Alexander Dunn does a backflip onto a landing pad below.
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When the agent launched into his backflip, gravity took over.
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I remember being in Vietnam; I'd never done a backflip.
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The backflip Bonaly executed was perfectly landed on one foot.
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He&aposs doing a backflip -- INGRAHAM: At a party, having fun.
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"Just watch: As Taylor put it, "It was not a backflip.
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Some boy in mega bar claiming he can do a backflip!!
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Simone Biles took the mound -- and busted out a twisting backflip!!!
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" Later he asks, "can this thing do a backflip you think?
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A backflip is a marvel of mechanical engineering and software control.
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You need a torque if you want to do a backflip.
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Seriously, just look at this cartwheel that evolves into a backflip.
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I've always assumed that people know whether or not they can do backflips, that it is a deeply ingrained part of your identity, that there are a couple of neurons that are always shooting signals back and forth that translate to I can do a backflip or I can't do a backflip to remind you of your status, backflip-wise.
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The triple double involves a jaw-dropping double backflip with three twists.
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After all, Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot performed a successful backflip last year.
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Her dismount of beam routine was an amazing double backflip with two twists.
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You can see Stickman successfully backflip (and also fail) in the video below.
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"The double backflip was definitely the best night of my life," he says.
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How about a look at Rey's backflip over a low-flying TIE fighter?
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When I heard Beyoncé say it … I did a backflip off the toilet.
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I'm going to start with the backflip, since this one is obviously easier.
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Why are we making these robots that can acrobatically execute a flawless backflip?
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Check out the video below, because it shows a hulking humanoid doing a backflip.
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LONDON — Two men were injured after a backflip motorbike stunt went wrong in Glasgow.
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Carter entertained them by performing, at a sprint, four back handsprings and a backflip.
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The dude doing a backflip on a motorcycle while jumping over that stunt plane?
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The 22-year-old successfully landed her triple-twisting double backflip on floor exercise and her double-twisting double backflip balance beam dismount in the qualification round on Saturday, ensuring those skills would be named after her in the Code of Points.
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INGRAHAM: Don&apost carry a gun and do a backflip, that&aposs the cautionary tale.
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Lighthizer and Mnuchin used words like "substantive" and "substantial" to characterize the attempted Chinese backflip.
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Check out the video below: And check out Atlas's previous antics, including a backflip, here:
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Perfect for: Isolated action shots, like your cat doing a backflip or fireworks bursting open.
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To the crowd's delight, he flops into the exhibit again with a poorly executed backflip.
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Check. Can she do a triple Salchow with a backflip and a death drop split?
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What better way to celebrate reaching two million Instagram followers than with a backflip, right?
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There was not a wobble in sight as she executed her backflip into two layouts.
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The most common method of launching a backflip is to use a very steep ramp.
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In the VR he was doing a backflip so he decided to physically do it?
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Before music, the star, who was born in Calgary and grew up skiing in the Rocky Mountains, was best known as the first skier ever to backflip on and backflip off a rail, and became one of the most innovative skiers during his time.
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To call this maneuver a "backflip" would be a reach, it's closer to a back flop.
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After performing a slow backflip in microgravity, Unity turned and glided back to land at Mojave.
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YETI HOPPER BACKFLIP 24 When YETI's innovative Hopper came out, it changed enjoying the outdoors forever.
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It can leap pretty high, and also do a backflip – and then celebrate its backflipping ability.
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Maybe you do the best backflip in the world, or you're really good at selling books.
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The sweetness, the style, the pop culture references, the banter ... That's the enduring magic, the backflip.
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While a skier, McMurray was the first to land a "Fizzle Flip" a spinning backflip between rails.
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But I simply can't, any more than I can do a backflip or sleep through the night.
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And even if you're a human who can do a backflip, you have reason to be worried.
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The BackFlip 24 takes everything dads love about the Hopper and makes it even easier to transport.
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Hopper Backflip 24, $299.99, available at YETIThis cooler has become one of my best friends this year.
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Technically, Bonaly's backflip, because it was landed on one foot, could have been allowed in Olympic competition.
