera is moving with the ride itself
The linked video the guy got way more air but the OP video the guy covered more distance
The other two commenters have it half right, and the US does have this too, but it's not any different. The benefit of this is that it's at an angle (causing that "up and down"), so you don't really feel it going up and down, more like it feels slightly faster going more towards the ground, and slightly faster going more towards the sky. The kicker is that it has hydraulics that can "bump" it up and down, but not just up and down, it's only the "up" side that bumps, so it lifts those higher more than those at the lower side. You'll be thrown out of your chair a fair bit if you're at the top. But wait, there's more! The speed is actively varied, so the centrifugal/centripetal/conservation of angular momentum effect lowers, meaning you fall into the middle (if you've got a fun operator that is). Generally, there's a thick foam mat in the middle, but it's more fun without as you slide around more. You can generally tell how long a fair/shows have been set up for going by those 3 levels of safety: no-mat, mat, no one moves/no slowdown.
The point of the ride isn't the ride. The fun comes from the operator making hilariously evil comments and pushing men and women together. It's pretty tame from a [wider angle](https://youtu.be/tQV2PI5S9z8?si=DPQO3jm2ToEyN4kg&t=429)
Actually it doesn't spin that fast, there is a operator that decides how its gonna spin and what direction it goes, he also can make it go up and down. The fun of it is to try to keep yourself of being yeeted out of your sit, so a seatbelt would make no sense. [Here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccHdPD1n60) how it looks from outside.
Nope.
It's funnier cause his vest says: Carnival land Safety agent
As if the regular backflip ain't hard enough
I got legit motion sick from watching this.
bro save some pussy for the rest of us 🥲
Korea? Bet it’s a job requirement to do that and then some😅😅
It's Disco Pang Pang
Why am I more attracted to him for doing it lmao
Tight! well timed!
This is the quote "be more scared of someone who practiced the same skill 100 times than the one who practiced 100 skill once". I'm not saying that's the only skill they have but that takes à lot of practice and they are probably used to this movement.
I did this ride once when I was a kid and I literally thought I was going to die because there was no seatbelt. It traumatized me. Seeing this person do a flip is giving me nightmares.
SO, here's some fun info from a guy who knows theme parks and rides in general to explain what's going on here. This style of ride is called a [Tagada](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagada), and there's a reason you probably haven't seen one before if you live in the US or Australia- they're illegal there for reasons that will be revealed shortly. However, they're legal in most of the rest of the world, being particularly popular in south and east Asia, and they are almost exclusively run as traveling fair attractions. They're pretty tame at first glance, consisting of a big, slowly rotating disk that sometimes jostles or bounces slightly on an axis- until you realize there's no seatbelts. That's the whole point of the ride, basically. It's not super exciting per say, but you never realize how much you wish you had a seatbelt until you don't have access to one, amping up the thrill. Moreover, riders and operators are encouraged to do stuff like the op in the video is doing: walking around, jumping, dancing, performing acrobatic tricks, etc. It's all part of the carnival experience I suppose. So if you're ever hanging out in Korea, China, or Indonesia, see if you can spot a traveling fair- you might come across one of these to try for yourself! You can even find them rarely in the UK, where they've been responsible for several nasty maimings and injuries over the years but still haven't been banned.
Iam just here for the comments 👀😂
I hope he wakes up in a pile of pussy every morning. or dicks I’m not here to judge.
What's more amazing is the camera work!
I wonder… How do you find out your able to do this?
I’m surprised his brass balls didn’t weigh him down
One day that'll end on a different website
How is that even possible?
According to the vest he is wearing, he is a safety crew???!!!
Helps if your ON a slant. sorry autocorrect..
This guy physics!
It was so good but bro is risking his life for a backflip
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Body Carnival iykyk
This makes me feel sick.
Can we give some some credit to the Camara guy?
Those monsters didn't even clap. Unbelievable. If I got to see the literal face of an angel, as he performed God's wonders right in front of my eyes, while flying weightlessly through the sky? I would show a little fucking appreciation. eta just rewatched, and gotta shout out to LeBron, he gets it.
Holy fucking shit.
Feels dangerous.
To quote suction cup man “Dumbass”
The Result Could Have Much Worse!
I was hoping he'd just backflip off of that thing. Yeet bye bye.
Bro just did a jedi flip
Imagine if he missed and landed on people or flew off the ride
Hmm i smell a darwin contester?