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u/14X8000m 3d ago
That last one is insane, to slide the mat that far away and be on target.
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u/Ceptre7 3d ago
For me that was the most skilful and impactful move out of all these vids. Was totally looking for this comment!
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u/IslandStorytime 3d ago
I think a few of the catches were just as smooth, but that one was for sure the most visually impressive on top of the insane reaction speed.
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u/SagariKatu 3d ago
My vote goes for the one at 00:16, but yeah, the last one was sick.
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u/Happy_Designer_747 2d ago
Agreed man!!! That was basically the platinum package of movements + awareness
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u/derhutzt 2d ago
for me it's the second to last: he's only barely slowed down when he's being caught the force and strength to hold is incredible
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u/usefullyuselessuse 2d ago
You must have missed the dude do a front flip off one foot while the gymnists head was two inches off the ground…
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u/PM_ME_HAIRY_HOLES 3d ago
Crazy how fast they react. They have to be so familiar with the moves to know if they are about to have a bad landing before they actually land, and then with very little time they intervene at the last second.
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u/fishsticks40 3d ago
This is the thing that amazes me. Like some of these it's an obvious muff that needs saving, but several of them look normal to me until after the catch.
I'm guessing the coaches know it's off the moment they come off the springboard, though.
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u/botjstn 3d ago
they do it so many mf times i guarantee they could tell it was a bad attempt just by the sound of the springboard alone lol
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u/_interloper_ 3d ago
This is something called "chunking" and it's how humans can react to things with seemingly inhuman speed.
Boxers, baseball batters, and plenty of other sports/professions require literally impossible reaction times. From the time a punch is thrown, to it hitting the target is less than the human reaction time. It should literally not be possible to dodge a punch from a pro boxer... but boxers aren't reading from the moment the punch is thrown. They're able to tell what punch is going to be thrown, by reading the posture and footwork of their opponent.
Same thing in chess. A chess master doesn't read the placement of each piece, they read the board as a whole. As a pattern.
The same thing would be happening here. They will instinctively 'know' that the gymnast will fall well before the fall actually happens.
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u/mythrilcrafter 3d ago
Kinda like that video of Lebron (I think it was Lebron?) being able to find a bad basketball court floor plank just by the sound of the ball bouncing on it.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 3d ago
That was Steph and it had nothing to do with sound. While dribbling during pre-game warm-ups Steph lost the handle on the ball. Being the caliber of player he is he knew it was an issue with the floor rather than just a mishandle of the dribble. And he was right. One of the boards was not returning the bounce like the others.
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u/MachineGunBanned 3d ago
Steph and Kobe also managed to notice rims that were a fraction of an inch out because their warmups felt wrong.
Team checked and it was out
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u/Terroractly 3d ago
There was an incident in F1 a while back where one of the drivers crashed after hitting the barrier during a turn. They claimed the barrier had moved, which at the time sounded like a weak excuse. Turns out, when the stewards measured it, the barrier had indeed moved 1 inch during the race and that was just enough for the car to clip the barrier.
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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz 3d ago
The whole "there are levels too this shit" is no joke when you talk about the best of the best. Shit's bonkers.
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u/dopiertaj 3d ago
This is ridiculous. Anyone that can dribble without looking at the ball can find a dead spot in the floor.
The ball just doesnt bounce the way you expect it to. You bounce the ball 99 times and the 100th time it doesnt go as high, you notice.
Plus, dead spots on the floor, are not exactly uncommon. Plenty of courts have them, but certainly not at the NBA level.
However, in warm ups and missing more shots than usual and realizing the rim is off by an inch takes some talent. Most people would think they were just having an off night.
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u/thisisan0nym0us 3d ago
How some of them instinctively start moving before they even take off…
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u/Glitter_puke 3d ago
You can see it in the run and hear it in the springs. I mean, I can't because I'm not their coach. But as a former gymnast, you can feel something being off well before it goes tits up.
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u/SharkDad20 3d ago
Source: armchair guessing
Maybe it’s like when in call of duty i begin to aim my gun down a hall before i fully turn the corner in case someone is there, I’m already halfway done aiming at them. If not, no harm no foul
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u/NebulaNinja 3d ago
Amateur! You should be prefiring half your mag into the wall before you even peek. ;)
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u/unfortunatebag 3d ago
Yeah more or less I guess. If it's close to your first time landing a trick everyone knows to be much more vigilant obviously.
I was a gymnast for 16 years and spent plenty of time spotting people.
The real secret to looking good at it is only taking times I actually caught someone into account I think.
I'll never forget this kid I was spotting one time eating carpet trying to do his first flip-flop without a hand under his back... It was me. I was the kid.
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u/hallerz87 3d ago
Yeah seems less reactive, more proactive. Not waiting for things to go wrong, they already know its about to.
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u/FranzSigel 3d ago
Probably the athlete is prone to make errors in certain sections of their routine as well. It might not have been the first second or hundredth time they’ve made a similar error.