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At the 2013 worlds, Canadian Victoria Moors debuted the double-twisting double backflip in the stretched position.
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She was one of the first women mogul skiers to execute a backflip with full twist in competition.
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In 2006, Ryan Jarman from The Cribs was hospitalised after performing a backflip onto The Kaiser Chiefs table.
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MIT also made headlines earlier this year in March when it showcased its miniature robot performing a backflip.
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Case in point: A player was allowed to celebrate with a backflip in the end zone without penalty.
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It was there that she famously performed her signature move, the now iconic one-footed backflip, in competition.
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And in one month, we'll have stomped the competition to claim Olympic gold — one backflip at a time.
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Frank Mejia, 22, who helps teach the class and can easily backflip off a brick wall, says yes.
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He vividly remembers the excitement he felt when Montoya helped him land a backflip for the first time.
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He won a bronze medal in the men's 94kg weightlifting event and then did a backflip to celebrate.
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In "May Time Merry" (1964) Gilardi has rendered a naked woman doing a backflip over a field of flowers.
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Then, after a couple tries, Gaethje landed a backflip off the cage where you definitely thought he'd be paralyzed.
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The ability to do a backflip — especially one with some extra twists — really does make any task infinitely cooler.
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She missed a backflip but it was better than her falling on to the floor and shot happens sometimes.
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As we approached the top, the front end of his bike rose and began to backflip, tossing us backwards.
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A video of the incident shows the agent dancing and performing a backflip, during which he drops his gun.
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As the performers backflip, swing, and jump around in the video, viewers can move their screens to follow the action.
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Boston Dynamics released a video earlier this year of Atlas jumping through an obstacle course and performing a clean backflip.
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Then he added his own flair with a backflip, which earned him an, "Oh my God!" from host Michelle Visage.
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I stood up, kicked off my shoes, did a backflip in the air, landed on my hands, and started walking.
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At the same competition, Biles performed a double backflip in the stretched position with a half turn at the end.
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If I do a backflip and you say, 'Well, you just aren't pretty enough,' there's nothing I can do with that.
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Click here to view original GIFSimulated humanoid pulling off a perfect backflip, which it did after a month of simulated training.
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So when we caught Bieber promising to grow out his hair on Instagram Stories, our teenage hearts did a little backflip.
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Meet Lionel Monreal, a very dadly dad in Lakewood, California, who for some reason is convinced he can do a backflip.
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This two-legged robot, called Atlas, is the same one that was shown doing a backflip less than a year ago.
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"The double backflip almost sends me to the hospital every time, but the front flip is kind of gentle," he assures.
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He spends his time off with the other blue jays, presumably impressing them with his patented backflip-feint grasshopper catching move.
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A video of the incident captured by another bar patron, and spread widely online, showed Bishop break dancing, then performing a backflip.
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The 27-year-old's toss was insane -- seriously, watch the thing boomerang -- but his backflip before the catch really topped it off!!
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As seen in video obtained by local CBS affiliate WTOL, the man does a backflip atop a wheel but fumbles his landing.
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Well into the afternoon, he entered a backflip but under-rotated, hit the front wheel first, and then fell to the ground.
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When he does a flying backflip and kicks someone in the chin on the way up, the kick looks like it hurts.
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He may sound like he's fumbling through a melody only to backflip into a twisting run of Auto-Tune or staccato bars.
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MIT recently published a new video of its Mini Cheetah robots, small quadrupedal robots that can run, walk, jump, turn, and backflip.
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But this brief one-minute video shows the robot jumping on and off platforms, spinning in the air, and performing a perfect backflip.
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So when Ryan Woods dressed as a water bottle for Halloween and did a backflip in class, his schoolmates basically lost their minds.
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This better / worse reward function could even be used to program trickier behavior, like teaching a very basic virtual robot how to backflip.
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If they flashed up a shot of Dracula with a take on "Bloody Tears" playing in the background, I'd have done a backflip.
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True to form, although the judges could have declared her jump legitimate, they maintained their no-backflip stance, and Bonaly was heavily penalized.
