Umlazi bodybuilder breaks neck when backflip goes wrong

[Cray]

I remember Breyton Paulse used to do a flick flack into a backward somersault but he was so light and had such momentum he could almost do it without tucking. Even he didn't try a backward somersault while still moving forward...

[video=youtube;mOPLsNED6FY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOPLsNED6FY[/video]

23 seconds..

 

[WaxLyrical]

That move is usually reserved for the lean and light.
And more difficult to if you're moving forward - with socks.

Eish.

 

[blunomore]

Please put up a warning for sensitive viewers?

 

[Polymathic]

Darwin strikes again :twisted:

Most disturbing thing in the whole clip is the hot pants

High Risk high reward strategy, don't hate

 

[APoc184]

Please put up a warning for sensitive viewers?

I would think the title is more than warning enough for sensitive viewers not to go ahead and watch the video.

 

[Pitbull]

Please put up a warning for sensitive viewers?

Really?

You missed the article heading?

 

[Grant]

I see the problem immediately... socks on a gym floor. I recall having a couple of falls in school due to that same shyte ...

i see a different problem - a huge cumbersome less than agile moronic bodybuilder that can barely walk - attempting a backflip

stupid stupid stupid - like homer simpson doing cartwheels

 

[Pitbull]

i see a different problem - a huge cumbersome less than agile moronic bodybuilder that can barely walk - attempting a backflip

stupid stupid stupid - like homer simpson doing cartwheels

I've seen some HUGE guys do more flexible stuff. (NO OCKIE NOT THAT!)

They are huge, but some are still pretty supple and loose. Also sounds like he's been doing it at shows all the time. He just got it wrong this time...

 

[Lord Farquart]

Always the people that have never seen the inside of a gym that make these comments. Probably haven't seen their feet in years.

Or the wrong end of a steroids needle.

 

[R13...]

Horrible. Guy looks so ungainly he's like some comical b grade movie goon

 

[Lindiswa]

atleast he died doing what he loved.

 

[Lord Farquart]

atleast he died doing what he loved.

Backflips? He was a body builder, not a gymnast.

 

[patrick123]

He broke his neck from the backflip, but look how the onlookers try to assist him thinking that he is just unconscious by turning him on his back proper and lifting his legs, those actions could have actually severed the spinal cord and caused the death.

 

[Grep]

Watched the video a few times, there was no slipping. The legs just didn't make it.

 

[R13...]

The guy just didnt look limber enough to be able to pull that off. He looked really stiff moving like a robot. Even the neck doesn't look like it moves on break.

 

[rwenzori]

Geez that's nasty.

 

[APoc184]

He was definitely bulking up. Not in contest shape at all. Holding lots of water and lot more fat than usual.

From personal experience I know how stiff joints and muscles can get when you are that bloated and muscles have excess glycogen stored.

Might explain why he wasn't limber enough to pull it off this time.

 

[WaxLyrical]

His technique was all wrong. This is how it's done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb56mT_kz58

 

[grok]

This is a superior flip, no wait for the second one a frontie..

https://youtu.be/031580nz6gY

 

[Lindiswa]

the black flip was his signature always before the show. so it is what he loved to do!!

Backflips? He was a body builder, not a gymnast.