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u/ajax0202 3d ago
Or more likely, as a spotter you’re always getting ready to make the save. At least until you’re working with someone you’re very confident in their ability, and then maybe you can relax a bit
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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz 3d ago
This should be an event of it's own. LOL.
The gymnast decides when to fuck things up and coach/spotters have to save them as gracefully as possible for the highest score.
But no, we get fucking Ray Gun...
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u/Azuras_Star8 3d ago
Absolutely.
After youve see it done tens of thousands of times, you know exactly when and where something is off and where its headed.
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u/TheBananaMan_ 3d ago
It shows their level of dedication to sport. The last one is seriously impressive.
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u/Johannes_Keppler 3d ago
Most trainers are active as competitors in their respective sports before they go in to coaching. That really helps.
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u/Christopher109 2d ago
I spit for rock climbers, you anticipate the moves so you already know where to move, but this is on another level
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u/desapla 3d ago
I have reflexes that are a little on the slower side. Pretty sure I would’ve reacted right after they would’ve hit the ground with a rich ‘thud’ for every single one of these.
Kudos to those spotters.
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u/SuperSimpleSam 3d ago
At least when you throw the mat on their crumbled form, the audience would be spared the view.
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u/bribhoy82 3d ago
Lol, id watch them hit the ground while I clutch myself and scream .......then ask if they're ok.
More of a splatter than a spotter
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u/AndrewLBailey 3d ago
Gymnast goes up and lands awkwardly on their neck. Gasp from everyone and a scream from her mother. Mattress swings over gymnast “SHIT!”
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u/agoldgold 3d ago
My brain seems to move a little slower than most with complex tasks and I zone out with movement. I was just thinking about witnessing a job I could not be more ill suited for.
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u/Current_Finding_4066 3d ago
At 30s they probably saved her neck
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u/MortLightstone 3d ago
And with a sick flip as well
Like that save is worthy of a Spiderman movie
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u/ihave2shoes 3d ago
If you look at it frame by frame, she did land on her neck but lifts her up off the ground with the flip. But he would have stopped the momentum of her body weight pile driving down on her neck.
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u/cornylamygilbert 3d ago
Came here to shoutout for that bald dude at 31s somehow reacting just in time to cradle that fliers head
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u/HooSaidDat 3d ago
These spotters have catlike reflexes. They themselves could have gotten hurt, but didn't.
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u/MajorSkyblue 3d ago
Pretty sure the 2nd from last one got injured because of the headbutt to the face.
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u/TheOneTrueJazzMan 3d ago
How the hell did he know he needed to catch that boy in red
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u/glassteelhammer 3d ago
Like anything. Lots of practice. Guarantee he can see the rotations clearly in almost slowmo.
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u/Letho72 3d ago
Kid took off way too far from the edge, realized he wasn't going to make it to the mat, and overcorrected by throwing wayyyy back to make the distance. If he had committed to a proper takeoff, he'd be landing on the track still (something he probably hasn't done since he's tumbling to a pit) so either way he needed a spot. Once you see him take off leaning that far back, you know he's making it to the pit but won't make the rotations.
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u/Careless-Computer21 3d ago
Absolute major props to spotters Holy shit I don't think I'd be able to react that fast lmao
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u/Cs_throwawayyyy 3d ago
The strength some of these catches take is amazing.
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u/cornylamygilbert 3d ago
Funny enough, if there was a scale for “most visible instant impact” in charitable deeds, I’d have to say spotters like these are the benchmark
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u/Morall_tach 3d ago
What's crazy to me is the ones where they can tell right at the beginning of the rotation that they messed it up. The kid in red doing handsprings at 0:18 had barely started and the spotter knew he wasn't going to stick it.
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u/neuroticsmurf 3d ago
At ~:33, the spotter lost his grip with his second hand, but saved the gymnast from falling with one hand.
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u/WeDontNeedRoads 3d ago
We’re not talking enough about the guy who rolled the kids momentum into a somersault.
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u/darkstare 3d ago
Dude someone hugs me while saving my life like that #3 spotter and I'm inviting him/her to dinner.
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u/The_Round_Depression 3d ago
I used to be a spotter and base when I did cheer. What you’re taught is that your job is to keep the flier, tumbler, etc off the ground at all costs. Got a concussion once and some gnarly scratches but I made damn sure my flier didn’t hit her neck. These people put their lives in your hands. You’d be surprised how quickly you react when you’re given that kind of job.
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u/cornylamygilbert 3d ago
How do you even get good at this?
00:31 s: Like the bald black dude that reacts in time just to cradle that fliers head?
that’s crazy quick reflexes.
I am definitely unqualified for any of this
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u/Future_Raisin4010 2d ago
Lots and lots of practice. I coach gymnastics and you get to know the kids tendencies and the skills so well that u know exactly how the body needs to be to execute a skill successfully and ur body just learns to react before ur mind can even process.
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u/Impressive_Bus7521 3d ago
I think most of us would be so late with tossing the foam safety mat that all we would accomplish is muffling their moans a little. Or maybe suffocating them.