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It's there you can also find a photo of Watson with his certificate verifying that his breathtaking backflip did indeed set the world record.
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Between the lines: Aides say we shouldn't expect Trump to do a backflip and declare that, suddenly, he's become deeply concerned about climate change.
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Best backflip: Boston Dynamics' Atlas And to round off this year's list, if you admire one robot in 2017 make it Boston Dynamics' Atlas.
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After performing a slow backflip in microgravity, Unity turned, gliding back to land at the runway it took off from about an hour earlier.
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In a video of the shooting that went viral, Bishop's gun falls to the ground after he does a backflip on the dance floor.
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Like, get stoned last night at the bar, OK, but you're about to do a double backflip off an 80-foot cliff over rocks.
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If you say my backflip wasn't high enough, I can either [disagree] and say it was, or I can go home and work on it.
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LONDON — A circus has apologised to a man who was knocked unconscious in Wales when a clown attempted to perform a backflip stunt with him.
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One of our favorite Windows machines from last year was HP's incredibly limber Spectre x360, a 13-inch laptop that could backflip into a tablet.
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Just last week, boxer Teofimo Lopez used the same Fortnite dance to celebrate after knocking out his opponent ... and added a backflip for good measure.
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In the process of running VR demos, I have had a 70-year-old man randomly attempt to do a backflip and fall into my arms.
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Cook can do some serious tumbling (just check out his YouTube channel), but he can also do something extremely difficult—a standing double back tuck (backflip).
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The backflip resulted in a bigger A$29.4 billion deficit for 2017/18 than the A$28.7 billion forecast at the mid-year review in December.
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After practicing for an entire year – and suffering several concussions and breaking his wheelchair – Fotheringham completed the world's first double backflip in a wheelchair in 2010.
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She also said in the talk that it was her mother who encouraged her to practice certain so-called "forbidden" jumps such as her famous backflip.
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A. Beam backflip B. Aerial cartwheel C. Triple double D. Quadruple frontflip Play "Total Recall," CNN's weekly news quiz, to see if your answer is correct.
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"Why not backflip into the pool instead of just a plain old cannonball?" one Clinton surrogate said in endorsing the idea of a less conventional move.
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In it, a man in stilettos tries to backflip, but when his heels make contact with the ground again, his body crumbles into gooey, fleshy chunks.
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I was standing nude on the diving board about to backflip and then with a great crashing sound, the pool was filled with bright, blinding light.
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What if, rather than floating gaily through a plane as if it were a daily experience of mine, I managed to backflip myself into a neck brace?
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The trailer only got more exciting as it reintroduced whirling Sith menace Darth Maul and Yoda, here in his incarnation as heavily CG-ed backflip frog man.
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For example, in teaching the "Hopper" bot to backflip, a human was asked to judge its behavior some 900 times — a process that took about an hour.
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Stick around to the end to see Atlas resembling humans more than ever when it fails to stick the landing after one of its many backflip attempts.
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Two-in-one PCs that backflip from a laptop to a tablet have been around for years now, and Lenovo's Yogas have always been among the best.
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Somehow he manages to backflip from one set to the other without missing a single beat, impaling himself, or overshooting and going straight through the back wall.
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Another Globetrotter, Bull Bullard, managed to sink the world's longest basketball shot released in the middle of a backflip, 17.71 meters, or 58 feet and a bit.
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At the end of the set, he asked a dancer to grab a discarded jacket, and he obliged — performing a backflip as part of the simple task.
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The reckless dude climbed onto the back of a car parked on an obvious slope to show off his video-worthy backflip next to an active road.
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Leaving a traditional career for YouTube Stephen Sharer's channel came first, with videos like hoverboard unboxings and an "insane backflip challenge" (now with almost 14 million views).
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A robotics company that Alphabet recently sold to SoftBank on Thursday posted a new video that shows one of its more widely known robots doing a backflip.
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Not only is he squatting (495), deadlifting (495) and benching (405) a ton of weight ... he can land a nice backflip that would make Simone Biles proud.
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A cousin of capoeira and freerunning, tricking is not intended for real-life combat—who's going to throw a backflip in the middle of a street fight, honestly?
