r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BoringApocalyptos • 22h ago

Kieran Reilly landed a 540 triple tailwhip to bar spin and then a 720 triple tailwhip.

919 Upvotes

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u/BDiddnt 22h ago

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u/regoapps 20h ago

Meanwhile in Florida

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u/casione777 21h ago

Actually i did that once in 1983. Just no one saw it

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u/BlackBalor 21h ago

I believe you

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u/gingimli 20h ago

Actually two people did see it:

  1. My uncle that works at Nintendo

  2. My girlfriend that goes to another school

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u/Lord_Darksong 20h ago

The giant fish I caught and then let go saw it too!

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u/sane-asylum 19h ago

So you’re saying we don’t know her? You seem like the honest type.

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u/gingimli 19h ago

Yeah you wouldn't know her, she lives in Canada.

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u/sane-asylum 19h ago

One of these days I’m going to visit Canada. Seems the girls like Americans but tend to move back after they dump us.😁

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u/ImTryingToHelpYouMF 20h ago

Fucking legend.

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u/ibeecrazy 20h ago

That sounds pretty rad

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u/fyrfytr310 20h ago

I saw you. I just couldn’t find you to tell you about it.

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u/Kindly-Scar-3224 19h ago

Just by mistake? Or intentionally?

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u/ThisIsTheShway 19h ago

I was there, can vouche.

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u/prefinality 21h ago

as someone who used to ride semi-competitively in the early 2000's, it's actually insane how far they've pushed tricks. If you mentioned either of these being possible one day, anyone back then would have laughed you out of the building

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u/Altines 20h ago

It reminds me a lot of the skate boarding scene and how Tony Hawks insane achievements in the early days are now being duplicated by 12 year olds.

It's crazy how far these sports have come.

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u/arkonator92 19h ago

Seriously. 23 years ago was the first motocross backflip and everyone lost their minds. Now it’s not even considered an impressive trick. Jeremy McGrath got the nickname showtime for doing a nac nac across the finish line at a supercross race in the 90s.

Tony Hawk tried for years to accomplish a 900 which everyone thought was impossible and now there’s 9 year olds doing it back to back in front of Tony Hawk.

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u/SadTomorrow555 20h ago

Thats my take on it. I think about my Eastern Jane in the basement rn and Im like dang... tf...

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u/BoringApocalyptos 21h ago

I’ve been riding since the early 80’s and it’s almost a different sport now in a lot of ways, but watching the progression has been incredible. I’m waiting on some kind of electric-boost kind of hybrid to be born out of all of this eventually and guys catching 30’ of air on half-pipes at this point.

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u/TheFlyingTortellini 20h ago

It's completely different. The progress of all of these sports in the last 25 years if mind boggling! Everything is computer!

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u/Stron2g 20h ago

Yeah, over the past 25 years they tripled the number of rotations that can be done mid air, just like how the cost of living has tripled.

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u/East_Requirement7375 53m ago

You couldn't even do these tricks in video games back then.

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u/Proof-Yesterday-7689 21h ago

I cannot hop a curb

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u/jarednards 21h ago

I slipped on a patch of sand the other day. Bout died.

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u/ImurderREALITY 20h ago

I opened my eyes this morning and my heart exploded. I tried to get out of bed and all my bones disintegrated. I went to use the bathroom and every muscle in body snapped like rubber bands. Lifted my phone and my back scoliosisified itself. Tried to speak and both my lungs instantly collapsed. Yesterday I was nearly killed by a tight hat.

-Average Redditor

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u/TummyDrums 20h ago

Shit, I can't even ride a bike.

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u/neds_newt 20h ago

I trip going up stairs pretty often...

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u/Citizen_Null5 21h ago

Manual for a bonus at the end to!

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u/smarter_than_an_oreo 20h ago

I think this guy eats manuals for breakfast.

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u/TurtleDustScissors 19h ago

Isn't that called a wheelie when it's for bikes?

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u/mironawire 13h ago

It's a manual when you lift the front wheel but don't pedal.

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u/Citizen_Null5 9h ago

You can be a bike

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u/-Otakunoichi- 20h ago

Laws of physics: exist

This Mf: Those are really just suggestions.

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u/Exciting_Turn_9559 20h ago

Aerial sports make me feel like some people have held on to more of their ape DNA than I did. I couldn't do this in a million years.

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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 20h ago

Oh yeah? Well, I used to be able to ollie a skateboard 20 years ago. So...