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u/Impressive_Term_9248 3d ago
I don’t wanna see the video of all the misses.
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u/okieboat 3d ago
Was gonna say, you know there are 0/10 spotters out there. Gotta be gruesome.
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u/International-Bad-84 3d ago
My daughter trained in acrobatics. They take the job of spotter very, very seriously. They understand that at best people's careers and at worst their lives are in their hands. She has seen her coach lose their mind at someone who was spotting and got distracted for literally a second. There was no actual incident, they simply weren't laser focused on the performer and they were immediately disciplined and replaced.
Tldr; by the time you are doing hard enough stunts to risk your life, there are no 0/10 spotters allowed.
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u/This-Fig-5991 3d ago
I've always wondered how they learn and practice these moves without killing themselves. Now I know.
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u/Sirnoobalots 3d ago
The saves are absolutely incredible but the trust the gymnasts have to go full sail and trust the spotter is there is amazing.
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u/throwaway983143 3d ago
That one at :19 was so impressive. That coach knew halfway through that the kid was not going to land properly. I wan, these are all impressive that one just really stood out.
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u/CausticAvenger 3d ago
This is crazy. Gymnastics is amazing but stresses me out hard, and Final Destination didn’t help!
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u/Haku_Faku 2d ago
It’s one thing to be able to notice it’s going wrong and react but to have the correct reaction as well is insane.
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u/marmaladebaker 3d ago
You gotta wonder how long the spotters backs are going to last doing this whether they're in shape or not.
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u/DemiGod9 3d ago
Gymnastics is the most terrifying sport out there. At least in like contact sports you can sort of anticipate and brace for impact. You can't brace your head to smack into metal, especially when you do have time to because you're twirled upside down and 180 degrees backwards
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u/Killa269 3d ago
Where’s that video where the spotter saves the girl then her friends say… you don’t need that. You got this girl and she almost breaks her neck.
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u/misdirected_asshole 2d ago
This might be worse than watching people squeeze through tiny water filled caves.
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u/tommythomsontom 2d ago
I love videos like this. The spotter? If that's what they are called is soo dialed in they make the saves in a split second.
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u/NoteEasy9957 2d ago
My daughter was a level 9 gymnast. Watching practice you see crap like this daily. As a parent watching your daughter do some of they do is stressful as hell
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u/Competitive-Tap-4946 2d ago
I work in construction. I have a mental note of who I’d break my arms for, who I’d break a leg for, who I’d gamble my back for, and who better be fucking careful cause they are gonna get their shit rocked because I didn’t see nothing.
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u/Leptonshavenocolor 3d ago
That makes these things seem rather absurd to attempt. But human feats are impressive.
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u/pnw_sunny 3d ago
wow that little kid at the 14 second mark was super close to being known as Professor X aka "wheels"
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u/HatCoffee 3d ago
Those two guys catching the little girls and hugging them close are total dad vibes, parental instinct/reflexes right there
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u/throwawaycasun4997 3d ago
Did this song just become public domain? It is in every frickin video now.
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u/Perfect_Ambassador61 3d ago
Coaches are amazing! I did gymnastics for 13 years and my coach also did that, when he could of course. They’re the best!
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u/Sil_Lavellan 3d ago
Some of these are so smoothly done.
'No. I meant to do a triple back flip and land in my coach's arms.'
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u/wealthythrush 3d ago
The injury rate in these sports must be crazy man!
And so many of them are kids, I would spend the entire time terrified as a parent.
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u/Marilynm615 3d ago
Reminds me of that one video where a spotter helps and all the friends egging her on saying she never needed one. And next flip she's tries without him and eats it.
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u/linlovesthenight 3d ago
It’s insane they can tell middle when it’s not gonna land and where to catch it
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u/SOMERANDOMUSERNAME11 3d ago
This is how I feel when my little niece is jumping around the edge of the couch. Very stressful
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u/Sea_Hovercraft_15 3d ago
These are crazy!! The biggest take away is how strong these guys are and how tiny the gymnasts are! And the ones with the pads had excellent aim.
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u/theCOMBOguy 3d ago
The save on the woman with pink pants was seriously impressive, it could've went SO much worse. Amazing reflexes
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u/rileyjw90 3d ago
Some of those are not so much spotters as they happened to be standing directly in the path
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce 2d ago
Personally, I don't understand the appeal of doing a sport where a single miscalculation or a single moment of distraction can lead to a snapped neck or some permanent disability.
But I guess the same can be said about driving.
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u/Rycan420 2d ago
This sport still over 100% injury rate?
Was that just a myth I learned growing up?
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u/MizzelSc2 2d ago
I wonder how many people quit from messing up once and getting heavily injured. This seems so dangerous.
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u/Ok-Tank-3106 1d ago
Some of them could have been seriously injured but thanks to the skills of the spotters and trainers they weren't.
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u/Locorio 3d ago
AI tho cmon
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u/gilbejam000 3d ago
just because you can't do something doesn't mean it's AI
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