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Olympic champion Simone Biles clinched her 6th all-round U.S. women's gymnastics title in Kansas City, Missouri, in style Sunday night — with a double backflip with 3 twists.
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First it was a backflip, but at the Monster Jam World Finals XVIII, a truck known as Mad Scientist pulled off an insane, first-ever front flip. Whaaat?!
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If you ever get the urge to pour two cans of beer into your face and then attempt a backflip, make sure there's nobody around to film the outcome.
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Wakeboarding star Steel Lafferty threw up a disc about a hundred feet in the air ... got it to come back to him -- and caught it after doing a backflip!!!
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During a full backflip maneuver, Stickman swings from a ceiling-mounted wire 19.6 feet (six meters) above ground, tucks into a ball at peak height, and executes the stunt.
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She even has her own signature move: The "Biles" is a double backflip, her body stretched out straight like a pencil, with a half twist on the second flip.
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Those moves looked tame when it did a backflip and spun on its axis as it shed precious height, recovering just a few hundred feet above the Hudson River.
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With the Touch Bar, Apple pulls of a nearly perfect double backflip into the world of touch computers (without acknowledging that people would ever want to touch their displays).
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Turns out, Nina was actually getting ready to have her beau launch her into the air ... where she would attempt a backflip, and then land safely in the waves.
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Four years later, in Montreal, the Romanian Nadia Comaneci, who was fourteen, launched off the beam with a double-twisting backflip where Korbut had daintily flipped off the side.
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I have literally saved lives in my lab from the head of the BBC, Lord Tony Hall when he did this flying demo, decided just to do a backflip.
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It was yet another fantastic dose of nostalgia as Bennett performed a backflip off the ring ropes in celebration, before claiming said celebration was more work than the fight itself.
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His crowning feat came on October 31, 2016, when he became the first person to successfully land a quadruple corkscrew: an off-axis backflip combined with four in-air twists.
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Consumer complaints forced Woolworths to backflip on charging customers 15 Australian cents (11 U.S. cents) for a reusable plastic bag, with the retailer now offering them free until July 8.
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Swedish film group RackartygarnaTV tracked Martin's efforts to complete the "world's first snowboard backflip on a running car" in a video with plenty of bone-crushing (and window-crushing) failures.
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The FBI agent who accidentally shot a man while doing a backflip at a nightclub last month is permitted to carry his service weapon again, The Denver Post reported Tuesday.
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It can walk both right-side up, and upside down, and its most impressive ability just might be the way it can manage a full backflip from a stand-still.
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Made by Backflip Studios and Space Ape Games, Earth Wars features voice acting from Peter Cullen and Frank Welker, who voiced Optimus and Megatron respectively back in the G1 days.
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Given past vows to stop the flow of U.S. jobs to China and what he's called unfair trade practices, Trump's seeming concern about Chinese jobs was something of a backflip.
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Yeti's Hopper Backflip 24 backpack cooler sets a high standard of quality for backpack coolers with a durable, insulated, leakproof design and a comfortable load system that evenly distributes weight.
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The backflip comes while Coles is under immense pressure to lure customers, as its sales growth lags Woolworths just as Wesfarmers prepares to spin it out and list it separately.
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As the story goes, when Kerr was a 9-year-old living in Perth, Australia, she taught herself how to do a roundoff backflip, and it became her signature celebratory move.
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Fan of the Week Sometimes your favorite team gets a victory cigar touchdown just before advancing to the Super Bowl and you just have to backflip onto the field to celebrate.
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The heralded Olympic gymnast threw the crowd a curveball by doing a fancy twisting backflip before tossing out the first pitch at Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night.
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After learning I've never done a backflip, Guthrie decides to teach me "the scoot," a beginner-level maneuver that many trickers use to gather momentum for single, double, and triple corks.
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The behavior you see has been created by watching the "Hopper" bot jump up and down, and telling it "well done" when it gets a bit closer to doing a backflip.
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So you can imagine why I almost did a backflip when a package arrived today containing all of Diet Coke's new flavors: Feisty Cherry, Twisted Mango, Ginger Lime and Blood Orange.