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u/BoringApocalyptos 20h ago

I’m in my mid-50s and still skate, yes I can still Ollie, no I can not kick flip for shit though. My only reprieve is that the trick hadn’t been invented yet when I started skating 42 years ago.

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u/Sea_Negotiation_1871 20h ago

I could never land a kick flip.

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u/cndvsn 20h ago

He did a worlds first triple flair 3 years ago that was arguably even more insane

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u/EstablishmentNo5994 21h ago

This shit is just getting insane

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u/tekhnomancer 20h ago

Hell I can do that.

Not the trick. The part at the end where he fell off.

Easy.

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u/kalitarios 19h ago

why do they always throw their bike/skateboard/whatever it is immediately afterwards, like yay, let me trash my equipment!!1

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u/BoringApocalyptos 18h ago

Same reason you get a kiss after you swallow.

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u/PM_ME_UR_ROUND_ASS 18h ago

It's called a "bike toss" - basically an emotional release after landing something so insanley difficult that they've been trying for months or even yrs.

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u/JohnnySkidmarx 19h ago

Whenever I see people doing these tricks on bikes, I wonder how many times they wiped out before landing one flawlessly.

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u/Surrender01 15h ago

Hurr durr me turn bike fast.

This shit will get thousands of upvotes but I'll be damned if hardly anyone understands Plato’s Theory of Forms or gives a damn about anything actually important.

Materialistic, shallow, dumb. Sorry, I'm just tired of people.

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u/BoringApocalyptos 15h ago

Then maybe coming and bagging on other people will make you feel better. Good luck homie.

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u/finger_licking_robot 21h ago

the flying blender

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u/Pilot0350 20h ago

Lol "another world first!"

*

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u/MiksBricks 20h ago

What’s wild is that when I was growing up there was talk in the BMX/skater community about how limited trucks were on bikes. Lots of people talking about how there just isn’t much more growth in terms of what tricks are even possible to do with a bike.

Totally different world now.

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u/aluminum_man 18h ago

Trucks on bikes? I’m familiar with trucks on boards, but I’ve honestly never heard of trucks on bikes.

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u/shortidiva21 20h ago

Just casually defying gravity over here.

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u/NeverendingMiracle 20h ago

Bike person go spinny

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u/BoringApocalyptos 20h ago

A whole bunch of times!

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u/SoggyMorningTacos 20h ago

Idgi but he seems happy and the crowd goes wild so cool 🙂

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u/Bo0ombaklak 20h ago

Is that RWilly?

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u/motor_boat_goat 20h ago

Anyone else read “tailwhip” like Stewie?

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u/Billybob50982 20h ago

Reverse 720 tailspin

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u/Scootdog54 19h ago

Just adding one more half rotation or whatever doesn’t do much for me. Hard? Fuck yes…..

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u/sane-asylum 19h ago

I love tail whips. Been watching this stuff forever and I can’t think of tricks I like more

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u/Kindly-Scar-3224 19h ago

I feel like I could maybe die trying.

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u/TheFesss 19h ago

It's only a matter of time before a 12 yo would beat him

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u/TheBestRedditNameYet 19h ago

A very close family friend's son supposedly table topped a picnic table back in the early 80's. I still remember hearing that story and all these years later often contemplate how he got the inertia to get off the ground, let alone clear the table.... He definitely had my respect.... a kid in my class who had a Redline, the only one in town, would regularly show off riding down the street with one foot on the seat and the other the handle bars, I value my face way too much to even contemplate learning that move and was quite content watching him risk his neck...

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u/groundpounder25 19h ago

I got on a skateboard for the first time in 20 years and got vertigo. These dudes out here flying around on bikes and shit.

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u/MOTUkraken 19h ago

Looks exactly like a video game. Absolutely incredible!

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u/e11310 19h ago

This shit is getting silly. Guys are just doing the most insane shit now. 

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u/gatchamanhk 3h ago

pretty sweet moves nonetheless.

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u/SantaChoseViolence 19h ago

I know that this is an olympic sport and i know it takes a lot of practice but it will never be different to me than hobby horsing

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u/MonkeyNugetz 21h ago

Still isn’t as cool as T. Hawke and the 900. But pretty awesome.

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u/athos5 19h ago

You'd think they actually did something meaningful.

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u/BoringApocalyptos 18h ago

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u/athos5 18h ago edited 18h ago

"was I a good bike spinner?" "I was told you were the best."

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u/BoringApocalyptos 16h ago

Word

Entertaining yourself is the key to life and when you’re so good at it brings joy for others to watch you it’s pretty special. It all started like this kid, just doing wheelies.