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It's not new, but it has newly learned to do backflips, and if I could do a backflip I would not only expect constant attention and praise, but also an award.
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In video obtained by ABC and local Denver TV station KMGH, the agent can be seen dancing and then doing a backflip when the gun falls from his holster mid-flip.
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The impressive move — named in part for Russian gymnast Natalia Yurchenko — involves a roundoff into the springboard, a back handspring onto the vault, and a piked double backflip on the dismount.
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Host James Corden first invited recent Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield to showcase his secret skill, which was to perform a backflip while dressed in a Chas Tenenbaum-style red track suit.
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If you needed a reason to love Woody Harrelson -- or to want to be Woody -- here he is doing a backflip off a yacht in Maui ... at the age of 54.
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I wasn't there right at the beginning, but early enough to suggest how the story could be laid out to support what the creators at Space Ape and Backflip already had.
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But if the player did not land the backflip perfectly and fell to the ground, a penalty was called because no player was permitted to go to the ground in celebration.
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He celebrated December's IBF lightweight world title win with a backflip in the middle of the ring, knowing he had fulfilled his father's prophecy that he'd be a championship-winning boxer.
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Boston Dynamics — producers of everyone's favorite robots that can run, backflip, and generally unnerve the human population — is back with its latest bot: a "reimagined" version of its Handle robot from 2017.
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DENVER (Reuters) - An off-duty FBI agent who accidentally shot a man at a Denver bar after doing a dance floor backflip was charged on Tuesday with second-degree assault, prosecutors said.
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With a list of accomplishments that includes the first double backflip ever landed in competition and skydiving without a parachute, it's tough to imagine an extreme feat that might give Pastrana pause.
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It took about a month of simulated "practice" for each skill to develop, as the humanoids went through literally millions of trials trying to nail the perfect backflip or flying leg kick.
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Finding herself in sixth place after the first half of the competition, she made the ultimate YOLO move and decided to try the backflip during her free skate program, deductions be damned.
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The four-time Olympic gold medalist and 25-time gymnastics world championships medalist pulled off a backflip with a twist before firing off the pitch at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.
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The four-time Olympic gold medalist and 25-time gymnastics world championships medalist stepped to the mound and pulled off a backflip with a twist before firing off the ceremonial first pitch.
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An FBI agent pleaded guilty on Friday to third-degree assault in connection to a June incident in which he accidentally shot a man while doing a backflip at a Denver nightclub.
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We saw the Mini Cheetah earlier in 2019 when it learned to backflip, but the biomimetics lab has obviously cranked up production and now has at least nine of these little bots.
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Extreme sports across the pond, over a river: Travis Pastrana performed a backflip motorcycle jump over a 75-foot gap between two barges floating on the river Thames in London on Thursday.
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"I told him, 'I posted a video of you and it went viral,' and he was like, 'Heck yeah, people love my backflip,' but he doesn't really understand what that means," said Taylor.
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In 2000 he became the first person to land a double backflip in a competition and went on to win a gold medal when he landed one at the X-Games that year.
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We saw Trump backflip twice over the past week: Trump announced Thursday that he had "overridden my people" and restored funding to the Special Olympics — throwing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under the bus.
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"Prior to the advent of mobile, a person might sit in their basement and play for an hour at a time," Joe Lazarus, former CMO of Backflip Studios, a mobile games studio, told Forbes.
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The impressive move — which involves a roundoff into the springboard, a back handspring onto the vault, and a piked double backflip on the dismount — has never been attempted by a woman in international competition.
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Backpack coolers have been a big hit this year, and I'm also a big fan of the IceMule BOSS for bigger, longer trips, the YETI BackFlip has been my all-around favorite this year.
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We've also seen the risks that they pose: at Bellator 143 in September, Darrion Caldwell knocked down a camerawoman with a celebratory backflip God forbid you try to pull one off while holding nunchucks.
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Last year's lineup indicated the festival was in a pretty damn good place, with Elton John, Chance the Rapper, Alicia Keys, Britney Spears (with that backflip), Calvin Harris, The 1975, and more on the bill.
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He has a dedicated jump button, can sprint, backflip, and hop around during fights, and — the biggest change for the character — can now clamber up rock faces like a fairy version of Assassin's Creed's Ezio.
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The duel between Lipinski and Kwan was the main event of the 1998 women's figure skating competition, but we can't overlook another historic moment from Nagano: Surya Bonaly's badass backflip with a one-foot landing.
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During a practice session before these games started, she casually did a backflip—a potentially banned move, which had only been attempted once previously in Olympics competition—in front of gold medal favorite Midori Ito.
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Awesome.Watch the World&aposs First Double Backflip on a SnowmobileSnowmobiles weigh over 450 pounds so flipping them once in mid-air is already insanity, but Daniel…Read more ReadYour browser does not support HTML5 video tag.
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The Yeti Hopper Backflip 24 does it all and does it all extremely well with a tough as nails DryHide Shell, a 100% leak-proof zipper, and insulation that can keep ice cold for several days.
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Driving the news: The channel faced a social media backlash and calls for a boycott after pulling the ad, which the company said before the backflip was "distracting from the purpose of our network," per CNN.
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If you want to see a stunning physical feat, cast your eyes on the above video of gymnast Ashley Watson nailing a nearly 20 foot (5.87 meter) horizontal bar backflip to set a new Guinness World Record.
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" This standoff between a leopard seal and a tiny penguin is nerve-shreddingly tense Simone Biles casually busts out a backflip during World Series pitch Conan talks 'Death Stranding' with Hideo Kojima: "What is wrong with you?
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Acrobats twirled above him during "The Feeling," but by far the most over-the-top moment came during "Company," when he and his dancers performed on a trampoline above the audience, Bieber showing off his backflip skills.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeWatching Boston Dynamics' ATLAS robot backflip its way through a parkour course is impressive, but those seemingly effortless maneuvers actually represent thousands of hours of unseen development and testing to perfect.
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Nurk explains that while the safest way to navigate this section is to pause and turn the drone to face into the loop, the quickest way is to charge straight into it and the backflip into the ceiling.
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It pauses at one point to jump over a log; while the jump isn't the most elegant of its movements, it's not exactly a surprise the robot can accomplish this: we saw it doing a backflip last year.
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Acer, Asus and others already have Chromebooks in the 10 and 11-inch space that can double as tablets, but this is the first time we're seeing a larger iteration of a Chrome OS machine that can backflip.
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The new investment in Liquid Comics, Graphic India's parent company, comes from existing backers Start Media and Backflip Studios' co-founder Julian Farrior with 3One4 Capital and Zodius Capital founder Neeraj Bhargava among the others that took part.
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Click here to view original GIFBesides a bit of YouTube fame, it's hard to say why stuntman Damien Walters challenged himself to perform a daring backflip over a speeding Formula E race car—which he couldn't actually see coming.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Britain's Joe Joyce has promised to perform a backflip and break out the dance moves if he wins the battle of the big men and beats Tony Yoka to Olympic super-heavyweight gold on Sunday.
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It's as though they're skiing backwards down a sheer mountainside littered with men who have been accused of doing terrible things to women, and every time they come across another one the producers have to do a triple backflip over him.
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Since then, Spears and Timberlake have both moved on, and while a much dreamed-about collaboration probably isn't coming anytime soon, she's just given us an aughts reunion in the most Britney way possible: a backflip to one of Timberlake's songs.
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"More curiously, the complaint the recounts the activities of a YouTube account allegedly belonging to Rahami, which favorited videos with titles like "best jihad [anthem]" alongside more innocuous clips like "WWE'12: How To Make Kratos" and "Cat Backflip Onto Couch.
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For Surya Bonaly defying expectations is something that has defined her career, with the world champion famous for being the only female figure skater in history to do a backflip, a move which had been banned from competitions since the 1970s.
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It was then during her third Olympics in Nagano, Japan in 1998 that she became globally famous for being the only skater in history to do a backflip and land on one skate, a move now known as the Bonaly.
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The Gymternet has long speculated about when Biles might push the sport to even greater heights, becoming the first female gymnast to attempt such mythical skills as a triple-twisting double backflip, or an Amanar with an extra half-spin.
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TMZ Sports has learned ... Jamie Nieto -- a high jumper who finished 4th at the 2004 Games and 6th in 2012 -- was injured during a backflip training exercise while working with Olympic hopefuls at Azusa Pacific University in California on April 23rd.
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I was too distracted by the rush of the fall to be able to follow the instructor's commands on the first round, but the second time I was able to both swing upside down on the trapeze and backflip off of it.
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Stairs, curbs, uneven ground, accidental jostling, sitting down, standing up, getting in and out of cars, subway lurches... all moves which are frequently performed by humans who can't land a backflip, and who get mad if you shove them with a hockey stick.
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Never Say Can t: The Bruce Cook Story follows Cook's extraordinary life, from reaching the height of his field to his devastating accident to his tireless efforts to set a world record by becoming the first paraplegic to backflip a dirt bike.
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With his toxic yellow inline skates on, the 33-year-old gathers speed on the concrete floor, jumps onto a purpose-built platform to grind his blades sideways on a rail, does a backflip and lands in front of his gentle-eyed spectators.
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Last month, an off-duty FBI agent looking to blow off some steam at a Denver bar accidentally shot a guy after he threw a backflip on the dance floor, causing his handgun to fall from his waistband and fire into the crowd.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Extreme sports rider Travis Pastrana performed a backflip motorcycle jump over a 23-meter (75-ft) gap between two barges floating on London's river Thames on Thursday, 11 years after the last rider who tried the stunt suffered serious injury.
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Click here to view original GIFSnowmobiles weigh over 450 pounds so flipping them once in mid-air is already insanity, but Daniel Bodin wanted to do something nobody else has ever done, so he went for it and nailed a double backflip on a snowmobile.
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Donnie Wahlberg is a Celtic fan for life, so the New Kids on the Block singer "nearly did a backflip" when he was offered the chance to narrate the Boston team's cultural legacy for ESPN's new documentary 30 for 30: Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies.
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Its beauty is in the details: the tiny shadow reflected in the snow as you leap into the air for a backflip, the birds flying away in fear as you tear down a hill, the satisfying sound of your board pressing down on the snow.
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" Even the musicians have a hard time taking their eyes off the ice, he says: "At the Cleveland show, we had Peter Cetera singing and his keyboard player said that when Ryan did a backflip, he stopped playing for a second and was just like, 'Whoa!
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Along with contemporaries like Jay Miron, who is credited with landing the first double backflip, in the mid-1990s, though not in competition, and Mat Hoffman, whose bicycle company, Hoffman Bikes, sponsored Mirra for part of his career, he helped expand BMX beyond its core audience.
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Over the weekend, a dance circle at a bar in Denver took an incredibly fucked-up turn when an off-duty FBI agent did a backflip in the center of the crowd, dropping a concealed gun from his waistband and accidentally firing it into the crowd.
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The video highlights everything from Tara Lipinski's history-making 1998 victory at the Nagano Games — where she became the youngest female figure skater to win an individual medal — to the dramatic moment when 24-year-old French skater Surya Bonaly landed a stunning (and illegal) backflip during competition.
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Seth Meyers mocks Sean Hannity and Republicans' increasingly limp defenses of Trump This standoff between a leopard seal and a tiny penguin is nerve-shreddingly tense Simone Biles casually busts out a backflip during World Series pitch Conan talks 'Death Stranding' with Hideo Kojima: "What is wrong with you?"
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Click here to view original GIFI'm not 100% sure the skier in the video didn't clip his head on the boots of the people sitting on the ski lift but even if he did, he's still bad ass enough to complete a casual double backflip off a wild jump.
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For contrast, here is what professionals look like in the tube: I had imagined my time in the air as a trampoline of incalculable dreaminess; a place where I could backflip, spin, and execute all kinds of elegant and hilarious physical comedy, free from the annoyances of gravity.
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First it jumps up from the floor to one block, then it jumps from that block to another one, jumps down, completes a bigger jump to reach a taller block, and then, as if to say "that was so easy," MUFUGGIN ROBOT DOES A BACKFLIP FROM THE TALL BLOCK.
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USA Gymnastics announced on Twitter that her triple-double — a windy move involving a double backflip and three twists — would be officially dubbed the "Biles II." This came after Biles successfully landed a triple-double during her floor routine and a double-double-dismount on the balance beam at the competition.
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The best cooler backpack: The Yeti Hopper BackFlip ($299.99) A soft cooler pack like the Igloo Marine Ultra Backpack Cooler is good for casual outings and will do the job for a bottle or two of wine and light snacks or hors d'oeuvres, though don't expect much more from this bag.
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If you want something to carry and cool raw foods for cooking more than a couple hours later, it might be worth springing for Yeti's Hopper BackFlip or Rtic's 20- ($139.95) or 30-quart coolers ($159.95), which are less than half the price of the Yeti without the HazMat zipper.
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Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel issue a joint PSA to help you tell them apart This standoff between a leopard seal and a tiny penguin is nerve-shreddingly tense Seth Meyers mocks Sean Hannity and Republicans' increasingly limp defenses of Trump Simone Biles casually busts out a backflip during World Series pitch
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But here, as both the US and the artist's native UK skid irredeemably off the rails, she manages to land an emotional backflip: her forms are ugly, crude, and savage, but executed with such a wealth of wisdom and experience that, as we allow ourselves to sink into them, we can't help but feel exalted.
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Amid the installations and works presented more conventionally on rows of monitors lining the cavernous Tunnel space this year will be a video playing inside a large felt tent by Amalie Atkins, documentation of artist Jennifer Dalton's yearlong quest to land a standing backflip, and the world premiere of a perpetually self-generating animation of singing plants by British collective boredomresearch.
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Here are our top picks for the best backpack coolers:Best backpack cooler overall: Yeti Hopper Backflip 24Best backpack cooler for easy access: Hydro Flask Soft Cooler PackBest multi-purpose backpack cooler: OtterBox Trooper LT 30Best heavy duty backpack cooler: IceMule BossBest budget-friendly backpack cooler: Barebones Backpack CoolerUpdated on 11/6/2019 by Caitlin Petreycik: Updated prices, links, and formatting.
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Here's a fun one for your afternoon: MUNA makes the kind of music that makes you want to say fuck work and run outside and do skips down the street and then try a backflip and even if you fall it doesn't matter because the music makes you feel great and somehow launches you into the air and you start flying because goddamn everything about the sound feels like you're floating.
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An off-duty FBI agent accidentally shot someone at a night club in Denver after his gun fell out of his holster and went off while dancing ... but luckily the victim seems to be OK. The unnamed agent was getting his groove on early Saturday morning at Mile High Spirits in Denver, CO, when he decided to do a backflip that made his gun fall loose on the floor.
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But I can tell you that this video of a man who is so excited about hating Donald Trump he calls a woman a fat bitch and then tries to do a backflip, failing miserably and smashing his face into the pavement, is the sort of thing that could unite America: This video comes from a thing called Rebel Pundit, a site that puts up clips of left-wing protesters that make them look dumb.
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After all, plenty of humans can backflip, but how many dogs do you know that can do the same thing (the answer, apparently is "a bunch of them," but still.) The Mini Cheetah is also (as the name implies) a smaller version of the larger Cheetah 3 from last year — it weights around 20 pounds, and can trot along at up to 2.45 meters per second (around 5.5 miles per hour), which seems useful to know, just in case things go all Black Mirror on us.
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Here are our top picks for the best backpack coolers:Best backpack cooler overall: Yeti Hopper Backflip 24Best backpack cooler for easy access: Hydro Flask Soft Cooler PackBest multi-purpose backpack cooler: OtterBox Trooper LT 30Best heavy duty backpack cooler: IceMule BossBest budget-friendly backpack cooler: Barebones Backpack CoolerThe best coolers you can buyWhether you're heading out for a weekend camping trip, an afternoon in the park, a tailgating party, or you're grilling in the backyard, you'll need a cooler if you like cold drinks and fresh food.
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